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- NuclearBlast, on 10/11/2007, -87/+799I guess the ride defeeted her.
- mrgeekguy, on 10/22/2007, -47/+504The real bummer is, she's not tall enough for any of the rides now.
- noseeme, on 10/11/2007, -17/+187In other news: There is a Six Flags called "Kentucky Kingdom".
- n0ia, on 10/22/2007, -15/+136I assume that Six Flags will foot the bill.
- bergur1, on 10/11/2007, -17/+117I smell lawsuit.
- nipterink, on 10/22/2007, -13/+112how do you walk away from something like that?
- noseeme, on 10/11/2007, -17/+114I heard a rumor that if you yell "KINGA KA AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON ME!" six times before you go on Kingda Ka in Six Flags Great Avdventure, a real tiger will jump out of the seats and shoot you in the face.
- Butterbean, on 10/11/2007, -3/+81better article. explains how they were severed.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/six.flags.accident/index.html - Lion9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+76If you ever lose a limb, DO NOT PUT IT ON ICE. At least do not put it DIRECTLY on ice. It will freeze the tissue and frozen tissue cannot be reattached. Put it in a container with ice, but make sure the finger, or whatever you just cut off, is wrapped in a towel or tissue papers or something. Keep it cold, not frozen.
- yellowsnowcone, on 10/11/2007, -17/+89The girl plans to sue, but a lawyer said she doesn't have a leg to stand on.
- laurarena, on 10/11/2007, -6/+60this article is more complete. http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070621/NEWS01/70621039
- freeb26, on 10/11/2007, -6/+58Looks like the story is very new. I assume they will update it when they have more details.
- IcerC, on 10/11/2007, -18/+70Six Flags are the worst parks. You hear of accidents all to often.
I remember 2 years ago a women died at the New Oleans one..
http://www.themeparkinsider.com/accidents/list.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_at_Six_Flags_parks - DangerCollie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+45Maybe but it's a tough one. It depends on how clean the cut, how fast they recovered the limbs, how they were handled during transport, and the availability of a surgical team, maybe two or three, that know what they're doing. If the first responders were on top of business they put the feet on ice or packed them with a cold pack and sent them along with her to the hospital. If Six Flags and the hospital were on top of things they had a plane going after the best orthopedic surgery team on planet earth before she arrived at the hospital. Number of tick-tocks for all that to come together...do the math.
Even if they reattachment is successful she's got a long stretch in ICU on antibiotics and pain killers, followed by a lifetime of surgeries and rehab. Prosthetics are more likely, unless it's a wildly successful surgery. In a best case scenario I wouldn't count on everything working completely right ever again. Poor kid. That totally, totally sucks.
Props to the bystanders and first responders for keeping her from bleeding to death. It may kill her dreams of being on Dancing with the Stars but she's still alive. That's something. - xoon, on 10/11/2007, -4/+41Cedar Point is way better.
- saxman13ga, on 10/11/2007, -3/+39The ride that she was on was a Intamin drop tower. I just rode it a few weeks ago. The problem was that a cord snapped.
I was surprised that this made it on the front page of digg.
But, the ride is just a seat, and your legs dangle..the wire went around and cut off her feet.
Accidents are very rare at theme parks, but they do happen.
You have a better chance of getting hurt on the way there than at the park. - Jo9100, on 10/11/2007, -6/+41sorry, but weather can't reattach any part of the body
- OKeric, on 05/12/2008, -9/+43Do you think they can reattach her feet?
- mr1337, on 10/11/2007, -13/+46Does that mean she's no longer tall enough to ride the ride again?
- LordPhantom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30Lets hope so, thats a terrible thing to happen to anyone, let alone a young girl.
- freakout1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31If you click the link for the video it shows an advertisement, and it displayed a commercial for six flags as a fun family vacation destination, then continued onto the story of the girl getting her legs chopped off. How ironic!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28I felt so strange when I dugg this story
- OGTL, on 10/11/2007, -21/+44You are sick. This persons life is likely ruined by this incident, and you take the chance to make a terrible, inappropriate joke.
