US theme park visitors rescued from ride in southern California

[nitpicker]

Source: BBC

US theme park visitors rescued from ride in southern California

1 hour ago

From the section US & Canada


Emergency teams in the US have rescued 21 people who were trapped about 130ft (40m) above the ground on a theme park ride that went wrong in California. Some people were stuck on the ride at Knotts Berry Farm near Los Angeles for more than seven hours.

The Sky Cabin is a slow-moving observation ride where guests travel in an enclosed revolving capsule. Rescue workers abseiled down to those who were trapped and took them out one by one.

The Sky Cabin broke down around 14:00 (22:00 GMT) on Friday, the Los Angeles Times reports. After struggling to fix it, officials contacted the fire department, and crews arrived around 17:00 and also tried in vain to restart the ride. At 19:30, they began extracting passengers using a safety harness as onlookers below clapped and cheered.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38476814

[Tiggeroshii]

1. Last week my wife was making fun of me for being afraid of going on that ride.

I had a bad feeling...

[BigBearJohn]

2. quick! buy a lotto ticket!

[exboyfil]

3. Ride had been shut down because of failures

but was refurbished and put back in service four years ago. I suspect this is it for the ride.

I loved Knott's when I was a kid growing up in the 1970s. I was back in the early 2000s, and it had lost its magic - just being another amusement park with middling rides.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/ride-333940-cabin-knott.html

[Codeine]

7. Knott's is fun with small kids.

I'm waiting for my little boy to get tall enough for Magic Mountain and some proper roller coasters, but until then we still have a good time with the less-intense rides at Knott's Berry Farm.

[airplaneman]

9. I grew up withing walking distance of Knotts Berry Farm.

I remember the Chicken Restaurant with the water fall and river inside and watching the talking African Grays and other birds next to the restaurant. Favorite rides were the Calico Gold Mine train ride and the Haunted House. Favorite thing to buy were Licorice and Dynamite Fuse. No fence or entry fees in my day.
-Airplane

[Bucky]

4. I love the verb "abseiled"

Its from German, meaning the same as the French-rooted word rappel

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/abseil

[DFW]

5. Abseilen has made its way into English now?

Wow, it's true, then: they really DO have ways to make us talk!

It's a typical German word, composed of two parts: "ab" meaning "away from" (or "as of" if followed by a point in time), and "Seil" which is basically "rope" although it can also be used to describe a cable, such as in "Seilbahn," which is a generic term for a cable car, a suspended gondola, suspended monorail, etc. With "-en," it becomes a verb, meaning to descend (a tree, mountainside, wall of a building, etc.) while holding on to a rope.

[Bucky]

6. *snort*

In the words of Wayne Newton, doncka shane

[Raine]

8. I've been nervous sbout getting stuck on that ride

I used to really like it but after I developed anxiety attacks just thinking about it freaks me out.

[yagotme]

10. 2 rides for

the price of one??