Did a woman marry a roller coaster?

For church organist Amy Wolfe, the love of her life is quite literally a mass of twisty tracks and loops. Wolfe says she first fell for the amusement park attraction 1001 Nachts at the tender young age of 13, and vowed to one day wed the Pennsylvania-based fairground ride.



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But a storm in 1986 knocked the ride out of commission, forcing it to Wichita, Kansas, for repairs. Linda Ducharme married an amusement park ride that she named Bruce, and renewed her vows in Florida earlier this year. “I was completely alone,” said Ducharme. “I felt that I was dying from the inside.

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Erica Libury is attracted to inanimate objects, and in 2007, she fell in love with the Eiffel Tower. After being married for 15 years, she got bored with her relationship, and now she's into a red picket fence.

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Attorney Michael Haggard represented the family of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson, who died in March of 2022 after slipping out of his safety bar and falling from another Florida amusement park ride. Haggard said Bonnet nearly suffered the same, horrible death.

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Utah's S&S Worldwide, which makes roller coasters and drop towers, sets its restraints for a maximum weight of 300 pounds and equips its seatbelt locking mechanisms with no-go sensors that restrict over-sized riders.

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The woman fittingly named her child Steven Tyler, after the lead singer of Aerosmith. She said, “My baby was born on Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, it only makes sense that his name is connected to the ride.” This birth forced Disney to temporarily close the ride to clean it up and take her and the baby to the hospital.

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