Someone is actually married to the ride. Amy Wolfe, a church organist from Pennsylvania, garnered International attention for her obsession with the ride, going so far as to marry it and change her last name to Weber (after the ride's manufacturer). Her condition (that she has been diagnosed with as a medical condition), called objectum sexual (OS), is somehow also linked to her Asperger's Syndrome.
Though it's a serious illness that impairs "normal" functioning it's also a bit revealing about what makes people "normal" in the first place as well. As far as I can tell most all relationships, human/human and human/inanimate are imbued with several levels of fantasy and imagination on many different levels, many to a "religious" or even "obsessional" level.
Her blog post(includes lots of great pictures):
http://mockingwords.blogspot.com/2009/08/rollercoaster-relationship.html
Article from the Telegraph UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5972632/Woman-getting-married-to-fairground-ride.html
Article from Starcasm: http://starcasm.net/archives/10223
and a video of her talking about the song for the ride:
and a mini-documentary about her (a section from the film Strange Love: Married To The Eiffel Tower):
here is a video of the ride in action at night:
and during the day (you can see more of the background in this video):
another decent night video:
from cummons scale amusement comes their HO scale version:
(http://webpages.charter.net/csai/models/1001.html)
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