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Walter reese is an amusement ride inspector and safety consultant and joins us live today. hi there. what do you make of what happened at six flags down in texas? well, it s really disturbing. it looks as if either of two things happened. either her harness mechanism physically failed and the harness opened or she slipped out from behind the locked harness. she apparently was concerned that the lap bar was not secure. but, you know, a lot of people when they get on a big ride like that, they re positive you know, is this is this all there is? well, fundamentally, i m a little surprised to see that this coaster only has the lap bar versus the over-the-shoulder restraint, but i did notice that the body size of the victim is a little large, and i have to question whether or not she should have been riding in the first place. also, in sandusky, ohio, this ....
There are steel tracks on it. you definitely get air time on that ride. there are parts where you re leaving your seat. it s very possible that that lap bar did release when she lifted on the turn like that. take us through what happened to you. you were standing at the gate next to get on the roller coaster when it pulled up. we know they closed down the ride. they re investigating. but the rest of the park is open. but what happened to you? did they just say sorry. everyone has to leave now? well, initially, they were still kind of confused and didn t really know what was going on. and me and my girlfriend, we were at the front of the gate. we still wanted to ride. but we didn t know if this man was joking or not. and after a very short period of time we realized he wasn t joking. and the workers, we asked if the ride is going to be shut down? he said i really don t know right now. i m trying to assess the ....
Reading about this more. it sounds like this man was somewhere in his 30s, it sounds like. she may have been an older woman. is that right? right. yes. that s correct. and park officials actually blocked him because he started to sort of try to run around to try to find his mother. right. he was pretty broken up as you would imagine. so he was doing whatever he could to try to get to where she was. and they had to kind of keep him in one area and make sure he didn t go down there and injure himself. tell us about this ride. people have ridden roller coasters and feel the moment where you leave the seat and feel your thighs hit the bar. what was the harnest situation here? the harness, it wasn t anything that came over your shoulder. it is a lap bar. just a bar that went over your lap. and i haven t ridden the texas giant since they remade it. they redid it a couple years ago. it used to be all wood enand enw ....
Obama in the front seat of one of those wild and crazyç rolle coasters with no lap bar, no harness, no anything. just the handle bar in the front to hang on. and hope that they re not flung out of that front car. when people go into the voting booth in november, they re going to be thinking about a few things. gas prices, do i have a job. do i feel that the economy is coming back? do i feel that person that incumbent is someone i should stick with or should i take a chance, should i risk changing leaders and put in this other person. what we re going to have over the next seven months is a lot of posturing and talking about a whole lot of things that may or may not happen. this discussion of the buffet rule, you think that s really going to happen in the next seven months? what it really is, is a proxy conversation about mitt romney s taxes. so while the buffet rule people might like it from a righteous point of view and it might be one of many things that need to be done to change t ....