My not one but two stupid guest tricks

[Flame]

didn't some guy get his head cut off because he stood up on SM? or was that just a rumor?

[Goofyernmost]

didn't some guy get his head cut off because he stood up on SM? or was that just a rumor?

I don't have enough overall knowledge to be able to answer that question, but I will say that it has all the sounds of rumor with it. I don't think that happened except in the minds of all SG haters everywhere. First I've heard it so if it is a rumor, this is where it has started...with the previous post.

[mechurchlady]

It must have been 30 years ago and someone did stand up on the bobsleds and smacked their head so hard to die but as far as I know nobody has been decapitated at a Disney park though body parts have been lost and one woman on the mule ride at Disneyland got her back stepped on my a mule.
How many millions of visits by guests a day for 50+ years and it is no wonder that more guests have not died. I have heard of deaths from falls, run over by rides and a tram, finger ripped off, the Columbia Sailing Ship incident, the fat lady flying out of the bobsleds, the empolyee smashed in the carrousel of progress, and the Big Thunder incident but no decapitations that I know of.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/declare.asp

[turkeyham]

The lady who stood up on the Matterhorn was a lady by the name of Dolly. She is the one who stood up and did not see the dip and the low bridge. My parents bought me the books Mouse tales and more Mouse Tales.

I remember reading that the Columbia accident was really bad. I heard the 2 cast members next to the boat was taken away in straight jackets and wheel chairs.

Now when my brother worked in attractions, one day there was an old oak tree next to the popcorn cart on the left side of the Mark Twain dock. That tree snapped and fell over hitting an umbrella and a few guests. My brother told me that this little girl was looking for her mom and he fainted when he saw the blood on her head. I was called by his managers and had to pick him up from work and take him home. He was a mess.

[mechurchlady]

The lady who stood up on the Matterhorn was a lady by the name of Dolly. She is the one who stood up and did not see the dip and the low bridge. My parents bought me the books Mouse tales and more Mouse Tales.

I remember reading that the Columbia accident was really bad. I heard the 2 cast members next to the boat was taken away in straight jackets and wheel chairs.

I highly doubt the straight jacket story as the EMT were busy saving lives and do not carry straight jackets and probably not Security or the medical staff of DLR and WDW. I hear the wind in the willows as the old rumour mill slowly turns.

Mouse Tales
David Koenig
page 150

The park's first fatality was Mark Maples , a fifteen-year-old playing hooky from school with friends on a Friday morning in 1964. As their bobsled whipped through the Matterhorn , a companion unbuckled Maples' seatbelt. Nearing the top of the peak Maples tried to stand up, lost his balance and fell to the concrete below. The impact fractured his skull and ribs and ruptured organs. His brain began hemorarrhagin. Disneyland rushed the boy to Palm Harbor Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery the next day. He died in the hospital three days later.

DollyYoung was a mystery for the bobsleds. Her seat belt was found crossed on the seat. Disney settled out of court. They think she either stood up to get the seat belt from under her or she undid the seat belt to take care of her child in the seat behind her. Either way she fell out and landed on her back on the track and was run into by a ride vehicle. She did not get hit standing up on the ride but either stood up and lost her balance OR she was sitting with no seat belt on and went flying out which is hard to do if you are fat like me as I have experimented with loose belts before. I would have on the second belt and loosen the main one to see what would happen and nothing would happen as the ride has very few bad drops on it unlike some rides. It is a tame and safe ride.

Any more rumours for me to debunk?

For gore on page 150 starts the ale of the lad wh9o snuck into the park and got literally creamed by the monorail and the lad in 1967 who was creamed by the people mover.

[Lasolimu]

The decapitation by roller coaster was here in Utah in our local amusement park "Lagoon." It has one of those really small roller coasters for really little kids, one know, the ones that just go around in a circle with a, maybe, 5 foot drop. Well, someone stood up on the ride and fell out, because this is so low to the ground they were told to stay low until the ride ended and they could get out safely, they didn't and for some reason thought the bast place to stand up was in the tracks in the way of the train. I don't know if it is true, but being Utah it very well could be.

[mechurchlady]

http://www.lagoonpark.info/archive/history.html
He was only 6 years old and thought the ride was over so he got out.

Tragically, in 1989 Lagoon had two deaths on their rides. One on the Roller Coaster and one on Puff. These are the only two guests that have ever died on rides at Lagoon

http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/ ... dents.html

http://colorcountry.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... uerte.html

A six year old boy was killed on Puff the Dragon. Yeah, talk about depressing. Finally, a 13 year old girl was killed on the roller coaster. It was apparently a fluke of physics. She was 5'3" and weighed a mere 71 pounds. She was thrown from the coaster (while the lap restraint was still in place) and fell 40 feet to her death.

More details from a site dedicated to the Lagoon Amusement Park
http://www.lagoonisfun.com/forum/index.php?topic=3209.0

[Lasolimu]

Hmm, I thought someone died on the old wooden Wild Mouse which was taken out of the park, I might need to look into that.

[Syndrome]

I have heard of deaths from falls, run over by rides and a tram, finger ripped off, the Columbia Sailing Ship incident, the fat lady flying out of the bobsleds, the empolyee smashed in the carrousel of progress, and the Big Thunder incident but no decapitations that I know of.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/declare.asp

Technically I think the Big Thunder Mountain incident could be considered a decapitation. CA is so much more graphically deadly than FL.

[mechurchlady]

I forgot there was two of them and one was the toes severed and the other did not involve decapitation but was blunt force trauma to his chest when the back end of the cab went up and then crashed on him.
http://www.aitkenlaw.com/verdicts_settl ... ntain.html

NEXT

Yeah we do have a violent history. Creamed by monorail and people mover and I mean that literally. The columbia incident was pretty graphic but I think the monorail might have been the only possible decapitation. Do not forget all our injuries that can be painful and some gruesome. I have a damaged knee from a fall at parks. I know that the following are not complete as they do not include the tram incident and some other stuff but I think the first and only decapitation was the monorail incident where the dude was obliterated.

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/ ... eyland.htm
A list of some of the injuries at DLR.

http://www.dldhistory.com/2k7deainj.asp ... MenuLink=5