Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Save Ferris

In Singapore, 173 people became trapped when the world’s largest ferris wheel stopped working. Workers tried to fix it for hours, but they were just going in circles.

The ferris wheel is named the Flyer and resembles a giant bicycle wheel. Repairmen determined that a short circuit was caused when someone tried to put a baseball card in the spokes.

The Flyer ferris wheel was an attempt by Singapore to drive tourism. It worked. It’s driving it to Japan.

Singapore’s finest engineers are now designing the world’s scariest theme park roller-coaster that doesn’t work.

Passengers were given food and water while they waited, giving them the chance to fully appreciate the ferris wheel’s 541 foot height, the gorgeous views outside the box-car sized capsules, and especially the fact that it has no bathroom.

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