This is a very sad and tragic story.
My kid loves these type of rides...and it scares the b'jezzus outta me.

I bet she wasn't ready for that 2 foot drop.

Well, at least she'll still have a leg up on the competition

Rumor has it that Nike is gonna offer her a contract

Looks like she had surgery

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/22/six...ent/index.html

(CNN) -- A teen whose legs were severed in an accident at a Kentucky amusement park has undergone surgery, a park spokeswoman said Friday.

Spokeswoman Carolyn McLean said she has been in touch with the 13-year-old girl's family and believed the girl is still receiving treatment at the University of Louisville Hospital.

Hospital spokeswoman Julie Gordon would not discuss details of the surgery or recovery, citing patient privacy.

The girl's name was not released because she is a minor.

The girl's feet were completely amputated just below the ankle Thursday afternoon while riding the Superman Tower of Power at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville.

Her feet were recovered by Six Flags staff and were sent to the hospital with her, McLean said.

During the Tower of Power ride, passengers are hoisted aloft, suspended momentarily, then pulled down, according to the park's Web site. Passengers -- secured with bars and seat belts but with arms and legs free -- drop 154 feet at 54 mph, stopping "just 20 terrifying feet above the pavement," the Web site says.

A police dispatcher said a cord wrapped around the girl's feet while she was on the ride.

"I seen the car go up. Then, like, the cable broke ... and I heard a lot of people screaming," Chris Stinnett, who was at a ride next to the Tower of Power, told CNN affiliate WDRB/WMYO-TV in Louisville.

"The cable went under the car -- and I seen it pull up and hit a lot of people -- and I seen them bring their legs up," he said. (Watch witnesses describe the accident Video)

"We are not confirming that happened," McLean said. "There was a lot of misinformation from witnesses."

The ride will remain closed until a full investigation by state officials and "our team of experts" is conducted, McLean said.

The inspectors will interview staff members, witnesses and speak with the girl and her family, she said.

"Every ride, every investigation is different," she said.

The rest of the park was operating as normal on Friday.

I sure hope they can reattach her feet.

Man, that's fucked up. :shake:

They're re-attaching her feet. That's a step in the right direction.

I assumed they would try to reattach her feet.
Still tragic though. Can you imagine the pain at first.

I remain undefeeted.

[Keaanu Reeves Voice] Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
[/Keaaanu Reeves Voice]

I find it amusing that the Superman icon automatically shows up when we copy and paste a story.

Okay. This made me laugh.

Did they send them over in a shoe box?

We should send her a Get Well card. I'm thinking something from the Hallmark Shoe Box line. Hopefully, she'll be back on her feet in no time flat.

I believe they called a toe truck.

ROFL Make it stop!

If it had to happen anywhere in the country, it couldn't have happened in a better place than Louisville. Kleinert & Kuntz (these guys - http://www.handtransplant.com/ ), as well as other of the best hand and foot surgeons in the world are located here.

I'm sure KY Kingdom will foot the bill and it will cost them an arm and a leg!!!

LOL AT EVERYTHING SAID IN THIS THREAD IM CRYING OVER HERE. I started laughing just at the face that the thread starter used the word defeeted...lol111!!!eleven

I can only hope the same happens to you someday so we can all make fun and laugh at your misfortune...

The girl's feet are in good hands.

Wishing that makes you far worse than those of us who are merely making foot puns.

Well, now, wait a minute. Are her feet off or not? Or have they just been pulling our leg?

This guy's a police dispatcher?

People make light of everything.

I wonder if Six Flags is footing the bill?

It's our way of masking the pain of our own lost lives. We are not the Greatest Generation, and we are not the Generation of Love. We had no age of exploration, no manly war in which to prove ourselves. We're just a group of coddled, chubby men who grew up with television and fast food, and who waddle off to mundane jobs in mundane cities from mundane homes. We are a generation that has no highs, no lows, just a monotonic hum of a life whose only crescendos are measured in pornography and high scores of video games. In the great flowing river of history, we are not even a ripple. That, and it's kind of funny to think about having no feet.

You're way behind.

To help the helpless...
Befriend the friendless...
and defeat... the feetless!

ROFL ROFL @ This thread

the poor sole

Your opinion bub..... And your yelling into the wind.. Was what I said uncalled for? Maybe... but...Making fun of another persons misfortune of this magnitude is distasteful and uncalled for...any civilized person would know better....You would have a better arguement if you were saying im just as bad as the peeps that are having fun with this poor girls misfortune as you are...(however I wasnt the one who started it;) I think its some what justified)I unlike many here in this very thread can think for myself...i didnt get off to torturing small animals when i was young either...still dont...I dont take pride and neither do i get off to making "funnys" about some girl getting both of her feet sawed off. Now how does that sound? Ya god dammed inbred hicks!

Thread over. FTW.

Are you new here?

I... didn't... understand... one word... of that.

The "I can think for myself (unlike you)" line sure gets thrown around a whole lot on this forum. It's starting to lose its luster.

What? Did somebody die?

No but im sure that wouldnt stop anyone here from poking fun at it..People here seem to like to see others in pain..

Your a ****ing assclown;)

I have a handicap and I'm not afraid to poke fun at it.

Settle. You seem a little raw and I bet it's because you could not join in on the fun. You were trying to think of a good one liner but you were stumped.

I thought of many one liners.. but this poor girl had her world completely turned upside down and if it were alot of these people's sister or daughter they wouldn't be joking about it.

That doesn't carry much weight coming from the man who ate the baby.

Look on the bright side, at least the doctor's won't go Barbaro on her, Japanese men find small feet attractive and imagine the money she'll save on pedicures.

