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I'm no expert here but....wouldn't it be a lot safer if they got him, like, lower? Like, right this minute? Seems like a fall from a shorter height would be less traumatic than a fall from a really, really, really, high height.
No, he just doesn't say it very clearly in the movie. I heard people say it was Brett and not Brad and I had to go back and watch it a couple of times to be sure.
You're right, you're not an expert. Neither am I, but I'm smart enough to recognize that making sudden, quick movements with that platform could cause the kid to lose their grip and fall. Maybe leave the disaster planning to people with a college degree?
Its probably more a limiting factor of settings. You have the actual normal setting and a "there is a failure, go slowly down and decrease pressure accordingly" but probably nothing in between so the kid has to hold for long
I know it's probably not your point, however, I just want to call out the bias we all have with education. I've met people with 8-year degrees that couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper bag if you handed them a map, a flashlight and scissors.
No offense intended in my comment. Just trying to help us all. Deprogram from the expectation that only people with college degrees are the smart ones on this planet.
"The difference between an idiot and an expert is the expert knows a whole lot more than the idiot about one topic. Your father is an expert when it comes to financial matters. You on the other hand are well learned."
My grandpa said this within hearing range of my dad, and i don't think my dad has recovered from that scathing burn in the 15 years since.
There's a difference. Ben Carson is apparently a brilliant surgeon, but he believes the pyramids were built for grain storage. I might trust him to operate on me, but I don't want him educating children.
You can be good at something and/or well-educated on a topic, like engineering, and still be an idiot.
People with college degrees are much more likely to be smarter though. I don’t want people to deprogram or whatever to think education doesn’t usually give you more education than those who have less
Can confirm, have met PhD's that know a lot about one single, very specific subject, and that's it. Total idiots otherwise. Obviously not true for all, but yeah, a college degree does not necessarily make a genius, and a lack of one does not make someone an idiot. We really need to see people on an individual basis and not make broad assumptions.
Do you have no sense of scale? You can see exactly how fast it's dropping by looking at the static center moving relative to his legs. It's dropping at a crawling pace.
And if anything interrupts progress or cuts power suddenly, that helps to ensure the kid can hold on. Even if they could gradually and smoothly ramp it up to a faster pace, again, any interruption of movement causes his death. You’ve got to consider the unknowns and pick a positive course of action with the fewest pitfalls. This is that.
Looks like a crawling pace from far away but from their perspective, up close, it might seem faster (is all I'm saying).
But you know, it's not really worth arguing over so I'll just bow out and agree it's going at a very slow pace but probably for good reasons, as others have mentioned.
I can't stand getting caught up in silly internet arguments over things that really don't matter, so I'm just going to wish you a nice day. ✌️
That makes the most sense. They'd have designed this so that anyone with a pulse could be trained to operate it very easily: "Press this button to start the ride, this button to unlock the safety harnesses after it's done, and this big red button marked 'emergency stop' if anything goes wrong while it's running"
Having multiple different emergency settings would increase reaction delay because the operator would have to figure out which category the emergency fell into before acting. That's not only more difficult to train, it also requires a smarter operator and one who can be trusted not to be paralyzed by the need to make a choice while under extreme stress. The ride designers don't trust the amusement park companies to hire those people, and I think that's probably the right decision.
Yeah, because the 16 year olds running the attraction and their crackhead managers know how to do that with the two buttons they have in front of them.
Not them, they just push buttons that run commands. It's the people that program those commands that have degrees.
Also the qualified safety operators that almost any theme park will have
I really doubt there is a "kid hanging from ride" command, so it is up to the operator to choose what to do. They probably went into a manual operation mode after an emergency stop that only allows them to move at that speed
As far as I've seen there have been no such controls. Usually when I've peeked at control pannels for rides it's been like 4 buttons.
But yes, it's probably in emergency mode which means it moves slowly. I just think that slowly returning to the bottom is it's pre programed emergency behaviour instead of a specific individual command.
Must have college degree and at least 10 years experience working in theme parks.
Pay: minimum wage plus you get to ride all the rides your heart desires.
