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Watch: Boy on his first roller coaster ride loses it. ‘What the (bleep)?’

Poor little Rick. He shrieked a grown-up word while taking a ride on a kiddie roller coaster.
Poor little Rick. He shrieked a grown-up word while taking a ride on a kiddie roller coaster. Screengrab

What goes up must come down, and sometimes shockingly so as this little boy found out.

Elisabeth Renteria had her cell phone out as she took her little son, Rick, on his first roller coaster ride, capturing a video that hundreds have watched this week on Reddit.

It wasn’t a big-boy roller coaster, but the expletive that came out of little Rick’s mouth was very adult.

The going up part of the ride was fine.

But coming down?

“Mommy! What happening? What happening,” little Rick yelled before he let out a high-pitched scream.

“What the hell?!”

“By the end of the video, Rick has a smile back on his face and seems relatively unscathed, so I don’t feel too terribly about having spent the last 15 minutes laughing at the expense of a scared child,” wrote a New York magazine writer who watched the video.

Wrote another person who watched it on Reddit: “Just wait for the roller coaster we call life, kid.”

This story was originally published June 3, 2016 at 11:24 AM with the headline "Watch: Boy on his first roller coaster ride loses it. ‘What the (bleep)?’."

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