And that's why

[Smit]

I don't ride these fkg rides! 

Roller coaster riders were trapped upside down for hours after mechanical failure

[RobertELee]

I'd say this is worse

[beej]

It happened to me one time on a ride. I'll never get back on one. My incident was at a county fair though, rather than a big amusement park. No matter. I'm not getting on another one.

[MIL-TFP-41]

We actually make a few things for the thrill ride industry. We receive in customer supplied weldments (pretty big stuff, some parts using up 150" of travel) and finish machine them. Print will say one thing, weldments are typically a mile out, so call up the design engineer. He marks up the print, and we cut the parts. So each one of the parts are almost unique. That being said, I have never questioned the safety of the parts we machine, the things are solid.

The thing I do question is the ability of the average carnie to properly maintain something that weighs several tons and travels at over 100mph.

[gcode]

that's a stress facture
watch those cars full of people as they blast past the support tower
the crack is opening up a couple of inches and the tracks and support rails are flexing with it.
left unrepaired there will eventually be a catastrophic failure.
Something like that leads me to suspect the integrity of the entire structure
The scary part is the guy who found it reported it to the people running the roller coaster
and they were very nonchalant about it... so he took it to social media.

[Del.]

Hell i don't even like driving a car anymore.

[ghuns]

Ref the travelling fairs....My mate always said "Never go on a ride put together by someone who can't spell their own name" 

I grew up in 4H and basically lived at the county fair for a week every summer. If you had animals in the fair, you were there from the time the rides went up until they came down.

We were all farm kids so we were familiar with the cobbled together, half assed fixes farmers have to do to keep equipment running when it's needed most.

But none of us 4H kids ever rode the those rides.

[pmartin]

Duct tape, a farmers best friend.

[rdshear]

Duct tape, a farmers best friend.

And bailing wire, can't leave off the bailing wire...

[JParis]

and that's why no one will remember your names