£2 for the ones we went on. We always start on Sea Storm which was £2.50 each so that was a tenner down after 5 minutes. There was one I'd not seen before for kids about 12 and under - giant inflatable beach ball type things you climb inside on a giant paddling pool. Youngest went on that and really liked it although it was £5.

Your life 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

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.

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 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