That kind of shit is always a fear of mine. It would brutally suck to fall from a coaster. Scary shit. That said, i love riding coasters.

Yet another reason Texas should probably be nuked from orbit.

Odds are that the woman did something while on the ride. Usually, once the investigation is done it comes down to someone doing something really stupid while on the ride.

Also, when I worked at a theme park we had someone who decided it would be fun to jump out of the log flume at the top of the final hill. The pond for the splash is not that deep and they ended up breaking both their legs.

Man I love Rollercoasters. Always went to Cedar Point growing up.

There aren't enough details for our typical puns. This death sucks.

Did you even read the OP? It said the seat lock didn't lock correctly.

Truth... yeah they have trained engineers on site who supposedly check every rail (?hmm) at the beginning of each day, but who's checking on the college sophomore in charge of loading the ride and riding his ass about safety?

I bet a thousand things could go wrong on any given day.

Everyone is just showing some restraint.

Tony Romo's Swing Pass was a bad idea for ride.

Yeah, I rode the Two Face ride at the Six Flags in Maryland back in the day. I was pretty young at the time and always a shy kid. Anyway, the harness was the type that came down from the top with your legs dangling free. I tried to pull the harness down myself but couldn't get it to click all the way. So the guy was walking through pressing everyone's down but didn't even bother to check mine and I watched him give the thumbs up sign to start the ride.

I started freaking out and told my aunt and, in turn, she started freaking out. Luckily the attendant dude that obviously didn't give a **** about his job ran over and pushed my harness down until it clicked as the ride was about to take off.

That ride had so many flips and upside down turns I know for a fact I would have flown out of the seat in no time. I could have died that day...

One time, at Worlds of Fun, I was riding the Detonator (for out of towners - its one of those rides that briskly elevates everyone up a tower; sort of a reverse Tower of Terror). I couldn't get my harness to click. I knew I wasn't secure, and I was trying to get an employee's attention. Normally they check with every single rider, but for some reason the guy didn't check my section of the octagon (or whatever hexagonal shape the Detonator is); four of us weren't confirmed to be safely secured.

So the ride took off and I held down my harness with all of my strength. I wasn't secure. Thank goodness for g-forces, I guess, for helping keep me in my seat instead of flying off to certain death.

LMAO yep, what you have is essentially, some highly distracted camp counselor from "Meatballs" buckling you in for your life... and thats the Big Money show, i dare not imagine how many times i might've died on some local-schmokel carnival attraction...

Just go flying off that big swing 300 feet into some lemonade stand...

They now claim that the drop can be as much as 90 degrees.

I liked that.

You are a bad, bad man.