I hear wheelchairs are all the rage in Europe.

She's all knees and elbows...like a whirling dervish

Nobody thought of this

On the brightside she'll never know the agony of a ingrown toe nail or a planters wart

The thrill of victory. The agony of defeet(ed).

cut it out you guys!

I hope she wins the lawsuit and can get a foot ahead in life.

Man, you suck.

At least she won't grow up to be a stripper.

Needless to say she'll be using the metric system from now on.

Don't be so sure about that. Don't you hate it when they get the g-string caught on their foot and have to stop and pull it off?

Elephantiasis?

Tell me about it. The poor girl is probably in pieces over the whole ordeal.

When the investigation is over, if they conclude that the accident was the result of operator error, will they fire the operator and give him severance pay?

Actually, the hospital reported that she seemed strangely detached.

ROFL ROFL ROFL

It's called Schadenfreude. Life is too short to not make funny jokes about a story like this.

It wasn't the girl's fault, either. I hope she doesn't shoot herself in the foot over this

So is the girl now.


(I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry.)

You can understand why to some extent. After all, we are Chief fans.

ROFL

DEAR GOD NO :eek:

I wonder how long it took Six Flags attorneys to propose a settlement.

That's a defeetest attitude.

I would make reference to the "agony of de-feet", but I'm sure it has already been mentioned.

This place just isn't the same since that Phil guy left. You guys are really slacking. Not one of you posted about what will happen if the operation does not succeed. When those medical freaks get done with her she'll be the queen of strapons.

Yeah. I miss that Phil guy. Wish he came back.

well, be my guest.

He's a moron.

Girl horribly injured on Six Flags ride in stable condition
POSTED: 8:12 p.m. EDT, June 26, 2007

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- A 13-year-old girl whose feet were severed in an accident on an amusement park ride is in stable condition in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital, her family said in a written statement Tuesday.

Kaitlyn Lasitter, whose name had not previously been released by officials, was riding the Superman Tower of Power ride Thursday at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville when a cable broke loose on the ride, cutting off the girl's feet above the ankles, authorities said.

State officials were investigating the incident.

"The parents of Kaitlyn Lasitter would like to acknowledge everyone across the country that have been supporting their daughter with many positive thoughts and prayers over the last six days," according to the statement, which was issued through Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Authorities and the hospital have declined to say whether her feet were reattached. The statement included a plea for privacy for the girl's family, and the family has instructed the hospital not to comment further.

The family's statement said no one from the theme park had contacted them since the accident, as park representatives had told reporters.

"At no time has any representative of the theme park been in touch with members of the family," the statement said.

A spokeswoman for Six Flags in New York disputed that account, saying two representatives from Kentucky Kingdom accompanied Lasitter's family to the hospital and stayed for "some time" before the family asked that they leave.

"We are deeply saddened by this incident and of course have genuine concern for the well-being of the entire family. We stand ready to be of any assistance we possibly can," said Kentucky Kingdom spokeswoman Carolyn McClean.

The ride passed inspection in each of the past four years, according to records. The ride lifts passengers 177 feet straight up, then drops them nearly the same distance at speeds reaching 54 miles per hour.

Six Flags shut down similar rides at parks in St. Louis; Gurnee, Illinois; and near Washington as a safety precaution, Goldberg said. Those rides remained closed Tuesday, and were to undergo safety inspections.

Six Flags Over Texas, near Dallas, also has a Superman Tower of Power, but it is not the same ride, Goldberg said.

Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. of Sandusky, Ohio, also shut down drop tower rides at five of its amusement parks for inspection after the accident.

I just read that exact article. I was about to post it, too.

I would've guessed her condition was wobbly.

Probably not a good sign that the family won't comment about the feet reattachment. Poor kid. :(

Took the boys there on Sunday, looking at the thing was kind of eery after knowing what happened.

Good news. Apparently she's making progress, one step at a time.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19589017/?GT1=10150

Teen has one foot reattached after ride injury
Six Flags’ Tower of Power severed 13-year-old’s legs above the ankles

Updated: 1 hour, 47 minutes ago
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Doctors reattached the right foot of a 13-year-old girl involved in a gruesome amusement park accident, but her left foot was too severely damaged to repair, her family and doctor said in a statement Tuesday.

Kaitlyn Lasitter of Louisville remained in stable condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., Dr. Douglas Weikert, a surgeon and assistant professor at Vanderbilt, said in the statement.

"Things are progressing as expected over this first 10 days," he said.

Lasitter's feet were severed just above the ankles as she rode the Superman Tower of Power thrill ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom on June 21.

Investigators with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture said they have taken a cable they believe broke and severed Lasitter's feet, Wilbur Frye, executive director of the department's Office of Consumer and Environmental Protection, has said. The investigation will continue for several more weeks, Frye said.

Lasitter's mother, Monique Lasitter, thanked the doctors, nurses and hospital staff for their work.

"We would not want her to be at any other hospital during this difficult time," the statement said.

Similar rides shut down
The state has been trying to determine what caused the cable to break. Investigators were taking written statements from witnesses, reviewing statements and analyzing physical evidence and photographs of the scene, Frye said.

The ride was last inspected April 5 and found to be operating normally, Frye said. The ride passed inspection in each of the last four years, according to records.

The ride lifts passengers 177 feet straight up, then drops them nearly the same distance at speeds reaching 54 miles per hour.

Six Flags had shut down similar rides for safety inspections at parks in St. Louis; Gurnee, Ill.; and near Washington as a safety precaution, said Wendy Goldberg, a spokeswoman for Six Flags.

Good for her. One foot is a whole lot better than none.

i cannot stop reading this thread. this is horrible, but i can't stop.