[coastermom2]

Ah, so this is what the lady was ranting on about yesterday after a lady called the management on my daughter for snapping the flyers. (I know I haven't posted in a while but I still enjoy reading what everyone has to say.)

I have to tell about our park experience yesterday. My daughter and her friend got on the flyers for about the fourth time. There were no lines and my son and I had already ridden it a few times and he wanted to go ride something else so we headed down to the sea dragon and the carousel. We came back to find that the flyers had been stopped and that management had been brought over to talk to this irate lady. She was complaining that my daughter was riding the ride in an unsafe manner (she was only snapping her flyer the way we always do) and was scaring her and her daughter to death and that a girl had just got her feet cut off on a ride. The management guy tried to tell her that the ride was designed to do that and that it was a very safe ride. The lady complained that the ride should NOT be in kiddie land and that people shouldn't ride it that way when there were small children riding it. (I've personally never ridden the ride when there were NOT small children on it) Anyway she kept going on and on about the girl that got her feet cut off on a ride. I didn't know what she was talking about at the time. Then the woman went on to name other amusement park accidents. She'd obviously done some negative homework before coming to the park. Sort of like someone doing research on shark attacks before going to the beach. I wish her well.

Luckily my daughter didn't get in any trouble and she continued to ride a few more times.

Thanks for all the newsy info.

[bgwfreak]

If she was so concerned, then she should never have gone to an amusment park!

sheesh.

But this will blow over eventually, like every other accident does.

Noone even talks about the drop zone accident where the mentally challenged guy fell to his death at Great America and that was only a few years ago.

I'm just so sick of hearing about it from all my GP friends..."did you hear about the girl..." I'm like, yes I've heard about it about a 1,000,000 times already.

And I'm not trying deminish what happened to the poor girl. It was awful, truly awful.

[KenB]

^^

Sheesh! Talk about a drama queen! The "lady" screaming about your daughter, not you CoasterMom I assume that the woman heard something during all the stuff on the news about "steel cables" and assumed that any ride with them was automatically a Mutilation Death Machine waiting to pounce on unsuspecting guests. So seeing them on the Flyers she automatically assumed something bad was ready to happen any moment - and snapping, well that's going to cause those cables to come loose and KILL people!

Gladly the park didn't overreact and dealt with the real problem - this crazed woman - instead of your daughter. All too often I see businesses do too much to placate one of these people, especially with teens or children involved on the other side.

A positive out of this is that we know that management doesn't have a problem with reasonable snapping of the flyers, even in the face of someone complaining about it. It does illustrate one place where Paramount somewhat screwed up, though, in placing them where they did. There would be less of a problem if the ride were out in the Reptar / Rocket Power part of Nick, or in a "regular" area of the park. I can somewhat understand people's misconceptions about the ride due to it's location.

Although I do like getting oohs and ahhs from the crowd in line when I'm on a good run, I kinda hate seeing people leave the line because they think the ride is too intense for their child. I try to tell people when I'm in line and someone is snapping well that the ride ONLY does that when you TRY to do that, and it can be as tame as you want it to be.

KenB