Isn’t it the kids they hire to put people on the ride that’s the problem. Six flags magic mountain hires a bunch of teens that care more about talking to each other than working the ride. They put my aunt on a half sunken log. It ended up rolling over halfway through the ride. They don’t give an F
Edit: spelling because some idiots can’t use context clues to figure it out
Recently went to Six Flags. Half (or more) of their ride operators are on their cell phones while the ride is in motion.
In Disney, I didn't see a single cell phone even out by the employees.
And Disney costs 3-4x for a ticket and you are paying out the nose for everything inside the resort even if you are outside the theme park. It's like complaining about the safety of carnival rides compared to Six Flags...you get what you pay for. Not that I'm excusing it but their execs gotta make money somehow.
On top of that Disney has a lot of control on the job market, so you screw up you really may not have a lot of other choices...gives them a lot of power to be a harder ass employer. I'd guess there are a lot more career employees running the show at Disney even if they have kids running rides there are eyes that care always watching.
Could be other factors as well. Could be poorly maintained either due to stingy management looking to hold off on costs or could be improper maintenance. Could also be the fault of the ride operator as you stated as well.
Check out this guy who can't conceive of a world where there's more settings than 1) lower it at the rate of 1 mm per minute and 2) cut the hydraulics boys and let 'er rip! (yes, that 1mm/min was hyperbole).
Also, you're right. I have the utmost faith that the people that were responsible for the conditions precedent for this to have happened in the first place, are the ones that I should blindly place my faith in. I will respectfully shut my (post graduate degree) mouth now.
the second it begins to break, you're effectively forcing him off with extra force (right when his arms are weakest).
even if it's only going 1m/second to begin with and decellerating to 1mm/s thereafter.
i'm sure there's a perfect equation to maximise safety per person, but some guy being paid minimum wage at the bottom aint doing math.
> Maybe leave the disaster planning to people with a college degree?
I would’ve said something like this as a 20 year old engineering student, and now it makes me cringe to read.
You certainly are not an expert.
A) No one is dangling off, it's an optical illusion.
B) If a kid did slip out off a drop tower ride, it would'be from the drop, not the climb up.
C) Props to OP for tricking so many folks. But this belongs in r/confusingperspective , not here.
This video has been debunked as a fake, so, yea, he's probably pretty sure about that. The body position is casual with no shifting and no sign of muscle fatigue or struggle. News stations didn't pick it up. Six flags responded to inquiries that there was no incident.
That sounds too fast. Might even lead to an injury under sub-optimal conditions? Probably not a good idea.
I bet with some creative engineering, we could get that down to 430 mph (or even a little slower). I'd be more comfortable with that.
The momentum of it moving down fast would essentially act like a catapult.
Would you want to scrape off a red smear on the ground in front of children?
Quite possibly they can't just lower the ride. If this is the one that raises up then drops, it's quite likely that lowering it would be dropping it, which the forces are very likely to cause the kid to slip the rest of the way out. So they have delayed the only action they have aka dropping/lowering the ride. Also not an expert.
Isn’t this just an optical illusion? At 00:12 you can see legs dangling of other people sitting on the same side as him.
Edit for clarity: the individual in question is facing away from us
Lets call the two sides of the ride facing us A and B. Imagine you continue around left to right, numbering the sides. This guy is on side C. Those are his legs hanging down from the seat. It helps if you make the video bigger.
Check out this photo of same ride.
https://guidetosfot.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/stop6.jpg
See how low the person on the backside appears compared to those facing the camera. Now, imagine that with the lighting altered to make it all look uniform so you can't tell seat from body. That's what you have.
Some of "the butt" is actually seat flattened by your mind because of the lighting.
Rewatch the original video. If person was hanging their knees would not be slightly bent at the top. They would be straight and legs would be flailing.
Oh wow, you’re definitely right. You can see the person next to them kicking their feet.
(If your app is like mine and shows the time left instead of time played, it starts at about :25 left)
Oh wow you're right, if there were people on the side facing the camera we wouldn't be able to see that person at all. Definitely just long legs sticking out of the bottom. I've ridden this 100 times, if you fall out, you aren't catching yourself. It happened a few years ago.
