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That's called the scrambler, and as far as rides go it's one of the more gentle ones
here right? Not that big a deal, not like the Fireball, not that, not that great intensity.
Looks fairly safe right? No problem. This really happened at Tulsa State Fair in 1978.
Ready? Okay, you get on that and it's one of the tamest rides you're ever gonna get
on right? Everybody got on the thing... Matt are you paying attention? "Yea I'm listening."
Everybody got on the thing and after 3 minutes everybody's expected to get off right? Only,
the switch broke on the thing and they couldn't turn it off. Alright, sounds simple enough
you go throw the circuit breaker, right John? It should shut it down right? Except in those
days they had 5 rides on one circuit. Which meant if you shut this one down, you're shuttin'
down 4 others right? This happened at the busiest time of at night, about 9 o' clock.
They, he went in and said I need to shut it off I need to get these people off right?
Right Jackie? "I gotchya." Okay! Well the other 4 didn't want to lose business, they
had people in long lines and they said, "No! We're not gonna shut this thing down!" Of
course they had people flinging around on the scrambler right? Before it's over with,
they're gonna have to call in the cops, 'cause these guys are getting a fight to decide to
shut the thing down or not. It took them 22 minutes to finally get control enough to shut
the thing down. When they shut that thing down, people fell out of the buckets, people
were puking all over everything, filling the buckets up with puke. Eighteen of em' had
to go to St. John's Emergency room, which was about a mile and a half to the west right?
Now what can we learn from this Kyle? " Don't put 5 rides on one circuit breaker?" Well
since then they do have them on individual or at least 2 is all they have. What you feel
like when you get on a ride may not be what you feel like when you try to get off. What
may look real gentle and, and innocent enough and not all that harmful, I mean, compared
to the Fireball that's no big freakin' deal right? What you feel when you get on, may
not be what you feel when you try to fall off that thing if you can. There's a lesson
in that Blake. There's a lesson in that, the rides you get on you may not be able to get
off of em' so easy. And you may not feel like what you felt like when you crawled on. Enough?
We learn! We learn from that. "Yesss." Let's go. "That's an amazing lesson."