Another decapitation at a theme park

[RStar]

When are people going to learn?

Decapitation (http://news.aol.com/story/_a/teen-decapitated-by-six-flags-coaster/20080628184409990001?icid=100214839x1204931612x120 0224317)

[lashbear]

There is a good reason they have those "Danger, do not enter" signs. :rolleyes:

[LashStoat]

Dear RStar,

The short answer is never. Besides, it would stop the necessity of the Annual Darwin Awards.

The reality is that it just places more pressure on theme parks to ensure safety, insurance companies increase their premiums, which increases gate prices and reduces rider enjoyment due to more facism in terms of retraints and initimidating fvcking signs. So no-one wins (except the Insurer).

So much for escaping reality when you go to a theme park.

Hugs,

The Stoat.

[Boss Radio]

Apparently this guy escaped reality.
At least, most of him did.

[wendybeth]

Ironic- I was just explaining the Darwin Awards to a client today. This would have been a useful example.

(Sorry to sound so crass, but when someone so stupidly ignores the barriers and signage designed to keep them healthy and in one piece, I have diminished sympathy for them).

[Isaac]

:decap:

[innerSpaceman]

Sorry to sound so crass, but when someone so stupidly ignores the barriers and signage [at a theme park] designed to keep them healthy and in one piece, I have diminished sympathy for them.


:rolleyes:








and that goes for the guy who posted the :decap: , too.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I've got some sympathy for what the family must be feeling, but for the kid himself? Who climbed 2 six foot fences and ignored all warnings (warnings that should hardly be necessary to begin with) to get into the path of a certified death machine? Got what he deserved.

[innerSpaceman]

eeeks, I climbed two six foot fences to break into Disneyland once. I could have been decapitated by the Train ... since i had to cross the tracks to enter the Park near it's a small world. Ooops.

[mousepod]

This is virtually an identical story to the one that happen in NoCal on the Top Gun Coaster. Guy loses hat on coaster. Guy climbs fence to retrieve hat. Guy gets it in the head. So so stupid.

[wendybeth]

My BIl is a an engineer on the railroad. Several times he's had to deal with the psychic damage (not to mention the mess) that has happened when some idiot decided to play chicken, or went around the arm at an intersection, or committed suicide. So, yeah- iSm- if you had gotten your head cut off while breaking and entering an area so clearly marked 'Keep Out'- you wouldn't engender much sympathy from a lot of people. I'd feel terrible since I know you, but if I didn't I'd be thinking you were an idiot, and I'd feel badly for your family and the workers who had to deal with the aftermath.

[BarTopDancer]

I feel badly for his friends and loved ones as well as those who have to clean up the mess. But he was a complete idiot for climbing not one, but two six foot fences and ignoring danger and warning signs. If his family sues I hope they lose. If this guy had heeded the visible warnings and deterrents he'd still be alive.

[3894]

I feel badly for his friends and loved ones as well as those who have to clean up the mess.

I was kind of cracking up at the fact that the guy hadn't been identified - kinda hard with his head gone and all.

I mentioned it to the hubbo. He nodded and said, "They'll be pulling dental records."

[BarTopDancer]

Wasn't he with friends?

[3894]

Wasn't he with friends?

That made me go back and read the OP's link. He was with family. I have no idea why he'd be unidentified, then.

[€uroMeinke]

That made me go back and read the OP's link. He was with family. I have no idea why he'd be unidentified, then.

"That's not my son, my son had a head!"

[BarTopDancer]

Maybe the official identification?

[MouseWife]

That made me go back and read the OP's link. He was with family. I have no idea why he'd be unidentified, then.

Because he was under 18?

Yeah, I yell at the dumba$$ people who run in front of my car {illegally, unexpectedly, not that I am speeding, etc., they are cocky pedestrians} because damnit, I do NOT want to see what happens to them and I don't to be a part of it.

Where my husband works people have jumped. It isn't pretty and there are people who work there who've been in Vietnam who just can't do it because of the flashbacks.

I told my son, 14, what happened and he couldn't believe the kid would be that stupid. {MouseWife is right now praying he continues to feel that way....}

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Darwin award winner!

[RStar]

Darwin award winner!

And as a prize, he gets a new hat!

Oh, wait.

He has no head to put it on. But then, he never had on to begin with....

[Tref]

Theme parks like to give roller coasters a lot of scary names, like the Buzzsaw and the Exterminator, but you'll notice none has any called, The Decapitator or the Kicked in the Head Really Hard Coaster.

[RStar]

Theme parks like to give roller coasters a lot of scary names, like the Buzzsaw and the Exterminator, but you'll notice none has any called, The Decapitator or the Kicked in the Head Really Hard Coaster.

Yes, "The Decapitator"!!!

[Prudence]

Every time I read about decapitation I want a sno-cone.

[Strangler Lewis]

"That's not my son, my son had a head!"

Or as the old Jewish joke punchline goes, "He had a hat."

Don't think I was there that day, but didn't some people we know get booted from Disneyland because somebody went after his hat on the People Mover?

[Gemini Cricket]

"That's not my son, my son had a head!"
Well, it's a good thing you didn't try to retrieve your hat on your own on Mulholland Madness, €uroMeinke.

[CoasterMatt]

Next Batman film? "Batman Beheads"

[CoasterMatt]

Old school...

[€uroMeinke]

Don't think I was there that day, but didn't some people we know get booted from Disneyland because somebody went after his hat on the People Mover?


heh - yeah

[€uroMeinke]

Well, it's a good thing you didn't try to retrieve your hat on your own on Mulholland Madness, €uroMeinke.

Their fence is much taller - beside I already took it in the crotch riding the dang thing in the first place.

[Boss Radio]

Don't think I was there that day, but didn't some people we know get booted from Disneyland because somebody went after his hat on the People Mover?

From the front of Circlevision, I threw Chris Morse's hat back to him that he had thrown at Euro and me from the Peoplemover. The hat missed his car, and landed on the track. Morse leaped out of the Peoplemover, ran out on the track, got his hat, and was pounced upon by DL staff, including some surprisingly nondescript undercover folks. They got the rest of us on the ground and ejected us from the park.

Sadly, it was not the first time.
Nor was it to be the last...

I'm happy to report that we are all much better behaved now.

[€uroMeinke]

I'm happy to report that we are all much better behaved now.

Sadly probably because we are older and slower now

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm happy to report that we are all much better behaved now.Perhaps for now, however you do seem to be showing up to more socializing, which means you'll be around Chris. You know those hedonists, they've got a knack for somehow bringing out the mischief in people. For all the right reasons of course.

[Boss Radio]

Perhaps for now, however you do seem to be showing up to more socializing, which means you'll be around Chris. You know those hedonists, they've got a knack for somehow bringing out the mischief in people. For all the right reasons of course.

Absolutely. And there are not many people I would care to go to Mickey Jail with, but you people all qualify.

And as for Chris and Strangler, we have the distinction of being asked to leave every major Southern California theme park (in the late 1970s) and in some cases, like Knott's Berry Farm, photographed and told never to return.

Good times.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Every time I see this thread the song "Over my head" by Fleetwood Mac starts playing in my head.

Followed by "On Top of Spaghetti.."

How odd...

[RStar]

Followed by "On Top of Spaghetti.."

How odd...

He lost his poor meat ball, when he went for his hat.....

I think there is a possibility for a "Theme Park Decapitation" song!

[Gemini Cricket]

What was he thinking? Did he lose his mind?

[CoasterMatt]

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