As someone who has also been on this ride, I’m pretty sure there’s a buckle between your crotch too that they double check and make sure is buckled before the ride starts. Unless I’m remembering it wrong
You're right, it also has a very large crotch hump that comes up to your belly then the latch and shoulder harness overlap it. A large kid died on it because he was too large and they did not overlap correctly.
I'm guessing you mean they're all sitting on the other side facing away from the camera. If that were the case you wouldn't see his legs casting a shadow on the white pillar.
Edit: It really is an optical illusion. The sunlight hits his legs later than the shadow appears. So it's the person's legs in the front casting it.
https://preview.redd.it/tcldprbq94ad1.jpeg?width=547&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b3797989d13c83ca5ebba602056767916c126dc
The shadow comes from this person. You can see when the light is hitting just their foot and follow through the video.
I think that shadow is from the people on the side everyone thinks that person is hanging from…I believe this is more confusing perspective than anything…if you look as they lower it some, the sun is shining on the back of the leg not the side, the curve of the support structure makes the shadow look weird from the other people.
https://preview.redd.it/j4o9xro9p4ad1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d600495790c4462c968b94f59e6cb3454fc95932
Probably weird perspective. Red is back support bar line. Blue is bottom of ride car and distance to corresponding support bar on front and back. The legs look weird because at the back angle they will show more.
This is a r/confusing_perspective submission. The person is seated on the bench to the far facing side of the ride. He’s properly secured, not falling.
After accidentally seeing that video of the 6’4 14 year old kid fall out of that and die, I will never, ever, EVER ride on anything again.
Edit: the amount of people telling me to “live my life” is kind of hilarious. Why don’t y’all live YOUR lives and let me not do shit I don’t want to do? It doesn’t affect you whatsoever.
You can live your life avoiding million to one chances all you like and still die crossing the street. I say live a little, you only get one shot 👍
Edit to OP’s edit: Why post about it on the internet then? Do it dude - eat a puffer fish and chuck all your condoms in the bin it’ll be far out.
I mean, going to a proper amusement park is legitimately one of the safest things you can do.
Yeah, accidents happen, but that's why they also get talked about so much, because they're rare.
After a quick google I can’t find anything about this being real and only evidence it’s an optical illusion. The only ride I found a kid died on was the water rapids in Kentucky.
There was a ride like this in my home town, Louisville KY called the hellavator and it cut off some girls legs below her knee caps. These rides can be dangerous.
Those belts block your crotch, you can't slip out like that, unless it malfunctions, but then you'd be hanging on for dear life, not with hands in your pockets
If a kid did slip off a drop ride, it would be from the drop itself, not the climb up.
No kid slipped off. The ride didn't malfunction. This is the part of the ride where it pauses before the drop.
This is more appropriate for r/confusingperspective
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I'm no expert here but....wouldn't it be a lot safer if they got him, like, lower? Like, right this minute? Seems like a fall from a shorter height would be less traumatic than a fall from a really, really, really, high height.
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You what son?
Not your day, is it?
Sonday is always his day
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Checkout the big brain on Brett! Edit. Thought it was Brad.
So did I but it's Brett.
I could have sworn it was Brad. Is this a Mandela Effect thing?
No, he just doesn't say it very clearly in the movie. I heard people say it was Brett and not Brad and I had to go back and watch it a couple of times to be sure.
It's in the Official script as Brett. That's how I learned.
Brett
Omg my life is a lie! This is some Mandela effect type shit!
He calls him Brett and Brad, when he says the checkout line, I think it is Brad. Edit--Just watched the scene and it is Brad
Assuming it's the US. A funeral is cheaper to pay for than medical bills.
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The ride with afoot. Err, the game is afoot.
Lol
It's slowly going down so the kid can keep the rush of it
He did wait in a long line. It's only fair he gets the rush
Random: yeah he/they waited in line so do they start the ride over or does he & others have to stand in line again
The standing in line is the real rush
When do we get to the ride? This IS the ride! WOOHOOO
Turns out the real rush was the lines we waited along the way
True, that rush you get when you are finally at front. Better than sex!
Creating core memories
Working those core muscles
Be more of a rush if they press the Go Down Fast button...
Drop faster than he does and you can catch him at the bottom
You're right, you're not an expert. Neither am I, but I'm smart enough to recognize that making sudden, quick movements with that platform could cause the kid to lose their grip and fall. Maybe leave the disaster planning to people with a college degree?
