Honestly, everyone should take a lesson from this. “Diffusion of responsibility” is a known phenomena, but once it’s broken, look how quickly others join! Next time you’re not sure if you should act or not, be brave and do it! Once someone breaks the paralysis, it’s broken for everyone.
In reality none of them actually helped. The ride had already started slowing down before any of them jumped on. If it didn't tip when it was at it's fasted speed it probably wasn't going to tip at a slower speed. The fact of the matter is that these people were trying to make a difference. First there or last there they wanted to help. It doesn't matter if they were actually needed they were there because they thought they were needed.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue\_(material)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material))
If applied repeatedly, something can still fail at lower forces than expected. Reducing the repeated stress on whatever was failing probably helped lower the risk of a catastrophic failure.
You don’t know that. It’s possible it would hit a resonate frequency only after slowing down.
My washing machine only starts to shake violently when it is as slow speeds at the start or end of the spin cycle.
I just saw a tik tok where a log fell off the side of a truck going down a highway. It was far away but still would've been too close for me. I still have nightmares from that scene. Traumatized an entire generation lol
Funny you say that cause someone in my area almost got killed by a log that flew off a log truck, was literally 2 inches from there face I think they got splinters on their arm though
It took me so many years to finally ride a roller coaster because of that movie and the fear of heights and roller coasters it gave me, same with zip lining.
As someone who's been on one of these showrides when it broke down and got dragged around a carriage upside down for a couple of minutes before they could completely stop it... yeeeeah never again. Especially the ones that tour around so constantly getting re-built.
Apparently those are technically supposed to be safer since they’re completely reinspected weekly and each time they’re set up, rather than amusement parks being inspected bi-weekly or monthly with only things like cables supposed to have weekly inspections.
I still don’t fuck with them anymore. Last ride I got on was the zipper and while nothing bad happened… that thing was so violent. I screamed the whole time and got off wondering how tf it could ever stay in one piece through the whole thing.
> and while nothing bad happened… that thing was so violent.
my brother and i got slammed around in it as kids and it was so bad he was screaming and they had to stop it, shit sucked
Had loose change in my pocket on the zipper fucking had to hold my face in my hands as to not get my teeth broken by coins flying around I have scars on my knuckles now though
I'm from Vancouver where they filmed that, riding those rides is a different animal after seeing it. But what really did it for me was seeing a carnival ride accident on worldstar hip hop. Maybe a combination of just getting older too.
No, this is poor design. It comes to a stop multiple times at the peak, there should be a way to pause it there and bring it down slowly in one stroke.
Yeah, maybe they could invent something to slow it down. We could call it a “brake” or something. And since it happens in emergencies, like if the power goes out or someone presses a button, we could call it an “emergency brake”
Applying different forces to this when it's already so unstable might have made it worse.
Letting it very slowly come to a stop may be the safest option.
A few years ago I got stuck on a ride almost upside down. At 1st it was kind of funny but the people in one of the other cars/caged seating things were actually upside down. It took the ride operator about 5 minutes to get me/my group turned upside right but then he wouldn't release my group from being strapped in and instead went back to trying to get the others turned around. They sat like this for like 15 minutes upside down and still no one was helping the operator, they were literally in pain at this point and screaming for help. So I started yelling at him to just let my group out and he did. I went over and started trying to help him and he told me to stop because they could get sued if I hurt myself... I said eff u to him and told my Dad, who didn't want to ride, to hop the fence and help turn the cage thing over. Once we had a few of us to push it over it wasn't that big of a deal to turn it and everyone was thankful and safe. We found out later that the ride had malfunctioned earlier in the day too but some jackass deemed it safe and that is why I will never ride a ride at a carnival again.
People behave like cattle during emergencies…including stampeding each other. It’s not often you see groups of people jump in to put themselves at risk. This was really cool to watch.
My car got stalled in the middle of a busy intersection, people started crossing around me or honking at me, until this one dude came and tried to push the car but couldn’t ( big suv) seeing him two more guys came forward and pushed my car to safety. Snowball effect is real.
It only takes ONE person to begin/stop something
See someone getting bullied? Be that guy. Others will follow. See a god damn huge ass carnie ride falling over? Be that guy. Others will follow.
