My first tome on the Jack Rabbit at Kennywood, I have been on many rides with incredible airtimes but nothing ever even came close to this, the double dip in my mind was the greatest experience of my entire life on any coaster, I felt like I was litterally going to keep on going up until I went into orbit! And yes I thought it was better than the Millenium Force's first hill, and this is coming from a thirty foot tall coaster!
My wife and I witnessed a bird strike as we were exiting Batman the Ride at SFGAdv. We heard a dull thud and saw a cloud of feathers as the coaster hit a pigeon. Fortunately no riders were hurt. However, in another Fabio-like incident,we did see a rider with a bloody (maybe broken?) nose returning to the station while we were waiting to ride S:ROS at SFDL.
And oh yeah... there's a great picture of me coated in bugs after riding the front of Millenium Force at night. I think my wife's comment as we headed to the front seat was, "There can't be THAT many bugs out there." Mmmm, protein.
I guess I've been lucky, the only time i've really been stuck on a roller coaster is on BTR at SFGadv, when I was stuck about 3/4 through the lift for about 20 minutes, then it started going again.
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Same thing happened to me on the Great America Batman
Once last summer my mom took several of my friends and I to Camden Park. While we were riding the Thunderbolt, a penny flew out of nowhere and my friend caught it.
I also almost got hit by a bird last year on the Jack Rabbit at Kennywood right after the double dip.
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One time on Viper at SFMM, the over-the-shoulder restraint didn't latch on my wife's seat. We think the ride-op didn't notice because she had a death grip on the grab bars while still in the station!! On the way up the lift hill she noticed, and worked it back and forth a couple of times until it caught. Everything turned out OK, but she was sweating for a minute or two!
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*** This post was edited by Goliath rocks on 1/26/2001. ***
Alot of strange things of happened to me:
On the Big Dipper's 70th birthday celebration with ACE, we were traveling over the bunny hops and my faced slammed down against the lap bar. I had a bloody nose. After I cleaned up the blood, I rode the Big Dipper 10 more times
On the Tower of Terror at Disneyworld I did something really funny. It's not really that strange but it was funny. After the first stop "where you see all the ghosts" when the doors shut, I said DROP! And then everyone in the car starts screaming but we didn't drop.
Then while riding the Comet at Hersey, I swallowed a bug on the bunny hills.
On Steel Force's bunny hills, a large plastic bag came flying into my face. I was confused and threw the bag off my head.
I was on Paddle Wheel Excuritions at Cedar Point and I was laughing at all of the stupid jokes because they are so funny. And then this fat lady turned around and said "if you don't shut up, I'am going to slap you!" So I was forced to stop laughing.
Then another time on the Cedar Creek Mine Ride, I got off the ride after having a fun time laughing. This lady then said "I'am about to slap that guy!"
THIS SCARED ME SOO MUCH:
I've been on Giant Drop numerous times. But this one time, we were at the top. Then the thing dropped like 20 feet and completely stopped!!! I have no idea what happened, but we were sitting there for like 10 minutes, then we dropped completely!!! The brakes kicked in perfectly, but it was really scary.
This really isn't a coaster but going up the final hill on Dudley Do-right's ripsaw falls at IOA, the log thing went back and then jumped up. It scared me and my friends quite a bit.
Last summer when My friend and I went on Sidewinder at Six Flags Elitch Gardens. We where going backwards and about to return to the station when a bird when wizzing by our car. If we had been a little bit slower it would have hit our car.
