Knott's Berry Farm's Windjammer twin looper sent my father for a loop. He was unable to disembark feeling tore up from the floor up. It took three cast members and my mom to extract him. "I just need to sit down for a few minutes, where can I?" The cast members pointed down the stairs and past the exit. The next day his HMO physician examined him and the prognoses was he had suffered a mild stroke which had been exacerbated by the exertion to then find a place to sit. Knott's was formally contacted by certified letter complaining about the lack of temporary medical seating on the exit platform. No action was taken in response. Later on a phone call seeking to speak to the General Manager - that connection was refused and intercepted by a customer service operator without compassion who stated "Notice is clearly posted directed toward guests with heart conditions who should not ride." If they instead had replied "For guest safety a folding chair has been made available in the station." we would have been satisfied. We should have sued - he didn't HAVE a heart condition until induced that day by Windjammer. My mom was there with my dad until his death, but I wasn't - so this is a tale of HIS wife.
Also neither myth nor wives tale is the high G force at the bottom of the big loop on Six Flag's Magic Mountain 'Goliath.' Each time I'd ride my calves would turn into cankles as the weight of all the blood in my veins overwhelmed the valves and pooled in my legs. My wife would always report tunnel-vision at that point and once upon a drizzley April weekend I experienced the cone of conciseness recede into tunnel-vision, experienced only this once in my lifetime, as my wife blacked out entirely for a moment - also giving credence to the wives tale that coasters are faster in the rain.
So, if her report of total blackout caused by a coaster is a wife's tale, I'll believe her for she had no reason to fabricate and wouldn't have mentioned it unless it gave her notice and reason for concern.
—(o=8> wiz
