Amusement Parks
Spatial and temporal enclaves remote from everyday life, amusement parks are among the favorite recreational places of Americans, who imported the concept from Europe, developed it int...
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Can't get the family to an Orlando theme-park this year?That's OK. TripAdvisor has come up with a list of the 10 best parks outside Orlando, based on popularity among TripAdvisor.com users and the ...
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A 13-year-old girl hit her head while on a spinning ride at an amusement park, putting her in intensive care.Natashia West was injured Thursday on the Magic Teacup ride at Boomers, just south of Fo...
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Thrill-seekers searching for the new biggest, tallest or fastest roller coaster rush may be slightly disappointed. The 2007 class of coasters at amusement parks across America isn't a record-breake...
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A teenager whose feet were severed last summer in an amusement park ride accident said in a court filing she remembers cables whipping against her body, a burning odor, and a fear that she might no...
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Hours after an off-duty Philadelphia police officer reported losing a small gun he had in his pocket, a 17-year-old girl found it on an amusement park ride and fired it into a beach dune, thinking ...
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Police searched the office of the operator of the Expoland
amusement park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, and other locations
Sunday, a day after a roller-coaster accident in the park killed a
w...
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Police searched the offices of the operator of the Expoland
amusement park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, and other locations
Sunday, a day after a roller-coaster accident...
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Two accidents causing injury at Osaka's Expoland amusement park
last year went unreported to the central government while one serious
injury at another park in...
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I consider myself an amusement park survivor. I've done Disney on two continents, boardwalks on both coasts, Busch Gardens, Hersheypark, Universal Hollywood, haunted Halloween nights, and Christmas...
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One third of major amusement parks in Japan were not aware of
government-set standards for safety checks on their facilities, a
Kyodo News survey showed Saturday.
The results, released as ...
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