Carnival ride in Ohio, US, breaks apart during operation, killing 1, injuring 7 (WARNING: GRAPHIC)...

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Carnival ride in Ohio, US, breaks apart during operation, killing 1, injuring 7 (WARNING: GRAPHIC) http://pic.twitter.com/vdXA17Iozo

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[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

When I was about 12 years old, my Dad took me to the Virginia State Fair, in Richmond, and I got on the Double Ferris Wheel in a seat by myself.

There were no seat belts back then, and I don't know if there are any now.

When the Ferris Wheel would stop and start to fill or empty seats at the bottom, the seats would jerk and rock forward and backwards, and you had to hold onto a horizontal metal bar in front of you that the attendant who seated you that was hinged on one end and clipped onto a hole at the other end of the bench seat, to keep from being catapulted out into space by the jerking motion.

I was somewhere near the top when the seat jerked, and the bar fell off the front of the bench seat and fell away into space below me.   I had to hook both arms behind the seat and wedge my feet against the floor to keep from following the bar to the ground.

I have jumped out of many airplanes since then, because from two miles up, the ground is oh-so theoretical ... but crashing through a maze of steel on the way to the machinery below does not appeal to me.

I have never been on a Ferris Wheel since then.

... and I am not gonna .... .