This Elastic Slingshot Ride Broke in a Unique Way... - Failure Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2022
- On Wednesday December 14th 2022 at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland this reverse bungee ride was operating normally. Around 8:20pm the ride was loaded with 2 riders and it began to tension its cables for launch...
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That line must have cleared out FAST.
shush mate
I would've still stayed there💀
@@braulygarcia9143shut up
lowkey that still looks fun
Pfp
The ball acted like a roll cage at that point; pretty smart failsafe by the designers, otherwise that could have been so much worse
Thats exactly the reason why it is a ball.
Youd think they designed it that way on purpose huh smfh
Yea but what if the end of the rope gets into their little roll cage and rips there head off clean?
@@Guillermogonzalaz then that's a bad day😂
Honestly this calmed my anxiety about it
Pretty sure video of this going viral is why I suddenly started getting recommended videos about amusement park accidents a week or so ago. It also broke yts algorithms
I've always gotten those recommendations
Dude that happened to me too!
Same, it's like TH-cam doesn't want me to go to any amusement park ever lol
Same lol
They're actually extremely rare. Like crazy rare.
Thats the best possible outcome for a break . Thats so scary
And that’s why: I’ll never ride one of the slingshot balls myself 🤣
Yep, this is like the 4th failure video i have see on these types of rides
I watched my neighbors go on one of those and I was watching from the front row and my knees involuntarily buckled when they shot up and that’s when I learned I would never be able to go on one and then I saw videos like this one and I was like “i’m never going back to an amusement park EVER”
Some are fine. When you see one look at the way the seats are attached to the ride. If it's metal cables it's fine if it's elastic avoid it
Some are fine. When you see one look at the way the seats are attached to the ride. If it's metal cables it's fine if it's elastic avoid it
It’s rare to happen dw
I was so scared that the metal piece they hit went through the bars to mangle someone. I'm so glad that didn't happen! That was truly a close call!
Im going to assume you’ve seen the final destination movies hahhaa
I’m suing faster than that band snapping
Another reason to avoid sling shot rides.
👍
idk man, a ride whichs safety is hedged on the fact that something that is routinely mechanically tensioned and fatigued seems kind of really stupid.
At least the elastic bungee ones
The elastic ones are sketchy but I’d trust most cable slingshots. They’re really fun.
I'd agree to avoiding elastic ones, personally I'd trust most cable slingshots.
They just gave riders the adventure of a lifetime
It's a testiment to how securely the riders were strapped in that neither of them came loose as the ride went wrong. I'm sure it must have been very terrifying for them at the time, but I'm glad they came through their ordeal unhurt.
Oh my god I went on that ride days before this happened 💀
Your lucky
Don't ride travelling carnivals and you won't have a problem
@@spinner4148 This wasn’t from a traveling carnival dumbf*ck
Lucky af! Prasie god for it
Ok and
If you examine the video closely you can actually see the left Bungee tension together with the right one and then suddenly loose tension and fall down.
So the chain of events was actually:
1.Both winches tension as normal.
2.The left cable falls off
3.The Electromagnet "slips"
The initial failure is likely located at the top left pulley.
Whooops!
Thanks for the info. It’s always refreshing to get intelligent responses on YT. I learn some pretty cool stuff here. You should have an affiliate link for comments and start posting all over the place…without the indication of your affiliate commission. That would be an amazing job…or more likely a side hustle.
I think the brake on the left winch failed causing it to not hold tension
Bro siad “unique “ Like it amazed him that a ride full of two people broke down and they could have dide
I holded my breath during the vid. Im so happy nobody got hurt
Held
Holded?? Please tell me you don’t say that IRL
@@Insectoid_ aww cmon english is not my first lang and do you really never make any mistakes?
@@GlutzahnLP sorry! Then that’s fine. I didn’t realise. My apologies.
held*
"Janice, help me im falling"
*Ghosts from the past...*
I just watched that wtf 😂
That would SUCK being in that ball when that happened...glad no one was hurt!
And that's how-
I hate it when they do that in TH-cam shorts 😭
It’s a money thing I think. TH-cam needs to patch it.
and thats why... i turn off looping on youtube shorts and you should too
The fact they werent even injured is impressive
From the first time I saw these rides and drop towers, I told myself I will never go on one of them. Rollercoaster have a century of research and development. These have only been around for less than 20 years. "Most accidents involve cable snapping", if there are so many accidents that there are categories of failures 😱😱😱
This is why I would never get on one of these rides~ D:
this is a very rare occurence, i dont think very many have happened in the last decade. you're safer in the park than on the way or going from the park in your car. pretty sure i learned this from this exact channel.
