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Title: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Foxy Brown on May 09, 2007, 06:26:15 PM
A roller coaster traveling up to 46 mph hit a guardrail at an amusement park in western Japan on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 21 others, officials said. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/05/ap/world/main2763739.shtml)
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: StreakInTheSky on May 09, 2007, 07:07:18 PM
It's an unfortunate accident :/

Shouldn't they do inspections of the rollercoaster cars before they actually use them though?   
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: huggumwuggums on May 09, 2007, 07:14:04 PM
Unfortunate indeed. This is why I'm still afraid of them no matter how safe they look.
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: nop on May 10, 2007, 01:58:29 AM
Wow. Takes long time before the news show up here. :D (Must have been server delay over weekends).
-- Make me worry about Momusu girls when they were forced to play these machine on Hello Morning.. 
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: RionZ on May 10, 2007, 02:01:47 AM
Unfortunate indeed. This is why I'm still afraid of them no matter how safe they look.

Same.

and yea, makes you worry about the MM girls lol
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: conannd on May 10, 2007, 03:31:03 AM
Same.

and yea, makes you worry about the MM girls lol

hahah..... yeah.. fortunately they don't do that again this time.........
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Ren on May 10, 2007, 09:28:14 AM
I'm so glad Zekkyou Commercial doesn't exist anymore :D.
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Dj-B13 on May 10, 2007, 01:19:05 PM
Same.

and yea, makes you worry about the MM girls lol

Hell yea I know, Man tha is messed up. A ride turn into a ride to death, I too am super scared of rides no matter what.
 :OMG:
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Rijio on May 10, 2007, 06:03:15 PM
I know why I've never liked roller coasters ::)
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: StreakInTheSky on May 10, 2007, 06:41:33 PM
I love roller coasters and this doesn't scare me one bit :lol: I'm more likely to die driving to school in the morning than on a roller coaster anyways :P
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Since1983 on May 11, 2007, 04:20:35 AM
Wow expect a major lawsuit against the amusement park. This reminds me of an incident that happened at an amusement park where I usually go. The roller coaster just stopped in the middle of going through one of the loops. People were upside down hanging for couple of hours until they had to be rescued. But atleast no one was hurt.
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: StreakInTheSky on May 11, 2007, 05:31:16 AM
how is that possible? o_o pretty much all looped roller coasters I've seen don't have anything to stop a car on a loop, they'd just roll through it and stop later. A rollor coaster is pretty much a free rolling train. if they were to get stuck it would have to be either the car lost momentum or stopped in one of the ratcheted belt sections. Getting stuck in a loop is not physically possible unless there is a ratchet there. Even if it were to lose momentum, it would just roll backwards.
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: vscarecrow on May 11, 2007, 11:37:23 AM
Hehe the momusu girls must have had goosebumps if they hear this news. Glad that they were left unscathed from the Zekkyou CM...
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Rick-e on May 11, 2007, 06:34:44 PM
Argh! I love roller coasters.. and though this news won't stop me from riding them, it will still make me worry more when I hear creaks and other weird sound from a roller coaster...
well maybe that will make my ride even more fun? haha :)
And yeah, even if Zekkyou CM still exist now, It will be put to a stop for sure :D
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: kwanleekwan on May 12, 2007, 02:01:29 AM
What a terrible accident..........
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: tempethegreat on May 12, 2007, 11:08:23 AM
seriously make me fear to play it..... :-[
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: THUNDERDUCK on May 12, 2007, 02:29:03 PM
I worked at an amusement park in High School.  We always had to give every ride a test run in the morning before opening.  Most accidents I remember were because of the kids getting themselves hurt by doing stupid stuff.
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Guchi_Jnr on May 12, 2007, 03:10:17 PM
What a terrible accident..........
True...
And thanks for being one of the few that didn't add some crap about MM in your comment...
Reading these comments almost makes like it sounds no one gives a shit that an unknown 19year old girl died... :shakes head:

One of my HS girls was there that day...Poor kid was really quite at school (2days after), and no doubt counting her lucky stars it wasn't her..
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: schol3s on May 13, 2007, 12:59:58 PM
this is one of the reason why i am always scared of going on to a roller coaster ride....
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: jimmydotnet on May 13, 2007, 01:33:45 PM
never been on rollercoaster... :D
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: marktobias on May 13, 2007, 02:31:43 PM
There's always going to be accidents when man tries to defy gravity. It's always horrible though.
Title: Re: 1 Dead, 21 Injured In Roller Coaster Accident In Japan
Post by: Sexykago on May 15, 2007, 09:34:53 PM
I love roller coasters and this doesn't scare me one bit :lol: I'm more likely to die driving to school in the morning than on a roller coaster anyways :P
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