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What is the Most Thrilling or Scary Ride You Have Ever Been On? #9038066 04/24/24 01:20 PM
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Does not matter whether you were riding or operating a car, plane, helicopter, motorcycle, roller coaster or?
Mine was a helicopter ride closely followed by a ride in my neighbors Porsche.

A buddy of mine lives' outside of Cash, TX, his next door neighbor was a crazy Vietnam Vet, helicopter pilot, for work he was a pilot out of Addison airport for a wealthy East, TX man.
He owned his own helicopter and commuted to Addison and back in it.

One day he offered to take me up in the copter and tried to scare me by flying right off the ground over the open field and then pulling up at the last second when we were right at the tree line and then fly right over the top of the trees. It was a blast and I would do it again in a heart beat

Lived in the Glen Lake apt. in Dallas early 80's on the first floor over the lake, third floor neighbor above me was a Trust Fund Baby with a lot of toys including a Bad Azz Porsche.
One late night he wanted to take me for a joy ride through DFW airport, he was hauling azz through those turns and would glance over and ask me if I was scared, I replied something to the effect of; Not at all, is that as fast as you can go?

Both rides were a blast!


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Not scary at all, but fun non the less. I remember it when I was a kid living in Arlington. Lol.



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Darlene Hathaway behind Sunken Gardens under the sky ride.

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Originally Posted by Grit
Not scary at all, but fun non the less. I remember it when I was a kid living in Arlington. Lol.


I remember that ride!



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Small mine train ride about a mile into a mine shaft in Colorado. Wife talked me into it, I had a serious episode of claustrophobia, until we got into the large great room. Thought I was gonna come out of my skin.



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Originally Posted by Hudbone
Darlene Hathaway behind Sunken Gardens under the sky ride.


Don't need a picture of the ride, but might need a picture of the attraction... roflmao

Under the sky ride even. Wow. I hope it was at least under some trees or something.

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My kids are big Six Flags fans....never been afraid of heights but as I get older, more afraid these days of things out of my control. Always willing to do something at least once. The Superman and Texas SkyScreamer rides were pretty painful for me in Arlington. The big tall water slides at Hurrican Harbor across the street by the freeway were rough as well.

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Originally Posted by Texas buckeye
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Darlene Hathaway behind Sunken Gardens under the sky ride.


Don't need a picture of the ride, but might need a picture of the attraction... roflmao

Under the sky ride even. Wow. I hope it was at least under some trees or something.


Not thinking appropriately, we were not aware it was there until we heard a kid from above in a gondola yell, 'Hey Mom, look!"

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The Comet. The old wooden roller coaster at the State Fair.
The back cars would actually lift off the track at times. Scared the chit outta me more than once.


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Did an "adventure" helicopter ride around Royal Gorge in CO many years ago. Went to check in and was talking to the pilot, said he flew helicopters in Vietnam and had been shot down. He had some burn scars on the side of his face, said when he got home from Vietnam he was driving a top fuel dragster and ran it off the top end and caught on fire (hence the burn scars). So we load up, 16 yo daughter at the time sits next to him in front and I'm sitting in the back with a random lady that was driving by and thought it would be fun. We take off and head upward at what felt like a very aggressive rate, about 30 secs later I guess he dumped the air out from under the rotors and we fell what felt like 50' or more. At that moment I was starting to regret my decision (as I hear him chuckle through the head set). We head on over to the gorge and are hovering above part of it and the view is amazing (thinking to myself that this is awesome and not so bad), about that time we start to head downward into the gorge at a rate that puts my stomach somewhere near my throat, we level out and feels like we are skimming the river and moving towards a bluff wall at what feels like mach 1. We are getting closer and closer to the bluff, what seems like last minute we climb upward at a rate that now has my stomach somewhere near the floor of the helicopter. All of the sudden we are above the gorge and the view is amazing. Thank god, its over. Nope, we bale back in for one more pass with my stomach moving btw my throat and my feet. We pop back out and start making our way back to landing area, I look over at the random lady that joined us. Her hair looks like she stuck her finger in a light sock, she's panting and visibly shaken and apparently had a drink with her that she is now covered in. My daughter loved it.

Last summer was driving through the area on the way back to Texas and saw the helicopter on the landing pad off the side of the highway idling. Not sure if it the same pilot or not.

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Kawasaki ZR-1000 back in the late 70's. A buddy had one and he talked me onto the seat facing BACKWARDS. 100MPH down LBJ Freeway (635 for all you young folk).

As mentioned above the Comet Coaster at Fair Park. And yes, the back couple cars did come off the rails as it went over the highest hills.


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This exact ride..several times


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It’s always scariest when someone else is driving! Amistad, 15-18 mph winds and I get paired with a boater that only wants one thing: SPEED! 19 ft. Skeeter w/ a 300 Yamaha racing engine.. 80+ mph skipping over nasty waves, praying we don’t hit one wrong.


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Originally Posted by P_102
It’s always scariest when someone else is driving! Amistad, 15-18 mph winds and I get paired with a boater that only wants one thing: SPEED! 19 ft. Skeeter w/ a 300 Yamaha racing engine.. 80+ mph skipping over nasty waves, praying we don’t hit one wrong.

This is one scary ride for sure.


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Originally Posted by TCM3

This exact ride..several times


No way would I do that. Heii no.

There was a ride at the State Fair of Texas where you went forward into a loop, and then it would reverse and you would go backwards into it. I was, probably, in my late 30's, but I thought I was going to have a major health episode. roflmao


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multiple times too, satellite antennas back in the 2004 or so.

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Originally Posted by TCM3

This exact ride..several times



back in the day they had one that looked like a bullet and spun while it did what that one is doing.

big time amusement park fun way back when.




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Originally Posted by Grit
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This exact ride..several times


No way would I do that. Heii no.

There was a ride at the State Fair of Texas where you went forward into a loop, and then it would reverse and you would go backwards into it. I was, probably, in my late 30's, but I thought I was going to have a major health episode. roflmao

You pull 4.5Gs at 52MPH on it...


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A ride called maximum G at the Texas state fair. Insane.


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I45 through Houston before the 610 loop.


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Pulled 9G for 10 seconds in the centrifuge down at Brooks AFB/city base

That was something i said i would never do again unless there was a guaranteed 16 ride on the other end.

Had geasles all over my torso and arms after that.

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