Siren’s cursed?
A stomach-dropping video shows riders on Cedar Point’s “Siren’s Curse” rollercoaster inching down the towering 160-foot-high tracks to safety after it broke down for the fourth time last Tuesday since opening in late June.
The ride at the Ohio amusement park skidded to a halt shortly after climbing up the skyhigh tower at the very beginning of the rollercoaster — a small mercy for the passengers who could’ve otherwise gotten stuck upside down or dangling over the edge.
The “delay” was caused by the rollercoaster’s safety system halting the ride before engaging its signature tilt feature that dangles riders over the midway point while the coaster shifts to attach to the track below, a spokesperson with the amusement park told the Akron Beacon Journal.
“Its safety system performed as designed, but the ride could not be restarted. Guests were safely escorted off the ride,” the spokesperson said.
But for some riders, the walk off the coaster may have been more terrifying than the imposing loop-de-loops.
A video shared on X Saturday showed the group of riders slowly inching down the evacuation stairs alongside the 160-foot incline as they clung onto the railing for dear life.
The abandoned coaster sat on the flat portion of the tower multiple yards away.
One pair of passengers in the middle of the line wasn’t budging, seemingly paralyzed by fear while the rest of the riders bottlenecked behind them.
“That walk down is definitely 10 times scarier than actually riding the ride,” one user commented.
“i’m scared of heights. so if this happened to me, my bones would’ve melted, and there would nothing be left of me but a blob of skin,” another added.
The sensors have plagued the coaster, the tallest, longest and fastest of its kind in the country, since its opening. It has inexplicably halted the rollercoaster at odd spots four times now.
On its very first day open to the public, a power outage brought the coaster to a screeching halt, leaving the passengers dangling over one of its signature ledges for 10 minutes.
Then, on July 2, it stopped on the 160-foot platform for the first time, leaving passengers to descend down the evacuation stairs.
On July 19, it broke down a third time while tilted on a 45-degree angle for roughly 20 minutes before it resumed.
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