KaliGirl Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Had a funny note from a friend on the trip. One of the coasters hit a bird. My friend was in the third row and he said feathers flew up in front of his face. Don't know which ride it was on, but I think it was at Thorpe Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Johnson Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 There was a time when I was walking into the Incredible Hulk building that a dead bird fell out of the sky right behind me. The coaster train struck the bird and killed it instantly. The two girls that were walking behind me seemed not to enjoy that experience too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IwantRevenge Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I heard a story that, a Aroow corckscrew coaster hit a bird and stopped mid corckscrew upside down. But some how i doubt this is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loser_nerd Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 ^ I heard that a bird hit the back of S:TE and pushed it over the tower, then it set off a set of nuclear missles that launched randomly at the park instlant vaporizing all of the park guests. Plus we cant all forget the fabio incident. by the way....jk about S:TE if you didnt alredy know that they have a lock box over the switch that sets off the nuclear missles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trustkill22 Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Someone PLEASE make a pwned thing on that picture^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shesaidboom Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 It seems to happen quite a bit. When I was at Geauga Lake in 2004, I was waiting for the front of Steel Venom and all of a sudden something went skipping across the platform. A bird had hit the seat I was about to get in Luckily the only person on the ride was sitting in the seat right beside it and managed to not get hit in the face. A couple days later at Cedar Point Millenium Force's train ran over a hawk. Unfortunately the hawk's wing got stuck underneath the wheels and the poor thing was still alive and terrified. They spent half an hour getting the hawk out. I'm not sure what happened to it, but its wing was definately not in good condition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cprocks22 Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I had to do it, way to tempting Sorry Fabio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterAddiction7 Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 This has been around the internet, but... A mid-teen girl was riding on Millenium Force, at the bottom of the drop, a bird hit her in the face! She suffered bleeding in the face and a broken nose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCOSurfer90 Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I love how the girl on the right of him looks as if nothing's wrong, she's just smiling away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterboy76 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I had to do it, way to tempting don't know what it is, but everytime I see this picture, I lose it!!! I guess its the fact that I can't stand Fabio,, and well the bird in the face thing was pretty appropriate for him!! I think the blond in the pic is saying--"Don't worry, nobody will notice" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennywood!007 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 That picture makes me crak up!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianojohn Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I love how the girl on the right of him looks as if nothing's wrong, she's just smiling away. The girl on the right is my friend Stephanie! She has videos from that day, and kept telling Fabio "It's all right." The whole thing happened so fast no one knew what really transpired. She used to tell me that the girl behind her had part of the goose's liver on her costume. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightypotato Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I remember on my first trip to Cedar Point, there was a crane sitting on one of the footers for Mantis. It was just after the first helixy type thing after the dive loop. The track comes close to the footer at that point, and it definitely looked like the bird was going to get hit. Every time the train came, the bird would duck, missing the train. People were cheering for that bird until it flew away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Sabo Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 3 BGE bird incidents (lol) Nessie: Peacock got a new makeover when we were 'green-tagging' the ride before morning operations (around 1990). Another one we had a bird crap on the photo-eyes (out-dated sensors..lol) and the ride set-up. BBW- a bird around the lake area hit the 2nd axle and feathers covered the wheels/axle and the coach. A funny noise kept occuring around the axle and apparently some of the feathers got stuck in the wheel material and we had to remove it...ugh! DF-early morning (about 5am) we had a peacock get run over as the train exited the station (the peacock was sitting just along the track near the lift-speed sensor) and kaplat! she was gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eskater132 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 ^ I heard that a bird hit the back of S:TE and pushed it over the tower, then it set off a set of nuclear missles that launched randomly at the park instlant vaporizing all of the park guests. Plus we cant all forget the fabio incident. by the way....jk about S:TE if you didnt alredy know that they have a lock box over the switch that sets off the nuclear missles. What movie is this from, what park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo210 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Its from Apollo's Chariot media day in 1999 at BGE. Poor Fabio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmulder21 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 This has been around the internet, but... A mid-teen girl was riding on Millenium Force, at the bottom of the drop, a bird hit her in the face! She suffered bleeding in the face and a broken nose. Let me guess she found a way to sue the park... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Had a funny note from a friend on the trip. One of the coasters hit a bird. My friend was in the third row and he said feathers flew up in front of his face. Don't know which ride it was on, but I think it was at Thorpe Park. Stealth at Thorpe is notorious for killing pidgeons, on opening day there were pidgeon bits everywhere. It seems they just don't expect trains to be hurtling around everywhere, I don't think it's really happened much on Colossus or Inferno though, odd. :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verticalzero Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 "Stealth" at Thorpe Park must be the only coaster which has killed 10+ birds, I wonder if it is on a flight path.!! One of the worst things to happen to people on a coaster is to be hit by a bird. ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okinawaboy11 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 When I was at CP last week a bird hit a kid's leg on Wicked Twister...it was Wickedly disgusting. Blood was all over the seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterFanatic Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I think the problem on Stealth is that the bird like to hang out on the "air hill". That is where the one got hit on Sunday and one of the ops said she had seen it happen at least 3 times. Are you refering to THIS bird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesdillaman Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Wow, that was just gross. -James Dillaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckeh Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 there goes my lunch >. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 If you look at the front of TTD's trains there are chips of paint off and small dents, a ride op told me that was from birds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennywood!007 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Those pics are gross! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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