At the Six Flags Amusement Park in Louisville, Kentucky, a teenaged girl lost her feet when they were amputated by a stray cord.
CNN reports:
A cord wrapped around the (13-year-old’s) feet and severed them at her ankles while she was on the “Superman Tower of Power,” a police dispatcher said. The girl was taken to a local hospital.”I seen the car go up. Then, like, the cable broke, I heard — pwchh — and I heard a lot of people screaming,”Chris Stinnett, who was at a ride next to the Tower of Power, told CNN affiliate WDRB/WMYO-TV in Louisville.
Her feet were recovered by Six Flags staff and were sent to the hospital with her, where she has undergone surgery.
The Superman Tower of Power is a free-fall thrill ride that takes passengers 177 feet into the air, then drops 154 feet at 54 mph, then stopping just 20 feet above the pavement.
Since the accident, Six Flags has closes similar rides in their amusement parks across the country. Another amusement park company, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., closed it’s drop rides in the US and Canada.
The ride will remain closed until a full investigation by state officials and “our team of experts” is conducted, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom spokeswoman Carolyn McLean said.
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I read about that on Friday.
That’s horrible.
June 24th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Officials who were investigating the possible involvement of Braniac were called upon to stop a feeding frenzy of lawyers at the scene.
It should also be noted that the Superman Tower of Power is the tallest building in Kentucky.
June 24th, 2007 at 4:52 am
LOL Brainiac.
June 24th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I think I’m gonna be sick…
June 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I’m not thinking it’s too funny. I’m also thinking that while sometimes litigation is a bad idea, we don’t know at this point that it shouldn’t be looked into. This girl is gonna have medical bills for the rest of her life, and as a disabled person I can tell you it isn’t cheap. Big corporations sometimes need to be hit in the pocketboot so they will improve things. Sometimes that’s all they understand.
My thoughts and prayers are with the girl and her family.
June 24th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
This is awful! I was scared already to try the ride (but I was thinking about going on it) But now i NEVER will and I am absoutly terrified! I hope the girl is going to be o.k. and I am praying for her and her family!
June 24th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
del gorky. Do us a huge favor. Start collecting all your posts of this ilk that you write. And try to read them in a year or so without being embarrassed about your online presence. Even replying to your post feeds to your cry for attention, I fully realize. Consider this, in other posts you pontificate in a way that gives me the impression you desire for your fellow posters to give your opinion some level of regard. Slight problem, every time you create ill-advised posts like the one above you likely make many folks (including myself) continue to dismiss your opinion in its entirety. I hazard to guess your online conduct is an effort to be noticed. You are noticed, del gorky, just not in a good way. I don’t expect you to regard the disdain and disgust that some will offer in reply to your “joke”. The “joke” makes you a grand subject for derision, not respect. And, lest you advise any of your detractors to check their sense of humor, I know funny and you are not funny. You’re the kind of person who attempts to elevate the level of online discourse by writing of people you don’t agree with Your skins are so thin you all act like you are 9 month’s pregnant.
(In the interest of full disclosure, it’s pretty easy to find message board posts where I conduct myself pretty poorly, so I fully realize there’s some stones being thrown from my glass house
)
June 25th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Tim, I basically write posts to actually express myself as I feel at the moment. When I read of the accident at Six Flags Kentucky here at blog@newsarama, I realized the only reason it saw print was that it involved Superman. This story really doesn’t belong on this blog at all.
I felt oddly the only response possible should also be comic themed and I thought my response was black-hearted but funny. The crack at Kentucky was mainly due to my intimate knowledge of this backward state.
Anyway, I have no real need of your online analysis of my online persona. Those who actually know me know that I don’t care at all for the opinion of others. (It should be noted though that you stated I sought the respect of others but also had no regard for their disdain at the same time; this seems to be paradoxical.) Also their is no need to put the word “joke” in parentheses. It clearly was a joke; the fact that you didn’t laugh (or did you) doesn’t change what it is. No parentheses are necessary.
I do review my posts from time to time just to see. They all still represent my feelings when written; the Batwoman/Bill Finger being my favorite. It’s clear you actually did some research in finding my old posts even outside of newsarama (which I might add is flattering but a waste of your time). I’m sorry my post did not meet your coddled rarified expectations. Some people’s do have thin skins from not having lived very much or long; my advice is to go outside and do stuff. I’d stay away from that Superman Tower of Power though.
June 25th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Of course this story belongs here. It’s a story related to a licensed product. It has as much right to be on the blog as any talk of toys or movies, etc.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:02 am
“Officials who were investigating the possible involvement of Braniac were called upon to stop a feeding frenzy of lawyers at the scene.
It should also be noted that the Superman Tower of Power is the tallest building in Kentucky.”
versus
“Tim, I basically write posts to actually express myself as I feel at the moment. When I read of the accident at Six Flags Kentucky here at blog@newsarama, I realized the only reason it saw print was that it involved Superman. This story really doesn’t belong on this blog at all.”
Yeah, thanks for the DVD commentary track on your initial post. Step forward if you see the connecting logic between these two snippets. Don’t be so quick to step forward, Del.
I did my search of your posts to see if I could find any redeemable aspect of your online presence, and I’m still looking to no avail.
As for your effort to be this blog’s unsolicited ombudsman, you’ve earned your pay.
If you “don’t care at all for the opinion of others”–then why respond to mine, and/or inflict your ignorance on the public at large? If you’re not interested in an exchange of ideas, you’ve come to the wrong blog.
One final question in my romp through your flawed logic–if you don’t care at all for the opinions of others, why read and comment on a blog in the first place? Is your ego that starved for attention? That last question was rhetorical.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Man, del gorky. At least I’m generally entertaining when I type my obnoxious reply posts. And the moderators have removed my posts from this blog multiple times.