A theme park has had to take “drastic measures” after passengers on the pilot run of their £20 million rollercoaster returned from the ride with missing limbs.
Luckily the passengers were just dummies, but officials at Thorpe Park Surrey said the dummies had experienced a "terrifyingly close call" - less than two months before the launch of the ride. Scary stuff, but could this just be a publicity stunt ahead of ride opening in March?
It sounds to me like it could be the latest sophisticated stunt by a PR team who in the past has devised a string of such headline-grabbing 'events'. These include a contest where the public was asked to donate urine to create a 'signature stench' for its horror maze SAW Alive and a ban on rollercoaster riders putting their hands in the air due to body odour. File under: I wish I’d thought of those…
The park even sought the help of a paranormal expert after a late-night Ouija board seance at the park was blamed for a series of spooky incidents. Six members of staff were suspended over the incident.
It is great to see the theme park using this kind of stunts to create some extra publicity - although I don’t fancy it, there’ll be plenty of daredevils dying to get onboard.
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