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    People rescued from rollercoaster after eight hours

    Nine people had to be rescued when a rollercoaster stopped 60 feet (18.3 metres) above the ground due to a mechanical failure.

    The passengers were stranded in the air for eight hours until they were helped down from the Tsunami ride at Strathclyde Country Park, according to The Mirror.

    A police spokesperson said: "At around 4.30pm, one of the rollercoaster rides at M&D's theme park suffered what appeared to be a mechanical failure.

    "Nine people of various ages were on the ride. Strathclyde Police and other emergency services were sent to the scene."

    The passengers, between 9 and 49 years old, were winched off individually.

    "Everybody is now safe and well," the spokesperson continued. "No-one needed to be taken to hospital."

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    Re: People rescued from rollercoaster after eight hours

    Was they upside down then?

    that would be awful man....

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    Re: People rescued from rollercoaster after eight hours

    Eight hours! Hidden Content
    Do Strathclyde firemen have to knit their own ladders then?
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    It was "only" 60 feet, which though high is hardly mount Everest.
    I wouldn't like to be in a fire on the 20th floor of a block of flats there!
    To leave so many people stuck up there for so long sounds like incompetence to me?

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