Rant: The End of Line Jumping

Best....linejumping....story.......ever!

Joe C. vs. Snookie @ SFOG

I believe I had my worst line jumping experience when my family and I took a trip out to KBF, standing in the shed part of the queue for Ghostrider. To all that are familiar with Ghostie's queue, you know the strip of queue right before going up the steps to the station....the part that is pretty close to the midway? Well from the time we entered the queue, to the time we finally got to the stairs, about 30 or so people line jumped and just walked up the stairs. I believe a guy left the line to tell security, but nobody came....and I was not about to confront them, as all of the 30 looked to be coming back from jail. Well I did end up telling the ride ops but they couldn't do anything about it because they didn't see it. Also at KBF, about 5 girls jumped the line for Xcel ....like you guys are saying....how do these people think they are better than everyone else? *** Edited 3/27/2004 3:06:51 PM UTC by cdrpointcrazy44***

My favorite line jumping story happened this past season. My brother-in-law and I made the trip to Cedar Point to take our first ride on Dragster.

Dragster was running on and off all day. It opened up while we were riding Corkscrew so we ran over to line as soon as we got off the ride. There was already a long line. As we're waiting, I turn around and when I turn back I see these two middle school-aged hoodies with their girlfriends in front of us. I told them that they cut and to return to their spot in line. They told me I didn't know what the f*** I was talking about and to turn back around and leave them alone. But, my first reaction wasn't to get angry. Instead I started to laugh because one of the kids had SIX gold teeth.

So after a few seconds we asked them again and they told them to leave them the f*** alone or we wouldn't like what they'd do to us. (My brother-in-law and I are both well over 6 feet, 240 pounds and work out regularly while these kids couldn't have been more than 140 each) At this point people are noticing the commotion and other people waiting further beind claimed they cut in front of them earlier. The kids said to me they were going to ride before me and I couldn't do a damn thing about it because if I got security I'd lose my place in line. So I asked the lady behind me if I could get back in my line after I got security to which she said yes.

I went and got a guard who pulled the kids out of line and began questioning them. As they were talking, other were passing by and nodding something to the guard. Eventually the kids were escorted from the line. As they were leaving about 100 people or so in line started applauding and my brother-in-law and I even got everyone to start singing "Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye!" I'm not sure if this is the right attitude, but it felt good to see those punks get what they deserved.

Unfortunatley line jumping isn't just an amusement park problem, its a problem at the bank, grocery store, etc. As we spend a good part of our lives waiting in lines, some people just feel that they are the exception. I don't know about most people but I don't wait in lines because its optional.

I think my all time favorites are the gangsta's and punks that think they intimidate people, if someones line jumping all you gotta do is speak up, I'm not big I'm 5'10'' 155lbs, I don't care how big and or how mean you lookI just wish parks started doing more then ejecting jumpers from lines.

As for one of my favorite stories, we were in the TTD queue and during a break down we were about halfway up the ramps where the line splits and I noticed this guy weasling his way through the queue, when he got behind us we blocked the aisle. The sad part is he kept trying to slowly slip by, all he kept getting were elbows, because not only do I hate line jumpers I hate crowders in line, give me some space man, stop stepping on my heels. Anyway it was funny how determined this guy was, the people in front of us kept laughing.

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Snap43 said:
because not only do I hate line jumpers I hate crowders in line, give me some space man, stop stepping on my heels.

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Snap43 you are correct. How many times does that happen in a day? Last summer at SFGAm this guy was crowding me and it was 90 plus degrees and he kept breathing on my neck.That is not cool.

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Incidentalist said:
Well Rob, I didn't say it then and I haven't said it until now, BUT we were the actual line jumpers.

As far as me shaking in my boots. I wasn't scared about a confrontation.

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NO WAY.

Really?

NO WAY.

What lockers?

NO WAY! No fricking way!!!!

