A D-bag Gets Deflated
Amazingly she filmed most of the ride and when we got off no one said anything to her. Ten minutes later though the ride opps stopped another group about half way up and took a camera from one of them.
The one time I was SURE I was going to see somebody get busted on my own train (I never got stopped on Steel Force, or anything else) was on Fahrenheit last year. The guy in front of me videoed the whole ride on his cell phone -- including as he passed the on-ride photo camera. Then, the genius decides that he's going to go look at his photo! But nothing happened to him.
In 2007 at SFA the operators on Superman were actually encouraging people to get out their phones and take pictures/videos on the ride. I was more than a little upset when I narrowly avoided being smashed in the face with a phone on the final bunny hops.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Zakkster said:
Amazingly she filmed most of the ride and when we got off no one said anything to her. Ten minutes later though the ride opps stopped another group about half way up and took a camera from one of them.
I was on one of the first trains on Maverick a few weekends back, we go up, train stops, goes back slowly. Ride op comes out, talks to front train, takes a guy's Gameboy he was going to use for the on-ride photo. Gameboy.
He was playing Pokemon Red. Blue's waaaay better anyway...
LostKause said:
coasterqueenTRN said:
Don't forget about the D-bags who think it's OK to text or talk on their cell phones while going up a lift hill, or even talking WHILE the coaster is running!-Tina
"Hello? Hello-We're on Griffon...GRIFFON! We're riding it right now! Where you at? ...I SAID WHERE YOU AT?"
:)
LOL! Yeah, I see that quite a bit! It's like what is so damn important that they can't wait for a couple of minutes? I worry more about getting smacked in the head by cell phones and cameras than I do someone throwing up on me!
-Tina
OK, ok...I hate to admit this but I've used a cell phone while riding a coaster. I called a friend who couldn't make the trip and left him a play-by-play of Conneaut Blue Streak on his voice mail.
One other time I saw people removed from a ride was also at Knoebels. On the Flying Trapeze of all things. We were in line for the High-Speed and saw it all happen. 4 teenage guys kept kicking and grabbing each other's swings. The ride op told them to knock it off, but they didn't stop.
So the ride stops, the op pics up the mike and says, "The ride is not over, so everybody please remain seated. Except for YOU 4." Anyone in that whole area could hear what was happening and was watching. And security was there by that time, so they weren't going to give her any lip. Talk about your walk of shame as they were escorted away.
Even if I was allowed to take on-ride photos with a camera or a phone I wouldn't. I have before when it was allowed and it's waaayyyyy too much work and hassle, even on kiddy coasters. It's not worth risking losing my expensive camera or cell phone! :)
-Tina
RatherGoodBear said:
One other time I saw people removed from a ride was also at Knoebels. On the Flying Trapeze of all things. We were in line for the High-Speed and saw it all happen. 4 teenage guys kept kicking and grabbing each other's swings. The ride op told them to knock it off, but they didn't stop.
This is going to sound crazy, but on The Board That Shall Not Be Named, there was a thread a few months ago about an old carnival ride, that the poster had only ever seen one of, called Kick Boodie (that's how the owners spelled it) which was a swing-type ride where you were encouraged to interact with the other swings. It sounds incredible, but they had pictures. I don't suppose it would be any worse for the ride hardware than snapping flyers, but since the object of the game was to kick the swing next to you away and then recapture it as you both swung around chaotically at increasing speeds, there would've been a real risk for the riders.
I did that before on a few Camp Snoopy (CP atl 2001) rides! Good fun!
-Travis
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