At first I thought from watching that eyewitness video it was because the loading platform rose up while the ride was in action. And that ripped out the gondola beam apart. Though bottom line, it’s such a shame that happened. And glad the Dutch maker of the ride are taking preventative measures to make sure nothing like that ever happens again.

Oh you’re talking about the one that farther up Northern NJ right?

Kind of what I thought happened after I saw the damage photos. Now we’ll see who gets the blame for it.

I hope it’s all right on Saturday, I’m going to the State Fair that day with some family. Wunderground has a chance of a storm mid-day, but not some all day rain like today.

I might not make it this Saturday either. Forecast calls for PM rain, which could be in the late afternoon, evening, or throughout the night.

And just recently reported that the OSF Fire Ball fatality was due to -Excessive Corrosion-
http://www.carnivalwarehouse.com/brnews/newsarticle.asp?ID=1090#.WYioR6YQ2tQ.facebook

I closed the comments early on; it got like 5000 views the day after it happened. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to Middlesex this year, but who knows.

*were

*Stupid auto correct lol

Hey you planning on going to the Middlesex County Fair this year?

I don’t know if I’ll update the page or make a separate post instead talking about it. If I do, it’ll be after the report comes out. I enabled comments again, however, as hits to that page have waned. That page was getting thousands of hits in the days after the accident.

Yeah thank God for the DCA!
Still kinda shook up since that tragedy but hopefully soon after final report on the victim (18 years young and recently enlisted in the Marines. That broke my heart.) and the recently troubled ride (what the cause was but I’ve been hearing in one report from Ohio it’s probably metal fatigue) things should return to normalcy. Although at this point the family of that young victim is filing a wrongful death lawsuit.

https://youtu.be/u-Amfc8WRbI

Just wondering, are you planning to update the KMG Fire Ball ride review page with the section that includes your article of the tragedy that took place at OSF last week? And if they want to talk about that ride they can comment only on that page. Although the comments section on the ride reviews has been disabled too.

Man, I’m glad it didn’t happen while you guys were on it! I’ll be very interested to see the final report coming from this incident.

I disabled the comments on that Youtube video. I just didn’t want the comments section to fill up with people talking about Fireball. Your comment was fine, but you know how some Youtube commenter’s can be.

Well you shouldn’t feel weird that you last went on it half a decade ago. Although still thinking about I certainly have that weird (although sometimes uncomfortable) feeling since the day after the tragedy took place..

Because of course I was on that ride (in fact, twice this year, once in my 2 visits to the State Fair Meadowlands. The night before the 4th with my best friend/karate partner & another close friend of mine, and on the final night with my nephew)

Although after watching this radio interview that our current NJ governor was on (which you deleted from your 2017 State Fair Meadowlands vid)
It made me feel somewhat better. Because if his heavy, Heavy inspections on the ride that was presently at the Meadowlands didn’t occur, the tragedy might’ve occurred at the Meadowlands while I’m on it. Then the end result I could’ve been dead being thrown 50 ft away from the ride while still being harnessed to the seat, or limping out of the ride with severe injuries.

https://youtu.be/Dh2fD-r2QVc

#ThankYouChristie
#ThankYouDCA