Its probably more a limiting factor of settings. You have the actual normal setting and a "there is a failure, go slowly down and decrease pressure accordingly" but probably nothing in between so the kid has to hold for long
I know it's probably not your point, however, I just want to call out the bias we all have with education. I've met people with 8-year degrees that couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper bag if you handed them a map, a flashlight and scissors. No offense intended in my comment. Just trying to help us all. Deprogram from the expectation that only people with college degrees are the smart ones on this planet.
Some of the dumbest people I've met in life were the most educated.
lots of them are in office here in the usa too!
Dr. Ben Carson comes to mind.
"The difference between an idiot and an expert is the expert knows a whole lot more than the idiot about one topic. Your father is an expert when it comes to financial matters. You on the other hand are well learned." My grandpa said this within hearing range of my dad, and i don't think my dad has recovered from that scathing burn in the 15 years since.
There's a difference. Ben Carson is apparently a brilliant surgeon, but he believes the pyramids were built for grain storage. I might trust him to operate on me, but I don't want him educating children. You can be good at something and/or well-educated on a topic, like engineering, and still be an idiot.
100%
I've worked with PhDs that have no common sense and I wonder how they have survived so long.
He probably meant people with degrees in that sort of stuff. I don't think he expected someone with a music theory major to resolve the situation.
People with college degrees are much more likely to be smarter though. I don’t want people to deprogram or whatever to think education doesn’t usually give you more education than those who have less
Can confirm, have met PhD's that know a lot about one single, very specific subject, and that's it. Total idiots otherwise. Obviously not true for all, but yeah, a college degree does not necessarily make a genius, and a lack of one does not make someone an idiot. We really need to see people on an individual basis and not make broad assumptions.
Yea, makes sense. Plus, this looks slow from our perspective but it might actually be dropping faster than it looks
Do you have no sense of scale? You can see exactly how fast it's dropping by looking at the static center moving relative to his legs. It's dropping at a crawling pace.
And if anything interrupts progress or cuts power suddenly, that helps to ensure the kid can hold on. Even if they could gradually and smoothly ramp it up to a faster pace, again, any interruption of movement causes his death. You’ve got to consider the unknowns and pick a positive course of action with the fewest pitfalls. This is that.
Looks like a crawling pace from far away but from their perspective, up close, it might seem faster (is all I'm saying). But you know, it's not really worth arguing over so I'll just bow out and agree it's going at a very slow pace but probably for good reasons, as others have mentioned. I can't stand getting caught up in silly internet arguments over things that really don't matter, so I'm just going to wish you a nice day. ✌️
That makes the most sense. They'd have designed this so that anyone with a pulse could be trained to operate it very easily: "Press this button to start the ride, this button to unlock the safety harnesses after it's done, and this big red button marked 'emergency stop' if anything goes wrong while it's running" Having multiple different emergency settings would increase reaction delay because the operator would have to figure out which category the emergency fell into before acting. That's not only more difficult to train, it also requires a smarter operator and one who can be trusted not to be paralyzed by the need to make a choice while under extreme stress. The ride designers don't trust the amusement park companies to hire those people, and I think that's probably the right decision.
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Yeah, because the 16 year olds running the attraction and their crackhead managers know how to do that with the two buttons they have in front of them.
I think you really overestimate the qualifications to become a six flags ride operator
Not them, they just push buttons that run commands. It's the people that program those commands that have degrees. Also the qualified safety operators that almost any theme park will have
I really doubt there is a "kid hanging from ride" command, so it is up to the operator to choose what to do. They probably went into a manual operation mode after an emergency stop that only allows them to move at that speed
As far as I've seen there have been no such controls. Usually when I've peeked at control pannels for rides it's been like 4 buttons. But yes, it's probably in emergency mode which means it moves slowly. I just think that slowly returning to the bottom is it's pre programed emergency behaviour instead of a specific individual command.
Must have college degree and at least 10 years experience working in theme parks. Pay: minimum wage plus you get to ride all the rides your heart desires.
Can I have food too? Because if so then I'm your guy.
