I had to watch as the rollercoaster didn't stop on its second run. Instead it began to speed up with twenty children strapped tightly in paired carriages, my own child with them. At first everyone thought the ride manager was just letting the kids have a longer ride which would have been sweet of him were it not for the fact that his frantic button mashing in the control booth that signalled that this was not planned at all.
My little girl was just as excited as the rest of them, shrieking in her shrill voice that pierced the air and my ears no matter where along the tracks she was. After the fifth loop parents began to pester the ride manager to let the ride end already. They all had places to be, other things to spoil their kids with and this ride was boring to them. Honestly the entire theme park was boring until this happened.
It was on the brink of closing for good before the rollercoaster malfunctioned. The darn thing just kept speeding and speeding and speeding until all the children stopped making any noise and flopped listlessly around each corner, my own daughter among them with her little eyes glazed over and her shrieking finally at an end.
The park staff tried their hardest to slow the ride but they found the sabotaged controls too late. Three hours in and the train managed to derail itself and crush all the little children in a smoking snakey wreck of metal and meat. Just like a car crash, you want to look away but you can't.
I especially had to watch, after all I'd worked so hard to set it all up in the first place.
My little girl was just as excited as the rest of them, shrieking in her shrill voice that pierced the air and my ears no matter where along the tracks she was. After the fifth loop parents began to pester the ride manager to let the ride end already. They all had places to be, other things to spoil their kids with and this ride was boring to them. Honestly the entire theme park was boring until this happened.
It was on the brink of closing for good before the rollercoaster malfunctioned. The darn thing just kept speeding and speeding and speeding until all the children stopped making any noise and flopped listlessly around each corner, my own daughter among them with her little eyes glazed over and her shrieking finally at an end.
The park staff tried their hardest to slow the ride but they found the sabotaged controls too late. Three hours in and the train managed to derail itself and crush all the little children in a smoking snakey wreck of metal and meat. Just like a car crash, you want to look away but you can't.
I especially had to watch, after all I'd worked so hard to set it all up in the first place.
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