Mini Photo TR: Chuck Gives Euroburg the Finger

[cfc]

Next Saturday (March 17) is Passholder Preview Day at Busch Gardens Euroburg, so I ambled over to the park today to "register" my season pass. BGE is using the "Touch-n-Go" turnstile system for passholders this year, which uses a scan of one of your fingerprints (any finger you want) for ID purposes. You just insert your pass, put your finger on the pad, and head on in with the turnstile bar drops. (They've been using this system in Tampa for some time.)

 

EDIT: Forgot to mention one thing. Passholders will no longer need to get a hand stamp if they're planning on leaving the park and returning the same day--just give 'em the finger.

 

I decided to take care of the scan today, so that I wouldn't have to fight the mobs at the preview. But is that the only thing that's new at BGE for 2007? Surely, they've got something else planned. Hmm--let's see . . .

Bye bye, Griffon! I'll get a closer look at you next weekend, if the weather's decent.

Griffon really dominates the "French" side of the park now.

My finger is now "turnstile ready."

Thank you for scanning your finger today! Your personal info has been transmitted to Homeland Security, who will put you on their "Dangerous Doofus" list.

As Scorpio, the psycho in the first Dirty Harry flick, said when Eastwood whipped out his 44 Mag: "My--that's a big one."

Oh, there's Griffon, too.

That's it! New rails for the parking-lot tram! Hot damn! I've been e-mailing them about this for years! Someone call Screamscape!

[jamesdillaman]

Chuck, it would really stink if you had a tragic accident where you either burned off that fingerprint or lost the finger, then you'd have to pay for admission every time, wouldn't you?

 

-James Dillaman

[cfc]

^Then I could become the "Phantom of Busch Gardens"--a bent, twisted figure with one hand wrapped in bloody, dripping rags who terroizes and kills random guests! My lair would be in a crypt under the Rhine River, and my horrifying organ music would fill the air at night!

 

Or not.

[griffon]

so how long did it take to "register" with the new system, and did they let you chose which finger to give them???

 

Thanks for the update Chuck, I'll be there next week to fight the mobs.

[cfc]

^It only takes a moment. You can use any finger you want, but they recommend the right index finger.

[Homer]

^Then I could become the "Phantom of Busch Gardens"--a bent, twisted figure with one hand wrapped in bloody, dripping rags who terroizes and kills random guests! My lair would be in a crypt under the Rhine River, and my horrifying organ music would fill the air at night!

 

Or not.

Stop trying to rip off my screenname, which is BGTBBum [est. 2003] (backstory: the bum who lives at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay). Except, I don't kill guests and I sleep on Cheetah Chase.

 

Other than that, great quickie TR. I would have used the deuce though!

[mcjaco]

 

I thought your head was "turnstile ready."

 

Now that I look at that picture, that turnstile is a bit phalic as well.....

[cfc]

^Hmm--now that you mention it, it is strange how the bar flops down after you give the machine the finger, as though it were spent.

 

Or maybe we're just sick bastards.

[mcjaco]

I vote for the latter!