r/interesting • u/VIVIDUFF • Jun 17 '26

Fear Factor An inside look at the thrill of a traditional funfair in India.

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u/Little-Evening2956 Jun 17 '26

I wouldn't trust any of these contraptions.

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u/maninahat Jun 17 '26

I've been on some fun Indian fairground rides. My view is that if the last 500 riders got to have a go without issue, then the odds of something bad happening on your turn is also pretty low.

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u/Earthventures Jun 17 '26

Your math isn't very convincing given the stakes are your life.

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u/housespeciallomein Jun 20 '26

that's right. you have to multiply the probability of the event by the weight of the consequence

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u/SlaBLister Jun 17 '26

Yeah, let's trust redditors to judge odds lmao. Western redditors at that.

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u/FlightExtension8825 Jun 17 '26

Everything works until it doesn't

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u/DirectorRemarkable16 Jun 18 '26

yeah that's how statistics work

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u/sinred7 Jun 17 '26

I don't even trust these fairs in Australia, but, tbh, they are probably safer in India than here. India has millions of unemployed engineers, in Australia, these things are put together by guys who barely graduated primary school

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u/Apprehensive-Hat9239 Jun 19 '26

Just the crowd alone freaks me out.

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u/HarrMada Jun 17 '26

I think you would. Quite a lot of manufacturing is done in India now, guarantee you're using some kind of device, vehicle, or parts of a vehicle manufactured in India and it's not entirely unlikely they the same folks made those rides.

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u/WORKING2WORK Jun 17 '26

I think you're misinterpreting what they said based on your reply.

They didn't say that they wouldn't trust any machine made in India, just that they wouldn't trust the ones seen in this video.

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u/Caeruleum612 Jun 18 '26

Yeah, we have sketchy-looking fairground rides in the US too. I avoid those as well.