So your saying they get checked at every fair before being opened to the public? If thats the case than thats good, Things can easily be missed or lost when putting equipment up so quickly though so if they only have annual checks i'd still be dubious about riding them.
And a bike from halfords can always be checked before riding it, plus it does'nt spin you round 80 foot in the air at 60 m.p.h! unless your an extreme mountain biker of course!

Well if anyone of them are unsafe, i know a man who will gladly help you if you get hurt

If you want the night to end early go on the ride called supa spin ( i think ) my son and I went on it....when we got off he was green and had to be sick moments later and I, a veteran of all crazy rides, was definately under the weather, we did not eat before we went either.....needless to say my son was happy to go home and take a new xbox game as consolation

I'm considering reporting you to the NSPCC.

I don't know that every ride is checked, but a lot of them are (and certainly the more dangerous one's) the operators are liscenced and the legal implications of an accident of the result of negligence are huge.

It isn't like 30 years ago, these things are immensely expensive pieces of machinery operated by fairl big companies, some are multi-nationals.

Still remember the Dive Bombers snapping when I was a kid, my husband's friend was on it and fractured his skull. Bit unfortunate, really, as he'd already fractured it once that year falling out of his bedroom window.

We took my 9 year old lad and his schoolmate on Saturday. Went on the £2.50 each

Ghost Train and, just before we set off, the attendant asked me and the lad to swop places so the adults were diagonally placed in the car. As we were doing so the ba$tard car lurched forward and the lad bashed his head. The rides may have safety certificates but the useless bleeders operating them don't appear to have them.

On a lighter note I spotted a ride called "Rockin' Tug" costing £1.50....Sadly, what you experienced wasn't quite what I had in mind...

I'm sure you are right, wasn't there an incident a couple of years back where a young girl was left hanging in one of them slingshot rides that fires you in a cage into the sky on 2 bungee ropes?

I was injured at fair when i was young, i got a smack to the head off a pilkey for rocking one of them machines where you try to get the 2p pieces to fall off the edge

I remember that..put me off rides for life!! I am dreading the day the daughter is tall enough for all this crap! Though saying that i may tell her the dive bomber story it may do the trick

Yer it did... scary thing is, my missus was next in line at the time aswell.... shut the ride and needless to say, we went home!!

Yes, the slingshot ride "failed" but the safety mechanisms kicked in as far as I recall?

Don't spoil a good story!!!!

I'm just googling for the thousands of prosecutions of fair ground operators, bear with me, we might win a trophy before I turn one up!

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Put that trophy on hold!!

I merely commented on the fact that in my opinion i think think the rides at fair look dodgy, i didn't intend it to be a slur on the travelling community! have a toffee apple and chill the frig out!

"family claim"

not

"the judge ruled"

2002 is long enough ago fir a ruling to have been made.

In our days people drank proper beer not the water down pi== and people behaved better and enjoy themselves and had respect for others

But in your day didnt people still think the earth was flat?

How very dare you!!!..It was his idea to drag the old man on it....I may report him to parentline

it's a bit like having Ciny back posting regularly, the HOVIS them always kicks in in my head...

And all those p1$$ed up deckie learners, spewing on the waltzers were just a figment of my imagination

if that doesn't work try the first 4 mins of the film "Final Destination 3" that will put anyone off fairs for life.

We watched Final Destination 3 the week we went to Alton Towers in summer, we were slightly nervous as we queued up for Rita lol

I hate riding an unsecured girl, i wouldnt want her getting away