Paris – French firefighters say three adults and five teenagers were trapped high in the air on a broken fairground ride for more than eight hours from New Year’s Eve into the early hours of 2019.
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The revelers — the youngest aged 13 — were stuck about 52 meters (170 feet) above the ground in the city of Rennes, in western France.
Witnesses quoted by local newspaper Ouest-France said the pendulum ride broke down around 8.30 p.m. Monday amid noise and sparks, leaving one of the two passenger sections suspended at the highest point.
Firefighters used a helicopter to reach the trapped people and provide them with harnesses so that they could be winched down onto a firefighters’ ladder.
They all safely reached the ground by Tuesday morning.
What a vilde rasha is trumpf! There is no way this wasn’t his work at play here. Will the alt-yidden forgive him for this one as well?
And they charged extra for the helicopter ride. And due to penalty rates on a public holiday it came to $20,000 for the ride. Each person.