The container, with two children in it, stuck around 8.45 pm at a height of around 25 meters and could no longer go down. The fire brigade had to be involved with a ladder car to save the children from the plight.
Girl (14) Eight meters from fairground attraction Energizer fell in Hilversum
“They didn’t hung upside down”
“They have hung for fifteen minutes at most for 20 minutes,” the oliebollen seller told the attraction to the Dagblad van het Noorden. “I know because I was beating a batter and that also takes about as long.”
The Bungee catapult is designed in such a way that the occupants come back in the event of a malfunction, he explains. “So they were not happy.”
‘Closed today’
The attraction is out of operation for the rest of the evening. “Due to technical malfunction closed today,” can be read on a note.