stackyFACTSCarnival operators aren't staggering your seating arrangement just to ruin your group's fun. Massive wheels must be loaded symmetrically so the weight is evenly distributed across the central axis. If everyone piled onto one side at the same time, the drive motors would catastrophically overheat trying to fight gravity.
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