Aug 27, 2016 1 min read

Your Aug. 21 editorial on the safety of amusement park rides reminded me of a time in the 1980s when my wife’s friend called one evening after supper to ask if I could fix a carousel for him. He was an amusement ride inspector and the ride was to open the next morning at 9 a.m.

He said he had the parts for the proper start/stop circuit, but didn’t know how to correctly wire the parts in.

Well, we took off for Pittsburgh and I installed the proper circuit. Sometime after midnight, we were riding a safe carousel.

As your editorial pointed out, how many inspectors permitted that ride to operate with an unsafe design? How many years? Was anyone injured because of that?

Ralph J. Vasko

Donora