Idiot on Medusa (SFGAdv)

Whilst queuing for the Pirate ship a few years ago at Alton Towers I saw a woman being told she couldn't take her baby (and i mean baby....couple of months old) on to the ride (obviously) the woman kicked up a fuss and left the ride.

When I got off the ride I saw the same woman about to queue for the ride again but with a big coat on covering up the baby!

People like that should be locked up.

That's so stupid, a signed document of what? It doesn't matter, if the kid is too short he doesn't get to ride. At BGT some girl got semi-forced on Gwazi by her parents and screamed all the way out of the station so they E-stopped the ride. Waste of thirty minutes. Even if they kid wanted to ride, TOO SHORT IS DANGEROUS.

Going back to the movie thing there were little kids when I saw Underworld, Freddy Vs. Jason, American Wedding, and OATI Mexico. Parents just don't seem to care about their kids these days.
*** This post was edited by Willh51 10/7/2003 7:53:42 PM ***

Well , I witnessed an activity of good GP behavior.

Once on the Georgia Cyclone, they had to measure this kid because he looked short. They measured Him , did anything they could to get him on the ride , but to no avail. The kid missed it by half an inch. The Father told his kid to wait by the exit, and said " Don't worry , we'll come back sometime this year, when you're tall enough." Then, we got the ride and nothing more. We did feel rather sad for the kid though.

*just a refreshing break*

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Heck , I woudn't want my kid on that thing.

Working at CP, when parents were told their kid was not tall enough, those that argued almost always threatened to tell my supervisor. Yes, PLEASE tell my supervisor that I was enforcing the rule. It only tells them I'm doing my job! Do people actually think that the ride host will get into trouble for doing their job well? Another thing that irked me is when people would say to my face that I don't know the rules (often using profanity in front of their crying children). Please...

About the wristband system, it works very well, but is not perfect. I've seen parents try to change wristbands on their kids, etc. Therefore, we were to measure all kids, even those with wristbands...the wristband is accepted only if the kid is very close to the height requirement (1/4 inch). Also, if a kid is not tall enough...chances are the parent will take off the wristband and try to enter line without it.

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Sean Paul
CP 'Screw Crew 2003

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CoasterFan4Life said:
The stupidity of some people doesn't even surprise me anymore. For example the guy in NYC who got mauled by a tiger he had living in his tiny apartment....

Ride of Steel, that wouldn't happen to be at the Forest of Fear, would it?

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No, its located in Chittenango NY, near Syracuse. It has two haunted houses Creepy Cabins, 25,000 square feet of amazingly themed rooms. And Intensity Zombie Zone, featuring a maze in COMPLETE darkness, and then leading into this haunted house themed to the movie deep rising.

cool stuff,

here kiddy, kitty kitty, im playin in the park, you kno where you can find me cause as always, we'll be waitin for you...in the dark

I love haunted houses

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It depends on the ride, quite honestly.

For example, there are rides out there where the size and proportions of the rider really don't matter much, but the manufacturer is more interested in the rider's level of maturity. That's why we see a lot of 'at least nn" or accompanied by an adult' rides...the height limit is established as a substitute for an age requirement. I have a list of manufacturer ride limitations researched and published by the Ohio Department of Agriculture some years ago, and several manufacturers have age requirements. Huss comes immediately to mind...after all, why does it make any difference how tall the rider is on an Enterprise, which has no active restraints whatsoever?

So for the benefit of short adults, I suspect that many parks have gone over their rides and established more precise criteria for riders. How do you measure, for instance, a double lower amputee, for a ride where the rider is secured by the torso? Personally, I think it's perfectly OK for a too-short person to ride, provided that the too-short person can ride *safely*. I also think it should not generally be the responsibility of the ride operator at the entrance to make that judgement. Though I do think the ride operator, or at the very least the ride foreman, ought to have the authority to deny a ride to someone who *cannot* ride safely.

I hope that makes sense.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

At SFWoA we are always told that the person in the station has the last call on whether or not a person rides. Even if we had people at the beginning of lines (which trust me; i wish we had) parents will try to get kids on anyways. So its up to the attendent to do the final check and decide if he or she can ride.

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SFWoA TL 2003!

I understand that parks don't find it practical to limit by age since this is almost impossible to check. Height provides a measurable if not completely accurate substiture. Of course on many rides body measurements are important for the restraints to work.

As Rideman pointed out, the situation can become clouded in the case of amputees and dwarfs. In both cases the measured height wouldn't correspond to the length of the body trunk which is often though not always the critical measurement for restraints. There could also be ADA issues here. Does anyone know what policies any parks have with regard to this?

I hope that I have my terminology correct here that dwarfs have near normal size torsos with short limbs, as opposed to midgets who have near normal body proportions with everything smaller.

Once when we were at the state fair, my friends were in line for Zipper(though thtats another thread...), my best friend tried to take a girl in our group onto the zipper, and she was like 2 inches too short, and very young. The Carny let her on anyhow, and she fell under that huge(tight) bar cause she was so short and small, and almost fell out of the cage. The ride was shut down and her mom, who had seen the whole thing, bout killed the stupid ride ops, one for letting her on and two my group of friends for trying to take her on, and taking her on after she was too short(she was on another ride, and her 2 sons were in my group of friends). Stupid people( my friends and the carny) are what cause rider casualties.

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I'm Baaaack...

LOL! A *signed* document? That's a new one. And they wonder why the parents act more immature than their kids sometimes.

I saw a similiar incident happen at SFKK last year. The kid was obviously too short to ride Chang but the father (I assumed was the father) made such a fuss that security had to be called in. I am not sure if he was just too dense to know the height restrictions or he just didn't care.

He left the ride with the kid saying something to the effect that he would "never return to this park again." Great loss there. lol.

-Tina

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Gimme speed, height, airtime and plenty of LAUNCH!!!

Tekno,

How can a rider "almost fall out of the cage" on a Zipper when it's locked from the outside and it's just that, a cage? Sounds to me like you're overexaggerating a bit, no?

Joe "love that Zipper!" C.

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You suck big time.