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Favorite Comment: Fixer kcwc says, “The parental conundrum: There’s no way I’m letting my kid anywhere near this thing, yet I am longing to get on it myself.”
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Now this is a very bad idea.
Yeah, too much popsicle gives me a stomachache, too.
Skull, meet dirt. Neck, meet brace.
You Sir have Won.
@Dolt
These kids probably play on this thing all day without a problem, but let an American kid step off the curb while wearing a backpack, and he ends up with a compound fracture of the femur and serious spinal chord injuries.
OR… The city ends up with a lawsuit for the kid being a dunce and trying some crazy stunt on a non-standard sidewalk.
OR… More likely parents are being sued by childcare organisation for failing to protect their sixteen y.o. minors and exposing them to extreme, life-threating outdoor conditions (fresh air?).
Seriously! We can’t bring peanut butter or chocolate or all kinds of snacks at my school in case the students have an allergic reaction. A bit excessive when fresh air and birthday cupcakes are outlawed.
Either that or a very poorly executed good idea.
I’m forced to disagree. This is a DIY win.
agreed…. in some countries they don’t have/need fancy stuff to be entertained. purpose built… not a kludge
Agreed – a definite win. It looks to me like the kids in the seats are being supervised, too, so win plus. Are the guys on the sides actually hefting that thing around?
Kinder gehen in kreis herum. Wo ist dia Bier Meister? Wo ist mein anwalt?
How heavy (sluggish) is that wheel? Assume it was light and you were riding it with three buddies. How do you get off? At the lowest point? Big weight at the top, zero weight at the bottom -> Your buddies turn into a huge golf club, you turn into the golf ball. So you either (a) get out near the bottom and scurry, (b) try to climb out at the top, or (c) use your momentum be catapulted away from the wheel, safely clearing it before it swings into its new equilibrium. Man, I would have loved it as a child:) DIY mission for evil geniuses: rebuild this as an ultra light metal structure:)
This will be awesome… until someone gets killed or maimed.
Just like nearly every other moment in life…
yeah, getting killed or maimed always puts a damper on my weekend.
yes… because nearly every moment of life is kludged together out of tree trunks and 2x4s.
What was photoshopped out of the upper left?
A Golden Eagle coming to prey upon the revolving children. This was taken from an ad for Scout Camp, and it was thought that predatory birds would bring down attendance.
This is not a kludge, this is AWESOME!
Who said square wheels can’t turn?
Do the cloned trees in the upper-left corner count as a kludge?
Day 181: I created a “Wheel-of-Misfortune” and placed a dummy on top stuffed with the deer I hit while i was escaping on my “Lawn-mower of Unending Death”, the zombies are now distracted and i can repair my mower with some vice-grips and a clothes pin I found.
Day 182: If only we could find some attractive lights to add to the trap. Our food source grows daily, but we know it could be potentially better. We’ll need to act fast, as these kids are quite skinny . Although they cook up well, they will probably go rather quickly.
This is perhaps the most popular attraction at the world renown theme park, ” Six Flags Over Taiwan.”
Redneck ferris wheel.
For a little extra coin (as the kid in red apparently had), you can ride single instead of having to double up. You also get the “lake view” during your ride instead of the default “garden view.”
Lawsuit in 3…. 2…. 1….
That looks really fun!! Better wear a helmet though. :¬)
This is my favorite ride at Six Popsicle Sticks over Uzbekistan.
My other favorite ride is trying to apply tourniquets to the guys who get their limbs torn off at this ride.
Any one else notice the kid up top is sitting the opposite way to everyone else?
it just looks like they’re having fun. this is actually how the village gets their water.
Idiots²
(Idiots squared)
It’s a nonferrous ferris wheel!
Your comment bears a strange magnetism that I find attractive.
OMG this is my camp!
I don’t know why, but I hear yodeling when I look at this picture.
Edelweiss ? Bring me Edelweiss….
Either it’s the Bavarian salami smorgasbord I just ate, or this picture is making my head spin …
Smörgåsbord is a meal usually served in Scandinavian countries, the German equivalent would be “kalte Platte”. Also, salami isn’t exactly typically Bavarian sausage.
The landscape in the background looks like Sueddeutschland, but more like Swabia.
Mommy! Let’s ride the Scary-Go-Round!
The parental conundrum: There’s no way I’m letting my kid anywhere near this thing, yet I am longing to get on it myself.
Seems like something you might find at Burning Man, but since there is water and trees it’s obviously some other dirty hippy gathering.
Ferris wheel =$0.00
Hospital Bills= $0.00 (there is no hospital in this town)
Realizing my own childhood sucked = priceless
There are some things money can’t buy.
For everything else there’s Masterkludge
Wow, so original. ^
The kid in the red has it right. To get off, you have to time it so that you jump off and move in a parabolic arc at about a 45 degree angle, fly out into the lake, and do a backflip for bonus points. Minimal splash increases your score too.
I call label fail. This is NOT a redneck carousel; it’s not a carousel at all. It’s a ren-fest “Ferris” wheel. And it looks frigging awesome. It may not look like the safest ride, but I’ll be the only person to get hurt is the idiot who’s arrogant enough to not listen to directions while getting on.
