A Thin Line Between Roasting People Alive and Entertaining Them.

I gave in to my friends' persuasion to visit California's Great America entertainment Park, Santa Clara CA. There are quite a lot of amazing forms of entertainment from game arcades, aerial cable cars, merry go rounds, high speed rollercoasters to horror and scray experience zones. I know the last on the list, "horror and scary" have absolutely awakened your curiousity, so that I am not alone.

How should horror be a form of entertainment? Well, in the same park there is a ride that takes "entertainees" through a completely dark, cave like tunnel where they see akeletons, demons, ghosts and creatures, moving and speaking, threatening to pull them by their ears. I assume that the screaming and shrinking reaction of the riders is the point of that entertainment. Of course, all of that is just art creativity blended with robotic and computer technology which is the central business of California, aka Silicon Valley. I was not able to capture the horror scenes on video or picture, but it would be very interesting to see.

The question that remains though, is that why do people need to pay for evil "ghosty" experiences when that is what they would run away from in real life? I hope there is no hidden agenda...and conspiracy...as has been hinted...

Yet another one comes. Allow me to call it, human "Nyama Choma." Do not worry, no one dies even after the BBQ as Californians would call it. Close your eyes and imagine a live chicken with a rod through its breast, held right above a flame. This Great America's Firefall ride is not exactly like this but very close. "Entertainees" are locked on seats arranged along a rod like bar that spins in a complete circle swaying back and forth. Beneath lays a pool of water and some kind of fuel that bursts into flames just when about 30 people are lowered and flipped upside down. Good news, the calculations are such that the flames are not directed to the helpless humans half hanging on their heads.

See video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-yP6Tgwd0 or search on youtube: Firefall California's Great America

Only pray that neither technical issues arise nor seat belts loosen. Otherwise, the result would be a nice pile of roasted human meat ready for the ghosty creatures in the dark caves to enjoy. Oops! That is close to non-coincidence!