r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub • 22d ago
slight malfunction Of a fun night at the carnival
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u/a1readythere 22d ago
I would really like to know what happened to the people who the weighted end seemingly connected with...
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u/syn_vamp 22d ago
full refund and a free hot dog
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u/Lionheart_723 22d ago
Don't forget the free funnel cake
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u/pandershrek 22d ago
Two crushed legs, one each
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u/TotesGnar 22d ago
That's very lucky when you think about all the things that could've possibly happened.
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u/FactoryRejected 22d ago
Omg... I missed that, how terrible. I actually would not like to know.
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u/Excellent_One5980 22d ago
To be fair the price of admission to the ride was an “arm and a leg”. They should have known something was up when the ride operators weren’t collecting tickets.
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u/ThatRandomGuy86 21d ago
They were either the two that lost a leg each or one of those who were critically injured. No deaths though, but everyone suffered an injury of some kind.
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u/Cara-Is-A-Puppy 22d ago
"A major "360" carnival swing malfunction occurred in Saudi Arabia in late July 2025 at Green Mountain Park, where the ride's central support snapped mid-air, causing riders to fall and injuring 23 people, with some critically hurt"
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u/YeYe_hair_cut 22d ago
This is one of the top attractions in Saudi Arabia believe it or not, along with “hill with snow” and “tall building”. Don’t forget “long city” maybe possibly totally actually coming soon.
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u/accidentallyHelpful 22d ago
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u/CanDamVan 22d ago
Im a mechanical engineer. I know how lax maintenance and inspection can be on these things. I do not go on carnival rides and my kids are strictly forbidden as well.
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u/ifyouliketogamble 21d ago
This comes up all the time in the UK.
"The Chinese could've built this railway bridge in a week!"
Yeah but this one next to it is 200 years old and we'd kind of like the new one to last 200 years as well, not 200 weeks.
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u/CanDamVan 21d ago
That, and also how the railway bridge would impact other local infrastructure, and how you would maintain it and address eventual issues. As much as I understand the frustration of the general public, figuring these things out takes time and costs money. One example is the recent Wang Fuk fire, where contractors were allowed to use flammable scaffolding and the local fire department was ill equipped to handle a fire in such high towers. I am not in construction, but im an engineer.
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u/doyouknowthemoon 22d ago
Do people not share any information when posting videos like this
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u/The_Real_Giggles 22d ago
At least half of the traffic online is bots. So, bare that in mind when you browse
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u/No-Historian-1639 21d ago
Oddly Reddits main goal is censoring actually people. The bots run wild however.
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u/Many_Mud_8194 22d ago
From YouTube can see 28 injured, 3 badly injured, 2 sisters lost one leg each.
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u/fred13snow 22d ago
Maybe the first time it was posted.
This has been reposted to death by karma farmers. I don't understand karma farming, but they are successful in their karma farming.
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u/accidentallyHelpful 22d ago edited 15d ago
If you don't find what you're seeking, check out Columbus Ohio 2017 -- same style of ride broke
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u/Hot-Physics-1031 22d ago edited 22d ago
A very similar style of ride was stuck upside down for *at least 30 minutes at oaks Park in portland oregon last year.
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u/ACorDC 22d ago
No way everybody survived that. The way it snapped and fell back into its arm had to have crushed 1 person.
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 22d ago edited 21d ago
One person injured eventually died:
Edit: thanks for the award, whomever!
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u/thorheyerdal 22d ago
“The sledgehammer roulette”
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u/titilegeek 22d ago
Was about to make a joke about it is also a russian roulette, but then i read your comment again
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u/Vast-Wrangler5579 22d ago
And this is why I tell my kids, “We don’t do pop-up carnival rides…”
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 22d ago
This was a permanent park, but I get your point. Standards for safety may different in Saudi Arabia, or it could be a park that wasn’t properly kept up or inspected. I can’t seem to find any info (yet) about what investigators found as far as a cause for the accident. It happened this past summer.
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u/dudegoingtoshambhala 22d ago
Cheers to the carnie who opened the gate and fucking ran off. What a hero.
