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Yesterday me and Ceri travelled up north to Alton Towers (big theme park in the UK, for those that don’t know). We went on the new rollercoaster ‘Air’. Has anyone else been on it? It’s mad! You are locked into your seat, with your ankles held secure and the seats are then raised up and locked back against the track, so that you are hanging under the track facing the floor. You are then sent ‘flying’ track through tight bends and loop – it’s quite crazy! Some parts of the ride you think you are going to fly into rocks and boulders. Something of interest whilst we were there, was some sort of incident that happened on the rollercoaster ‘Nemesis’. We’d been on it once, and were queuing for a second go, when one of the ‘trains’ didn’t return!! There are two trains on the ride, one leaves the boarding station before the other one arrives. Anyway, the people had been strapped into their harnesses and where just sat there waiting for about 15 minutes – and nothing! Then the people who were on the second train were lead up the boarding station, they’d obviously been released from their seats from wherever their train was! Then there were loads of paramedics around, and all the staff who were operating the ride were looking really worried! Anyway, they closed the ride and set us away – not giving us an explanation of what had happened, just issuing us a ticket each, saying that the ride had broken down (obviously not) and we could come back later and have a go without queuing! Everyone went around the far side of the ride to see what had happened to the second train, we could see the train and someone sat in one of the front seats, but could see what had happened. There were lots of stories ranging from things like ‘Someone had fallen out’, ‘Someone had a heart attack’ . . . so I don’t know. Everyone who was in the vicinity of the Nemesis, trying to ascertain what had happened was told to vacate the area – immediately, well suspect if you ask me! They even had a police or fire helicopter in the area. www.altontowe |
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www.altontowers.co.uk Any live up in that area see anything on any local news? |
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It was on the BBC radio 1 news beat thing the other day. I heard it. |
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hey, i saw star wars ep 2 today for the first time... just thought i'd let ya know dude. i liked it aswell. |
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What did they say? When you get into the boarding station for Nemesis, the queue splits into two, you can join the one queue for front row seats, which we did! Had we not, we would’ve ended up on ‘that’ train! |
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Whoa..... The train stopped when I went up in march, just before the first drop. I wasnt on it but all the people looked well scared. Nothing happened to anyone but when it went, it was prolly the scariest ride they'd ever go on after all that. That sounds terrible though Chris. Let us know if you find anything. |
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It was very concerning.....but we had an excellent time! I've been before loads of time, but Ceri hadn't. |
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Apparently one of the cars knocked some kid on the head but.... how the hell did that happen? My mate heard it on the radio. |
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http://www.alton-towers.co.uk/ Sorry I posted it wrong! Hit some kid on the head??? Was he too small or something? He shouldn't of been on the ride, they stop that kinda thing. Once you are on the ride there's nothing to hit you......???? I need to know more.....anyone? |
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let us know when you get some information |
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Will do! Stories like this don't stop me going to places like this, but it was the way the park seemed to 'cover' the whole thing up! A sort of 'nothing to see here....move along' attitude! |
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I live up that way but I haven't heard anything. Now where's my screwdriver...? |
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Are you sure this wasn't one of your capitalism revenge attacks? ;) |
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why dont you look in the bbc web page? I just did but didnt find anything, but surely my lack of vocabulary had something to do with that |
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I tried Nacmat, but like you nothing. My mobile is a WAP phone and we tried that yesterday as well, but again nothing! I think it is a big cover up . . . |
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yes that is possible...not good news for the place if something bad has happened and everybody knows...money is the reason |
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I've even looked the local news websites and nothing! I am convinced something sinister happened! They even continued to play the sinister music as well, a good 20-30 minutes after the incident as well! |
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I must admit that it was sabotage on my part. I have a persoanl grudge against alton Towers who made my father redundant some years ago. I will have my revenge, oh yes, I will. |
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You're one sick mother!!! (You know I am kidding!!) |
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I thought someone might have found something out by now!! :( |
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This thread has severely put me off going again this year |
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You should still go JArworski! This wouldn't prevent me from going again! |
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