What is your worst experience you've ever had at a carnival/amusement park?

Question

Ah, carnivals... cotton candy, funnel cakes, and creepy carnies.

What more could you ask for?

My worst experience was riding a Sizzler... a friend of mine who weighed more than me brought me on my first ride on one, and she said that sitting on the outside made her nauseous. I told her that was fine; I would sit on the outside. Oh, centrifugal force...

I screamed at the guy operating the ride to stop, numerous times. He just laughed, opened the button box, and switched it to faster (we were the only ones on the ride!) I swear I felt my hip start to hairline. I couldn't sleep on my right side for a week, and my left one was pretty sore, too.

Also, if it was an amusement park, where?

Ew... yeah, I heard that at some of the Rotor rides, when someone upchucked they just sprayed water down in the barrel like a giant washing machine. Funny if you think about it. But ewwww... everyone got a share of your sick, Smiley. I recommend no more rides for you!

Aww, Sarah...

I remember one park, Miracle Strip, in Panama City, Florida. It was a neat old park, quirky and privately owned, and well kept, too.

They sold it to condo developers, because Florida OBVIOUSLY needs another terrible concrete monster.

Hopefully you'll find the Cyclone somewhere else. Next time we're by Busch Gardens, I'm asking my mom if we can go just so I can ride Starliner finally.

Er, I mean Cypress Gardens.

Answer 1

I worked on amusement rides for 6 years, and there is *nothing* that compares to the young lady who rode the roller coaster I was the supervisor of, knowing she was only a few months pregnant (evidenced by the lack of noticeable belly), but ignored the signs not to ride, and subsequently miscarried. Of course, that's what we assumed, because there was nothing else that could have explained the blood all over the seat and her shorts. All over her seat, all over her clothes, all over the dock, all in front of a few hundred people waiting in line who we had to tell to leave. Had she not cried out, "Oh God, what if I lost my baby?!" when she regained consciousness enough to realize she was bleeding all over herself, we might never have known where all that blood was coming from.

Not only was it bottom-of-the-barrel gross and disgusting, it was purely heartbreaking and upsetting. Myself and some of the other girls on the crew shed a few tears while they had to hose down and sanitize the seat she sat in. It was so hard to finish out the rest of that day.

Answer 2

When the sun is beating on you for 10 hours straight and you feel like your going to puke/die from heat exhaustion and sunburn. Yeah, and the car ride home all you wanna do is sleep but you have to drive... That's when you know even though you had fun you had to pay the price...

Don't forget this time when you go on this roller coaster and your so psyched and your at the top top top of the peak and right before you hit the drop the thing stops and your 240 feet in the air and your stuck up there and you don't know how long it's going to be? or if the thing is broken and you might just die if it starts again? Yeah luckily it was only 10 mins we were stuck for... still didn't make me too happy...

Answer 3

Well, I've only been to two amusements parks, Six Flags in New Jersey and Astroland in Coney Island, NY (which they're tearing down soon, which makes me sad since I had so many childhood memories there). But my elementary school had this fair and they brought in all these portible rides including the pirate ship (http://www.bellingham.fi/huvipuis/lintsi/big_viking.jpg ) but the one I was on was much smaller and several guys pushed it to make it go higher. Well, it had bad safety measures. There was one seatbelt that looked like a car one to keep you in and a metal bar to go across for you to hold onto. Well, my seatbelt was broken and right as I was going to yell that out, they started the ride. At the time I was 7/8 and no more than 70lbs and really skinny so the metal bar was no help to keep me in since I could slip right through it so I was dagling with only my arms keeping me from falling the (only) 30 feet. I keep screaming "STOP!!!!" but it was drowned out by people not noticing I was dangling screaming "HIGHER!!!!". A full 5 miutes of clinging for my life. When I got off I was practically crying. And then I went for popcorn, and i started to rain so i never got to eat the popcorn
:0(

EDIT:
Sarah, Astroland's also being torn down to build condos! The people who owned the land increaded the rent for Astroland by millions so they kind of forced the owner out. Darn them!!!!!

Answer 4

When I was 12 I ate a few hot dogs, candy floss, pop, and who knows what else! Then I went on this ride with the swings that spins around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chair-O-Planes%2C_night.jpg
Once we began moving at a good clip I felt really sick, and began puking my guts out! I swear I must have hit people 100 yards away! I don't think the guy running the controls figured out what was going on at first. He was directly below the center of the ride, and due to the outward velocity of my puke, he never noticed.
I did the same thing on this ride, and everyone got a taste!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_%28ride%29

Not only were these two episodes horrible for me, I'm sure the other people within range weren't very happy either!

Answer 5

When I was six years old, I was lost in an amusement park someone handed me over to the authorities I never forgot those 3 to 4 hours before I was united with my mother

Answer 6

I was at an amusement park called Ghost Mountain in the Sky in Maggie Valley, NC. It is literally an amusement park built on the top and side of a mountain. Anyway, I had never gotten sick on a ride before in my life and I don't know if it was the altitude, the motion or what but I tried to settle my stomach with (of all things) a blue coconut snow cone...................you guessed it. The next ride I got on (against my better judgement) was a Tilt-O-Whirl because one of the kids with us insisted I ride it with him. Blue puke everywhere.......... needless to say we had to purchase new clothing to wear and he didn't ask me to ride anymore rides with him for awhile.

Answer 7

I was at Sea World San Antonio and I just got on the Steel Eel when it started raining. The raindrops were so huge it hurt my eyes and I couldn't open them. It felt like someone kept stabbing me because of the big drops. This was a big coaster too. I couldn't see where I was going. That was really scary.

Answer 8

One time I went to Six Flags, and I was on a batman ride, and I was in the back of the ride and the ride normal bumbs a little right before you start down the hill, and my shoulder restraint became undone when the ride bumbed. and I mean all the way undone, I was lucky it locked back it place, or i would've gone flying, lol

Answer 9

In line for a rollercoaster at Terra Mitica amusement park in Benidorm, Spain in 2005 when i was 15

I fainted in the middle of about 200 people in the line. It was really really hot and i was squashed in and started panicking. When i woke up there was this guy holding my legs up in the air and a doctor standing above me (there was a doctor in the line just in front of me). I was fine after a few minutes and i even went on that rollercoaster later that day but it was still a horrible experience

Answer 10

Luckily for me, I haven't had any really horrible experiences at amusement parks. I've had a few bad experiences, but nothing horrible.

There was one time at Busch Gardens Europe, my husband and I got on the coaster, Alpengeist. There was an overweight guy in our row trying to clip in the harness, but it wouldn't go down. Well, when the ride ops came by to do their harness "checks", they didn't check his, but they were giving the "thumbs up" that they had completed their checks and the ride was ready to go. Just as they started dispatching the ride, we started yelling for them to stop it. They finally stopped the train as we were heading up the hill, and asked us what was going on (we were really yelling at them). When they finally caught on that the guy wasn't strapped in, they had to move the train back into the station, had to make him switch seats with my husband (who was apparantly in the overweight seat). That fixed everything, and all was good, but I could only imagine what would've happened to the kid if they hadn't stopped the ride.