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I used to go on the rides but when you work in engineering and you look closely at the way those things are put up, and who they're put up by its scary

No, it isn't, these guys put the things up and take them down 20+ times a year, all are rigorously checked and have certificates awarded, can you say the same about a bicycle assembled by Halfords?

The Fair is many things, systematically unsafe it isn't.

I was at a tournament on the astroturf the week before the fair and we looked at a bloke climbing up the support strut of the big wheel; he got to the centre and it was only when he swung across that we could see he had no safety harness or rope attached at all; frightening.

i had a door swing open on one of the big ones a few years back, if i hadn't had hold of it, i'd be dead. there answer, well sort it and you can have a free ride!!! erm dont think so.

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...