This is why you shouldn't let your kids ride summer carnival rides
 

Take them to a real amusement park like Six Flags or Disney where there are some safey protocols, not the local county fair where the rides are put together by carnies and local teenagers.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...-regional-wire


Carnival ride operator arrested after 3-year-old falls

May 16, 2004, 12:44 PM EDT


MANCHESTER, Conn. -- The operator of a carnival ride was drunk when a three-year-old fell off and injured himself, police said.

The boy was on the "Yo-Yo" swing ride around 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Coleman Brothers carnival at the Manchester Parkade when he fell from the swing, landing on concrete pavement.

He was taken to the Hartford Hospital, where he was treated for cuts and abrasions and released at 11 p.m.

Ride operator Kenneth Manachio, 34, of Bristol was under the influence of alcohol and uncooperative with investigating officers, police said.

He was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment in the first and second degrees, risk of injury to a minor and interfering with police. He is being held on a $50,000 bond.

Officials shut down the ride pending an investigation.

i hate people like that...

how can someone be so irresponsible, especially when little kids are involved

tsk......... tsk........ tsk............. poor li'l boy

Gee .. Who'd have ever thought that inbred social retards being paid minimum wage (or less) and working 12+ hours a day could be irresponsible.

Everytime I see people strapping their children in to mall parking lot Ferris wheels, I just snicker and think to myself "Natural Selection".

jesus christ!!!!

those places that setup in parking lots for a week or 2 at a time are not the safest compared to real amusement parks.

on top of that the guy working it is pissed drunk

hope that kid is alright

:(

why would anyone ever put their child on something like that...with a most likley, drunken operator...

a guy was thrown off the superman ride here at six flags a few weeks ago... and died... was all over the news..

That shit is fucked up

Yeah I dont like entrusting my life to some of the trailer park trash that run / maintain those rides.

Damn. I miss the fair. I mean, where would the fun have been if all the carnies weren't drunk running Sizzler too fast...or if there was all kinds of safety precautions on the squeezy old Paratrooper thing spinning up in the trees?

Haha. It is natural selection. It's also just the fair...you have to live a little.

i almost died on a carnival ride last year. it was the ride where it takes about 10 people up in the air and the releases them at any given time and plumets to the ground.

when the guy hit the 'release', we heard a loud a cable snapping and thank god the reserve cable kept us from crashin into the ground. fuck carnies and their rides. :( :helpme

lol...ya think?!?! Man I loved this reply. One of the only ones all day today that really made me laugh hard. "Natural Selection" was the clincher...:1orglaugh

That's the 2nd major accident this month from Six Flags in Conn.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3261064/detail.html

There's only 2 things in this world that scares me.....

Nuclear war and Carnies.


Small hands and smell like cabbage

Poor boy!

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...-regional-wire

"Mordarsky's death was at least the fifth since 1999 that occurred when a person fell from a ride made by Intamin AG of Switzerland, the manufacturer of the Superman Ride of Steel"
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sounds like they need to change manufacturer's :warning

Poor kid......:(

Don't forget Disneyland !

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/090...eyland_ax.html

That sucks big time!

How fucking sad. Poor kid! :( I'll remember not to go to another one of those carnival things!

jDoG

If you see Fiesta shows coming to your town. Don't go! The people that run the rides are usually high or drunk.

Scary stuff. Thankfully I'm not much of a thrill seeker.

He's damn lucky the kid wasn't killed....the kid is too.

what a moron..

The man deserves to be in jail. Poor kid, all he wanna do is to have some fun.

poor kid :( fucking bastards :BangBang:

If that was my kid, I would kill that man with my bare hands!

That man deserves to rot in jail!

ya....ahhh ok
http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/sto...000503MASPD104

Poor kid, no way would I let my children on those rides!

i only the trust the big theme parks, not the shady "funfairs"

this is why i dont go on rides at the Stampede here in Calgary, there is a bunch of drunk Indians operating it who look like they havent had a shower in 3 weeks, there is no way i am trusting some half-wit with my life.

"here"? You live around springfield?

WTF?? Jesus.. I hope that kid will be OK

That's fucked up!!! :(

I've actually heard some where that rides that are assembled and disassembled on a regular basis are safer. Guess that theory is blown based on this article.