One 10-year-old girl was so frightened by Friday night's impending storm that she tried to get off the Ferris wheel at the Taste of Joliet.
Paige Sandstrom, who boarded the ride reluctantly, was scared as festival crowds started being evacuated whle she and her 12-year-old sister were still on the ride and tried to climb under the bar while seated at the highest point on the ride, according to a story in the Joliet Herald-News.
The girl was pulled back into her seat by her sister and was not injured, although her mother is raising questions about while people were being allowed onto the Ferris wheel with thunderstorm -- with lightning -- was moving in, the story said.
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Here are more stories about the Friday night storm:
Hurricane-Strength Winds Knock Out Power, Down Trees, Scare Taste Crowds
First-Person: Running From the Storm at Taste
Blog: Friday's Hurricane Wind Captured in Slammers' 'Tarpocalypse 2012' Video
Marilynn Reinhardt
8:50 am on Friday, July 6, 2012
Sorry, but where was the mom who should have been supervising a 10 yr old? Maybe it was her call to stop her daughter from being on the ferris wheel.
Karen J
7:58 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
the mom was listening to REO speedwagon perform and the two girls went off to the canival part of the taste. i really dont think its the moms fault, but its not the ferris wheel managers fault because the storm did blow in pretty fast.