I was watching the news this evening & was shocked to hear that over the weekend there was a shooting at the park....apparently a fight had broken out shortly after a BET concert had ended & a Georgia university student was fatally shot in the head.
This makes me really wonder if parks should conduct vehicle searches prior to entering the parking lot,if trouble makers know they can't get weapons past the main gate due to increased security then they're just going to end up carrying weapons in their vehicles & assualting patrons in the parking lot instead so something really needs to be done to prevent another tragedy such as this from happening again in the future.
I went to PKD as a kid and loved it, but things have clearly changed... sad really cause Volcano is the lick. Everything else is kinda blah.
Speaking of seats at PKD, one of the best things I noticed on opening day was that all the wooden coasters had retractable seat belts in cartridges on the outsides of the cars, and all the padding was new. I thought that was a great idea, not only because the ops don't have to bother buckling empty seats, but all the *ahem* "bulky" people can now stop their b***hing about the belts being too short.
PKD is my home park they have great coasters, but they still can make a million changes to make things better. I would love to see some theme in the park for one thing. I have been going to the park for about 20 years and I love it.
I hadn't ridden Hypersonic since just after it opened. The seats are rather surrounding. The interesting change in the ride, at least in the last row where I rode, was a sort of double air time event at the top of the hill. You got air as the train started over, positive G's can in as you got to the top, then air time again as you started back down.
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