@@rtrojoshit’s rare but elastic bungee slingshots are actually pretty unsafe. You are much safer on a cable slingshot, and one that can’t be taken down like at a carnival.
Although the elastic doesn't snap, it does look like it snapped in the video since it's hard to see the rope tethering the right side to the tower--since both of the visible elastic ends come in to frame, it seems like the entire thing broke off, when in reality it was tugged farther than it normally would be.
Yeah well, the MSM journalists aren't known for their intellect. I'm surprised the headline didn't call it a "Roller Coaster" (every amusement ride is called a roller coaster in the media... as if they have no idea there are different types of rides, and yes they always put a space between roller and coaster!).
Though to be generous to them, the cable may as well have snapped considering it was not in use, for all intents and purposes.
Crazy. Just crazy. Thankfully nobody was injured. That’s about the second time that something like that has happened ever. Not often, so these rides are almost perfectly safe.
The manufacturer requires the bands be replaced every year or 1000
hrs of operation
Every so many launches think it’s set at 100 jumps
I WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST GUY IN THE LINE AND I WATCHED THIS BEFORE I RIDE IT
Unique is not the word to describe this.
These shouldn’t even be used at this stage
Why? The riders were safe in spite of the accident, not even injured.
@@PersonOfRandomnesss they got lucky. See the metal rod on the left tower, the capsule almost impaled that... this could easily cause serious injuries
@@Teh_Random_Canadian oh yeah anything that looks pointy is able to impale like that bud
@@PersonOfRandomnesss are…. Are you serious
@@PersonOfRandomnesss I don't know how to tell you this, but yes. If a human hits a pointy thing while going pretty fast, the pointy thing is going to go through them. Fuck, if you're going fast enough, the thing doesn't even need to be pointy, it'll just stab you anyways.
Do you... do you not know how stabbing works?? What is the point being made here????
I wonder what caused the accident?
Also there are quite a few GP's here which reminds me that you used to be called GP to enthusiast, this is getting kinda nostalgic
Edit: Just read a news article about this. Gear box issues sounds correct
Yessir. The better channel name
Lol, I remember those days. Too bad I discovered the channel right as debunked was ending.
Nooooooooo there’s no way it was that date I was there that day 😂 I heard some romour about a ride failure when I went winter wonderland but jeeezzzz I didn’t know a whole slingshot ride broke
Bro Winter wonderland has NO health and safety.💀
It's not "miraculous" that nobody was hurt - the whole reason the seats are surrounded by a metal structure is to protect riders in exactly this kind of situation.
Ah yes those ride operators sure are safe thanks to that metal cage.
@@heilmadon Provided they do what they are supposed to do, and clear the launch area before the ropes are tightened, then yes they are perfectly safe, even if the ride does malfunction and launch with only one rope.
This is why I can't look at rubber bands, got rid of my toaster, door bell, put Blizzaks on my 4WD, don't let anyone touch door knobs, radiators & I'm terrified of realtors! 😆😂🤣 Call me Aunt Josephine! I almost went to heaven on a ride (operator was literally sweating blood when I got off the ride!) called the enterprise, saw 2 friends get launched off a zipper so I'm only going for the food! 😆
Just watch out for leeches!!
That's just awful
It's awful that it happened, but it's great that there weren't any injuries. Not just no fatalities, there were no injuries.
ooo. a fresh one
i went on this ride with mu uncle 6 days before the crash happened
I would have told them I need an ambulance that I am very sore and a lawyer lol
A slingshot has hit the south tower.
“Most elastic sling shot accidents….” said the narrator. Um, it’s an accepted fact of life that we must have these elastic sling shot? Accidents will come with the territory…Just deal with it🤣🤣
One time a boy and a grandma were on a slingshot and the cable snapped even before the ride started 😂
The people in line literally didn't move 😂😂
So glad I saw this an hour AFTER riding the slingshot 😂
Imagine BOTH ‘accidentally’ detaching in midst of launch! 😂😂😂
That was a Lawsuit from hell too!!
