The ratings Gods threw a bone to the local TV media yesterday afternoon when the famed Silver Bullet roller coaster broke down at Frontier City with eight passengers aboard. The coaster was climbing a hill nearly 100 feet in the air and about to embark on the famed "Frontier City Fall of Death" when the malfunction occurred.
Always looking for a good story to appease the rubberneck inside all of us, Channel 4 and Channel 9 both scrambled their Bob choppers and sent them to the scene. Channel 25, which is not beholden to a national 5:30 news broadcast, shot the not-so-harrowing rescue from multiple camera angles while terrified onlookers munched on Dippin' Dots.
Oddly enough, the truck driver who crashed into the May Ave. bridge was one of the passengers. Actually, I'm kidding. I heard he spent the day getting trashed at White Water.
Here are the details via News 9: