Worker severs leg on county fair roller coaster

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Worker severs leg on Petaluma roller coaster:

Worker severs leg on Petaluma roller coaster
Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writer
June 23, 2010 09:20 PM

(06-23) 21:20 PDT PETALUMA -- A worker at the Sonoma-Marin Fair suffered a severed leg when he stepped in front of a moving rolling coaster Wednesday afternoon at the fairgrounds in Petaluma. The man opened a safety gate and stepped onto the track of the roller coaster called the Wacky Worm at 2:20 p.m. - less than 90 minutes into the opening day of the fair, said Vicki DeArmon, the fair's marketing director.

The man, who is in his 20s and was not the operator of the ride, was hospitalized, His condition was unknown. He was an employee of Midway of Fun, the fair's operator.

"Why the employee would do that, we have no idea," Harry Mason, the company's CEO said in a statement.

DeArmon said people were on the ride when the man was struck. "There some shaken up people who were on the ride and saw things," she said. There were no immediate signs of operator error or equipment malfunction, DeArmon said.

The ride was closed for the rest of the day, but the fair remained open. The fair will remain open through Sunday and is expected to attract 65,000 people.
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Imagine the kid in the front seeing this grown ass dude step out onto the track. The moment of impact. His body flying through the air in one direction as his severed limb flops onto the ground, blood splattering the horrified passengers, as screams fill the air.

I wish I could've been there.
 
TheUsual said:
How could one not know that the ride was in operation?!
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Maybe he was lazy and trying to take a shortcut, like that kid at Six Flags that got hit by a rollercoaster and decapitated a couple years ago.
 
How things like this happen absolutely stump me. It's not all that uncommon and yet there's rarely any knee-jerk reactions calling for better safety. I guess one doesn't need to go out on a limb to wager it was just stupidity.
 
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"...and that's why you don't walk on rollercoaster tracks."

I couldn't find an image of the one-armed man. In any case, hope the poor bastard is okay and they can reattach the leg. I mean, if it wasn't all shattered and minced.
 
I'm guessing the worker had been drinking. That's the only explanation I can come up with for how someone could be stupid enough to walk in front of a moving roller coaster.
 
SnakeXs said:
How things like this happen absolutely stump me. It's not all that uncommon and yet there's rarely any knee-jerk reactions calling for better safety. I guess one doesn't need to go out on a limb to wager it was just stupidity.
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You sir are a bigger asshole than I.
 
Hmmm.. Harry Mason, roller coaster/amusement park, severed limbs...viral marketing for new Silent Hill game or movie? :lol
 
B.K. said:
Maybe he was lazy and trying to take a shortcut, like that kid at Six Flags that got hit by a rollercoaster and decapitated a couple years ago.
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Gah, I remember that. The kid climbed a couple fences first right? So it's not like there wasn't any sort of safety measures up.
 
"suffered a severed leg."


Sounds like the flu or something
 
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