[News] Do you go the funfair?

[papachris]

Do you or your friends / relatives go to the funfair? Have a read through this, shocking lack of H & S.

BBC News - Funfair accident toll raises questions about industry safety - BBC News

Funfair accident toll raises questions about industry safety

Hundreds injured by funfair rides over the past decade, a Panorama investigation has found.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[B-right-on]

Funfair and Safety. Got to be the biggest oxymoron there is.

As kids in the 70s, was always looked forward to for weeks when the fair would arrive as was always a big deal. Was still very unsafe back then even though they brought in a lot of money (for the time) that never saw the tax man.

With modern kids being stuck in front of screens as entertainment, the fairgrounds attraction has died off and their income has suffered which in turn means less money spent on keeping the equipment up to scratch (if it ever was tbh).

 

[wellquickwoody]

Will anyone actually be surprised by this? Fly by nights, chancers, do as you likeys. End.

 

[The Clamp]

Last funfair I went to was in 1993 in Dorking.

Only went to try and cop off with a lass I knew would be there.


Tell a lie, I went it a massive one in Düsseldorf about ten years ago for part of a mate’s stag do.

Horrendous. Hungover for most of it. Soinning around and being hurled about is not a good cure for a hangover.

There was this gyroscopic type ride. Like a Wurlitzer in 4D that we went on one night.

There were about 8 open pods. All spinning round all over the place.

In one was a huge tranny in high heels who threw up while the ride was at peak speed. Showering all of us in vomit from multiple angles.

It was one of the worst nights of my life. I really mean that.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Think the last one I went to was at Plumpton Races one Bank Holiday many moons ago. My mate Mark fancied himself as a dab hand at the coconut shy. Sure enough he scored a direct hit - only for the top half of the coconut to fly off, leaving the bottom half nailed to its perch

 

[rippleman]

Think the last one I went to was at Plumpton Races one Bank Holiday many moons ago. My mate Mark fancied himself as a dab hand at the coconut shy. Sure enough he scored a direct hit - only for the top half of the coconut to fly off, leaving the bottom half nailed to its perch

A variation on the dodgy darts. Many years ago I was at a funfair at Southwick. Me and son's mother marched up to the darts game and paid our fee. Pre-planned we pulled our darts out of our pockets. The stallholder went ballistic, screaming at us that we couldn't use our own darts but had to use his (blunt) darts! Of course. Argued the toss until he gave us the money back. Bent rifle barrels / sights is another con.

SCAM-A-RAMA!!

 

[lawros left foot]

Last fairground ride I went on was at Bognor Butlins.
We’d taken our 2 boys there for a day out. They wanted to go on the kids roundabout, and Mrs LLF was very pregnant at the time, so I had to go on twice in quick succession.
Cue eldest son,” Mummy, what is Daddy doing?”
Mummy,”Don’t worry, he’s just being sick in the rubbish bin”.

 

[Mackenzie]

...scream if you wanna go faster...

 

[The Clamp]

Never really enjoyed funfiars or theme parks.

I crewed with a bloke who was a rollercoaster geek last year. He spent the shift describing various rollercoaster rides to me.

In great detail.

I had to ask him to be quiet after the step by step talk through of Venom or Vampire or some such bollocks.

It’s not an entertaining listen .

 

[papachris]

Growing up in the Redhill area the funfair used to come every year, and was quite close to St John's church near to Earlwood common. Personally I have never liked them very much but usually went along to impress a girl etc.
Nowadays I guess theme parks have taken a lot of the business

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Never really enjoyed funfiars or theme parks.

I crewed with a bloke who was a rollercoaster geek last year. He spent the shift describing various rollercoaster rides to me.

In great detail.

I had to ask him to be quiet after the step by step talk through of Venom or Vampire or some such bollocks.

It’s not an entertaining listen .

The little rollercoaster on the end of the pier used to go through occasional name changes, each name more exciting than the last. Until that time they changed the name to Zyklon. At which point instant uproar erupted. Zyklon-B being the name of the gas used in the Nazi gas chambers...

 

[maltaseagull]

Do you or your friends / relatives go to the funfair? Have a read through this, shocking lack of H & S.

BBC News - Funfair accident toll raises questions about industry safety - BBC News

Funfair accident toll raises questions about industry safety

Hundreds injured by funfair rides over the past decade, a Panorama investigation has found.

www.bbc.co.uk

In answer to your question:
No we don´t.

 

[sparkie]

Not gone to one in 45+ years.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

I don't think we need an episode of Panarama to tell us the the teenage scally with a fag on whose given you the fake pound coin in change has a lax attitude to Health and Safety. I've yet to see an ISO9001 certificate stamped on the Ghost train and I won't be holding my breath for the next time I'm scammed out of my cash down there.

 

[hart's shirt]

Last year I got fired from my job working the rides at a travelling carnival.

I'm suing them for funfair dismissal.

 

[Arthur]

When I read the thread title my mind instantly went to this:

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Took my grandson to one in Windsor last year. Only went on the dodgems. Three nights in a row. Three times each night. By the end we were both on freebies to bring the punters in

 

[lawros left foot]

When I read the thread title my mind instantly went to this:

To the Regiment!!

 

[Simster]

Growing up in the Redhill area the funfair used to come every year, and was quite close to St John's church near to Earlwood common. Personally I have never liked them very much but usually went along to impress a girl etc.
Nowadays I guess theme parks have taken a lot of the business

It's in Memorial Park every year and I avoid it every time it rolls into town. Luckily, so did my kids - none of whom have shown any interest in wasting their time there.

 

[Brovion]

I love them, the smells and sounds remind me of my childhood. In the late 60s and early 70s the funfair coming to Beach Green in Lancing was one of the highlights of the year. You didn't worry about the safety, although someone was killed one year.

We took our grandson to one at Buckingham Park in Shoreham a week or so ago. He absolutely loved it, although the riskiest thing he went on was the Dodgems. Not that we went on too many rides as the costs soon mounted up.