The sensational images from Oaks Amusement Park on June 14 of riders dangling upside down 50 feet in the air for 25 minutes on the malfunctioning AtmosFEAR ride tapped into every carnivalgoer’s worst fear. Being involved in an incident that attracted international attention was certainly not on the radar of Evie Yannotta, 14, when she organized the middle school graduation trip to Oaks Park for herself and the rest of the 11 kids in her eighth grade class at a charter school in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District. On June 20, Yannotta’s mother sued Oaks Park for negligence in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Here is Yannotta’s account, as told to WW nine days after the ordeal: