Video shows a teen falling off a Six Flags ride and a crowd gathering to catch her
Source: Washington Post
A teenage girl escaped serious injury Saturday evening after falling 25 feet from an amusement park ride in Upstate New York — and into the arms of a crowd that had gathered below to catch her.
The dramatic fall and rescue was captured on video by at least one bystander at Six Flags Great Escape in Lake George, N.Y., about 60 miles north of Albany, where the incident took place.
In the video, a girl wearing blue shorts and a gray shirt can be seen dangling from a stopped gondola and screaming as several onlookers shout in alarm. Another person is seated inside the two-person gondola, not in apparent danger of falling.
After several moments, someone in the crowd yells: “They’ll catch you! They’ll catch you, honey, go ahead!” It is then that the girl plummets to the ground, hitting a tree branch before being caught by several people below. The video showed onlookers cheering after the girl was caught and then the girl being carried away, limp.
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They actually DIDN'T just let her plummet to the ground as they recorded it on their iPhones!
