Impending Tragedy!!!

Circleville, Ohio

Impending Tragedy!!! - Circleville, Ohio - October 2007. Onlookers were transfixed as the hanging chair ride spun up to velocity nobody had ever witnessed. The disk made a turbine sound with the overriding high pitched keening sound of small children screaming.

First to exit the disk were small items like stuffed animals, handbags, glasses, shoes and socks. There was an occasional vapor trail of vomit.

The speed increased . . . until two chairs broke free. One traced a ballistic arc through the air - crashing through the windshield of a Ford Escort three blocks. The other chair and occupants impacted a building at it's third story, striking with such force that it left a Warner-Brothers Cartoon style hole in the bick wall. Two upstairs rooms were completely destroyed.

With a loud crack - the central axle failed and the disk went skittering through the Pumpkin Festival crowd leaving a path of unspeakable carnage. Twenty seven people were killed instantly, another 62 severely injured.

Nikon FE2 w/35-70 Sigma + 4X Neutral Density Filter on 50 ASA Color Negative Film