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From: "Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde" <rabbs@subgenius.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2003

http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/8/17/17355931.cfm

Carnival worker killed at fair

By Lukas Velush and Jennifer Warnick
Herald Writer

LANGLEY -- A man working on a carnival ride at the Island County Fair was
killed Saturday after a roller coaster pulled him into the air by his hair
and then dropped him from as high as 40 feet onto a fence.

The accident happened on what is traditionally the busiest day of the fair
at one of its most populated locations, said Island County Sheriff Mike
Hawley.

"There were literally hundreds of people who were right there, and there
were at least a dozen people" on the ride, Hawley said.

He said dozens of children and adults were treated for shock after watching
the accident.

Doug McKay, 40, of Post Falls, Idaho, was apparently lubricating the track
of the doughnut-shaped Super Loop 2 roller coaster ride when his long hair
was caught by the cable that supports the ride, said Jan Smith, a
spokeswoman for the Island County Sheriff's Department.

McCay was pulled 25 to 40 feet into the air and then fell, landing on his
lower back on a fence, she said.

"He appears to have died immediately on impact," Smith said.

Twelve-year-old Dylan Volz was on the ride when the accident occurred, and
said that it looked to him like McKay was caught by his arm, not his hair.

"He was leaning out and spraying WD-40 or something when he got hit," said
Dylan, who said he saw McKay put lubricant on the machine several times
before dodging away just before one of the ride's cars went by. "I saw him
get pulled up and dropped."

Once the ride stopped, Dylan said he got off as fast as he could.

"I just put my hands up over my eyes and walked away," he said. "No one
should have to see that."

He said he and the other kids on the ride talked to counselors after they
got off the ride, and added that it helped quite a bit.

"I had a lot of people ask me if I was OK," he said.

McKay was co-owner of Paradise Amusements, a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, company
that has been traveling to festivals for more than 40 years. The company
offers rides ranging from Tilt-A-Whirl to Paratrooper to an old-fashion
Ferris wheel.

In an apparent bid to keep the family business alive, McKay had recently
taken over the company from his father, Robert McKay, who had just retired.

Other witnesses said Doug McKay's death was hard to take for Island County
carnival workers and fairgoers alike.

Grethe Cammermeyer, a former Vietnam War nurse who was at the fair to staff
the county's Democratic Party booth, said she arrived at just after the
accident.

One of the first things she saw was a grief-stricken carnival worker who
said he was operating the Super Loop 2 ride when McKay died. He told
Cammermeyer he had just watched his best friend die.

Cammermeyer said she also met up with some of the kids who were on the
roller coaster when the accident happened.

"To have it witnessed by young kids out to have a good time is something
that they will never, ever, ever forget," she said. "One girl was just
devastated. She used my cell phone to call her dad."

Craig Brant, also working the Democrats' booth, said he didn't see the
accident. But when he left the fairgrounds to go home, there was a group of
uniformed carnival workers "huddled in the parking lot."

"Some of them were crying," Brant said. "They said their boss had been
killed. And all the rides were stopped and shut down." Hawley said his
office is conducting an investigation on the accident, and said the state
Department of Labor and Industries is also investigating.

The carnival was closed after the accident, and there was no word on whether
the rides would run again today.

Although live music and other activities around the carnival were shut down
for four hours on Saturday, Hawley said fair organizers told him that all
noncarnival activities would continue today, the last day of the fair.

Cammermeyer said the fairgrounds were quiet for most of the day, but that
festivities had started to pick up again by 8 p.m.

"It's more than a little eerie," she said.

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From: iDRMRSR <idrmrsr@subgenius.com>

Mullet of Death, I say!

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From: "Paul E. Jamison" <pauljmsn@infionline.net>

iDRMRSR wrote:

> Mullet of Death, I say!

I think I see how "Joe Dirt" could have been funnier.

Paul E. Jamison

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From: subspecies23@aol.comyourmom (SubSpecies23)

This story made me laugh. A lot. Especially the part where all the children
had to get therapy.

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EVERY SQUARE FUCKDORK WITH A PIPE... *IS NOT "BOB"* -- Ivan Stang

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From: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)

He was doomed regardless. It was his time. If he'd been leaning the
other way, it would have grabbed his bushy crotchal hair and he would
have landed on his face. Can't beat the Slapstick Reaper.

HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces
are called aglets.

"I hate to see humor replaced by vulgarity and cruelty,
but I'm afraid that's what we're in for."
- James Thurber

"Hey Grandma, never tell me you're naked...
... go put some clothes on... a LOT of clothes...
...I'll never eat raisins again."
-Greg Fitzsimmons

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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>

Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde wrote:
>
> Carnival worker killed at fair

Or better yet, incentive not to lubricate machinery while it's in operation.
Reminds me of the month I worked at a Sir Speedy print shop where all
press operators were required to wear a tie.

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote:
> Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde wrote:
> >
> > Carnival worker killed at fair
> >
> Or better yet, incentive not to lubricate machinery while it's in operation.
> Reminds me of the month I worked at a Sir Speedy print shop where all
> press operators were required to wear a tie.

I used to have a job where, several times a day, I had to get inside
this flimsy metal box and hurl myself in it at incredible speeds, along
torturous routes -- SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES BY THOUSANDS OF OTHER
PEOPLE DOING THE SAME THING! Many of them dumber than me, and on
POWERFUL NARCOTICS, like Miller Lite! Liked to of killed me. I am doing
everything I can to avoid having to live that way again. My wife STILL
does it, and until I can wrench some more blood out of this here
fucking stone, I am powerless to prevent it! It's like living on some
NIGHTMARISH HELL PLANET where you're the only one who sees how
nightmarish and hellish it all is. Perhaps some of you can relate.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB

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From: kysophan@yahoo.com (Mohamed the Raghead)

"Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde" <rabbs@subgenius.com> wrote:

> Carnival worker killed at fair
>
> By Lukas Velush and Jennifer Warnick
> Herald Writer

> LANGLEY -- A man working on a carnival ride at the Island County Fair was
> killed Saturday after a roller coaster pulled him into the air by his hair
> and then dropped him from as high as 40 feet onto a fence.

> He said dozens of children and adults were treated for shock after watching
> the accident.

Bollocks. Children dont go into shock after seeing a violent death.
They just point and say "cool!".. or "omi god, they killed kenny" if
they have a sense of humor.

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