Ever almost fall out of a coaster?

As far as one-click rides go, there's a difference between wanting some extra airtime and just being stupid. You can get extra airtime by letting your lap bar a little bit loose, but one click is just stupid IMO...

Thanks for your opinion. I'm certainly glad I asked for it from you personally. Look, I said from the beginning that this wasn't something to make what I did look fun, great, neat. I'm not telling people to try it, or give hints on how to fool ride ops. I'm giving you a scenario and wondered if this was something that had happened to anyone else. The topic is called "ever almost fall out of a coaster?" NOT "Hey, judge me based on an ADMITTED mistake I made".

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Why do we fear Mack trucks, but not Mack Wild Mouse coasters?

PkI FaNaTiC said:

Front seat Screehcin Eagle.....o yeah. You know how it is.

Yes, I do. That has some violent airtime in the front seat. I love it. The back seat also has some great air, but the front seat is where it's at. :)

Once on Batman the ride at Great America when i was 10. In the zero g roll i got whipped to the side and only my shins were left in!!!! I got righted after it so I held on TIGHT FOR THE REST OF THE RIDE!!!! That was freaky! Then i was really skinny so i din't ride batman alot after that but then I got fat :-(

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Have you ever been to SFGAm and seen Deja Vu closed? If you have then go again and it WILL BE DEJA VU!

Sorry I couldn't hear you, The voices in my head are drowning you out.

god, beema hypers fully extended whitch is 2 clicks (anything less then that and they can't dispatch) is awesome. I have done it in the front back and a couple of middle rows on nitro and let me tell ya, sros what? sros who? the air my not be as insane but when you are a foot and a half off the seat hanging by your knees to high up to grab a thing with the 80 mph wind in your face, well, i wish more of you get to experiance that. After one ride on sros at sfne with the lapbar pulled forward like 3 inches cause the way i held my knees in the station and just a loose seat belt, well never gonna do THAT again... I have found my sanity since that. I advise to give oneself room on a beema but not on an inta, float on a beema eject on an inta. That essantially no lapbar ride on sros though was magical.

I've seen an employee at SFWoA stand the entire course of Big Dipper before. On the turnaround hill, he got so much air, I swear I thought he was going to fly out!

Another time, some jerks decided to stand on Raging Wolf Bobs. I thought they were goners for sure at a headchopper, but they ducked quickly.

How are you only getting "one-click"? That doesn't make sense. Unless the employees are not even looking, I am confused.

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I know, it is very confusing. I'm confused also.

I was present when Homey G. almost fell out. I am not ashamed to say, I was laughing my arse off. Obviously, I did not want him to fall out, or get hurt, but it was funny. I had a scary incident on a ride once and I laughed then. I'd be laughing if what happened to Brian happened to me. I always go for one click, even after I saw what happened on Ga Cyclone.

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"Air time is not a crime. Take a click, you're a prick" - Kris Allen (Jul 2002, HW)

I'm not attempting to bash anyone or anything...but aren't coaster enthusiasts suppose to set a positive example for others? Riding a coaster the way you are suppose to seems like a good example to set. Yes, it's not fun to be stapled (boy, do I know from experience!) but when you try to have no restraint at all just for a slightly enhanced ride (if any enhancement at all) just seems silly. But that's just me.

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Hmm I really bet this is the kind of thread the media just eats up... More regulation on coasters we go, ever wonder why KBF staples people on Xcelerator?

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Doubtful that there are that many media headhunters for coasters that visit coaster sites. There may be a few, but...

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Why do we fear Mack trucks, but not Mack Wild Mouse coasters?

BrandonR said:
ever wonder why KBF staples people on Xcelerator?

Probably because they don't want anyone to be launched out into the middle of the street, haha.

I was just at Dorney Park several weeks ago. I was riding Thunderhawk in the front seat. At the top of the 2nd hill my lapbar unlocked and opened in the full upright position. I was almost thrown from the train. I always where my seatbel loose and if I hadn't hooked my arm through the lapbar I would have been thrown. I started a thread about this.

http://www.coasterbuzz.com/forums/thread.asp?ForumID=11&TopicID=22358

Some people had said that if the lapbar went in the complete upright position it would have locked that way. It did lock, but I was able to pull it back down. Pretty much the same way that It flew up on me. That was the scariest experience I have ever had on a coaster.

Even if a seatbelt is loose I still do not see how your legs are able to straighteb enough to fly out. Unless there is no seatbelt I think a lot of these type of stories are embellished or you people weight 90 pounds.

Of course I have saw stranger things happen like Kneemeister almost get thrown out of a kiddy coaster.

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All I need is 4.5 million bucks and a half a mile long sliver of land and maybe someone could build me my very own Shivering Timbers. ;)

I didn't have a seatbelt on MagnumForce. Old coasters that I have ridden for years(i.e Hersheypark's Comet) without seatbelts, and they suddenly add them because the rest of their coasters in the park have them. I ignored that until I was almost tossed on Thunderhawk. My legs were straight. I am not sensationalizing the occurence or anything. I have about 16 other witnesses on the train that all seen the same thing. It's scary. It made me realize that I should fasten my seatbelt even if the coaster didn't have them before. sometime lessons are learned the hardway, But I wouldn't be here talking about them if it was that hard. ;)

BrandonR said:

A friend and I prevented a little girl from falling out of a Rapids ride, does that count? She unbuckled her seatbelt and walked around the raft but we made her get back int he seat... Why are small kids always unattended on rides?
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http://www.coasters2k.com

Ack!! Where was her parent! :-(

on the iron dragon with my sister i felt the horsecollar loose a click but it held for the remainder of the ride

That same thing happened on Thunderhalk to me but only this time the seat belt came undone and not the lap bar.

It is not just the small that can get tossed out of their seats on these rides. I am a pretty heavy fellow and Viper darn near threw me clear of the train. If I hadnt grabbed the headrest in front of me, who knows what would have happened. I have sworn off of one or two click rides forever. They are foolish and tempting fate. I will still give myself a bit of room but not that much again.

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"So you think your'e really brave, gonna see the DEMONS cave.
You silly dude, your'e only food, for the DEMON"

Earlier this year on the Phoenix at Knoebels there was a boy about 8 or 9 years old sitting next to me. I don't know whether or not he met the height limit, but his thighs were barely long enough to be secured by the lap bar, and he was holding his hands up. I finally convinced him that this ride was too dangerous for that unless his knees could touch the front partition of the car. Even though he wasn't my kid, I wasn't going to let him go flying out of the train.

There've been a few times in the ejector seat of Magnum that if there was no seat belt, I probably would have ended up landing somewhere in the back of the train! :) On MF's drop I've gotten enough room between me and the lapbar that I had to stand up or I'd have kept falling over, probably planting my face into the lapbar at the bottom of the hill. (This was back in 2000 when I was a bit too adventureous and now know it was pretty stupid).

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