• iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • Lad Files
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Extinct
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Theme Park Visitors Stunned As Four-Year-Old Child Is 'Unrestrained' During Free-Fall Ride

Home> News

Updated 07:15 11 Apr 2022 GMT+1Published 01:43 11 Apr 2022 GMT+1

Theme Park Visitors Stunned As Four-Year-Old Child Is 'Unrestrained' During Free-Fall Ride

A boy has been rescued from disaster at the Sydney Easter Show, with a ride now shut-down after he had no safety harness attached.

Rachel Lang

Rachel Lang

A ride at the Sydney Royal Easter Show has been shut down after photos emerged of what looked to be an unrestrained child on the free-fall attraction.

A bystander took a photo of the Free Fall ride and uploaded it onto social media on Sunday (April 10).

In the shot, a group of children can be seen on the thrill ride and are ready to go and strapped in. However, one small child on the right wasn't properly restrained.

Advert

The boy’s mother, Sky Boustani Curtis, said that aside from stopping the ride, the carnival workers did little to help her four-year-old son Tristan.

Facebook

“The (operator) girl stopped the ride but didn’t get out of her booth so another father ended up getting him to climb down to him,” she told the Daily Telegraph.

Boustani Curtis added that neither she or her husband were 'not tall enough to reach him'.

“They simply did not pull his harness down [and] didn’t check him," Boustani said.

Advert

The mum has now filed an incident report, but was yet to personally hear from the organisers of the Easter Show.

“[I] would like to know it was taken seriously, it just felt like the whole situation was like it was nothing to worry about from them,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

“We have not been contacted by the Easter Show and the two girls [operating the ride] never even said one word to us when it happened or even after.”

The ride in question.
Sydney Easter Show

Witness Eva Levy said the near-miss was chilling to watch.

Advert

“They hit emergency stop but it seems like the operator couldn’t bring the ride down and the (someone) actually had to come up there and have his son jump into his arms,” she said.

“The operator had no idea the child wasn’t secured. Onlookers had to scream for the ride to be stopped.”

The ride has been closed indefinitely, with the Sydney Royal Easter Show issuing a statement on social media on Sunday night.

“The safety of patrons at the Show is paramount and we have shut down the kids’ Free Fall ride following a reported issue with a harness,” the statement said.

“The safety systems of the ride functioned well to prevent any injury occurring and the ride will not operate again until a full investigation has been completed and the ride has been approved by specialist engineers.”

Advert

The Sydney Royal Easter Show website described the ride as 'ideal for the young thrill seeker' and children must be 110 centimetres tall to ride the Free Fall with or without an adult.

"[It is] a controlled drop that stimulates the fear of falling - with a gentle stop bringing them safely back to earth," the description states.

The news comes less than a fortnight after a 14-year-old fell to his death and was killed at an amusement park in Orlando, Florida, and less than a week after another child sustained a serious laceration on the head riding the carousel at Movie World on Australia's Gold Coast.

Featured Image Credit: Reddit/JustaClap

Topics: News, Australia, Theme Park

Rachel Lang
Rachel Lang

Rachel Lang is a Digital Journalist at LADbible. During her career, she has interviewed Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull in the lead up to the 2016 federal election, ran an editorial campaign on the war in Yemen, and reported on homelessness in the lead-up to Harry and Meghan’s wedding in Windsor. She also once wrote a yarn on the cheese and wine version of Fyre Festival.

X

@rlangjournalist

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

16 mins ago
23 mins ago
2 hours ago
3 hours ago
  • 16 mins ago

    Car salesperson explains why you should never go to a dealership with other people

    TikToker Ash also revealed why you should 'never' test drive a car

    News
  • 23 mins ago

    Bride shot dead at her own wedding in 'mafia-style execution' with 13-year-old among injured

    The 27-year-old newlywed was gunned down as she left the venue with her new husband

    News
  • 2 hours ago

    New twist emerges on British man arrested for Disneyland 'marriage' with nine-year-old

    The bizarre 'wedding ceremony' was halted by authorities in France last weekend

    News
  • 3 hours ago

    Man was left in coma with ‘devil eyes’ after five-day cocaine-fuelled session almost killed him

    A former cocaine addict almost died after a five-day session put him in a coma with 'devil eyes'

    News
  • Future of orcas 'at risk of death' after being kept in abandoned theme park for five months
  • Terrifying moment crocodile snatches grandfather and drags him into water at theme park
  • People slam ‘disrespectful’ name of tilting slide at kids UK theme park
  • UK Universal Studios theme park finally confirmed as Brits told when doors will open