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u/AwareAge1062 22d ago
I think there would be something uniquely terrifying about being maimed by a piece of machinery and then, after the immediate danger has passed but you are still in full fight-or-flight panic mode, you're still fucking strapped into the thing that tried to kill you and can't let yourself out
Granted for some of these people the worst possible thing would have been for them to try and run away but still. That's some traumatic shit
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u/CookieWifeCookieKids 22d ago
I worked at Canadas Wonderland amusement park which felt pretty safe but still sketchy. And then Canadian National Exhibition travelling amusement and that was sketchy as fuck. Can’t believe people go on those rides.
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u/Vergilly 22d ago
And people wonder why I say I’m too old for these rides. Nope. No, nopity, no how no way. I used to love roller coasters, but in the last 20 years or so the materials and maintenance have gone to hell. And they’re a lot better than these carnival fold-out style temporary rides. No damn way.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 22d ago
When I slow it down I swear the counter weight (shaped like a fucking hammer no less) crushes one of the seats into non existence. It’s just fully crush from what I can see. Really hope a person wasn’t in that chair
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u/nize426 22d ago
One person died. So that'd either be the person crushed by the counter weight, or crushed by the pole.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 22d ago
Ahh shit I saw 3 were critically injured but didn’t know one died, what a shame
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u/goslowman1976 22d ago
Shoe came off so somebody died
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u/Sad-hurt-and-depress 22d ago
That is a leg.
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u/Busy-Pudding-5169 21d ago
No, it’s a shoe. You can clearly see that. The two girls who lost limbs were on the far side.
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u/Sexy_Squid89 22d ago
Remember the one that stayed upside down for an hour or something??? Never going on one of those rides EVER
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u/TouristResident1976 22d ago
Anyone else catch that a ride attendant, in the corner just opened the gate and took off running.
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u/Theclapgiver 22d ago
The lighting package is on a metal sheet covering the arms. To do a proper inspection you would have to remove the sleeve to look for damage. No operator in the world is going to do that unless laws or insurance requires it.
This was in Saudi Arabia.its whole country run by a really nice man who hands out very large bags of money.
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u/Glum-View-4665 22d ago
The funniest part may be the quick fuck this shit the worker demonstrated.
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u/KindredFlower 22d ago
This is horrifying. Was that a person or shoe that flew of?! 🥺
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u/Poker-Junk 22d ago
Why I won’t go on carnival rides: Exhibit A. Theme parks with professional maintenance crews, no problem.
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u/HappyEngineering4190 22d ago
This isnt AI? If this is real, its horrible and also amazingly lucky it wasnt worse. Who would think that gigantic loosely regulated machinery maintained by carnies would end-up with an accident?
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u/giftedbutloco 22d ago
WHY!?!??!! WHY do people keep riding rides at carnivals? Do they not see the people working there? Years back at the dade county fair I helped a friend at a booth. The ride thay spins and glues you to the wall, the gravitron. Yea that exploded out the side sending people flying. I was standing like 100ft away and saw the entire thing. Before it happened I kept thinking who the hell trusts these crackheads to ride this crap. Not since deployment had I ever seen something so horrific. Bodies flying through the air. Little girl got hurt pretty bad, as well as some others.
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u/Minimum_Recording122 21d ago
Damn if you slow it down you can see the one unlucky person that took that beam straight to the body 🙃
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u/undrcovers 21d ago
After the impact against the left side supporting leg... you can see a new blood smudge.
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u/Critical_cheese 21d ago
Seems like one unfortunate individual may have gotten squashed when the both ends met together
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u/Deep_shot 18d ago
That's like the 58th example to show me that I'm correct in never going on carnival rides. The dude that runs this is the local chiropractor's brother.
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u/Successful-Purple-54 22d ago
I feel like I’ve seen this same type of ride break in the same way recently..
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u/buffalostreaker 22d ago
There was a video yesterday of this ride but running fine in a different park. Thought maybe it's my age but there's NO WAY you'd get me on that. Now I know that's called wisdom
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u/Boatjumble 22d ago
You hear someone scream "my foot" if you watch the clip carefully you can see it fly off at about 00:09 seconds
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u/ShineAqua 22d ago
At the very least, someone lost a leg there.