
Sadly fun though Blackpool's rides are most of them are utter deathtraps, lad killed a year or so ago on the Space Invader, too many lateral Gs and a crap harness meant he was flung out.
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Sun 5 Mar 2006, 20:42,
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but to say that most of the rides are deathtraps is utter bollocks. I can remember two or three accidents in the last 30 years - not bad when you consider it's the most popular tourist attraction in Europe.
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Sun 5 Mar 2006, 20:48,
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I'd like to think that I've done an above average number of white-knuckle rides in my time, and on virtually all I felt safe. The Blackpool ones I felt that the park could've put some effort in, like the Max using poorly fitting car seatbelts instead of drop-down harnesses.
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Sun 5 Mar 2006, 20:54,
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