Amusement park rides

[Arthur Dent]

25 bucks per jump sling shot

Is that the one where you sit in a ball and get fired up or the one with the harness where they drop you from 150 feet up?

Been on the drop one. Think they call it the super swing. Scariest ride I've ever been on.
For those who've never seen it, you put on this harness thing that goes from your shoulders to your ankles. The attendant hooks up you and up to three of your friends to a half inch thick steel cable. Then the floor lowers and you all suddenly fall face first and end up laying face down. Then the winch starts and you are pulled up and back 150 feet in the air. At the top, the attendant calls out on the speaker to pull the cord. The person on the right pulls a rip cord just like a parachute. It releases you and you free fall almost the whole way face down until the cable goes taught and you swing out at around 60 miles and hour. You just swing back and forth a few times until they hold up a rubber ring at the end of a pole for you to grab onto and stop. What's really fucked up is how slowly they pull you up so that the ground slowly gets further away. When we got off the attendant told us there was one in Tampa that was 300 feet high. Never got down there to see it.