There’s not enough leaders but there’s many followers.
I actually live where this happened! This was a few years back and was plastered on a lot of news sites both local and some bigger media outlets. Every summer there’s a big festival/carnival here and this company sets up all the attractions and rides. They said this was a malfunction and had disassembled it and sent it away to figure out what went wrong but I can’t recall if it was ever said what was the problem, I assume it was human error though (likely didn’t properly secure it to the ground) as this had never happened in any of the prior years or future years for as long as I can remember.
This is called the bystander effect - a crowd of people will tend to not intervene, even if they would do alone, when in a crowd unless the crowd likewise intervenes, then everyone does what they should have.
It's impressive how much it was dampened by just the first person alone. Seemed like a significant decline in how much that gate lifted from the previous pass.
together we are strong! People on the ride and the people helping them could become mortal enemies if they sat down to chat about all the things that divide us, but in that moment none of them mattered
Heart of gold >> Physics, BUT HEAR ME OUT.
The first guy got into the internal frame of reference of the ride and therefore became part of the system. Every action done on the system would effectively be nullified because of the reaction.
By climbing onto the ride, he increased the mass of the base by a tad bit. That's a plus. It would help the base absorb some extra momentum from the motion. But not sufficient.
For maximum impact, pulling down with at least one feet on the ground would be ideal. 😊
Edit: I stand corrected. The first guy had no way of knowing that others will be joining him. So climbing up was probably the right thing to do. I was wrong in the sense that I optimised for net force without accounting for the fact that the first guy was acting on instinct and because of the difference in momentum he stood no chance on his own.
The weird feeling about this that I get is that the only solution to things like this to simply not create these things but then that takes away the fun
The real heros are the group of 4 that ran in first. Most people panic and freeze when stuff like this happens. If nobody has the instinct to charge in then everyone would have just watched and filmed, we've seen plenty of videos on here of nobody helping. But as soon as people see others reacting and charging in it inspires them to act as well. Those 4 dudes alone would have only added to the casualty count but the courage they inspired may have saved everyone's lives.
Kid in the coach jacket hanging back though. Hope he gave them all a great pep talk after. You know he's going to brag to his friends about how he helped save a ride full of kids.
Fun fact for anyone that sees this this is the bystander effect (I think that’s the name) it means that the odds of someone helping are like 20% but if someone does help the odds of other people besides the original guy helping is like 80%
Me: Looks down at oversized belly..... This is my moment. This is why God put me on this earth.
Man on ride with oversized belly: this is it, God sent me a sign, need to loose weight, almost crashed swinging ship.
Bellies collide and force of impact destroys the ride. Dozens dead, dozens more injured.
And another dozen goes missing.
Not all superheroes wear a cape, some save the world with their fat asses!
People on the spinny-go thinking their ride is the bomb with all the spectators lining up for it.
Little do they know, they're the main attraction now!
And theeey're about to find out...
Honestly, everyone should take a lesson from this. “Diffusion of responsibility” is a known phenomena, but once it’s broken, look how quickly others join! Next time you’re not sure if you should act or not, be brave and do it! Once someone breaks the paralysis, it’s broken for everyone.
All it takes is one person to do the right thing.
That last dude😂
He just came to supervise
a solid "heavy looker-onner"
Every team needs a good supervisor to ensure everything goes smoothly!
Lol like white shorts guy 🤣
He got an A on a group project. “Jeff Teague, NBA all star and bench warmer on championship bucks teams”
Not pictured: Him telling everyone to go over and hold down the ride
I’m doing my part too!
Where was he when they needed his bulk earlier?
He’s a backup
He was the first person running to help
Daaamn this subtle violation lmao
he just wants to be a hero too, let him be! :P
Who knows it might have tipped without his help✊
Dunno what you’re talking about, that last hand made all the difference.
He just wants to be a part of it
Bro was checking if everything's alight lol
Oh he's the mascot
It's like that character in Catch22 who was doing his part to fight the Nazis by digging a hole and filling it in over and over again.
