Girl loses feet during "THRILL" ride.

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19370592/

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Six Flags has shut down four thrill rides at parks around the country after a gruesome accident at an amusement park in Louisville.

A 13-year-old girl's feet were severed just above the ankles Thursday as she rode the Superman Tower of Power ride, park officials said. The ride lifts passengers 177 feet straight up, then drops 154 feet, reaching a speed of 54 mph, according to the park's Web site.

Investigators from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, which inspects amusement park rides, returned to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom on Friday to examine the ride, said Bill Clary, a spokesman for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.

The accident happened around 4:45 p.m., Six Flags spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg said. It was unclear at what point during the ride the girl was injured, Goldberg said.

The girl was taken to a hospital, but her name was not released and her condition was unavailable Friday morning.

Six Flags has shut down similar rides at parks in St. Louis; Gurnee, Ill.; and near Washington, D.C., as a safety precaution, Goldberg said.

Six Flags Over Texas, near Dallas, also has a Superman Tower of Power ride, but it is not the same ride, Goldberg said.

There were no reports of injuries on the ride before Thursday, Goldberg said.

"We're conducting an investigation now," Goldberg said. "Millions of people have safely ridden this ride in our parks."

The accident led Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. to shut down and inspect drop tower rides at five of its amusement parks, company spokeswoman Stacy Frole said.

Frole said the company spoke with the maker of the ride and then decided to inspect its similar rides as a precaution.

The five rides that will be shut down are at Kings Island near Cincinnati; Canada's Wonderland, in Toronto; Kings Dominion in Doswell, Va.; Carowinds, in Charlotte, N.C.; and Great America in Santa Clara, Calif.

Intamin, a Swiss company, made both rides, said Craig Ross, a spokesman for Cedar Fair.

"We're going to keep these things down until we're certain it's safe," Ross said. "We'll wait and see."

An e-mail message sent to Intamin was not immediately returned Friday morning.

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[MrAngryFace]

haha

[futami]

 

would have been funnier if it took her scalp off.

call it the brittney spears breakdown.

 

or if it ripped her arm off

call it the def leppard drop.

 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

yeah I could also ID that sketch before I pressed "play"

[The Sceneman]

would have been funnier if it took her scalp off.

call it the brittney spears breakdown.

 

or if it ripped her arm off

call it the def leppard drop.

 

How can you laugh? Someone was seriously hurt

[bud]

some of you people are horrible.

[futami]

would have been funnier if it took her scalp off.

call it the brittney spears breakdown.

 

or if it ripped her arm off

call it the def leppard drop.

 

How can you laugh? Someone was seriously hurt

it could happen to anyone.

any of us could have been in her shoes.

but she won't need shoes anymore.



i get so tired of you unfunny pussies who can't see the humor in tragedy.

humor exists in EVERYTHING.

what happened to her was horrible, but i still have the capacity to laugh at it.

i'd rather people laugh at my misfortune than pity me for it.

[$till LegendaryU2K]

Video wont work for me, not shock, because youtube sucks as always.

Sorry to hear about the girl tho

" "We're going to keep these things down until we're certain it's safe," Ross said. "We'll wait and see."

Human beings never seem to learn   

[Cyanista]

She's only 13.  That's a serious bummer.  Still...

Tragedy is when I cut my finger.  Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

(thank you, Mel Brooks)

[MrAngryFace]

I hope when I die its hilarious.

[Van Cruncheon]

i want my naked corpse duct-taped to an atv, lit on fire, and run driver-less through the middle of bellevue square mall on a saturday afternoon.

[Robo]

i want my naked corpse duct-taped to an atv, lit on fire, and run driver-less through the middle of bellevue square mall on a saturday afternoon.

Now you know this is going to happen and we can probably get Johnny Depp to fund it.

[Trent Dole]

Haha, and it was a Superman ride again. Somebody fell off the Ride of Steel coaster and died at the New England park when I used to work there.

[Saint Cornelius]

I hate those fucking rides. Give me a rollercoaster any day over some bullshit that drops you down to the earth with the quickness and then kicks you off / takes your feet off.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I hate those fucking rides. Give me a rollercoaster any day over some bullshit that drops you down to the earth with the quickness and then kicks you off / takes your feet off.

YOU SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.

Tower of Terror is the greatest ride ever.

[Cyanista]

I much prefer the other one that straps you into a car and shoots you up some L-shaped ramp at ludicrous speed, until you feel like you could almost reach out and touch the junk of the giant superman statue looming above you.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Hey atleast Symbios has a girlfriend now!