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i bet parents will be fighting to be first in line to put little billy on this ride — LAWSUIT BAYBEE!!!
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Sad but true. *eyeroll*
@Fashoom
I’m fairly certain this magnificent erection stands at a location where few people, if any could find a lawyer in the phone-book, not to mention having one on call.
Why are you talking about my magnificent erection?
Looks like the set of the next Rob Zombie movie.
Totally post-apocalyptic. I have to approve.
Who run Barterpark?
I’m sure the paramedics are standing by with rolls of duct tape to fix up any injuries riders might suffer.
@Derelict
This looks pretty dangerous. I hope they had the forethought to bring along some zip-ties as well.
Hey, putting logs under the legs of carnival rides is a long-standing tradition! We have a respectable carnival in town now, it travels up and down the west coast of Canada, and they block their equipment much like that… the lot where they set up here is by no means level.
Though, this does seem… badly… blocked.
I think this is one of those new generation roller coasters, where you can choose your own level of intensity. Turn the dial when you get in the car, and one of the operators will adjust the number of wooden blocks under the turns and dips.
@Czernobog
They do have the Jerry Springer casting office on speed dial, though.
Now, I bet it costs less and you get to sign a waiver!
Do they call him, though? I’ve always thought that he found his guests using a Vetinarian ring of undercover hillbillies.
Mmm… Discworld references…
Bonus points if you get to ride this in a Temple of Doom style mine cart!
When I was a kid in the 60s my dad the engineer would look at these rides at fairs and pronounce them a ‘deathtrap’ or ‘accident waiting to happen’. Now I’m an engineer, I have kids, I go to the fairs and there are these rides, and I basically say the same thing. But what really bothers me is that I think some of them are old enough to be the same rides (not just the same type, but the same actual ride) my dad wouldn’t put us on. There was this one with the cars that go in a circle, where they had welded 1/4″ steel plate down to patch the holes where the tires had worn through the metal floor.
This looks a lot like my 401k plan.
This is why I don’t go to the county fair anymore.
Jr’s Final Destination
“This looks a lot like my 401k plan.”
Word.
Is that a scene from ‘Final Destination’?
did you have to bring that up? drinking to forget had almost worked.
We had a coaster similar to this at one of the big fairs in Washington. Except it was a quite large one, that got you up a couple stories. Think Mulholland Madness at Disneyland, except rusty and with joints that were literally held together with duct tape. The lap bar didn’t get more than 4 inches past my knees, so I had to hold myself into the ride.
I like to think that it added to the thrill. I was actually rather sad to see it gone this year.
Would the word “apprehensive” be an understatement here?
“Hey, boss, look at how many nuts and bolts I had left over after I assembled this *hic* ride…”
(BTW- I hate carneys… they can’t be trusted and they smell of soup)
What’s that in the background? The collapsed remains of the big wheel?
looks like a funfair in Transsylvania (but where’s Dracula hiding??) I am wondering why this mess wasn’t scrapped some time ago when you got about 250 – 300 € per tonne (=1000kg) of iron or steel scrap. Lots of metal (metal roofs in former NATO barracks(!!!), cables from construction sites,…) were stolen in Europe. And if this piece of <@#~! still runs I would be more than just scared!! :-O
Anybody notice there is no fence around the ride? Not only is this super “not fixed” There’s also nothing to prevent someone from standing with their head between the tracks for a quick DYI decapitation. Yikes.
Won’t we all be disappointed when we learn that this is just the freshly-painted archway to the carnival’s entrance that they propped up on this scaffolding so it could dry?
@dono1
No. The scaffolding is bolted to the ties and the rails are spaced too consistently for that to be simply an archway.
I would say, there is more precision taken to setting up the games than to the rides.
@An elite
Okay, it’s not an archway that they’re painting. How about a ladder? A big, loopy ladder. For the clowns, maybe?
@Matt Kendrick
Maybe THIS is a game. “Knock Over the Roller Coaster. Three balls for a dollar”.
@Matt Kendrick
!!! Nice !!!
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@ Greg- My dad’s an engineer and he’s never said anything like that!
Am I the only one who realized that there isn’t a fence around it either? Now I know what to look for at the fair this fall XD
I “wood” totally ride that.
aahhh mi mexico jajaja
HAHAHAHA!
I think I might have been on that…
@DH
Thank God you lived to tell about it. How long were you on (4.3 seconds is the record)?
@dono1
now that would be FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is obviously a “FRESH” set-up of the Shake,Rabbit and Roll-er coaster. There is no fence because it is still on the truck awaiting set-up. Notice there are no fences on the other rides as well. As to the big wheel reference, it is a Pirate Swing ride for the kiddies.
I do hope I have cleared up some of the madness.
Former Carney, no longer smelling of soup.
ahahahahahahahaha
“Behave Billy or you’re going back on the Death-Train.”
“No, Daddy! Not the Death Train … PLEASE!”
@Paddy
Or Zombieland at least.
Interesting story about Carnies: The person working the beer booth at our local county fair told me that they are specificlly instructed NOT to sell any alcohol to The Carnies. (Some of who had tried to “fool” them by taking off their working jackets–as if you couldn’t tell a carnie from a mile away.) But my thought was: What self respecting Carnie wouldn’t just bring their own 40′s of Natural Ice?
Wow… not one michael jackson joke… cool…
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