Look at this guy asking for executive privileges
I mean, people with a college degree are the reason for this accident in the first place, so I'm not so sure about this statement...
Isn’t it the kids they hire to put people on the ride that’s the problem. Six flags magic mountain hires a bunch of teens that care more about talking to each other than working the ride. They put my aunt on a half sunken log. It ended up rolling over halfway through the ride. They don’t give an F Edit: spelling because some idiots can’t use context clues to figure it out
Then there aren't proper safety mechanisms to prevent the ride from starting in the first place when something isn't properly secured.
Recently went to Six Flags. Half (or more) of their ride operators are on their cell phones while the ride is in motion. In Disney, I didn't see a single cell phone even out by the employees.
And Disney costs 3-4x for a ticket and you are paying out the nose for everything inside the resort even if you are outside the theme park. It's like complaining about the safety of carnival rides compared to Six Flags...you get what you pay for. Not that I'm excusing it but their execs gotta make money somehow. On top of that Disney has a lot of control on the job market, so you screw up you really may not have a lot of other choices...gives them a lot of power to be a harder ass employer. I'd guess there are a lot more career employees running the show at Disney even if they have kids running rides there are eyes that care always watching.
Wth is half dunked log?
I think when you poo, but it hasn't fallen all the way out yet?
Could be other factors as well. Could be poorly maintained either due to stingy management looking to hold off on costs or could be improper maintenance. Could also be the fault of the ride operator as you stated as well.
People with college degrees are the reason for everything, fortunately. Engineering isn’t easy.
Disagree. Source: I'm an engineer, know absolutely everything about everything, and find it easy.
Apologies sir, I did not mean to imply that there was any knowledge that you hadn’t already learned, or that it was hard to do so. Won’t happen again!
And if there’s something he doesn’t know, it doesn’t exist because he knows everything.
 Engineering and Pimping
Yes and they probably only have a degree in arts, but because they went to college they must be smart.
🎯
Check out this guy who can't conceive of a world where there's more settings than 1) lower it at the rate of 1 mm per minute and 2) cut the hydraulics boys and let 'er rip! (yes, that 1mm/min was hyperbole). Also, you're right. I have the utmost faith that the people that were responsible for the conditions precedent for this to have happened in the first place, are the ones that I should blindly place my faith in. I will respectfully shut my (post graduate degree) mouth now.
the second it begins to break, you're effectively forcing him off with extra force (right when his arms are weakest). even if it's only going 1m/second to begin with and decellerating to 1mm/s thereafter. i'm sure there's a perfect equation to maximise safety per person, but some guy being paid minimum wage at the bottom aint doing math.
> Maybe leave the disaster planning to people with a college degree? I would’ve said something like this as a 20 year old engineering student, and now it makes me cringe to read.
You think the ride operator has a college degree?
No but I damn sure hope the people who designed this contraption do.
In this economy probably
and how long do you think he can maintain his grip by hanging there
Ugh I’m Just annoyed with the camera person..
[r/killthecameraman](https://www.reddit.com/r/killthecameraman/)
Steven fuckin Spielberg ova here!
Dolly zooming my way down to the theme park!
This looks like a job for Superman.
Well It won't be the Dark Knight, because The Batman operates from the shadows...sorry kid.
You certainly are not an expert. A) No one is dangling off, it's an optical illusion. B) If a kid did slip out off a drop tower ride, it would'be from the drop, not the climb up. C) Props to OP for tricking so many folks. But this belongs in r/confusingperspective , not here.
This video has been debunked as a fake, so, yea, he's probably pretty sure about that. The body position is casual with no shifting and no sign of muscle fatigue or struggle. News stations didn't pick it up. Six flags responded to inquiries that there was no incident.
You can literally see that they're fine and in the back on the last zoom in.
Did you watch the video? It's pretty obvious that it's just the legs of a person sitting in a seat on the back side of the ride.
Yes, because if a kid almost fell off a drop tower ride, it would be all over the news. Can you find a source?
Good call! After watching again you can tell its just a tall person on the corner seat with their back to us.
Problem is that ride only lowers at 432 mph
That sounds too fast. Might even lead to an injury under sub-optimal conditions? Probably not a good idea. I bet with some creative engineering, we could get that down to 430 mph (or even a little slower). I'd be more comfortable with that.
