Taken from here:http://www.themeparkinsider.com/accidents/list_unverified.cfm My daughter, age 9, had her two front teeth broken off while she was carrying an innertube up the stairs on the water slide. She slipped on the stairs, which were dirty with pebbles, and wood chips from the landscaping, and they where also wet from water dripping from the plumbing of the ride. She was unable to catch herself because of carring the innertube.
Well you don’t exactly deserve to complain,ma’am. I’ve been to our local Hurricane Harbor many times and it’s clearly posted not only as you enter but all over the damn place that the ground is likely to be slippery and to watch out for debris on the ground(pebbles,woodchips from landscaping,etc). I’ve also had experience with those inner tubes and they are HEAVY!! What kind of moron are you to make her (or as you state ‘let her’) carry those damn things up stairs? I am a GROWN woman and I can barely carry a singleton by myself. BY MYSELF!!! You should have helped her carry the innertube and told her to watch her step and perhaps…perhaps she wouldn’t have fallen and broken two teeth. Moron.
For a second I thought this thread was going to be trashing amusement park employees, came in with a clue by four ready to beat ** I_Dig_Bad_Boys ** till she begged me to marry her.
5 years in amusement park operations taught me several things.
People cannot read.
People are not responsible for their own actions.
We are required to address Opal
Spending $5 makes me the customers personal slave bitch
or at least thats what they thought until security drags their whining, scene causing, armadillo stuffing*, ass out the front gate.
I have seen people try to sue for injuries to a child who ran into a wall. 7,000 square foot building, yep the big blue one right there…hey kid!!.. THUMP! Yep that park WTF were they thinking putting up a building right where someone might collide with it. What do you want a sign? You won’t read the “DANGER: COLLIDING WITH THIS BUILDING MAY CAUSE INJURY, STAY BACK AT LEAST 1 FOOT” sign. Next thing you know we will have to hang warning signs on every freaking car in the parking lot that it could move at any moment.
A gerbil just won’t do with a major asshole, however I do not endorse the sexual exploitation of armadillos for any reason.
I was fixin to say I hope you don’t endore sexual explotations of armadillos.
But some people are just plain stupid. On the many occassions I have visited our Hurricane Harbor, I’ve had the chance to enjoy the Wave Pool. As would be assumed, at certain points (denoted by a loud whistle just prior) there are giant waves in this pool. I have seen several times where an unattended child (usually between the ages of 6 and 10 or so)has almost drowned in the wave pool because they were either a)not wearing a life jacket or b)not with their parents and managed to slip/fall off their innertube into the crashing water and/or concrete bottom of the pool.
Man walks straight up to me, approaching from my 1 o’clock position. Pauses right in front of me. Looks expectantly. Gets annoyed when I ignore him.
Man: Um, excuse me.
Me: Yes?
Man: EXCUSE ME.
Me: Yes, what?
Man: Excuse me, can you move?
Me: No.
Man. Move!
Me: Sorry, I can’t.
Man (exasperated): Why not?
Me (low and slow): Because I am leaning against a wall.
He looks up and around me, suddenly aware of the BUILDING behind me, which must have previously escaped his attention. Shocked! Turns and walks off to my left.
Observation of a Woman at the Rennaissance Festival.
I’m on the balcony of one of the shops, people watching. I see this woman walk by, alone, looking very pissy.
10 minutes later she walks by again, going the same direction.
20 minutes later she walks by a third time, again going the same direction. Only this time, she is loudly complaining to no one in particular about how the whole place looks the same.
IDBD , I work for an insurance co and we insure travelling amusement parks and theme parks. I was surprised how often these type of claims occur (and they do a lot).
But there are real claims, some really nasty nasty stuff I see that happen at these places. In fact, I will not ever go on a travelling amusement park ride and haven’t since I started working at the co. and reading these claims. Although my favorite was when a gorilla girl got loose and scared the audience and a guy ran into a fence and broke his nose. (I never found out what the gorilla girl looked like, but it was a person). Very odd.
stpauler–a gorilla girl huh? Wierd. Chimera–LOL…some of the worst idiots I have met I have met at WDW,including the insert ominous scary voice here**CHALK PEOPLE. Chalk people are these morons(and I’ve seen them all three times I’ve been there)who bring their own giant sticks of sidewalk chalk (or sometimes towels from the hotels) and mark their place on the sidewalk/road before a parade is about to start. If you go anywhere NEAR their ‘spot’ they will throw a bloody fit about it. I hate them almost as much as I hate the pushy parents who try and shove their kids to the front of the meet-n-greet lines where the characters are. Once,I was proud to witness Hercules telling a mom off, in a nice,Disneyfied way of course. The mother had pushed her son in front of some other people who started to complain and Hercules said to the mom,“I wouldn’t want to encourage your son to act in an un-hero like way,if I were you ma’am.” and sent them to the back of the line. I clapped and I think other people did too. Twas pretty cool
Damn. And I though Disney’s Park “Cast Members” weren’t really allowed to have opinions of their own like that. Bonus points to the guy for keeping in character too.
Reminds me of the time in August 1999 my wife and I took a whole gaggle of Girl Scouts to King’s Dominion for the day. They were clamoring to ride on the famous fastest, scariest ride, I forget what it was called, Ultra Gonzo Monster or something like that. We found that it was inexplicably shut down. Sorry, kids.
The next day we found out that only the day before we went, a passenger had been thrown from Ultra Gonzo Monster to his death. :eek: <urk>
The incident happened just this week at Disneyworld’s ‘Animal Kingdom’ & made my jaw drop just a bit.
While wandering near an area in which many exotic birds were congregating, I barely noticed family with a few kids (one of whom was a baby in a stroller) near me. The area with the best view of the birds happened to be at the top of a rather steep hill. No one was, of course, hanging onto (or paying any attention to) the stroller with said baby inside.
I noticed, all of a sudden, that the stroller just moved a bit. The family was still entranced by the (admittedly beautiful) birds. The stroller started to roll a bit more - I dashed over & grabbed the handle so that the tyke didn’t take an unscheduled trip down the paved hill.
Stroller handle in my grip, I inquired of the family (who were standing not six feet away from me), “Um, excuse me, is this your kid?”. I thought I was plenty loud, but somehow I got no response. I tried again, louder: “Hello? Excuse me…guys? Your kid’s stroller was starting to roll a bit over here”. No response for a few moments, then a 10-12 year old boy with the group took the reins from me without a word, but with a pretty blank expression.
The whole experience made my head hurt - I can’t understand how people could be completely oblivious to their own kid’s physical safety! I mean, I logically understand, but I don’t get it. Oy. I really think that I could’ve walked off with the kid, at least for a couple minutes, if I’d been so inclined.
Argh. So yeah, I guess all this has to do with the OP is that it took place in a theme park. My apologies if this qualifies as a hijack.
Yeah, and God help you if you lose your numbered token 'cause the coatcheck ladies get really pissy when the best you can do is describe your brain as “greyish, with left and right hemispheres.”
Twas pretty cool