An intoxicated rider was injured after falling out of an amusement-park ride on Vancouver Island earlier this spring, says a Technical Safety B.C. report.

The woman and another rider had just finished riding The Zipper, a popular ride at a three-day festival set up in Port Hardy last May. One rider got out, but the woman — described by attendants as “hammered” and “half asleep and half awake” — didn’t.

“The cause of the incident was the activation of the ride controls with the (compartment) door open and an unrestrained patron still inside,” said the report, which was posted on the agency’s website in late October.

The report said the pair had ridden The Zipper several times before the incident, and were loaded onto the ride despite being intoxicated and carrying a bottle of alcohol wit

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