Not a kludge…
Well this is what the original Ferris wheel’s where like.
Looks like they’re making a new Stomp Out Loud video… lol
To qualify as a kludge, the spindle would have to be set on two stepladders or something else unsafe. I would take a ride on this. Every summer at the local Medieval fair they have hand-powered rides exactly like this.
Guaranteed everyone who mentions “danger” and “lawsuit” is an American.
Danger! The Americans might get you with a lawsuit for that insult!
I saw lots of these things while traveling in southeast Asia and Nepal. Pretty common entertainment in small villages.
And I agree with Ray, ‘Guaranteed everyone who mentions “danger” and “lawsuit” is an American.’
We are the most litigious country in the world (unfortunately).
OMG! I tripped on my shoe lace and grazed my knee! I’m suing the shoelace manufacturer for failing to provide adequate gripping shoe laces!
There were three diplomats riding a train together: a Russian, a German, and an American. The Russian pulls out a bottle of Vodka, offers a shot to each of the other guys, has one himself, and then chucks the rest of the bottle out the window. “Why’d you do that?” “Well, in Russia we have plenty of Vodka, so it’s very cheap.” The German dude does the same thing with chocolate… and then the American diplomat throws a lawyer out the window!
Yeah, like you break your leg and then sue your milkman because there was not enough calcium in the milk he sold you.
The Kid-A-Pult, a valuable weapon in the war against over
crowded classrooms.
“Okay, Billy, give it one more wind and then pull the release lever and let this baby rip!”
Six Flags over Bedrock
I can’t belive no one said this yet
Because it is made out of wood, not stone.
This is why we need to keep eco-freaks away from county fairs.
Trade secret: the squirrel cage ride at all county fairs is held together with paper clips. Who’s laughing NOW?
OMG! I SO want one of those!!!
not gonna lie.. I kinda want to ride it.
Seriously, I’m thinking of how I could have made my old swing set into a ferris wheel had I know it was possible right now…
And also that it probably would fit just as well in the backyard as that swing set did (which was not at all).
This is exactly the kind of thing we would have built when we were kids… And, exactly the kind of thing I wouldn’t let my *own* kids play on in a million years!
This is a redneck ferris wheel if I’ve ever seen one. Next on Applachian Hospital…
I have actually seen this in person. It’s in Nepal. All the townspeople chipped in and built this. They take down part of it so the kids can’t use it when an adult isn’t around to do the turning. They hadn’t had an accident since it was built. The kids really knew how to ride it. When I was there, I really didn’t think it was dangerous looking. I just thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. It looked pretty safe. I think we over do things with being hyper safe these days anyway.
That looks like fun O:
Remember the good ol’ days when ferris wheels were round and metallic? What were we thinking?
This is what happens when the environmentalists win.
This is a classic Nepalese ‘Ferris wheel’. featured in Nepal’s 1 Rs bill.
http://yfrog.com/jxnepalp161rupee1972bj
We had one of these at Boy Scout camp in Wisconsin- though there were only two arms, not four, so it was difficult to get the upper one down to get someone on it- you had to load someone on the lower one, and then pull the upper end down. And you had to be especially carefull getting off. This one looks a LOT safer.
That’s gonna leave a mark!
Maybe I’d be a horrific parent…but I would SO let my kid ride that thing.
We had one of those at the summer camp I went to in Vermont. I never got a chance to ride it, though — it was only used during our end-of-summer carnival, and the lines were always too long.
Yeah–that’s what I thought this was, too. F and W-ers unite!
I was just always too scared to go on it…
“the one that stay’s on top the longer get’s the stunt part on Pirates of the Caribbean !”
This is a Nepali “Roti Ping” – rotating / round swing… they are put up for one month of the year… Getting off and on is a challenge, so there are not only the two people moving it on the top, but usually two people at the bottom to hold the seat when you get off, so the next person can hop on quickly.
Most are 4 seaters, but in the village I lived in there was a 2 seater made of big bamboos – now that one was a bit more challenging, and worrisome. The 4 seaters are cool. All the pieces are taken apart at the end of the season and stashed for the next year. Occasionally, new “pins” have to be carved – as this is all nail / adhesive / duck tape free!!!
Now THIS is a FAIL! That’s a ferris wheel, not a carousel! If you hover your mouse over the image it will say “epic kludge redneck carrousel” (there’s another FAIL; they spelled carousel wrong), instead of ferris wheel.
These are American kids. The “Ferris Wheel” is a Scout Pioneering Project. The Wheel is inspected before anyone can use it.
The scouts of Sweden did the same at the 2007 World Scout Jamboree:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivier_g/1185681518/in/pool-jamboree21
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivier_g/1185681556/in/pool-jamboree21
Here’s a better shot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_e/976001558/in/pool-jamboree21
Sure to be the next thing after Punkin’ Chunkin’. The kiddie trebuchet.
Actually, if I remember correctly, this is in India, and a little local girl did get hurt on it. Her long hair got caught in it and it tore her scalp clean off. They had to surgically put it back on.
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Technology. That’s what happened to Darwinism.