Final destination did it for me😂😂😂😢that movie has me scared of theme parks, appliances, and traffic on highways😅😅😅.Nope I don't do rides and terrified of planes but I'll fly
Final destination is completely fake and could never happen in real life.
@SupremeCakeVR 😐 a lot of situations on FD have happened in real life
@@micah7817 well not the roller coaster one
@SupremeCakeVR yes that 1 too. Not the whole cart but some have broken apart. Look it up, it's a few roller-coaster deaths
YIKES! These bungee tension launches are so sketchy. Happy I didn't die the two times I rode them, never again!
Thank god for the designers I’m sure they weee happy to know that it didn’t kill anyone
I was on vacation and my big sister and her went on this ride together, I’m glad that did not happen to my sister and her friend
Oh shit thank god they survived and also if I was up there on the ride I will be like oh shit the ride fall Otherwise we will be scared and panic
If this happend to me: BY MY CALCULATIONS… *Jumps out and lands*
What’s even crazier is they charge $50 to ride that thing
I was going to go on this ride like 4 days ago when I was at my nearby fair. It cost money so I didn’t go.
I think that is better than , if the sling shot , fires, and right at the apex, the ball snaps from both cables and your launched into the air free falling .
I just went on one of those in Wisconsin it went over 200 feet 60 mph I'm glad it didn't brake
Man. I’d be getting a lawyer if that ish happened to me. Emotional damage 😂😂
I got genuinely scared at the video where the slingshot one rubberband arm snapped, and it hit the ground so hard it left a hole a concrete got blown away😅
My wife would freak tf out 😂😂
That kids foot... He's lucky to still have it
Literally probably more thrilling than waiting in those lines for 30m to get a thrill that last literally 30s. Those rude aren’t even fun.
I feel like this is much better than having 1 side snap.
Nope I’d die right on the spot if that happened to me I’d be like “HELL NO” *Dies*
If I had kids I don’t think I would ever let them go on these rides.
And that's how two unfortunate souls will have therapy and sedatives for the rest of their lives!! GOD BLESS THEM!! ❤
It did tension them but right at launch it looks like the tension was released in the opposite direction....like a snap.
I went on a slingshot 30 minutes ago thank god I didn’t read this before
This shiz broke on my birthday of all days 💀
My husband went on one of rhese with out daughter. I got a call thst nthey were going to telle how things were going. I snswered the call "Hello"
,Husband replies angrily "Your daighter tried to kill me"
Needless to say, he did like the ride lol
Reminds me of those cheap slingshot toys you can buy from dollar tree
Thats why i only ride the slingshots at amusement parks and not at carnivals
If i saw this video and knew it could fail at some point i would not have paid an extra $10 bucks just to go on it again at Ocean City😂
Yo that’s terrifying
When you get on rides you’re taking a chance because you know it could break
Me, thinking it's part of the ride: It was WILD, me next.
Imagine being the next one in line😂
Ride enthusiast here : this is why I NEVER ride carnival rides
This happened to me with those bungee jump trampoline things when I was like 6. They didn't even care they just kicked me off
It’s always the elastic slingshots I swear 💀
imagine being one of the only mfs ever to survive a street side attraction bungee cord ball😂😂😂😂
Yea i need some steel support in my rides thank u very much
The people that were going to go next:
Oh ma jezuz croist Mary and joeseph god is on my side today 😅
That must’ve been so scary
If that happened to me I would be needing a new pair of underwear
That must have sucked for the people on the thing I would have shit my pants
Bros foot looks broken tf u mean no one hurt 🤣
Damn if that was me I'd be claiming injury all day😂
Well… at least they got a ride 😂
I’ll stick to coasters
Omg horrifying, I hope the people are well... I love all kinds of rides but this would be a looong lasting trauma to me
Can u imagine if BOTH cords broke. Think about how unnatural it is to be thrown in the air in a cage held by two strings!
Thankfully they were strapped and didn’t crash
And this is why I refuse to go on slingshot rides 💀
Oh gosh they will never ride that again ever! Damn that scary
Something similar to this happened in France it was mid-flight, one rider was injured
Me: This is gonna be fak- Oh Cr*p!
"Sir, they have hit the Right tower"
When things malfunction in a good way AKA a good break
If i was on there I would be screaming and laughing bro
That’s why I would literally never get on that. My legs would go weak before hand and start shaking. Your body just knows better.
THATS SCARY
Angry birds 😂😂😂😂😂
Bro the guy on the left looks like digital dan