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malaise

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3. Good grief

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 07:06 AM

Jul 2013

I love roller coasters

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A woman fell to her death from the Texas Giant rollercoaster Friday night [View all] Are_grits_groceries Jul 2013 OP

her son was next to her ? how horrible and sad JI7 Jul 2013 #1

Wow. . and I love roller coasters. . . B Calm Jul 2013 #2

Good grief malaise Jul 2013 #3

That is why I wont get on the damn things if you paid me!! darkangel218 Jul 2013 #4

Most of them are designed so an unsecured bag of flour wouldn't be ejected. Igel Jul 2013 #5

Shit happens. Millions to one chance. You should stop riding in cars also. n-t Logical Jul 2013 #13

Yeah they go all day with thousands of people on them Rex Jul 2013 #14

Its a personal choice. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #21

If "potentially endanger my life" means 500 million to 1 then OK. n-t Logical Jul 2013 #23

Yea. Its a possibility. Can you guarantee me i wont be that unlucky person? darkangel218 Jul 2013 #24

from wiki: darkangel218 Jul 2013 #27

LOL, give me drowning stats and bee sting stats. Then we will talk! Logical Jul 2013 #28

The stats of other types of accidents can not and will not invalidate darkangel218 Jul 2013 #29

Yes it does. "dangerous" is a relative term. n-t Logical Jul 2013 #30

No, it does not. nt darkangel218 Jul 2013 #32

A little more research and you would have your reasons..... Logical Jul 2013 #33

I still win, give it up. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #34

Here you go. Go away now.... Logical Jul 2013 #35

Go away? wow, nice style of debating darkangel218 Jul 2013 #36

LOL, next time you are in an argument, cutting one sentence from Wiki does not.... Logical Jul 2013 #37

Statistics dont lie. Rollercoaster accidents have happend and will continue happening. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #38

4 deaths a year with how many riding rollercoasters? Millions tammywammy Jul 2013 #40

And thousands more injured. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #41

You're most likely going to be hurt or injured at traveling carnival carnival rides tammywammy Jul 2013 #43

Perheps. or crossing the street. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #45

My sister lives with a neck injury from a roller coaster rainy Jul 2013 #68

Pretty high relative to? Still waiting. n-t Logical Jul 2013 #52

Relative to not getting on the ride. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #55

So is swimming. Do you swim? Smoke? n-t Logical Jul 2013 #56

Swimming is healthy. its a sport. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #58

Swimming is the same thing. Entertainment. Enjoyable. 3500.... Logical Jul 2013 #59

Swimming is not just enterteinment. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #60

Yes, the people flocking to the beach are there to do aerobics. But will you... Logical Jul 2013 #61

So swimming is not a sport, and has no other health benefits darkangel218 Jul 2013 #63

"Go away now"?? FU, in principle. WinkyDink Jul 2013 #47

Meh, he's upset. I must have hurt his feelings. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #51

You hurt my brain. n-t Logical Jul 2013 #53

Awww!! thats hard to believe, since youre the one who started this. darkangel218 Jul 2013 #57

Then for fuck's sake put her on Ignore TorchTheWitch Jul 2013 #70

Because of course one's need of a car IS THE EQUIVALENT of one's need of a carney ride. WinkyDink Jul 2013 #46

Brown said the woman had expressed concern to a park employee ronnie624 Jul 2013 #6

Yep. Minimum wage employees given the task of keeping people alive Horse with no Name Jul 2013 #7

I don't think the article mentioned the employee's wage. ronnie624 Jul 2013 #8

I bet he heard 100 comments a day like that. I love the DU..... Logical Jul 2013 #12

Have to agree, the "eyewitness" is not credible Rstrstx Jul 2013 #17

Thanks for the great information. Math is hard for some people. n-t Logical Jul 2013 #18

So is Chaucer in the original. And BTW: Statistics are, frankly, irrelevant to the WinkyDink Jul 2013 #48

I also wondered how she could see anything. tammywammy Jul 2013 #19

You're right. I shouldn't have said it. ronnie624 Jul 2013 #69

I think the point is lack of oversight burnodo Jul 2013 #15

That is HORRIBLE!!! They need to change their regulations. tblue Jul 2013 #26

Plaintiff injury attorneys must be lining round the block for this one Brewinblue Jul 2013 #9

Just got home last night from Cedar Point. MuseRider Jul 2013 #10

Um, last night: Boat on Cedar Point ride rolls backward down hill; 7 hurt The Straight Story Jul 2013 #11

Well that just sucks but it has MuseRider Jul 2013 #16

My daughter told me that when she has gone on the Texas Giant Horse with no Name Jul 2013 #39

Agreed... Blue_Tires Jul 2013 #42

Sitting for those seconds before MuseRider Jul 2013 #44

Just what I was thinking. Soundman Jul 2013 #65

Oh ho ho be very excited. MuseRider Jul 2013 #67

Second fatality since the park opened in 1961! FarCenter Jul 2013 #20

I've been going to that park for decades Major Nikon Jul 2013 #71

I used to avoid roller coasters like the plague. ananda Jul 2013 #22

Wooden coasters are real bone-shakers. Manifestor_of_Light Jul 2013 #64

I worked at Kings Island, OHIO JesterCS Jul 2013 #25

Did they ever reopen the Son of Beast? B Calm Jul 2013 #49

And the message to the Arlington police officers investigating RB TexLa Jul 2013 #31

One time at Disneyland I was on the Matterhorn and some people near us said "we're not fastened in Raine Jul 2013 #50

Virtually the same thing happened to me years ago on the Demon at 6Flags Gurnee, WI. Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2013 #66

Oh man, what a horrible way to die dgilmour32863 Jul 2013 #54

Question 90-percent Jul 2013 #62