10 minute solarium, I’m surprised they didn’t try to charge extra to be fair.
I can’t be the only person who lives here that has never even considered going on this, right?
That’s my nightmare scenario. It’s only slightly better than being stuck in the tube because of signal problems.
I’m sure not a single Londoner had been harmed in the course of this event!
Savage, costs like 35 quid to ride that ferris wheel as well
Early 2000s I was an Eye ride operator (sat in the cabin in the middle). Not sure what they do now, but when I was there they had emergency kits under the bench in each capsule. Containing bottles of water, cardboard commodes, privacy screen if they need to be used, foil blankets and lucozade tablets. We had to check the kits once a week to make sure all in date, complete etc. In a hatch under the floor are abseiling harnesses. For a complete failure with no hope, riders would be abseiled down. There’s attachment points on county hall and jubilee gardens, which would be set up by specialist climbing crew. Ahh the good old days.
I worked for ages in the building right opposite it on the Strand but never went up on that. The crowd and the queues just took away any desire to go up that thing. Also as someone who suffers from IBS, I cant go on an hour long ride.
Stranded in a glass capsule on the hottest day of the year. Nice.
How is it stopping for 10 minutes a news story.
Where is Spider-Man when you need him?
“Stranded”, “10 minutes”.
Oh the poor little darlings.
The first time I ever went on that we did some amazing queue jumping. It was a total accident.
It was really busy and as we went to go in the front of the building to get tickets there were staff saying to only send one person in to get tickets. So my mate went in to get tickets. We waited out the front and after a good while he returned to the front and gave us our tickets.
We then looked for the queue and saw it by the wheel. Walked up scanned our tickets and we’re on in about 10 mins. As we got up and looking around I looked back towards where the ticket building was and noticed a massive cattle pen type queue. We had skipped prob a couple of hours wait.
All due to the staff trying to cut down the amount of people in the ticket line inside the building so we never saw the massive queue before we got on. When buying the tickets we should have gone out of the side to join the back of the big queue.
If this doesn’t distill the state of the UK, I’m not sure what will.
Hottest day of the year…so far
Is 26c hottest day?
If you call #UVhellinwheel we can put someone on your case for a no win no fee .
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10 minute solarium, I’m surprised they didn’t try to charge extra to be fair.
I can’t be the only person who lives here that has never even considered going on this, right?
That’s my nightmare scenario. It’s only slightly better than being stuck in the tube because of signal problems.
I’m sure not a single Londoner had been harmed in the course of this event!
Savage, costs like 35 quid to ride that ferris wheel as well
Early 2000s I was an Eye ride operator (sat in the cabin in the middle). Not sure what they do now, but when I was there they had emergency kits under the bench in each capsule. Containing bottles of water, cardboard commodes, privacy screen if they need to be used, foil blankets and lucozade tablets. We had to check the kits once a week to make sure all in date, complete etc. In a hatch under the floor are abseiling harnesses. For a complete failure with no hope, riders would be abseiled down. There’s attachment points on county hall and jubilee gardens, which would be set up by specialist climbing crew. Ahh the good old days.
I worked for ages in the building right opposite it on the Strand but never went up on that. The crowd and the queues just took away any desire to go up that thing. Also as someone who suffers from IBS, I cant go on an hour long ride.
Stranded in a glass capsule on the hottest day of the year. Nice.
How is it stopping for 10 minutes a news story.
Where is Spider-Man when you need him?
“Stranded”, “10 minutes”.
Oh the poor little darlings.
The first time I ever went on that we did some amazing queue jumping. It was a total accident.
It was really busy and as we went to go in the front of the building to get tickets there were staff saying to only send one person in to get tickets. So my mate went in to get tickets. We waited out the front and after a good while he returned to the front and gave us our tickets.
We then looked for the queue and saw it by the wheel. Walked up scanned our tickets and we’re on in about 10 mins. As we got up and looking around I looked back towards where the ticket building was and noticed a massive cattle pen type queue. We had skipped prob a couple of hours wait.
All due to the staff trying to cut down the amount of people in the ticket line inside the building so we never saw the massive queue before we got on. When buying the tickets we should have gone out of the side to join the back of the big queue.
If this doesn’t distill the state of the UK, I’m not sure what will.
Hottest day of the year…so far
Is 26c hottest day?
If you call #UVhellinwheel we can put someone on your case for a no win no fee .
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