A mother watched helplessly as her two children became trapped upside down on an amusement park ride Saturday at the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock.
Allison Metzger was watching her children, ages 11 and 8, on the X-Drive carnival ride when something horrifying happened, KATV reported. reported on Thursday.
Apparently the ride broke down, and Metzger pulled out his cell phone to record what happened next.
“There's a lot of people trying to get the right to spin, but they'll get the right about halfway through. Then the kids will go right back to the top, still upside down. So, I'm panicking. My partner is panicking,” she explained.
mother Posted Footage posted on her social media page shows a white and purple vehicle with several children strapped into seats.
In the video, she can be heard saying that workers were trying to remove the children after they were trapped upside down for about 15 minutes.
At one point in the clip, a worker is seen pushing the vehicle around.
During an interview with 40/29 News, Metzger said: said My 11-year-old daughter appeared to have fainted. Once the children were rescued from the vehicle, the girl told her mother that all she remembered was crying during the ordeal.
“Then she felt dizzy and her legs hurt, which I think was due to poor circulation,” Metzger explained.
It took 15 minutes for workers to rescue the children.
Scooter Kolek, vice president of client services for Midway Entertainment North America, said the ride was shut down due to “a computer failure on the ride.”
When asked if the ride was safe, Kolek said explained He told KATV that his family feels able and confident to ride the rides, adding that his group's rides undergo five-stage inspections.
Metzger said she has since filed a complaint with the fair about the incident.
A similar incident occurred in September 2023, when several people were trapped upside down on a Canadian amusement park ride for nearly 30 minutes, Breitbart News reported.
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