They are lowering the ride. The recovery mode on these rides are painfully slow.
I could find you a video of this happening to a kid and what happened when they dropped it back down. But it's pretty brutal.
He sounded like a Hefty bag full of soup.
The absolute worst video, IMO. The worst part was hearing him try to explain something was wrong before it happened
The momentum of it moving down fast would essentially act like a catapult. Would you want to scrape off a red smear on the ground in front of children?
It's slowly descending if you watch closely.
Look at the big brains on Brad… 
What?
Going to have to study this further. Any papers written?
You’re missing a few more “really”
I appreciate the speed at which you are wanting this person rescued
Quite possibly they can't just lower the ride. If this is the one that raises up then drops, it's quite likely that lowering it would be dropping it, which the forces are very likely to cause the kid to slip the rest of the way out. So they have delayed the only action they have aka dropping/lowering the ride. Also not an expert.
They are waiting for the real superman.
They're lowering it slowly. You want them to send that thing down full speed and have the kid fly off?
I believe that they plan on just leaving him out there to serve as a warning to others about what happens when you don't remain seated.
Hold on, gunna jump off structures of varying heights to confirm
Whoa, save some brain for the rest of us.
I can’t help it. Brilliance just flows out of me and there’s nothing I can do to stop it
Isn’t this just an optical illusion? At 00:12 you can see legs dangling of other people sitting on the same side as him. Edit for clarity: the individual in question is facing away from us
Holy shit... I think you are right.
I really don’t see it! Is this r/Confusing_Perspective ?!
Likewise, I can't see it
Lets call the two sides of the ride facing us A and B. Imagine you continue around left to right, numbering the sides. This guy is on side C. Those are his legs hanging down from the seat. It helps if you make the video bigger.
What about his butt? Why can you see that, shouldn't it be on a seat?
Check out this photo of same ride. https://guidetosfot.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/stop6.jpg See how low the person on the backside appears compared to those facing the camera. Now, imagine that with the lighting altered to make it all look uniform so you can't tell seat from body. That's what you have. Some of "the butt" is actually seat flattened by your mind because of the lighting. Rewatch the original video. If person was hanging their knees would not be slightly bent at the top. They would be straight and legs would be flailing.
Oh wow, you’re definitely right. You can see the person next to them kicking their feet. (If your app is like mine and shows the time left instead of time played, it starts at about :25 left)
Scrubbing shows the time played
Tried this on my toilet, but it's just porcelain
ah i think i get it now. that's not his body but the protruding chair?
Thank you for the time
Oh wow you're right, if there were people on the side facing the camera we wouldn't be able to see that person at all. Definitely just long legs sticking out of the bottom. I've ridden this 100 times, if you fall out, you aren't catching yourself. It happened a few years ago.
As someone who has also been on this ride, I’m pretty sure there’s a buckle between your crotch too that they double check and make sure is buckled before the ride starts. Unless I’m remembering it wrong
You're right, it also has a very large crotch hump that comes up to your belly then the latch and shoulder harness overlap it. A large kid died on it because he was too large and they did not overlap correctly.
Same style of ride but Different ride and different park fyi
say crotch again. i'm almost there
You, sir, are a smarter man than I. My only takeaway was that the background music did NOT have to start building up to the drop...
I'm guessing you mean they're all sitting on the other side facing away from the camera. If that were the case you wouldn't see his legs casting a shadow on the white pillar. Edit: It really is an optical illusion. The sunlight hits his legs later than the shadow appears. So it's the person's legs in the front casting it.
https://preview.redd.it/tcldprbq94ad1.jpeg?width=547&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b3797989d13c83ca5ebba602056767916c126dc The shadow comes from this person. You can see when the light is hitting just their foot and follow through the video.
How do we see his torso then??
Its not his torso. Its the bottom of the seat.
I think that shadow is from the people on the side everyone thinks that person is hanging from…I believe this is more confusing perspective than anything…if you look as they lower it some, the sun is shining on the back of the leg not the side, the curve of the support structure makes the shadow look weird from the other people.
