The oscillating Lumberjack ride at Canada’s Wonderland theme park stopped suddenly, in mid-air, on Sunday. Videos posted to social media captured the sounds of passengers crying for help.

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    1 year ago

    Why do we (read: humans) allow rides to not have way access to exits at all times? Even a retractable thing of some sort should be required to be able to reach any point on a ride.

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      61 year ago

      There’s simply no way to build in a backup system here. It wasn’t a matter of getting them down but getting them out of their seats without falling. Even if it had a roof, you can’t open the seats and have users dump out. Could easily kill someone