screaminkid2005 Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 you don't normally see cats at theme parks... You do in China! I've seen cats at Knott's and at SFNE!
johnychen Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 This was random and scary. I was at Knott's Berry Farm waiting to ride Montezooma's Revenge. I saw two employees get in the coaster train to ride. The ride op was about to put their lapbars down but the two employees made a gesture that they wanted to ride with lapbar up with only seatbelts. The ride op went ahead with checks on everyone else and left their lapbars up. By this time I was pretty shocked already. The two lapbar less employees then proceeded to not use there seatbelts also and the ride dispatched!! Amazingly the two riders without restraints came back to the station alive.
GayCoasterGuy Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 This was random and scary. I was at Knott's Berry Farm waiting to ride Montezooma's Revenge. I saw two employees get in the coaster train to ride. The ride op was about to put their lapbars down but the two employees made a gesture that they wanted to ride with lapbar up with only seatbelts. The ride op went ahead with checks on everyone else and left their lapbars up. By this time I was pretty shocked already. The two lapbar less employees then proceeded to not use there seatbelts also and the ride dispatched!! Amazingly the two riders without restraints came back to the station alive. This used to be quite common (especially with ride ops) in the "old days," on other loopers with not seatbelts. I'm *NOT* condoning it, would never do it and would never let anyone else do it. When I was a clueless kid at Kings Dominion in 1983, I rode King Kobra (an Anton shuttle loop) with another single rider who told me not to put my bar down. I did of course, but he didn't. Physical checking of lap bars/shoulder bars was rare back then (the 1987 death at Great Adventure changed all that quickly; as well as the changing the color of restraints from black to bright orange on all coasters across the Six Flags chain). After seeing the pictures of Sirocco (another Anton shuttle loop) at Walibi stopping at the top of the loop, the memory of riding with that guy on King Kobra gives me the chills.
cfc Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 you don't normally see cats at theme parks... You do in China! I've seen cats at Knott's and at SFNE! Disneyland has quite a few feral cats, too--and Kings Dominion has its share of skunks, and Busch Gardens Williamsburg of deer.
Rai Fox Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 you don't normally see cats at theme parks... You do in China! I've seen cats at Knott's and at SFNE! Disneyland has quite a few feral cats, too--and Kings Dominion has its share of skunks, and Busch Gardens Williamsburg of deer. Kings Dominion has fearless squirrels that think they're pets as well. Last time I was there, eating lunch out by Hurler, I dropped a french fry on my shoe, and a squirrel rushes out from under a bush and over to me to start eating it. It didn't even steal it to eat it anywhere else, it just sat next to my shoe and ate off it like its own little dinner table. I even reached down toward it like I was going to touch it (wasn't actually going to, I'd rather not get bitten by wild animals) to see how it would react and it just looked up at my hand like a dog expecting petting. Was cute enough to make me tempted to try, but caution got the better of me.
screaminkid2005 Posted December 6, 2012 Posted December 6, 2012 I went to Spooky World in NH in 2010. While waiting in line for one of the haunted houses, a monster scared a lady so bad that she legit peed herself. What made it worse was that she was running around the line screaming, and she had grey sweat pants on.
SoCalCoasters Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 Knott's Scary Farm, right before entering the Trapped maze. We witnessed a cross dressing witch playing Dance Dance Revolution in an arcade while facing backwards with two other Haunt Monsters giving the witch stomping directions. Possibly one of the funniest moments I've ever had in a theme park .
Zem Posted December 7, 2012 Posted December 7, 2012 Last summer I was visitng SplashTown Waterpark here in Houston for a friends birthday party. We were in line for the Tornado at the part that sits right next to the funnel. We were watching the next rafts come down. When the next tube came down the one of the 3 ladies in it jumped out of the raft, threw her top off, and began running around in the funnel. After we got through the line and slid down, we saw them being escorted out of the park by a couple employees and one of the girls looked like she had thrown up on herself. Seems like they had been drinking excesively throughout the day.
Wes Posted January 4, 2013 Posted January 4, 2013 A crab/crawdad type creature walking across the bridge by Big Thunder in Disneyland one early morning.
cfc Posted January 4, 2013 Posted January 4, 2013 (edited) you don't normally see cats at theme parks... You do in China! I've seen cats at Knott's and at SFNE! Disneyland has quite a few feral cats, too--and Kings Dominion has its share of skunks, and Busch Gardens Williamsburg of deer. Kings Dominion has fearless squirrels that think they're pets as well. Last time I was there, eating lunch out by Hurler, I dropped a french fry on my shoe, and a squirrel rushes out from under a bush and over to me to start eating it. It didn't even steal it to eat it anywhere else, it just sat next to my shoe and ate off it like its own little dinner table. I even reached down toward it like I was going to touch it (wasn't actually going to, I'd rather not get bitten by wild animals) to see how it would react and it just looked up at my hand like a dog expecting petting. Was cute enough to make me tempted to try, but caution got the better of me. Speaking of "fearless squirrels," I remember taking pictures for a construction update of Busch Gardens' Griffon back in July 2006, when the work site was just walls, rebar, heavy equipment, and rubble. A trash can near the France skyway station started shaking wildly, and out popped a squirrel with what had to be the biggest prize he'd ever found--half a waffle cone. He got a look at me and took off, but I snagged a picture of the little scrounger. That was one happy rodent. Edited January 4, 2013 by cfc
cal1br3tto Posted January 4, 2013 Posted January 4, 2013 Speaking of animals at parks, I've seen a few while on TPR trips. Crazy squirrel behavior at Silver Dollar City. Skunk walking down the stairs at SFNE as I walked up. Those weird rodent beggar thingies at La Ronde. Bunnies at Lake Compounce and on the grounds of Hersheypark. Cat colony on the beach near Steel Pier. Froggy in the I305 queue at Kings Dominion. I took a picture of one of the many pet dogs at Knoebels and later noticed it was a hairless dog.
