Love that ride. It was my dad's favorite as well.
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Fire in the Hole

• On July 9, 1980, a 23-year-old man was killed and a 27-year-old woman was injured while riding Fire in the Hole. A train on the roller coaster was accidentally switched to a maintenance track and storage area, which had low-hanging structures across the track. The male passenger's head struck one of these structures, killing him. The accident was ruled a case of human error, and after an investigation the attraction re-opened two days later. The overhanging structures were later removed from the maintenance area.^[5][6]

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I remember when I was a wee little lad at Silver Dollar City and loving me some fire in the hole...and then came the evil gossiping church lady who talked about that in hearing range of my little ears. Never rode it again.

The moral of the story probably should be don't listen in on others conversations but, meh.
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Didn't someone die on Timberwolf at WoF about 20 years ago?
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Yeah but from what I remember is that they stood up at the top of the first hill on the Timberwolf.
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Just a quick Google search. It was in 1995


http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-...roller-coaster

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 14-year-old girl riding a roller coaster fell to her death, unnoticed by most of the other passengers on the ride.

A friend said the ride's safety restraints had come loose on a sharp turn at the top of a hill.

Amusement park officials, however, said all restraints were in place at the beginning and the end of the ride and that a lap bar could only be unlocked with a tool.

Ryan Bielby of Kansas City died late Friday while riding the Timber Wolf roller coaster at the Worlds of Fun amusement park with friends.

"Going by what some of her friends said, it appears they had just crested a hill and the car itself was making a sharp turn," police Sgt. Jim Keane said Saturday.
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That Timber Wolf as i remember beat the shit out of you anyway when you rode it.
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It did. They are halfway through a multi-year retracking project that has really smoothed it out apparently.
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berp diddle derp derp *banjo music*

look at dem dere baldknobbers

FAHRR IN DAH HOLE!

*rolls down small hill and gets tiny splash*

weee let's do it again
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Some guy I just talk to who was there said the scene was a bloodbath & they had to close the ride to get all the blood off the ride.

He said the pop sound that was heard was the kids head being pulled off & when his head separated from his body there was a huge POP.

He said he saw at least 10 people throw up at the gory scene. It was a sight no one will ever forget. He started getting sick just describing it.

Horrible.


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I don't think getting the blood off was the only reason they stopped the ride.
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No offense, but I'm going to guess that only about half of this is true.

1. They closed the ride because a person was dead or presumed dead due to the ride. Cleaning up the blood was just part of the aftermath.

2. I seriously doubt the "Pop" was the sound of the head coming off - I don't believe anybody could have actually heard a head popping off with all the other noise in a water park. More likely, there was some sort of sound of a collision between the body and the structure

3. I don't doubt that there were people getting sick because of what they saw. That had to be an awful scene.
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On top of that, "decapitation" is a term that is used pretty loosely in these situations. I can certainly buy that he had a traumatic neck injury causing serious damage, but I seriously doubt that his head came rolling down completely separated from his body. It's hard to do that cleanly with a blade, let alone a blunt object.
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There is also such a thing as an internal decapitation where the head doesn't actually separate from the body but it is separated internally.
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Yep, that's certainly likely. People just tend to think of it as a guillotine-style injury.
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