Category: default || By jt3y
Kennywood opens for the season on Saturday. The big new ride this summer is called the "Vomitron" ... er, I mean, the "Swingshot."
A teen-ager who tried the ride told the Daily News on Wednesday that "you feel like you're going to fall, but you don't."
In fact, sources tell the Almanac that as originally delivered to Kennywood, the ride did drop people five stories onto the pavement, but the test riders interviewed afterward all said they would "definitely not" recommend it to their friends.
Quick, let’s make a list of the people we’d most like to drop five stories to the pavement and put them on the ride. That’s right, folks. I can think of one right off the bat. Absolutely. Can’t you?
El "The Fall Won't Be Long" Kabong - May 04, 2006
Kabong: I’m sure you must be referring to a certain U.S. Senator who claims to be from Pittsburg and can’t walk 3 steps without inserting shoe in pie hole. Yes?
ebtnut - May 05, 2006
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