Have you ever been on a rollercoaster or carnival ride when it broke down?

Went to Dorney Park my sophmore year of high school and it was a rainy day, so it wasn't as fun as it could have been. Anywho, me and my friend Steve decide to go on Talon one more time and he decides to say as the coaster is going up the hill something around the lines of "Watch the coaster get stuck", and low and behold, the coaster stopped. I immediately turned to him and screamed, "Damn You Steve." We were sitting there for probably ten minutes and since it was raining and there was puddles of water on top of the train already, rain water from atop came splashing down on us.

At Disney, me, my mom, and my sisters went on Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, the ride stopped halfway through in the most annoying part of the ride. You enter a room with a video screen and they have this guy come on saying, come on you can't hit me or something like that, and we were stuck there for probably ten minutes and hearing that repeated was just annoying, but we passed the time by playing with the lever that made the car turn.

Yeah, but I bet you weren't stuck in that part of the ride. It got really, really annoying and the lasers didn't shut off completely. Like if I remember it correctly, they would come on for a period of time and then shut off.

I'm just glad I was never stuck in Small World for a long period of time. I think hearing that song repeatedly for more than ten minutes would've have driven me insane.

About 30 years ago, I was stuck on the log flume at Great Adventure for about 45 minutes. While we were stuck, a thunderstorm rolled in. Not fun.

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Midnight Radio, I was about to post about that! We got suck towards the end of the ride for a few minutes. Its wasn't bad though.

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I've never had that happen, but I'd probably be freaked out if I was on a ferris wheel and it broke down while I was in mid-air.

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3 years ago me and my friends got stuck going up the hill of the Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion. We had to wait about 20 minutes for the mechanics to come and individually unlock our restraints. We got a coupon from the park for a free meal so it turned out okay though.

Another time, me and my family were at Disney World riding Spaceship Earth at Epcot and the whole ride, animatronics and all, just stopped. It restarted though after a couple minutes. But it was freaky seeing everything just grind to a halt. They never did tell us what happened either.

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Updated On: 5/18/08 at 01:30 AM

Small World, but for less than husk charmers. More like 10 minutes at the part where they have goodbye in every language. Some rides stopping would scare me, like Pirates of Caribbean, or a transition in Small World. Feel like there's been more.

that 3-D spiderman ride at Universal. 30 minutes. And our car was in the middle of a decline.

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I got stuck in the Carousel of Progress for about a minuet. It was during the scene changes and there was a stop for a moment. We could see both scenes going on at once.

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I wasn't stuck, but I was standing outside of the tilt--a-whirl at a carnival once when it malfunctioned. One of the cars slammed on its back and slid across the floor. If there wasn't a metal fence up around the ride, I would have been crushed. Luckily the people inside were uninjured, but it was still one of the scariest things I've witnessed.

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Although this doesn't qualify as a malfunction, or break-down story it was memorable.

Way back in 1974 my partner and I took our first vacation together to Ponce, Puerto Rico. We booked in a hotel that our travel agent said was located "right on the beach" well...guess what? It wasn't. It wasn't even close. It was a nice hotel, but not at all what we were expecting. It was chock full of straight white Americans couples, who did nothing but stare at the two men who were sharing a room. It was a tad uncomfortable to say the least. We befriend, or were befriended by a very nice black couple from Chicago, who were equally uncomfortable with the stares and attitude that they were receiving as well.

Since during the evenings it was not much fun to hangout at the hotel, my partner and I invited the couple to come with us to a carnival that was passing through town. We left the hotel shortly after dinner, for what we hoped would be a fun evening.

The Carnival it's self was typical of most small traveling amusements. A tilt-whirl, octopus, ferris wheel, and a carnival swing. A few smaller rides and booths...and that was about it.



We all opted to start the evening on the Carnival Swing, since we'd just had dinner, and weren't really up to the octopus. So, we all boarded our individual swings and started what we thought would be a brief and tame ride.

Shortly after the ride started at mini-riot broke out. Someone had pick-pocketed someone's wallet and a large crowd of people began chasing the thief through the Carnival. Unfortunately for us, the operator of the ride joined in the chase. Sooooo...we were left on the ride for about 20 minutes...just going around...and around...and around....we could see the crowd as they moved across the carnival...each revolution found them heading in a different direction...no one of course was interested in us. Eventually, the attendant did come back. And we were relased from our whirling hell. Without saying a word to each other...we headed back to our car and drove straight back to the hotel.

The rest of the vacation...didn't get any better. But that's another story.

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Updated On: 1/23/09 at 01:47 PM