- RatherDashing, on 10/11/2007, -15/+36"On scene EMT personnel were on hand to immediately transport the girl to a hospital."
they could have picked some better wording than "on hand" when talking about decapitation of appendages. - Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -5/+26worst birthday party evar!
- tazx, on 10/11/2007, -9/+27You need two more feet on you to ride this ride.
- gothaimeit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Well university hospital where they took here was the first hospital to do a successful human hand transplant so who knows?
- olliholliday, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3682/6flagsbn2.png
contextual advertising ftw - nreynolds, on 10/11/2007, -13/+31there's a good chance she didn't "keep her hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times"
- roflcawpter, on 10/11/2007, -9/+26She could sue for millions for this. I hope she's ok, any word on weather they can reattach her feet?
Absolutely horrifiyng... - grambones, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21Does anybody else find it Ironic that at the beginning of the video on the site it has an add for six flags...
- jdaniel284, on 10/11/2007, -21/+37I hope all the people that are joking about this burn in hell. Seriously.
- nathron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16"When I got up there, the lady, she was just sitting there and she didn’t have no legs,” Smith said. “She didn’t have no legs at all..."
Did anybody else only read the whole story to laugh at all the carnies they interviewed? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17I live in Louisville and this story has been all over the news. Apparently a cord snapped off. News crews are still on location waiting for updates.
- effward, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14One of the articles says she is 13 years old, and CNN says that she is 16 years old...
Which is it?! Make up your mind! - markperia, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15how did the cord wrap around her feet?
- DragonGirl724, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15"Ride drops passengers 154 feet"
....actually it only dropped 2 feet.
shazam! - Cronos, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Holy Crap! I've ridden on that thing before. Never again...
- xdoute, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13The last word I heard (and yes I live in hick infested KY) is that they were working on reattaching both of them.
- jakenjill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13"The people on the ride just came and hit the ground," she said. "When I got up there, the lady she was just sitting there, and she didn't have no legs. ... And she was just there, calm, probably in shock from everything."
Couldn't have said it better myself. Gotta love Kentucky. - mvanhorn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Picture of the ride http://www.themeparkreview.com/dolly2004/sfog36.jpg
- themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12At least she gets around 1 million from the lawsuit
- gcnaddict, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14"Smith said she saw no blood and the girl wasn’t crying but the same couldn’t be said for many who witnessed the incident on the ride formerly known as the Hellevator."
Wow, the coil sliced her legs off so fast that it sealed off all of the blood vessels? Holy crap.
That's like... well if anything, it'll make reattachment a pain =(
"Hellevator"
Ironic. - chronubis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13They arrived on foot.
- LouisC, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Nah, Six Flags just has a lot of parks all over the place. Of course they'll have more accidents.
- InferiorWang, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11somehow I would've expected this to begin with something like BREAKING:
- Magus05, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14I live in Louisville, and visit Six Flags (locally called Kentucky Kingdom) often. I was absolutely shocked when I saw this flash on the news today, and having ridden this thing at least a dozen times - I couldn't seem to understand how you could possibly have your feet cut off by the ride. It turns out that some sort of cable (likely one of the ones that lifts the cars) snapped and whiplashed through this poor girls' feet. Completely bizarre, really. That thing was put in in the mid 90's and I don't think anything like this has ever happened with it.
Actually, now that I think about it - the last time anything really bad happened (roller coasters getting stuck doesn't count) - was well before this ride was built, heck before Six Flags bought the park. The last incident I remember was with an indoor coaster called the Star Chaser, where a girl was apparantly thrown from one of the cars and killed. - estvir, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Remember kids, the internet is serious business.
- manellis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Although these incidents are tragic, they certainly are not common. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2003 said that the injury rates for children's wagons, golf, and folding lawn chairs are higher than for amusement rides. (http://themeparks.about.com/cs/sixflagsparks/a/CoasterSafety.htm)
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