Disney removes wench auction scene from Pirates of the Caribbean ride

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But as the rollercoaster wound down and pulled up to the platform, it paused about 20 feet from where the passengers are supposed to disembark. Thinking the ride was over, David nonchalantly stuck his left foot out of the open-sided car, "as if he were trying to slow it down the way he does his bike," Kathy Fackler explains. "It was such a kid thing to do."

When the ride slowly started up again, David's foot became wedged in the small gap between the car's running board and the edge of the platform. Panicked, he grabbed his mother. The safety bar, which fit only loosely across his lap, managed to keep his body in the car, but the friction against his foot virtually tore it in half. "It was held together by just two tendons, and he had lost all soft tissue on the bottom, up to his heel," says Fackler. "All of the pieces were there, in his tennis shoe."

The rollercoaster operator, who was on the opposite side of the track and thus unable to see what was happening, stopped the ride within seconds, but David remained caught. It took about a half hour for Disneyland employees to pry the running board off the car to release him, and another 20 minutes or so for the paramedics to arrive. Later, all of his toes would be amputated, though his foot would eventually be salvaged with vein, muscle, and skin grafts.
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