Denmark
I'm 99% sure it was at Tivoli Funfair... (although it may just possibly have been in Bakken Funfair, just to the North). But if you like scary rides at funfairs, they've built the ultimate Fear Machine.
It's a massive big wheel with automated mechanical arms. These are apparently supposed to restrain the passengers into their seats. And that's where the fear starts. It's all computer controlled you see... So, just as you start wondering if that click you hoped you heard, really was the sound of the automated restraining mechanism, locking you safely into this computer controlled, Contraption From Hell (rather than the restraining mechanism just falling to pieces on the floor) ...it rises high up into the sky. And while it does that, you can see the neighbouring passengers doing exactly what you are doing. Panicking, and feverishly tugging at the restraint mechanism to try and escape. But later, when the full realisation of your fate hits you, trying to make absolutely sure it's locked. It then starts revolving in crazy spirals, and tries to fling the passengers across Denmark.
It is without doubt, the scariest funfair ride I ever been on in my life. Absolutely freaky. My only advice is that it's a good idea to give your loose change and spectacles to a friend (if you don't manage to escape from the queue). Because that's what flies through the air once it starts going round...
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