Thrill ride appears to malfunction during Michigan festival – AP/MSN, 2021/07/12
A thrill ride at a popular festival in northern Michigan was dismantled and an investigation started after the machine appeared to tip and pitch with riders aboard.
Bystanders recorded the incident with cellphones Thursday night during the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City. No serious injuries were reported.
The Magic Carpet Ride “came off the blocking,” said Joe Evans of Traverse City-based Arnold Amusements. It was being sent back to the Ohio company that manufactured it.
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Joy Ogemaw told WPBN-TV that she looked up at the ride after hearing a loud bang.
“It was like scraping, and then it started going faster,” she said. “And then it started like rocking a little bit back and forth.”
The ride’s operator switched off the power and jumped to safety, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported.
Bystanders grabbed a guardrail attached to the ride’s main base to hold it down.
When I used to ride on amusement park rides, my policy was that if a ride was portable and could be moved, I was not riding it… just for this reason.
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