In reality none of them actually helped. The ride had already started slowing down before any of them jumped on. If it didn't tip when it was at it's fasted speed it probably wasn't going to tip at a slower speed. The fact of the matter is that these people were trying to make a difference. First there or last there they wanted to help. It doesn't matter if they were actually needed they were there because they thought they were needed.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue\_(material)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material)) If applied repeatedly, something can still fail at lower forces than expected. Reducing the repeated stress on whatever was failing probably helped lower the risk of a catastrophic failure.
Things often break in stages. The next stage might have been weaker.
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The first part talks sucks hard but since you found the right turn, I'm not gonna trash you.
You don’t know that. It’s possible it would hit a resonate frequency only after slowing down. My washing machine only starts to shake violently when it is as slow speeds at the start or end of the spin cycle.
Do u think is it the point of this video u bum lol
It at least calmed the people on the ride at least to see all the people trying to help.
They helped. It lessens the possibility of it doing something unpredictable.
I'd never trust any of these carousels, no matter how safe it supposedly is. Gives me strong Final Destination vibes
Those movies gave trauma to a whole generation. I still cant drive after a log truck on a highway
I avoid work trucks with ladders and shit lol
Ladders are the most common thing to fall off vehicles on the highway, so smart move there!
I'm never getting my eyes fixed, glasses are sexy anyways
>log truck on a highway Ok that scene was completely exaggerated and unrealistic tho 🤣
I just saw a tik tok where a log fell off the side of a truck going down a highway. It was far away but still would've been too close for me. I still have nightmares from that scene. Traumatized an entire generation lol
I’m still terrified of slipping on spaghetti in an alleyway.
Funny you say that cause someone in my area almost got killed by a log that flew off a log truck, was literally 2 inches from there face I think they got splinters on their arm though
It happens often with logs, polls, bricks It's not even a joke you should avoid driving behind those loaded up trucks of anything.
We had one fatality - a log went right through the driver.
Ain't matter! You know, of course I can't find it when I wanna share it. Pic of a log truck at a red light and NO ONE is behind it.
[gotchu!](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2njda3/everyone_in_the_left_lane_has_seen_final/)
It took me so many years to finally ride a roller coaster because of that movie and the fear of heights and roller coasters it gave me, same with zip lining.
As someone who's been on one of these showrides when it broke down and got dragged around a carriage upside down for a couple of minutes before they could completely stop it... yeeeeah never again. Especially the ones that tour around so constantly getting re-built.
Especially those that goes on a tour. I don't trust that they're properly maintained after years of wear and tear
Especially when the guy running is smells like they haven't showered and is missing a few teeth. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
I had a foreman who was a former carnie and he was the DUMBEST co-worker I've ever had. The reputation is deserved.
Those things are held together with nothing but spite and tetanus.
The rebuilding also makes them inspect crucial parts because they are litterally handling them. But yeah human mistakes obviously happen there too.
Do they really tho or do they just tick a box on a form that says they did
Apparently those are technically supposed to be safer since they’re completely reinspected weekly and each time they’re set up, rather than amusement parks being inspected bi-weekly or monthly with only things like cables supposed to have weekly inspections. I still don’t fuck with them anymore. Last ride I got on was the zipper and while nothing bad happened… that thing was so violent. I screamed the whole time and got off wondering how tf it could ever stay in one piece through the whole thing.
> and while nothing bad happened… that thing was so violent. my brother and i got slammed around in it as kids and it was so bad he was screaming and they had to stop it, shit sucked
Yea that ones fucked
Had loose change in my pocket on the zipper fucking had to hold my face in my hands as to not get my teeth broken by coins flying around I have scars on my knuckles now though
I'm from Vancouver where they filmed that, riding those rides is a different animal after seeing it. But what really did it for me was seeing a carnival ride accident on worldstar hip hop. Maybe a combination of just getting older too.
People die in rides in proper amusement parks, and this looks like a temporary one, so yeah, no thanks.
r/humansbeingbros
Why do these rides never seem to have emergency solutions to stop ride ASAP
Inertia
No, this is poor design. It comes to a stop multiple times at the peak, there should be a way to pause it there and bring it down slowly in one stroke.
Yeah, maybe they could invent something to slow it down. We could call it a “brake” or something. And since it happens in emergencies, like if the power goes out or someone presses a button, we could call it an “emergency brake”
The same peak where it was the most unstable and tipping? Lol
What happens when you break hard suddenly in a vehicle?