Jojo19799 Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 A couple of years ago at SFGAm I was walking to my car mid afternoon to leave. As I passed one car, a kid (who must have been 7 or 8 years old), popped out of the trunk of the car, screaming and he was wearing a mask made of duct tape. It was during Fright Fest, so I understand he was trying to scare people, but wearing a mask made out of duct tape just isn't that scary. I really wish I took a picture of this kid.
Meteornotes Posted June 24, 2013 Posted June 24, 2013 Some guy in a viking outfit in the parking lot of (I believe) Worlds Of Fun. I really should have tried to have a conversation with him, I'm sure it would have been really interesting. dt
Schrecken Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 you don't normally see cats at theme parks... You do in China! I've seen cats at Knott's and at SFNE! Disneyland has quite a few feral cats, too--and Kings Dominion has its share of skunks, and Busch Gardens Williamsburg of deer. Kings Dominion has fearless squirrels that think they're pets as well. Last time I was there, eating lunch out by Hurler, I dropped a french fry on my shoe, and a squirrel rushes out from under a bush and over to me to start eating it. It didn't even steal it to eat it anywhere else, it just sat next to my shoe and ate off it like its own little dinner table. I even reached down toward it like I was going to touch it (wasn't actually going to, I'd rather not get bitten by wild animals) to see how it would react and it just looked up at my hand like a dog expecting petting. Was cute enough to make me tempted to try, but caution got the better of me. You ought to check out the ones that inhabit the Dinosaurs Alive area - I thought it was hilarious to have all these scary-looking growling animatronic dinos with all these squirrels wandering around right next to them, going about their business of digging up nuts and foraging. It kind of killed the feel of the dinos for me....if I had wanted to take pics I would have felt the need to Photoshop the squirrels out of them, at least if I was going for a serious, dramatic effect.
larrygator Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 I don't think a dinosaur would satisfy his appetite with a squirrel or fifty.
B&MBoy1982 Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 Gatekeeper.... right hand side.... top of lift.... sea gull egg. Was there all day on media day.
PalmTree55 Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 (edited) I was in the queue for Afterburn at Carowinds, when an overweight women cut in front of us. We kindly told her to please go back to her spot, but she refused, saying it was a free country. A drunk redneck right infront of her said okay right after she stated it was a free country and dumped his entire beer on her. It was hilarious! Edited June 27, 2013 by PalmTree55
Blind Idiot God Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 Bumped into Dave from Revocation in the Xtreme Frisbee queue at Canobie. Beyond the typical "holy **** you're Dave from Revocation" fawning from me, it was pretty mundane. Mostly just small talk about music, though he said that he was alone in the queue because Phil and the other random people he went to the park with were grabbing food.
alwaysairtime14 Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 I was riding Nitro in the rain and 2 kids in there 20s next to me took of their shirts on the lift hill. That was the weirdest coaster ride for many reasons.
Jackdude101 Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 Two weekends ago when I was with family at Cedar Point encountered something odd. As we were leaving the park, multiple security officers ran past us one after another. We looked back about 100 feet behind us and saw all of those security officers surrounding a very shady-looking male with a young woman (probably his wife or girlfriend) who was holding a bag in his hand. I surmize that it was whatever what was in the bag that was the cause for concern and could have been anything from a bomb, a gun, or perhaps drugs that he decided to sell inside the park gates. Needless to say, we didn't take any chances and double-timed it away from that guy. My wife noted that when she entered the park, no one checked her bag at the entrance, so they probably didn't check that guy's bag either.
kailisun98 Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 I saw a disgusting pair of ride ops kissing at Jinjiang Action Park's shuttle loop.......
_IntaMAN_ Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 (edited) Saw a cat at KBF the other day. Just laying there, I thought it was dead at first but then an employee came up and said it was completely fine to pet it, and I did. Such a nice little old looking kitty. Edited October 31, 2013 by _IntaMAN_
cfc Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 You often see deer grazing in Busch Gardens Williamsburg; sometimes, skunks wander around Kings Dominion.
djboss302 Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 While waiting in the Viper station at SFGAm, there was a raccoon running around in the station. They had to call in animal control to come and deal with it.
alwaysairtime14 Posted October 30, 2013 Posted October 30, 2013 There's a donkey or llama type of animal next to the stairs that lead to the DC area at SFNE. Too bad I don't have a picture.
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