BONUS: As roller coaster deaths pile up, should someone intervene in park safety?

A 42-year-old man died from falling from a 170-foot rollercoaster at Six Flags in Georgia, which has raised all kinds of questions, especially since the cameras capturing images for souvenir photos snapped pics of his descent, and they went to fellow riders.

Here's Dave Glover in St. Louis.

[laughs] I know that the Six Flags Over Georgia incident was awful.

I mean, you guys saw that.

I mean, did you see the, the pictures?

Mm.

The still photos from the-

Like insult to injury.

It's a, it's a horrible...

I mean, everything about it's horrible.

I don't, I don't think they know yet.

I'm sure they're gonna take time to investigate whether it was a pure mechanical failure or if he was never put in properly to begin with, or if he messed with something.

There's not much you can typically mess with as the rider, though.

Mm-hmm.

Like, once that thing locks, that's not really...

You really don't have much control over those lap bars or the shoulder harnesses.

Um, and I don't know if that ride has a separate seatbelt or not.

Some do, some don't.

So some of them will have the harness plus a seatbelt as kind of a fail-safe.

Others don't.

So I'm not sure.

I've never been on that ride, never been to Six Flags Over Georgia.

I wonder if this is one of those things in the future we'll look back and go, "Can you believe these people rode rollercoasters?"

[laughs] I don't think so.

Like, they did this on purpose to themselves.

A 42-year-old man died from falling from a 170-foot rollercoaster at Six Flags in Georgia, which has raised all kinds of questions, especially since the cameras capturing images for souvenir photos snapped pics of his descent, and they went to fellow riders.

Here's Dave Glover in St. Louis.

[laughs] I know that the Six Flags Over Georgia incident was awful.

I mean, you guys saw that.

I mean, did you see the, the pictures?

Mm.

The still photos from the-

Like insult to injury.

It's a, it's a horrible...

I mean, everything about it's horrible.

I don't, I don't think they know yet.

I'm sure they're gonna take time to investigate whether it was a pure mechanical failure or if he was never put in properly to begin with, or if he messed with something.

There's not much you can typically mess with as the rider, though.

Mm-hmm.

Like, once that thing locks, that's not really...

You really don't have much control over those lap bars or the shoulder harnesses.

Um, and I don't know if that ride has a separate seatbelt or not.

Some do, some don't.

So some of them will have the harness plus a seatbelt as kind of a fail-safe.

Others don't.

So I'm not sure.

I've never been on that ride, never been to Six Flags Over Georgia.

I wonder if this is one of those things in the future we'll look back and go, "Can you believe these people rode rollercoasters?"

[laughs] I don't think so.

Like, they did this on purpose to themselves.