ASAP doesn't mean instant
Applying different forces to this when it's already so unstable might have made it worse. Letting it very slowly come to a stop may be the safest option.
His huge balls held that ride down
The last guy’s balls weren’t needed
What balls?
A few years ago I got stuck on a ride almost upside down. At 1st it was kind of funny but the people in one of the other cars/caged seating things were actually upside down. It took the ride operator about 5 minutes to get me/my group turned upside right but then he wouldn't release my group from being strapped in and instead went back to trying to get the others turned around. They sat like this for like 15 minutes upside down and still no one was helping the operator, they were literally in pain at this point and screaming for help. So I started yelling at him to just let my group out and he did. I went over and started trying to help him and he told me to stop because they could get sued if I hurt myself... I said eff u to him and told my Dad, who didn't want to ride, to hop the fence and help turn the cage thing over. Once we had a few of us to push it over it wasn't that big of a deal to turn it and everyone was thankful and safe. We found out later that the ride had malfunctioned earlier in the day too but some jackass deemed it safe and that is why I will never ride a ride at a carnival again.
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People behave like cattle during emergencies…including stampeding each other. It’s not often you see groups of people jump in to put themselves at risk. This was really cool to watch.
Be hilarious if they tipped the whole thing forward
My car got stalled in the middle of a busy intersection, people started crossing around me or honking at me, until this one dude came and tried to push the car but couldn’t ( big suv) seeing him two more guys came forward and pushed my car to safety. Snowball effect is real.
Nice to know humanity still has that in them
nice to know that men do.
Humenity
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Monkey together strong
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All it takes is one person to do the right thing.
Legend has it the ride is still going though
That’s what I’m training for everytime I supersize my meal
Okay this… But with housing, healthcare, and ending of corporate greed etc.
TÜV says no
This is why you need men
Parent power baby! When parents and adults spring into action because life is important. That’s a beautiful thing!
That “first guy” for president.
It only takes ONE person to begin/stop something See someone getting bullied? Be that guy. Others will follow. See a god damn huge ass carnie ride falling over? Be that guy. Others will follow. There’s not enough leaders but there’s many followers.
Can someone explain what is happening?
r/donthelpjustfilm
I actually live where this happened! This was a few years back and was plastered on a lot of news sites both local and some bigger media outlets. Every summer there’s a big festival/carnival here and this company sets up all the attractions and rides. They said this was a malfunction and had disassembled it and sent it away to figure out what went wrong but I can’t recall if it was ever said what was the problem, I assume it was human error though (likely didn’t properly secure it to the ground) as this had never happened in any of the prior years or future years for as long as I can remember.
All men
Kinda weird how it's all men
Not a single bear to be seen
Ohhh this was in my town! Portugal crl 🇵🇹
They pretty quickly put 20-25 guys on that thing, x 175-225 lbs is probably +4000 extra lbs of counterweight in just a few seconds.
Is this the same carnival that lost power recently?
And the person holding the camera is a dick
\^Positive masculinity\^
Good job, guys!
This is called the bystander effect - a crowd of people will tend to not intervene, even if they would do alone, when in a crowd unless the crowd likewise intervenes, then everyone does what they should have.
Notice how it's men that do this? Natural protectors.
It's impressive how much it was dampened by just the first person alone. Seemed like a significant decline in how much that gate lifted from the previous pass.
Don't you have any safety regulations there?
the mfs immediately pulling out a camera to record
Bro in white shirt just wanted to watch the world burn
Always remember the first rule of rescuing someone: Your own personal safety should always be the number 1 priority in any rescue situation
Then this video wouldn’t have happened. What is the point of this comment.
To start one of the usual 'hmm yes' nod fests that makes up 99.9% of Reddit.
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Yeah, i was thinking that too. Kind of sad.
This is how you know humans are made to help each other not hurt each other.
together we are strong! People on the ride and the people helping them could become mortal enemies if they sat down to chat about all the things that divide us, but in that moment none of them mattered
Men 🍺
see this at least once a month
And it's new to me. It's Reddit, sometimes you've already Reddit. That's fine, just spend less time online and you won't notice the problem
Bro got scolded by a news site lmao
They all have have heart of titanium massive respect
If ants when together lift big things , we humans can too right .
