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Why Wooden Roller Coasters Give 'Out of Control' Thrills
Any job with lingo like "head choppers" and "air time" has got to be fun. And this one certainly is: designing wooden roller coasters. In a profile of Chad Miller, the "rock star" of wooden roller...
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Dozen Stuck on Roller Coaster for Hours
A dozen Six Flags visitors expected to soar like Superman yesterday; instead, they got stuck in the air for two hours. The Superman Ultimate Flight ride at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in northern...
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Man Climbs Sandy-Hit Coaster, Plants Flag
Daring and patriotic, or reckless and stupid? You be the judge: A 38-year-old man was arrested today after climbing a roller coaster that had been swept out to sea by Hurricane Sandy and planting an...
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Coaster Fixes Weird Problem: Too-Loud Screaming
It's a great problem for any roller coaster to have: People were screaming too loudly. So loudly, in fact, that the screams exceeded an agreed-upon decibel limit between the Great America park in Santa...
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Woman Dies on Six Flags Roller Coaster
Tragedy in Texas last night: A rep for Six Flags Over Texas has confirmed that an adult woman died while riding a 14-story-high roller coaster. WFAA has a statement from the park on the incident, which...
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Family Identifies Victim in Coaster Fatality
Not much more is known yet about yesterday's roller coaster fatality at Six Flags Over Texas, but the family of Rosy Esparza has identified her as the victim, reports WFAA . As details trickle out...
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Cops Won't Run Coaster Death Investigation
Don't expect an independent probe into the death of a woman on Six Flags' Texas Giant roller coaster : The amusement park is conducting its own investigation, the Dallas Morning News reports. Since the...
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Fatal Six Flags Coaster Saw 14 Injuries in 5 Years
Injury, it seems, is nothing new on and around the Six Flags roller coaster where a woman died last week . Between April 2008 and April 2013, the park reported 14 injuries tied to the Texas Giant,...
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12 Rescued From Top of Universal Roller Coaster
A Universal Orlando roller coaster called the city's tallest got stuck last night, leaving 12 people high and dry for several hours before authorities rescued them. Firefighters were contacted at about...
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Dozens Dangle for Hours on Six Flags Ride
Around two dozen riders got more terror than they bargained for yesterday when the Ninja ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain hit a fallen tree branch, derailing the first car and leaving them suspended...
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Roller Coaster Stops Dead Near Peak
Roller-coaster riders in New Jersey were left stranded Friday when their ride climbed more than 200 feet and stopped dead in its tracks, Pix 11 reports. Park personnel at Six Flags amusement park in...
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24 Rescued From Stuck Maryland Roller Coaster
It took five hours to rescue 24 people stranded on a roller coaster in Maryland yesterday. Prince George's County fire officials said 17 adults and seven children were stuck at the top of the Joker's...
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Roller Coaster Triggers Stroke in 4-Year-Old
A 4-year-old boy went on a couple of roller-coaster rides during a family vacation over the summer and left the amusement park with a torn carotid artery. Doctors report in the journal Pediatric...
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Badly Injured Roller-Coaster Riders Stuck for Hours
The "Smiler" at the UK's Alton Towers theme park is billed as the world's first 14-loop roller coaster—but after a horrific accident yesterday, it isn't clear whether anybody will experience them...
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Girl Collapses, Dies After Riding Six Flags Coaster
A 10-year-old California girl died on Saturday, a day after losing consciousness while at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Jasmine Martinez rode the Revolution roller coaster, exited the ride, and then...
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Man Looking for Phone Killed by Roller Coaster
An Ohio man who lost his cellphone on a roller coaster ended up losing his life as well after going back to look for it. Police say 45-year-old James A. Young was killed by the same roller coaster he...
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New Roller Coaster to Break 10 World Records
Thrillseekers should pencil this one onto their 2016 calendar: The Valravn Birdseye is slated to open in May at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, and those who survive the 3,415-foot roller...
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Woman Dies After Riding Disney's Space Mountain
Records show that a woman died after riding Walt Disney World's Space Mountain this past summer. Pamela Lynn Haynes' death was included in a quarterly report theme parks are required to submit to the...
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Bird Halts Roller Coaster, Strands Riders Upside Down
Roller-coaster riders at one of Beijing's major amusement parks were left hanging upside down for almost 20 minutes when a bird stood on one of the ride's safety sensors. The Happy Valley Amusement...
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Dad Saves Son on Malfunctioning Roller Coaster in Dramatic Video
A dad's heartstopping moment was caught on video last week: Delbert Latham was filming himself and his son, Kaysen, riding a roller coaster at the Wonderland amusement park in Zita, Texas, when the...
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