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Caught the last bit of the news.. any info on the Theme park accident in JHB?
 
Don't think it was Gold Reef City, I would have remembered the name, was something else if I'm not mistaken, two words...
 
I was once in a freak accident at one of these theme park type things... people died and everything... I had to overnight at a hospital...they didnt think I would walk again, but beer saved me, literally, and I was out of there the next morning, quite an horric accident though, was covered by all the local channels way back when in 97ish.
 
http://www.sabcnews.co.za/south_africa/general/0,2172,166366,00.html

March 24, 2008, 18:00

Seven people survived a roller coaster crash at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg. It all went horribly wrong when the ride became unhinged and toppled to its side and fell 1.5m to the ground. The injured were rushed to hospital having sustained neck and back pain.

There is no CCTV camera where the incident took place. However, management maintains that the rides were inspected just last week.

“The incident happened on Friday evening and there was an inspection going on at that piece of equipment sometime in the last seven days… there was no report from the inspection but currently we have an external investigation by some forensics engineers to determine the exact cause of the accident,” says Bob Yearham, the chief operating officer at Emperors Palace.

Angry family members of the injured have vowed to take further action against the resort.
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Same maintenance strategy used in EISKOM - I wonder how much the inspectors got in their back pocket.
 
Interesting - as casinos make lots of money, and they can afford regular maintenance.

Think it was possibly some latent defect - but we'll have to wait and hear what the investigators say...
 
This is exactly why I do NOT go NEAR rides like these... I always think like this: if there is a 50% chance I can die doing something, I will NOT do it! :) hahaha.

I'm such a chicken shyte ;)
 
The_Librarian said:
Interesting - as casinos make lots of money, and they can afford regular maintenance.

Think it was possibly some latent defect - but we'll have to wait and hear what the investigators say...
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EISKOM could also afford to do regular maintenance, but you wouldn't allow their current maintenance crew near your wheelbarrow.
 
Well I wouldn't exactly call it a theme park. But I always felt that that indoor roller-coaster was a disaster waiting to happen.
 
teraside said:
Reasons you say that? I don't know the place ;)
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It's an indoor roller-coaster, and it runs directly above the kids games section. Imagine playing Daytona when a roller-coaster comes crashing down on you :eek:
 
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Today we went to Gold Reef City.

Two rides that we were queuing for broke down and we had to turn back.

One is the "Anaconda" roller coaster, one of the new generation ones where you do a loop on the outside of the loop. I queued there for almost an hour just to be told that the ride was canceled due to a technical problem.

I remember Carte Blanche had a program about Gold Reef Citiy's appalling maintenance on their thrill rides.

It was some time back and I thought that it was sorted out by now.

Apparently not !!!!!

:mad::mad::mad:
 
Highflyer_GP said:
It's an indoor roller-coaster, and it runs directly above the kids games section. Imagine playing Daytona when a roller-coasting comes crashing down on you :eek:
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Ahhh, that explains it, crazy man! ;) :D :p
 
Ouch...just saw it on SABC 3, someone had a cellphone recording of it...

The one I was on was one of those huge swings that light you perpendicular to the ground...it fell over, and the guy running it got a fright and ran away leaving it running, smacking people, including me into the ground repeatedly until someone cut the mains.
 
I was one of the victims on the accident. It happened on Saturday night on the Crazy Wave. The video was given to me by a bystander, Christo. His girlfriend was on the ride. I'm the one praying as a joke on the video just before the accident. The SABC interviewed me and my girlfriend, Ilse, for the news last night. I have taken more photos of the ride and you could actually see on the side that hasn't broken that there are nuts missing??? Maintenance??????!!!!????:confused:

E-TV wants to have another interview with me and Ilse later on today...
 
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