Here's my hat loss story. While riding the Hoosier Hurricane at Indiana Beach my hat flew off on the firt drop. I wanted to find out where it went so I got right back on and this time took the front seat. On the way down the drop I spotted my hat, right in between the rails at the buttom of the hill. On my third ride from the front seat I noticed my hat had blown off into the water and was floating away. It's Probably at the buttom of Lake Shaffer under a layer of dirt now.
I lost my watch on Magnum a few years ago, it was a gift for my 18th birthday. I felt it unlocking on my wrist and I tried to lock it but we hit a bunny hop and my arms flew up and there went the watch. A guy sitting behind my tried to catch it as it flew by, but the train was going to fast. I had to buy a look-a-like to fool my parents, but the finally figured out that it wasn't the real deal. I miss that watch.
I never personally lost anything on a ride. But I did benefit from people who have lost things on the rides.
When I worked for at SFDl, I operated the ranger on occasion. As the ride would go upside down, you would hear the change falling out of peoples pockets and hitting the ride on the way down. After the ride people would want us to retrieve their money. We were allowed to only retrieve, hats, wallets, keys,. At the end of the night, we would walk the grounds around the ride and collect the money. It made up for the minimum wage that DL was paying us.
Here's an easy way not to lose your keys: Put the key ring on your belt loop. As for everything else...can't help ya. :)
The ring on the belt is awesome, if you have loops. If I'm loopless on my pants department I used to take a safety pin and pin the keys to my clothes real proper like. Ninja at SFoG, I saw my keys falling into the water, with two good views of the situation, needless to say they were pinned very well to a good spot inside my shorts at the beginning of the ride. I make use of the lockers these days, though. New technology is great, I like it when they are keyless :).
As far as glasses, I wouldn't have very much fun seeing nothing while riding if they made me take mine off. I am blind without mine. I went strapless on the Myrtle Beach Hurricane and that was my last strapless ride. My glasses actually started to float off my face between the helices, I walked to the store and put a strap on. I have seen people loose the glasses with the straps but they probally had them too tight. The idea is to have the strap just tight enough to prevent you from being able to get the glasses over your forehead. Wear 'em tight and it's like shooting your glasses off your head like a slingshot.
Does anyone else put stuff in thier shoes?
Try buying one of those climbing hooks that you hook onto the actual ring. Put your keyrings on that, and hook it to a beltloop. Ive only lost my keys once when i did that and that was when I took it off in school!!!!
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Tom said:
"Try buying one of those climbing hooks that you hook onto the actual ring. Put your keyrings on that, and hook it to a beltloop. Ive only lost my keys once when i did that and that was when I took it off in school!!!!
Yup, I have one of those, too, and it's awesome. Only cost me like $2 at a hardware store, too.
I also have a stopwatch with one of those clasps on it, that I use as my "watch" while at parks. No worries about a watch flying off, either.
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I lost my CP hat on the Kumba not too long ago. I always wear a hip pouch to parks to store glasses and keys and stuff in, but I put my hat down my shirt because it won't fit. The Kumba was a walk-on at the time and after 10 rides or so I realized I no longer had it -- I think it fell out somehow when I was getting out of the seat. I put in a request at the lost & found but never got it back. Whoever came across a CP hat likely wasn't about to give it up, and I can't blame them. It probably made their day.
i lost my wallet on the magnum. i know stupid to take your wallet to a park. yeas i know. but anyways it had 100 bucks, social security card and my drivers permit in it. which kept me from getting my rivers liscence till i was 18.
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front car on mf. hope you have the chance to do it.
I lost two hats one on the sooperdooperlooper and one on Hercules. I also lost a Raven pin from my hat. Don't know if it was on a coaster but it was at Knoebels.
It's funny at Knoebels the collect all the hats everyday and have a hat rack in the queue line. I guess they keep them up a few dats then get rid of them. The one guy told me last year they must get a few hundred every year.
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I have never personally lost anything on a ride....except a lot of change on the Timewarp in SFNE....however there are so mant peope who leave hats, cigarettes and wallets in the exit bins....obviously if anything was valuable we would hand it in to guest services......but the maintenance guys who went into the ride area never needed to buy cigarettes............
Those rock climbing things are called carabeeners, just in case somebody wants to go out and get one and needs to know what it is. There are many many kinds of 'em and lots have different types of the little locking mechanisms. Some don't lock and I have seen them sold "for keys" that are a joke. They have titanium ones and some made from other expensive materials, you can get insanely priced ones if you're bored.
p_c_r said:
"Those rock climbing things are called carabeeners, just in case somebody wants to go out and get one and needs to know what it is. There are many many kinds of 'em and lots have different types of the little locking mechanisms. Some don't lock and I have seen them sold "for keys" that are a joke. They have titanium ones and some made from other expensive materials, you can get insanely priced ones if you're bored.
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Thats right. I forgot the name. At that time I was thinking they were called caraboners. Didnt think that was right, so I didnt post it.
CoasterDude27, would you care to elaborate on that? Sounds like an odd situation...
MFfan, I didn't know you could turn into water. Where exactly do you get a rivers liscence? ;)
I dropped my camera getting off of Raptor last year, but the person who got in the seat right after me yelled to me "Is this yours?" I thanked him, because I would have been angry If I lost all of those shots I got. Some good pics.
My hat nearly flew off on Corkscrew at CP. I caught it before it did. :)
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*** This post was edited by Intamin2K on 3/22/2001. ***
I've lost sunglasses to the lake at SFGAd (gawking at the carp...), sunglasses to the Coney Cyclone, a sunglass LENS to Nitro, and a visor to Nitro.
The only reason I lose the sunglasses is because I have a bad habit of attaching them to the collar of my shirt, and they fall out easily.
-rob
No i never have, but a lady on the Raptor at CP on the train in front off me lost her sandals. The crew stopped the ride for almost a hour. PEOPLE TAKE OFF SANDALS B4 GOING ON AN INVERTED COASTER!~!
But isnt that common sense? Half the people in the world lost theirs long ago. Know I have
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In my early days of coastr riding, I was stupid enough to wear my black Nike hat on roller coasters. Hey, if you wear it backwards, it doesn't fall off right? Sure. I lost it while riding the Riverside Cyclone, and low and behold, a Riverside employee actually went and got my hat for me! Anyone who said Riverside employees were Nazis before the Six Flags takeover didn't visit on that day.
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I ALMOST lost a mouth retainer ( use to wear braces) on the Cedar Creek Mine Ride at Cedar Point in 1996.
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