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Death At Adventureland

ScarletKnight41
Aug 31 2005 10:38 PM

Dear Lord! I spent way too many hours of my youth at Adventureland (even back when it was called the Adventurer's Inn). How can [url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--amusementparkdeat0831aug31,0,2598642.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork]the ladybug ride[/url] possibly kill anyone?

seawolf17
Sep 01 2005 06:14 AM

Very easily if you're standing on the track.

MFS62
Sep 01 2005 10:29 AM

I remember an Adventurer's Inn, too.
There was one in Flushing.

Later

seawolf17
Sep 02 2005 09:32 AM

[url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liride0902,0,141591.story?coll=ny-li-bigpix]Twice[/url] in one week.

]Less than 48 hours after an an employee was run over by a string of roller coaster cars, Barbara Brady, 45, was hurled from her seat on the TopScan ride. Her body was thrown over a 20-foot wall on the northern edge of the park and landed on the windshield of a car in an adjacent parking lot.


YIKES.

ScarletKnight41
Sep 02 2005 10:14 AM

Dear lord!