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Tell us about the time the fairground came to town and you were sick in a hedge; or when you went to a theme park or circus and were sick in a hedge
Suggested by mariam67
( , Thu 9 Jun 2011, 11:37)
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It arrives every September and it's always crap.
Fixed shooting games, arcade machines released around the time of MC Hammer's debut album and the rides. The rides.
The Carribean Dancer was a favourite for most, but I'm not a fancy of being shaken up. Least of all if the machine has been knocked up in an hour or two.
One year the "spinning and lifting up thing" (I believe that was it's official name) wasn't earthed properly. Every so often a big blue bolt of electricity would arc from the arm into the spinning cab below and "get" the passengers.
We watched this for three full rides before going to the pub.
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 22:42, 3 replies)

You could have carried on watching from the window.
( , Sat 11 Jun 2011, 10:10, closed)

But this thing was outside Martins.
And we were off to the Wheatsheaf in the end.
( , Sun 12 Jun 2011, 1:13, closed)
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