I spent a few days at Six Flaggs Great America. First because my cousin when overboard with her sons birthday and had a party there, then me and my boy spent a few days there just to ride coasters.
The lines weren’t too bad. Except for the newer rides. He had to wait 40 minutes for one. When we became next in line to get on, all of a sudden a young man came through the exit area, pushing another guy in a wheel chair. The ride operator bumped us and let these 2 go on instead. I learned that handicapped people get to come through the exit area and get right onto the ride. I’ll confess that this annoyed me a bit. But, what the heck. We were bumped and had to wait for the next ride. No biggie.
Then, later in the day, I saw these 2 pricks again. Only they were both walking, casually pushing the wheel chair. I saw them walk up to a ride exit, one guy jumped into the chair, the other guy pushed. Those fucking bastards!
Those cock sucking bastards rented the wheel chair at the front gate and used it to by-pass all the lines! During the rest of that day we saw these 2 fucks doing this, taking alternate turns about who sat in the chair. When my son pointed this out to ride operators and also security, nothing was done!:mad:
You want to pretend to be handicapped, cocksuckers? Why pretend? Have someone put a bullet in your spine, then you won’t have to pretend! Fall off your motorcycle doing 60! Have a fucking stroke! Have a mother fucking stroke while falling off your motorcycle because someone shot you in the back! Because if anyone has ever deserved to be paralyzed, it’s you 2 cocksuckers!
Now that I think about it, we should have pointed these jerks out to the family members of people there who are really disabled! See how funny they think it is to pretend to be handicapped! Missed oportunity I guess! Fucking jerks!:mad:
That is the most goddam egregiously heinous abuse that I ever heard of. Parading that scam right in front of others is really pushing your luck, they’re lucky they didn’t leave the park on a gurney instead of pushing a wheelchair.
But I’ll throw a curve ball at you. Be careful about making assumptions about people with hidden handicaps. A few years back, I had a major surgery, I’d been healthy all my life so I had never even imagined of being in a condition where I’d walk slowly for 20 yards and then be so exhausted that I had to stop and rest for 10 minutes. I was in a totally debilitated condition, and I also had terrible problems with my balance right at the icy peak of winter, and if I fell down I’d probably end up back in the hospital. My doctor suggested I get a 90 day handicapped parking permit, so I did, quite legitimately I might add, my doctor even sent me for balance testing to assess my risk of falling and injuring myself and he thought I really needed it, so I could get a second signature on the required forms.
But the problem is, I looked absolutely normal. Well, I did move a bit slowly, but it’s not like I even had a limp or some other obvious condition. And boy you ought to see the glares I used to get from people when I used handicapped parking spots, even with my special permit on display. They immediately assumed I had no legitimate handicap. Well excuse me, I absolutely needed that special access, if I had to walk all the way from the parking ramp, I’d be too exhausted to even make it, let alone sit through my 45min class. You ought to see the scorn I got when I had to take the elevator up 1 floor because I was too weak to climb the stairs. And oh the dirty looks when I took the elevator 1 floor DOWN. Well, at least I healed after a few months.
So this is a tough problem, but perhaps related. People have legitimate but hidden handicaps, and people see this and think, “look at that faker, if he can get away with special privileges, I can do it too.” And then you get some total asshole like the guys you saw.
This dodge doesn’t work at Six Flags Magic Mountain. The guy in the wheelchair can come to the front of the line. But he’ll have to wait there for his buddies, who do not get to come straight to the front of the line.
You can not just get a wheel chair and hop right to the head of the line. You need to get a line pass at customer relations. In order to recieve the pass you need some kind of proof (i.e. a doctors note or such) to prove your disability.
I had to get a line pass last summer when we went to 6 Flags, because I had hip surgery 3 months prior to going and had just gotton off of crutches two weeks before. I could walk but I had to stop for frequent breaks.
Trust me folks, these guys were not handicapped. They were taking turns riding in the chair, and when we saw them walking, they were walking briskly, at one point almost running towards a ride. This was 100% scam. I know nothing about the proceedure about how to rent a wheelchair at 6 flags, but these guys had one, and there was nothing wrong with them. We were not the only ones who saw them and complained, several others did and commented. As far as I know, nothing was done!