I wasn't suggestion you were shaking because you were scared. It was all adrenaline, baby. ;) ...and Yeah. It was funny, and still is funny. *** Edited 3/27/2004 11:58:59 PM UTC by nasai***

Line jumpers suck. At my home park, DP, they're always the city gangsta/thug/rapper type kids. (Not to offend anyone, not all of these kids line jump.) A few kids up at the top will wave them up with a "come on up here," and then about 4 or 5 kids will advance right to the front of the line. They lack the common sense to realize what they're doing is line jumping, against the rules, and inconsiderate. They'll just pass everyone, even saying "Excuse Me" to everyone they're cheating out of their spot in line.

One of these days I'll use the idea mentioned somewhere before of tripping one of these kids. That'll be easy considering so many of them wear pants 6 sizes too big, and they only go up to their knees so it looks like they ran out of the restroom and forgot one little detail...:) *** Edited 3/28/2004 12:48:50 AM UTC by chewy77***

Im not the biggest guy 5'9" around 190, athletic build, but I don't fear away from the Big guy. you want to hit me, I can take it, and then if I wanted, your money too :).

not that I would sue for getting punched, but it's nice to know I could if i wanted to.

I agree knowbody says anything to these punks that just cut in line. But i was at SFMM sunday and a girl came up the fastlane line and as the attendant truned away she openthe gate and walked in line with the rest of us. ( This was on Collasus) Thinking she was meeting the rest of her group I watched her just move through line pick a line . This got me mad that she had the balls to do this. So as she was next in line to get on the ride i told the attendant and he actually kicked her off the ride.That really shocked me that he did that they usually blow it off.

Here's my Top 4 worst experiences of line jumping (by the way, with the exception of La Ronde, I'm not saying these parks are the worst for line jumping):

4: PKD - I saw a group of about 20 people jump the line for Hypersonic, it actually made me laugh because so many people did it.

3: Valleyfair - I had just joined the line for Mad Mouse, which was almost full. Some guy walked passed me, and cut the whole line and just went straight on the ride without waiting or getting on with any friends, I guess that's a new way to fastpass.

2: Canobie Lake - people were line jumping everywhere. I stopped some of them and they said as I wasn't an employee I had no right to stop them, so I shouted out to the ride ops who weren't far away, and they just looked at me and ignored me - it stopped the line jumpers though. Later, it was happening on the canonball too, A member of staff passed by and I stopped her, and she actually stood there and tried to stop them cutting in, unfortunately she wasn't very successful and they still kept cutting in, eventually security turned up and removed them from the park. I left a short while afterwards and they were being questioned by the police. So at least they did something, eventually.

1: La Ronde - I counted nearly 100 people cut line in Vampire during the 2 hour line and 1 train operation. I even started recording it with my camera so I could show staff, but as per usual the ride ops didn't care, and said I don't like, go else where (don't worry, I did). I stopped aload getting in, but they "couldn't" speak English, until I decided to cut back in front of them, then miraculously they could speak English!

Line Jumping happens everywhere, it has nothing to do with Six Flags, they just have more parks, so more people are going to see it. A few weeks ago, a group cut in the line at Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom, again, the staff did nothing when told about it, except make me feel like I was the one doing something wrong for reporting it. *** Edited 3/28/2004 4:30:36 PM UTC by Grant***

the only line that is usually being watched by security and six flags great adventure is superman. There are line jumpers everywere and some security guards just dont care about it.

Last year at CP, while waiting for Dragster, this family behind my boyfriend and me in line, was watching the ride "take off" and didn't notice the line move up. When I looked back to motion them forward this group of about 6 or 7 older teens (about 17-19 years old and I am only 22) saw the gap, which wasn't that big, and decided to jump in there since the line was so long. I looked at them and told them that the end of the line was wayyyyy back there and that they just cut in line in front of this family. They started mouthing off to me. I'm just this short 5'4 overweight girl who doesn't even look mean, so they thought they could just tell me to F off and I'd leave them alone.

After about 5 minutes of them calling me names and cursing at me. I had had enough, I looked at the family behind me, looked at my boyfriend, said I'll be right back, they all nodded. So, I got out of line and got the Security officer that was walking by and told her what had happened (the idiots were still cursing at the family) and she saw how they were acting and kicked them out of the park. Happy happy day.

