Bizarre Park Rules - CoasterBuzz

SFStl didn't allow you to use the 2-way FM radios about 4 years ago. They told me they would cause problems with their own radios. When I pointed out the radio operates on the "Family Band" and their radios probably weren't and shouldn't even be on those frequencies they threatened to pull my pass. By the end of the season they didin't seem to care.

Jeff

I still think it is odd that King's Island wouldn't let me (a man) walk around without my shirt on. This isn't a common practice for me but a girl in our group wore a white t-shirt to the park and we rode the log ride. Lo and behold, she got drenched and you could see through the shirt and it was more than obvious she wasn't wearing a bra.

So, I was the gentleman and gave her the shirt off my back so that she could cover up. This was fine for about 20 minutes until a security guard approached and told me to put my shirt back on. When I explained the problem he said, "well, you will have to go buy a t-shirt from the gift shop."

wahoo... of course I dont know you or know what you look like...but I can say that some guys NEED TO KEEP THEIR SHIRTS ON! I (being not a small person ) can say that other not small persons should keep their shirts on. So as not to discriminate against heavier people even the smaller people should keep their shirts on. An amusement park is a family place and I dont think that in a family place that men should be without shirts (unless of course in a water park) You dont go out to dinner or a movie without your shirt on so why should you at a park.

Again wahoo please dont think I'm getting on to you.. as it was very gentlemanly of you to give her your shirt, I am just simply stating my opinion

Plus: I really don't want to ride in coaster seat that some big guy just got done sweating all over. Just ruins the whole ride.

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*** This post was edited by NoLimitChic on 4/29/2002. ***

I am gonna have to agree with NLC on this one. There is nothing I hate more than a bunch of rowdy white guys with beer bellies (I am myself a white guy with a beer belly) that think they are going to turn on every girl at the park showing their ghost white fat bellies. I agree fully with the T-Shirt rule to protect the public from this nucense.

As for the stupidest rule I have seen, it has to be the no pictures rule at SFWOA. I was told a few times to put my camera away while taking pictures of a ride from outside the ride line itself.

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coasterdude318 said:
By not allowing singles in the back seat, you're providing that "witness" - whoever sits behind them in the back seat. I have no idea how this works on less busy days when nobody takes the back seat, as I've never seen the policy in effect.

SFGadv is my home park, and this is the same reason I've been told is why they have that policy. The actual policy is "No single riders allowed in the last occupied row", which covers them in case only the first half of the train is filled.

The strangest ones I have seen are:

-Psyclone,Six Flags Magic Mountain- If you have a driink or food, the operator tells you to take it one the ride or they'll throw it away. Now the part where they suggest taking it on the ride is what I don't get.

Last time I was there, the girl in front of me(in line) was forced to take her Coke on Psyclone. That rough ride tossed her Coke all over the place. When the train came back to the station, there was a soaked girl and a wet seat.

Maliboomer, Disney California Adventure- Is it me or are those plastic mask that all riders must wear over their face the most disgusting park rule on the planet?

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Vertigo, what do you mean 'masks'? They make you wear masks on Maliboomer? I have never heard of that before....

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Take a good look at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure because in a few years the Sea World side will look exactly like it does, a zoo.

They are shields to keep anything that comes out of your mouth from hiting people on the ground.

This isn't theme park related, but, here it goes. A Sweedish chainsaw company had to put a warning saying that the blades will not stop if you try to use your hands or GENETALS to stop on their chainsaws! When they put a notice like that, you know some one has tried it!

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That and Disney didn't want the screaming from the ride to be heard throughout the entire park. I believe that one of the biggest task that the Imagineers had while making the setting for Calfornia Screamin' was a way to cut off the screams of the riders without taking away thrills from the ride. That is one of the main reason they cover some of the largest drop(but to make them seem part of the ride they added effect, music, and lighting).

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Lake Compounce-So Fresh and So Clean Clean

I don't understand MIA's policy on Adventure Falls. They state you have to wear a shirt over your swim suit (guess there was a problem with girls 'flashing"). I saw a woman who was in a wheelchair go through all of the trouble of getting on the ride and then they made her get off cuz she didn't have a shirt over her swimsuit (she had shorts on though). This didn't make sense as she had on a one-peice bathing suit so obviously she wouldn't been able to flash if she tried. MIA should make the 'shirt over your swimsuit" policy just if you are wearing a two peice.....

I think that "fill the last occupied row" is something of an urban legend.... I have heard so many people at SFOG talk about this, but it has never been in any rule book... and besides, if you were in the back and one person was ejected, more than likely it's a major problem and the other rider is going with them!

rockman89 said:

They are shields to keep anything that comes out of your mouth from hiting people on the ground.

Uh, no. Its all about the mixture of screaming riders and their expensive hotels. :) They don't go together well.

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MisterX said:

I think that "fill the last occupied row" is something of an urban legend.... I have heard so many people at SFOG talk about this, but it has never been in any rule book... and besides, if you were in the back and one person was ejected, more than likely it's a major problem and the other rider is going with them!

I know for a fact this policy exists at SFMM - if not on all rides, I can tell you with absolute certainty that they follow it on Goldrusher. I've never heard of it in effect at any other parks besides SFMM and SFGAdv.

-Nate

IF thet have Maliboomer, then do you think they're building Tower of Terror to replace Maliboomer(meaning take Maliboomer out)? IT's kind of strange having four drop tower in one park if they are seperate.

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I know for a long time there used to be that "No Singles in the Back Row" rule on SFGAm's Demon. I recall it vividly because I wanted to ride in the back and the person I was with didnt so I was going to ride solo till I saw the sign hanging on the right (back) wall of the station. I think it still says that on SFGAdv's Runaway Train (where is further states an age requirement)
jeremy
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Besides, if we were really shutting down people we disagreed with, would Jeremy (2Hostyl) still be around? :) I think not. - Jeff 1/24/02

I think I will add a second vote to that "urban legend" of the "No single riders in the back seat".

If that were the reason (witnesses in the case of ejections), what if both persons were "ejected?"

I do know that at Hersheypark there are signs that say "single riders board in the center of the train". (I.E. not in the first or last seats). I have the feeling this has more to do with filling the train than anything else. (Front and Back are most popular... therefore no single riders so they will not being sending trains away with one of the most popular seats open). However, it is not enforced.

Also, at SFA, I encountered no problem riding single in the back seat of ROAR.

The "no singles last row" rule is an old Six Flags rule that has been decaying into complete disappearance since Premier Parks bought the chain. You'll find it enforced unevenly at the older Six Flags parks (and at the conversions if they bring in crews from the older parks) but as the crews rotate out, the rule is gradually going away.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Here at SFGAdv, the single-rider rule is no longer. Why? No idea! I do know that SFMM has that rule, as I experienced first hand by having to find a single rider for X in the last row.

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Corey
"Have you ever tried backing out of a drive-through bank?" - George Carlin

At Lagoon, we Strictly Enforce the "No Single Riders in the Front/Back Row" Policy. One aspect of this Policy no one has mentioned is, The Park is less Liable if there is a Witness to such an Incident, therefore resulting in Cheaper Insurance Premiums.

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coasterdude318 said:
Single riders are not allowed in the back seat because, in case something were to happen to that single rider (ejection from the ride, perhaps), there would be no witness to the incident. By not allowing singles in the back seat, you're providing that "witness" - whoever sits behind them in the back seat. I have no idea how this works on less busy days when nobody takes the back seat, as I've never seen the policy in effect.
-Nate

I have had this happen to me many times, on busy and non busy days. But its only happened to me on looping coasters.