A skippers farewell

[Thatguy]

Ok, this story may sound familliar to those who have seen me at meets, (as it's one of my favorites.)

A certain skipper who got denied his last trip decided to have a bigger send off.

We'll call him Col. Klink for this story.

So the day after Col. Klink's last day he gets signed in, wearing tan chinos, a white shirt, leaher jacket and an indy hat (he didn't think they'd like the whip.

After sneaking backstage he waited until the alladins oasis show and went onstage through the tigers mouth. He ran over and picked up the lamp, held it aloft and loudly proclaimed "THIS IS A RARE ARTIFACT! IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!!!!!!" and ran as quickly as possible offstage, throwing thelamp into the river.

Rumor has it that there's a video floating about... though I can't confirm or deny that. :jesus:

The moral of the story: just let skip have a trip!

[BirdMom]

There was a guy who quit about '85 or '86 who was legendary in the day. It got briefly mentioned in Mouse Tales, but the idiot left out the delicious details. I heard about it the day after it happened. I'm sure I already mentioned it somewhere here, but to make a long story short, this skipper was found in the elphant pool spitting water at passing boats with the squirting elephants. The fun was in how he got there in the first place ;)

[Jenn]

Oh do tell more!

[MEng85]

[quote="BirdMom"]There was a guy who quit about '85 or '86 who was legendary in the day. It got briefly mentioned in Mouse Tales, but the idiot left out the delicious details. I heard about it the day after it happened. I'm sure I already mentioned it somewhere here, but to make a long story short, this skipper was found in the elphant pool spitting water at passing boats with the squirting elephants. The fun was in how he got there in the first place ]

haha i think it was on your site rite??....??? :D:

[BirdMom]

haha i think it was on your site rite??....??? :D:

Yes it was, but I'm shutting that site down...I could have sworn I'd posted it here as well.

Like I said, I was still in Merch myself and heard about this the day after it happened from a Merch CM whose husband was an Attractions CM in the area.

The JC Skipper was on his last day and wanted to make it memorable. On what was supposed to be his next-to-last trip around, he didn't load the gun beforehand, so when he got to the part in the hippo pool where they were supposed to spiel "don't worry folks, they're only dangerous if their ears wiggle," he got nothing but clicks as he fired.

He shouts "oh no, I'm out of ammunition - don't worry folks, I'll save you," then rips off his shirt and dives into the water. He swam over to the hippos, pulled a fake rubber knife out of his back pocket and started slashing at them. Of course, the guests loved this - they were videotaping and shooting still pictures of him and squeeling with glee.

The thing was that he'd left the throttle running on the boat. Running a little too fast. He had planned on swimming fast enough to catch up with the boat, but he couldn't. So when the boat came back to the dock, skipperless, Don C. was standing there with one of the supervisors (I want to say Ed, but it's been so long now that I can't remember). Anyway, they're saying "what the f?" and the monkey boys on the dock crew jumped on board to stop the boat and unload the guests. Afterwards, instead of sending another loaded boat out, Don and the supervisor took a deadhead around the river to see what was going on and that's when they found him, sitting in the elephant pool, spitting water along with the elephants at the passing boats.

So instead of that being his next-to-last trip, it was his very last trip, along with the permanant no-rehire on his file.

You do have to admit, it was a classic last-day stunt. I mean, I've helped throw guys into the Jungle water on their last day, but he came up with this on his own


:elephant1

[GMC]

I was going to drop knowlege and ask for a last trip, but i took a dead head on a grad nite and shot hippos, after sitting in the velt until the animation stopped (animation is now on a two minute timer.) that grad nite saved me from making the mistake of dropping knowlege, i just needed a reminder what a three man at night was like.

as for the skipper that spat the water and tackled the hippos, umm, i hope he had a good immune system, i know you won't catch me in there anytime soon.

[Thatguy]

as for the skipper that spat the water and tackled the hippos, umm, i hope he had a good immune system, i know you won't catch me in there anytime soon.

yeah, my first thought seeing the new effects was "EW!!!! GREEN WATER GET AWAY! GET AWAY!"

[saidthekat]

hey, at least your guests can't easily reach down into the water and:
a) splash it on their faces
b) drink it
or c) a mixture of both....


at book they can, and it's gross!

[DLSweeper]

Hahaha! That is such a great story. Got anymore last day stories?

[GMC]

they turned the pirannas around for two reasons one, a water line borke loose and cut a guest, we didn't find out until later, as she didn't start bleeding until after she left (sounds like she may have cut herself elsewhere) and two because the water sparying the guests was considered a health risk. now we only have to deal with it in the gorilla camp, as for the rain forest, freshwater, suppoesedly as is squiter and trader sam's new elephant, catch the imagination in this one.... ellie. shoulda left it in the tree house, i had a guest come up to me on fantasmic one night and harass me for a good five minutes about the damn elephant, and why wasn't it in the tree house. Mouse Planet sucks, because that's where he saw it, and so it had to be God's will or something.