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The video of this will stop your heart- 3 year old thrown from ride
Although she met the height and weight requirements for the "Techno Jump ride" at RodeoHouston on Wednesday, a three-year-old was thrown from her seat once the ride began, KHOU TV reports.
According to the station, the girl's mother reportedly decided she didn't want to ride along moments before it began-- and left her daughter strapped in with her brother.
Despite the lap bar and restraining belt, the girl slipped out of the moving chair and fell to the ride's platform -- suffering a contusion on the side of her head and abrasions, the station reports. Luckily a CAT scan and X-ray at the Texas Children's Hospital revealed no serious injuries.
Leroy Shafer, Chief Operating Officer of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, told the Houston Chronicle that it seemed the girl "decided to crawl out to get back to her mother" roughly 15 seconds into the ride. The girl "immediately jumped up and started running to find her mother," he added.
Shafer added to KTRK TV that the incident should serve as a warning to parents taking their kids on carnival rides.
"The thing I want to emphasize to parents...be responsible out here," Shafer said, according to the station.
This isn't the first time someone has been injured at the Houston rodeo. Last year, a man fell to his death from one of the carnival's roller coasters. Although safety teams inspected the "Hi-Miller" roller coaster after the tragedy, they reportedly found no malfunctions despite claims from a previous rider who said the safety latch in her car came undone.
Re: The video of this will stop your heart- 3 year old thrown from ride
OK I don't have kids, so tell me I'm wrong if you want, but I'm judging this kid's mother HARD. Amusement park rides can be seriously dangerous. A 3-year-old can't possibly understand things like this, and she clearly didn't understand that she couldn't just crawl out of her seat and get down safely.
I would never let a kid so little do something like this, and I know pretty much nothing about children or keeping them alive. JFC.
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Oh hell no. We have disneyland passes and I can't wait for Z to meet the next height requirement. He would never ride those rides alone. We sent him on one of those trains that go, what, maybe mile per minute by himself and I was worried the whole time. He did fine, but still, there is no way anything that fast and that high should hold a child of that age.
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Judging the parent, too
B rides the little cars and trains alone, and a ride similar to "the spider" but slower with me. By himself on that ride? No way.
wtf wtf wtf!
When I was 8 or so I almost flew off one of those octopus rides with the spinning seats at the end of the arms. The belt didn't tighten very well, and the bar wasn't resting on my lap. My gpa was riding with me, and because of the uneven weight distribution our car spun out of control. I started slipping out from the centrifugal force, and only stayed in because my gpa had a death grip on me with one of his hands.
She was 48 inches tall? AT THREE?! In the video, she looked 7 or 8!
What on earth?!
I didn't watch the video b/c I just can't.
But I remember being on one of these rides with my little brother when we were very very young (ehm, a long asss time ago) and the car that we were in flew right the fluck off the ride.
My badasss dad somehow managed to catch the front of the car and we were ok. But I'll never forget it!
My 5 year old is 40 inches. There is no way.
Agreed except H won't ride anything except the merry go round (he's chicken) and we skip the carnie rides more b/c I have want to continue avoid being shot or stabbed.
My DD just turned four on Monday and she is 46.5 inches tall. She is waaaay off the scale.
She gets nervous on a merry-go-round. Never in life would she go on a real ride at this age
When I was 11 or so, I went to Cedar Point with a friend and decided that I would ride an "upside down" roller coaster for the first time- the Corkscrew for those familiar with Cedar Point.
Well I got in and the lap bars went down, but as the ride was STARTING TO MOVE I realized that the shoulder bar over me wasn't latched- I could move it up and down completely. All that was strapping me in was an old lapbelt. I freaked out and started screaming stop, and they did stop it and realized was what wrong. Didn't go on that roller coaster or any other one for about 5 years afterward, and now I'm obsessive about making sure the bars are firmly locked before those things start moving.
The carnival owners have gotten a lot more diligent about safety in the past few years. There has been new legislation and rides have to be inspected by inspectors from the state at every stop.
I would guess that in both of those Houston cases, the rider did something they weren't supposed to. In this case, the mom was an idiot and got off the ride. She should have taken the 3-year-old with.
This used to happen to me, too. I STILL hate those rides, because they're never secure enough.
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That was seriously a 3 year old? She looks more like 7 or 8.
This is definitely mother error. There is no way I would even let my 3 year old go on that with me, let alone by herself (when she is 3 I mean).
WTMF. My daughter still amazes me at her ability to slide her arms out of her car seat despite it being incredibly snug.
1) my daughter would NOT tolerate that ride even with me
2) what on earth made that mom decide to get off and not take her daughter with her??
darwin, people. hopefully this kid survives her mother. that video make me wanna cry.
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This would be me for sure.
I went on my first upside down ride, I think it was Montezuma's Revenge at Knott's Berry Farm, at 5 or 6 years old. My mom wasn't there since it was for the honor roll field trip at my school. It was awesome. Carnival rides still scare me way more, though. That mom was an idiot.
I think that's where I get my daredevil side from - those rides were old news by the time I was 11 so as soon as I was old enough I was bungee jumping, sky diving, hangliding, etc.
That's what I was thinking. What kinda hormones do they put in the meat down there???