Amusement park ride in Saudi Arabia snaps mid-air

FOR WHY THE AID IS NOT GETTING TO THE GAZA STRIP. AT LEAST 23 PEOPLE WERE HURT WHEN THE AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE THAT THEY WERE ON COLLAPSED. TAKE A LOOK. JUST A HORRIFIC INCIDENT THERE. THIS HAPPENED IN SAUDI ARABIA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT A PARK CALLED GREEN MOUNTAIN RESORT. LOCAL NEWS REPORTS SAY THAT FOUR PEOPLE OF THE 23 WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Shocking video shows the moment an amusement park ride in Saudi Arabia collapsed, injuring more than 20 people.

The incident happened in the Al-Hada area of the city of Taif on Wednesday, when the “360 Big Pendulum” ride snapped in two, sending the part carrying people crashing to the ground.

Video footage posted on social media showed the pendulum swinging riders, who were strapped into their seats, in a wide arc several times before the pendulum arm snaps, sending the passenger section crashing to the ground.

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  8. Some of these amusement rides in the United States are taken apart and reassembled multiple times, going from place to place. We call them carnivals.
    I’ve seen the people who work on these rides and it’s horrifying to think about how many cross threaded bolts, how many cracked welds, and structural issues they really have.

  14. I sat in one of those things once and I froze and just didn’t enjoy the experience, was very excited to do it and forced my cousin to sit with me as well but when it started moving I just froze in fear and had this fear that the wheels gonna break, was kinda traumatised by the experience, I hv been to that same park many times after that but never sat on this again in spite of the peer pressure because of my last time experience. I even thought of doing it and get over my fear and actually enjoy it the second time around but i just could not bring myself to do it. Now seeing this thing break i m more certain never to sit on it again.( It was a different park though)

  17. 😮 my favorite ride at Six Flags discovery Kingdom is just like this one!! It's Wonder Woman. I'm blown away seeing this, makes me want to reconsider evee riding it again.

  28. You go on these rides expecting to be rattled and challenged but with the underlying certainty that you'll survive it.
    Sadly, that certainty is fading.

  35. Looks like the weight from the pillar caused the ride vehicle to snap off of it, this is a very rare occurrence so don’t worry about it happening anytime soon.

  36. There's a ride just like that at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio. I'll ride pretty much anything. But, I loathe that thing. What we thankfully didn't see were the parts during the ride where the wheel
    turns on it's side with the riders heads facing the pavement. This is a fairly common ride. So, I'm assuming the features are the same. A large hydraulic arm equipped with a joint that extends
    to a maximum of about 70 feet. At points you're just dangling and looking 60-70 feet down at the pavement below. I've watched some pretty macho dudes quietly step out of line at
    Cedar Point.😅

  40. Thank goodness Mohammed the miraculous prophet skipped the amusement park and decided to stay in house playing dolls with his 6-year-old wife Aishah.

  42. And this is why I never want to go on the Deliruim ride at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio.

    I hated that ride ever since I first rode it, next to the Tomb Raider ride before it had been renamed The Crypt and closed down permanently in 2011.

    I've seen AI-made videos of this on Tiktok and I knew that something like this might happen in real life.

    AI-made videos such as those can be very helpful to warn people of what might happen if they continue to go on rides like this.

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