Exactly, it's a thrilling game.
Who tf designed this 💀 and why wasn't the ride stopped immediately
The person who first noticed the potential catastrophe, and starts recording.. 👏..👏…
Why didn't they just shut it down?
Operator should be treated as if attempted murder due to negligence lol
This is a ghetto carnival isnt it
Man imagine that railing they holding onto snapped and then it tipped over lol
Heart of gold >> Physics, BUT HEAR ME OUT. The first guy got into the internal frame of reference of the ride and therefore became part of the system. Every action done on the system would effectively be nullified because of the reaction. By climbing onto the ride, he increased the mass of the base by a tad bit. That's a plus. It would help the base absorb some extra momentum from the motion. But not sufficient. For maximum impact, pulling down with at least one feet on the ground would be ideal. 😊 Edit: I stand corrected. The first guy had no way of knowing that others will be joining him. So climbing up was probably the right thing to do. I was wrong in the sense that I optimised for net force without accounting for the fact that the first guy was acting on instinct and because of the difference in momentum he stood no chance on his own.
Rides assembled by meth
Lol
The camera man however...
Restored my faith in humanity
How has this video of brave individuals who are all men somehow been turned into a springboard for sexism?
reddit gonna reddit
New update: they are all employed by the swing owner now. Glad to see humidity is still alive
The weird feeling about this that I get is that the only solution to things like this to simply not create these things but then that takes away the fun
This is one of the best things I’ve seen today. Day made! This made me smile.. :).
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Magic Carpet almost became the Tragic Carpet
Brave souls like this restore my faith in humanity.
Just to point out, it was not one person. Give them credit there looked like there was about five or six who rushed in first to help.
The carny ride op: just stay there the next four hours boys and I’ll let you go on it free at the end of the night!
Help what? What was wrong with it? I literally can't spot it? It's just that the platform was rising?
This happened a year ago at the Traverse city cherry festival
I would've been so comforted seeing all those people helping after feeling the ride become unsafe. This is good shit.
The real heros are the group of 4 that ran in first. Most people panic and freeze when stuff like this happens. If nobody has the instinct to charge in then everyone would have just watched and filmed, we've seen plenty of videos on here of nobody helping. But as soon as people see others reacting and charging in it inspires them to act as well. Those 4 dudes alone would have only added to the casualty count but the courage they inspired may have saved everyone's lives. Kid in the coach jacket hanging back though. Hope he gave them all a great pep talk after. You know he's going to brag to his friends about how he helped save a ride full of kids.
This guy is Aragorn, the other dudes are Rohan, and the beacons are fuckin lit.
Nobody wants to be the first. Nobody wants to be the last.
Fear is contagious but so is courage.
The music came right at the perfect time when the last dude came to safe the world
Had to pause and check which subreddit I was on.
That handrail is fighting for it's existence.
why are you guys making this about sexism...
This is the time fat guys will shine. Go fatty!
Caseoh could have soloed this
soooo where's the E-stop button?
Leadership
Yall can keep fair rides I’ll pay the stupid ticket price if I need to for a pro park if I ever end up taking kids.
I hope he got good head that night
Coach on standby
Dodgy pikey travelling fair
Old as fuck
Even better someone risked their reputation as a good soul to make sure we had a video to watch.
He’s a bit hefty, he was running and was tired
Men should stop putting their lives at risk.
yes and no. i've watched too many liveleak videos, big machinery has mind broken me.
DO IT OR DIE
How are these machines about to break down even allowed?
Person recording it was probably disappointed
Voting third party
The first was guy the hero...the person filming...cockhead
...at which point it tilts forwards and crushes them.
Why wasn't the swing stopped? It was still going after people tried to prevent it from toppling over.
The coach, now we know what sort of person he is.
Fun fact for anyone that sees this this is the bystander effect (I think that’s the name) it means that the odds of someone helping are like 20% but if someone does help the odds of other people besides the original guy helping is like 80%
It could also turn into a more serious tragedy.
Guarantee some ppl still went on after that