Wrong wrong wrong.The fact that they're are dismantled so often means that showmen actually get a chance to go over the ride so often and they don't need thorough checks because they do it as they're built and taken down.Testing a ride is not just made up of 'if it can do a circuit without collapsing its fine', they go over it to check every bolt is in place etc. Half of the rides at Thorpe are funfair rides that should be on the funfair market anyway! The operators have to have the same license to operate rides that you do if you work at Thorpe or any other theme park, its also the law that they know how to handle it properly, the law doesn't change just because these rides aren't in a theme park. Funfair rides have the same H&S checks that theme park rides do and must have the same ADIPS license that theme park rides do. If anything they get 10 times more safety checks than theme park rides do.Funfair accidents are just as rare as theme park accidents. You must clearly be forgetting that fatal accidents happen just as easily at a theme park as they do in a fair. And they very very rarely do. That could have happened just as easily on Billys Whizzer.