Just do like I do, grab the person with one hand on the back of their shirt and one arm under and between the legs and toss there sorry behinds over and out onto the midway landing on there head. Works evertime for me :)

Good to see that some have witnessed jumpers getting kicked out of parks; I have yet to see anything done about it.

Although, I think Stoogemanmoe's approach might be a little more fun. Just add in a flying elbow off the top rail! ;-)

He he... I remember one time at SFMM, wife and I are in line for Batman, these two kids about 12 try to fly past us, and she just dropped a leg down and tripped one of them... he slid about ten feet on the pavement, got up and looked at us like he was going to start something. So my wife just lets out this "YEAHARGHHH!" kind of battle cry / calling down the apocolypse or whatever and man, *I* almost wet my pants, these kids just got all bug eyed and kind of backed away. BTW, my wife used to play Goalie in College... for an ICE HOCKEY team. :-)

-Escher (Who knows better than to mess with his wife)

I DON'T allow line jumping. Period. I din't care if its a 10 yr old, or a 30-40 something, 7ft tall, 300lb biker pig. I DON'T ALLOW IT. Esp. since my position at my jop(my previous location): Nite side supervisor for Sheetz convience store/food place in a college Town(WVU, voted biggest party school in the world), and it was the busiest store in our chain. I delt with all the drunks that wanted to start fighting during the weekend, and all the rednecks that wanted to fight w/peeps from other schools. I never backed down, never lost, and fought some guys way bigger than me, before I had the arrested:)

I'm not small by any means, but the only 2 people on this planet that I won't go up against are mommie and daddy(power to give and take life...;)).

I'm hard headed, but once I loose my temper with line jumpers, they always back off, mostly cause I won't back down, and when someone bigger than you sees that you're determined to kick their @$$, they usually stop tryin to jump. And ofcourse when scrawny kids(i'm 230lb, 6'2"), try it, i just won't let them pass, and like to see them try and move me:).+

I think one of the hardest things about blocking linejumpers are the switchbacks. If then cant get through going forward, i have seen them just hop though and dart way up there.

I like SFMM's former resolution for line jumpers. Beat em and kick em out of the park, works for me!

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20949~2270351,00.html

Too bad they no longer enforce this. Not the racial profiling and all, but dealing with line jumpers the way they deserve to be dealt with. Better than their current policy of standing by doing nothing and allowing it to continue out of control.

*** Edited 7/15/2004 12:32:25 AM UTC by jomo***

The hardest line jumpers for me to deal with are the 20-30 something men. At Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom I was in line for the Twisted Twins. For some reason they had to shut down the side opposite to us, probably because of the small crowds. This guy comes running over and gets up in my face and tells me HE DESERVES to be first in line and that I have to move for him. I was like what???? Then he starts cussing at me and the ride ops stare. Finally he backed down and waited his turn (next train behind us.)

Another time there was a guy who got out of line for Millennium Force. He wanted to get back into line to meet up with his family until he got to us. He couldn't get past us so he said that he was right for being able to do this and to prove this he went to ask the ride op at the beginning of the line about it. He cut his way back behind us and he was quiet... I bet they told him the same thing I did! Then he proceded to tell people all around us that I was a ***** because I wouldn't let him through. People were staring and looking at me like I was the bad one! I don't understand that... Especially when the line is so long and he is making things so unpleasant! The guy just would not shut up!

The "thug" kids are by far the easiest to deal with because all you have to do is make a wall and they get the message. I have never had a kid stand up to me and get in my face like a few grown men I have met...

Oh and by the way, I am also a female hockey player on a men's full contact league! 5'8" 200 lbs, No one messes with me! :)

I had my first confrontation at PKI during BeastBuzz this year. I and 2 other Buzzers had been waiting in the ever so slow Face Off line, when about half way through it, here comes a group of teen girls hoppin' the rail. I decided to let them know I was going to tell the ride ops and that they would be ejected from the park. We had a little bit of verbage back and forth until the ring leader of the girls gave me the "speak to tha hand" sign and said "Shut it!". I said "Alright, we'll see". Not 20 seconds later, they all disappeared. It felt so good!