I made a couple of editing errors in there, so maybe it wasn’t clear, but I totally believe you that these guys weren’t handicapped. Just pointing out that there are legit handicaps that are invisible.
As one with a real “handicap” (above knee amputation) asshole worthless fucks like that piss me off. Makes me want to take my fake leg off and beat the shit out of em with it.
However, I figure they will get their due one way or another; destiny and all that…
Agreeed about the hidden handicaps, but these kids sound like plain old punk assholes.
I would pay cash money to see that, I really would. This stuff makes my blood boil. Only because I have a disability and am a total bitch/scene-maker, I would have had someones ass that day- either the kids or the park management. Someone would have paid for that bullshit.
It’s not too late to write a few letters, pk. Perhaps they don’t require a check if you bring in your own chair? I would absolutely alert management about it and find out what they WILL do in the future.
Zette
as TCMsneeze has said here before, “I get so mad I could shit sparks.”
Yeah, the same thing happens here at Busch Gardens in Tampa. Anyone can just rent a wheelchair and use it to jump the lines. Because of that, if you do not get to the park early enough the rental office runs out of wheelchairs. Mrs. Amp and I once went and brought along her brother, who has a bum leg, with us. At the time he didn’t own a wheelchair and only had crutches. He was still able to bypass the lines but the poor bastard had to walk around the park on crutches all day long because all the wheelchairs were rented. That day we saw three apparent cases of fraud. When we pointed them out to security they just shrugged it off.
Both my mother and father qualify for handicap status and it really chaps my ass when I see folks do shit like this. I usually confront them and tell them, “Ignorance is a handicap, but it doesn’t get you a sticker.”
Waitasecond . . . What kind of amusement park ride could a wheelchair-bound person ride on, anyway? Do you haul him out of the chair, dump him on a rollercoaster and hope his arms work so’s he can hold on? And who holds the wheelchair while he’s riding?
Not trying to be a weisenheimer, this just makes no sense to me . . . I can see where if you’re blind or deaf or have a missing limb, you could ride some of these things, but paralyzed?
For the longest time in Philly there was free parking for anyone with a handicap card in their car. There were certain streets that had about 75% of the cars parked with the handicap card showing. City hall just passed a resolution saying that if you have the card showing you now have to pay the meter, the parking authority is supposed to give you an hour to pay the meter if it expired. Guess how many handicapped cars are on those streets now. What the fuck is wrong with people who are screwing people who have a legitimate disability. These people have good jobs, nice cars and they don’t want to pay the meter, fuck em all.
Not to lessen what those two buttweasels did but…
Just because someone may appear non-handicapped does not mean anything.
Case in point, one of my best IRL friends was diagnosed with MS just over a year ago. When she’s in remission,she walks slowly. When she’s in the middle of a flare-up, her entire left side is numb and she needs a cane to walk. Certain things aggravate it, such as intense heat.
A few days ago, when Chicago was under a heat advisory,we went to the mall. She parked in a handicapped space-she has a sticker-and when she got out of the car, I heard some asshole making a comment about how a “perfectly healthy young woman” had scammed the system.
I wanted to pull her cane out of the trunk and beat him with it.
Eve,
I love ya. You know that. I have to take issue with your post above.
[one trick pony act- sorry]
First off, “wheelchair-bound person” is not just un-PC, it’s inaccurate. Many people are not “bound” to a wheelchair, they use one to get around.
People use wheelchairs for many reasons, and lots of people who use them to get around can drive a car, operate machinery, ride park rides and do similar activities that you and I do. Some people have full use of their arms, but not legs. A good friend of mine who uses a wheelchair rolls up to the driver side of her truck, climbs in (with her arms), folds up the chair and tosses it in the back.
No one said that people who use wheelchairs are paralyzed. There is a broad range of reasons for using a wheelchair, which includes, but is not limited to,quadraplegia. I’m not trying to single you out or give you a hard time, just trying to provide a little eye opener. Of course people should not ride a ride if it is unsafe for them physically, but I’m betting that a lot of people who use wheelchairs in parks are either temporarily disabled (broken leg, etc) or possibly have a condition like asthma and cannot haul ass all over the park like everyone else.
I, for one, am well enough to ride park rides, but not able to haul my ass all over the park for an entire day. I’ve not needed a wheelchair as of yet, but if I went to a large park, I probably would get one to use for the day.