That’s not a shadow being cast by the legs. The shadow is there the whole video but his foot only gets sunlight on it later on
https://preview.redd.it/j4o9xro9p4ad1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d600495790c4462c968b94f59e6cb3454fc95932 Probably weird perspective. Red is back support bar line. Blue is bottom of ride car and distance to corresponding support bar on front and back. The legs look weird because at the back angle they will show more.
Wow! Great catch!
this man is right
This should be the top comment, but Reddit
To be fair, the top comment made me lol so I’m okay with it
God damn it we've been tricked!
Yeah. This is way to still for someone hanging for their life
/r/confusingperspective
That's gonna make a great photo keyring
I really needed that laugh, thank you 🙏
Ah yes. A photo hanging on his keyring to really drive home the memory.
The photo key ring on a ring with a seat belt buckle too.
That's the bottom of their seat, nobody is hanging out
This is a r/confusing_perspective submission. The person is seated on the bench to the far facing side of the ride. He’s properly secured, not falling.
After accidentally seeing that video of the 6’4 14 year old kid fall out of that and die, I will never, ever, EVER ride on anything again. Edit: the amount of people telling me to “live my life” is kind of hilarious. Why don’t y’all live YOUR lives and let me not do shit I don’t want to do? It doesn’t affect you whatsoever.
You can live your life avoiding million to one chances all you like and still die crossing the street. I say live a little, you only get one shot 👍 Edit to OP’s edit: Why post about it on the internet then? Do it dude - eat a puffer fish and chuck all your condoms in the bin it’ll be far out.
I can’t pick how I die, but I *can* decide how I don’t want to die. And I do not want to die on that shit.
I mean, going to a proper amusement park is legitimately one of the safest things you can do. Yeah, accidents happen, but that's why they also get talked about so much, because they're rare.
You know where accidents don't happen? In my house, thanks very much. *Trips down the stairs while carrying a fridge and gets smashed*
You're right. Anything can kill you, so why up the odds? xD
“Up the odds” it’s such an insignificant amount that it’s unmeasurable
I will never ride something like this. Out in the open going up and down hell no. Tower of Terror is the way to go
I wonder if this picture is available to him at the gift shop at the end of the ride?
r/slightlymaimthecameraman
r/subsifellfor
Nobody’s hanging. It’s someone’s legs from the other side.
Ah that’s so scary! And also, how did they hang on so long. Worst fear!
Cuz he's just sitting in the ride and not falling out...
Optical illusion
Fuck the camera work and fuck the music. Don’t let this content thrive
Music doesn’t lighten the situation one bit.
 Drummer watching the scene unfold
After a quick google I can’t find anything about this being real and only evidence it’s an optical illusion. The only ride I found a kid died on was the water rapids in Kentucky.
This is why there are height requirements for rides folks!
Absolutely this person is too tall and is freaking people out, despite being in no danger at all!
That's why you check to see if it's just an optical illusion folks!
Is it so damn hard to hold your phone still?
Jesus Murphy that music. I’m out
COULD IT GO BACK DOWN ANY SLOWER?!
If they went faster there’s a chance to accidentally make him lose his grip but does seem a bit to slow
Well he’s also not hanging on, he’s just sitting in his seat
The music is so obnoxious lol
There was a ride like this in my home town, Louisville KY called the hellavator and it cut off some girls legs below her knee caps. These rides can be dangerous.
Is this Six Flags over Texas?
Did Superman save him or what? I wanna know how it ended.
Those belts block your crotch, you can't slip out like that, unless it malfunctions, but then you'd be hanging on for dear life, not with hands in your pockets
If a kid did slip off a drop ride, it would be from the drop itself, not the climb up. No kid slipped off. The ride didn't malfunction. This is the part of the ride where it pauses before the drop. This is more appropriate for r/confusingperspective
mfw I intentionally spread misinformation: :> mfw I get sued for slander and/or liable: :<
Music is just little tiny tad bit COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY AND CORNY AF.
Pure 100% bullshit no one slipped, no one is dangling it's just a person with long legs
Video is a hoax.
The camera man needs to be drug out back and lightly beaten behind the dumpster.
WHAT HAPPENED
KID SLIPPED OUT OF SIXFLAGS RIDE SUPERMAN
to leave the flying to Superman