Blackpool pleasure beach

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I just visited Blackpool and I Had a nice time going around the beach and activities.

But honestly- Blackpool pleasure beach - what are they thinking! Some of the rides are so old and dangerous, I don't know how they are allowed at all.

It was the first time that I went .

I went on one ride, and it went extremely high. It was like an old fashioned rollrr coaster, but you were sitting on a horse. It's called steeple chase.

. There was the tiniest old fashioned seat belt on the horse, like a car seat belt. Except it was just a horizontal belt. The material of the belt looked old, worn and thin. And it didn't hold you on properly.

You had to grip with your hands onto the handle bars. This ride went extremely high and it was extremely fast and jerky, and i was nearly jerked out of the seat several times. If the ride jerked and you fell out of the seat , you would slip through the seat belt and you would fall a very long way down. I was holding on for dear life. I very nearly came off and fell once.

People were getting off the ride at the end and were crying and looking extremely stressed.

The guy running the ride laughed and said to us "you won't do that ride again in a hurry will you haha". Because he knew it was bad

I saw other rides in the park, where the metal holding the ride up looked completely rusted through.

I don't know how the park is allowed from a health and safety standpoint?

😂😂

I sew you conveniently left out all the other posters on this thread - who also said that there are bad health and safety conditions in Blackpool pleasure beach.

Why is that?

And instead of dodging the question like you always do, I would like an answer.

You're a dangerous person if you care about health and safety so little

"Criticise a ride that others enjoy"

That others enjoy lol.

Did you see All the posters on here who said that they hated the ride and thought it was unsafe?

Are you saying that they're all wrong?

No I was upset at the lack of health and safety on one ride in Blackpool pleasure beach

I also think that Blackpool is extremely run down..

I think both things.

Surely you're big enough to handle a bit of criticism of the place.

The wild mouse killed my love of rides. Even my brother who would go on anything came off green.

never seen anyone crying coming off the steeplechase and we go every year

I cried so much on the Lazy Daisy ride that they had to stop it and let me off. Tolerances for fairground rides differ wildly
Doesn’t mean the rides are unsafe

Surely you're big enough to handle a bit of criticism of the place.

I don't live there 🤷🏼‍♀️

I went on the Steeplechase a lot as a kid and then as a young adult in the 90s and found it terrifying. Went last year and it seemed much tamer. Don't know if they've slowed the ride down ot it's less jerky but I couldn't believe it was a ride that used scre the life out of me. Grand National is my favourite though, and I love Icon.

‘surely you’re big enough to handle a bit of criticism of the place?’ What, like you can handle a bit of criticism?!?

You started the thread stating there isn’t any health and safety in place. A lot of posters have asked how so and you’ve gone on the attack with no evidence. Just because you didn’t like the ride doesn’t mean it doesn’t pass health and safety checks. I don’t understand why you think the place would operate with no health and safety in place with people like you who’d sue at a drop of a hat.

Yes posters on here have said they don't like the ride. Still doesn’t mean the ride itself is unsafe and yes I am discounting the opinion of the poster who said she rode it in ‘76 when it opened in ‘77 and also the poster who was drunk and fell off before the ride started cause 1. The description of the event sounded like it happened on the Derby racers (which a few people have confused the steeplechase with) and 2. Being drunk on a ride and falling off is not the fault of the ride.

Irony really is off the scale.

What, all 3/4 posters, mostly with clearly made up stories about how they fell off a ride 10 years before it actually opened?

😂

I love this thread so much.