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Man dies after being struck by roller coaster at Ohio amusement park
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This roller coaster has you positioned under the rail so that your feet are dangling under you. So did someone come into contact with him with their feet or legs? Seems crazy that you would be dangling less than 10 ft away from the ground going at high speeds and end up kicking someone.
Sounds like he got hit by the ride vehicle. If someone had kicked him at that speed, they would have certainly broken their leg in the process.
Yeah, I think that happened ~10 years ago at cedar point. Dude went to get his hat or phone or something and got kicked in the head by a rider, the guy died and the rider had a very seriously broken leg.
Can you imagine the insurance claim for the medical expenses for a broken leg?
"My leg got broken because some dumbfuck ran under a rollercoaster and I could not avoid kicking him in the head at very high speed as I was strapped to said coaster train.
"Should have lifted your leg up, claim denied"
-insurance company
"A medical record from 12 years ago shows you broke that same leg.......it only happened again because of this pre existing condition......"
Should have asked for pre-authorization
-insurace company
Literally death panels...
God damn can we just get universal heath care.
This is literally an old Daniel Tosh joke. Standup, not his TV show. "I'm not sure if you've ever been in a cast, but eeeeeveryone and their grandmoth will ask, 'So how'd you do it?'."
I have no idea who Daniel Tosh is but if I "stole" his joke, sorry I guess...
My bad, I didn't mean to accuse you of stealing the joke. Lol! Just saying your comment was funny enough to be part of a stand up bit.
English isn't my first language so sometime, I misjudge people's meaning, especially over text format.
No I can’t. I live in Canada where you don’t have to worry about such things
Can you imagine the ICD-10 code for that?
A combination of item between S70 and S99 is my bet depending on which things got obliterated by the impact.
God, that poor rider! I can't imagine how painful the rest of the ride must have been for them.
And the turmoil of knowing your foot killed someone, even if you know it was their fault, not yours.
This is what pisses me off about reckless motorcycle drivers. They may not value their own life and care if they get killed, but I’m the one who’d have to deal with the trauma of having killed someone.
That's so sad to think about. They're in 10/10 screaming pain because broken bones let alone a likely shattered leg, getting snatched every which way and moving with a broken bone is screaming pain on its own, so there's the trauma from the pain and from knowing that it wasn't your fault but your horrific injury killed someone. I wish them big, warm, peaceful hugs.
And I hope they know that, even though it may not have been said, the people who died wouldn't want them to blame themselves. They'd want them to be happy.
Happened years ago in Wildwood as well on one of the piers.
Yep. I worked on one of the other Morey’s piers at the time. That was awful. Dallas White, I’ll never forget his name.
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Happened at Six Flags over Atlanta. Believe he was decapitated too. The leg was understandably fucked
That must suck absolute ass to be riding a roller coaster with a broken leg for another 1 minute or so.
It was on the Raptor which has a body count at this point I’m pretty sure
I remember that— the ride was The Raptor and the guy was trying to get his hat back. My dad’s big into roller coasters so I heard all about how big of a dumbfuck the guy was.
That happened at Great America (California) when I was in high school. Someone went to get their hat and got inadvertently kicked by a passing-by rollercoaster rider. Dude got smoked, rider broke their leg. Same kind of ride, where your feet dangle as you ride.
I remember that one quite well also.
Top Gun. Another one that I remember around that time is some kid falling off of Drop Zone. Crazy.
One of the articles I saw said that there were people in the front car, but they weren’t paying enough attention to see what they actually hit. They thought it was an animal or something. Must be incredibly traumatizing though even to find out after the fact
I guess luckily the roller coaster hit him and not anyone else, this was completely reckless and avoidable and luckily no one else got hurt.
It's so weird I just watched someone talk about this the other day.