The Devil Saves Fallen Teenager:

HE may have been dressed like a devil, but a Swedish amusement park worker saved the life of a teenager falling from a stalled Ferris wheel.

Ben-Hur Pereira, works as a devil in the "Ghost House" at the Groena Lund amusement park in Stockholm. As he stepped out of the attraction yesterday, he saw a 16-year-old boy fall out of a gondola and hang on for his life, suspended 10m above the ground A trained acrobat, Pereira scaled the Ferris wheel, reached the teenager and pushed him back inside.

"I acted on impulse. I have the technique and had the equipment. To climb is my job and now it just happened this way," said Pereira, wearing a black body suit with flecks of red, a goatee and a silver stud in his lower lip.

"He was a devil of a hero," Robert Mesterton, Groena Lund's chief executive said today..

Mesterton said park officials weren't sure how the boy managed to slip out of the gondola, which has room enough for four people to sit, but when they saw what happened they stopped the ride.

The teenager wasn't injured, but was taken to a hospital for a check-up and released.

Mesterton said the park has had the Ferris wheel for 30 years. Wednesday's incident was the first time anyone had been in danger of falling out.

The incident is now being investigated by the park and police.

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The BBC reports a carnival accident at Alexandra Palace in North London -- The Paratrooper ride collapses into the crowd, injuring 13.

From The Sun:

“The ride started pouring with thick black smoke and making a loud banging noise while it was spinning — and then it just collapsed."

Full story here. (Note, this link is to The Sun, one of the more lurid British tabloids, and the pictures are very unpleasant.)

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