What part of "you can't bring that on the ride don't you understand?" Six Flags SGTs
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:16 pm
So yesterday (Saturday the 7th), my buddy and I decided to go to Six Flags and all I can say is “wow, people sure were stupid” based on what I saw. I knew it was gonna be a bad day at the parks knowing the following two things: it was a Saturday and the projected high temperature was 98 degrees, but we decided to go anyways since we got tickets for $30, and my friend is moving for 3 months because he is needed at a different location for his job.
Six Flags has a new policy where anything that can be stored in cargo pockets must be placed in a locker before getting into the line for the coasters. This was done to help speed up the load and dispatch time of the coaster trains, which I did notice that the average time to send a train out had decreased, so the policy is working. Well, it works until you get the SGs. Yesterday in the 6 hours we were at the park, I saw 10 groups of the following scenario: group of 4+ people enter the queue line as a big mob so the greeter at the queue entrance can’t fully see if the person is carrying around anything that can’t be stored and not let them in the line, so when they get to the boarding area they are not allowed onto the train. I was thrilled to see the ride operators standing their ground and kicking them out of the line for not following policy no matter what the people were saying. Of course every other word these people were saying was profanity.
There was one time where I did see a parent who was properly raising their kid. My friend and I were in line for the newer of the wooden coasters where the queue has areas where they have erected canopies to provide shade while you wait. There were these 2 girls standing in line behind us and all of a sudden this gap just keeps getting bigger and bigger because they did not want to leave the shade and continue walking forward, even though had they continued to stay right behind me they would have been back in the shade in about 20 seconds. They started stating loudly that they were not gonna move forward or let other people get ahead of them until the people behind them let their friend join them who still had not entered the line, even though at this point we were in the line for at least 25 minutes. This lady who had her 8 year old daughter with her flagged over one of the Six Flags employees walking the sides of the line selling drinks and asked him to call security because they were trying to get a line jumper in the line with them and for not moving forward (of course nothing happened because he didn’t see it). These girls just started chewing the woman out as well as a bunch of people who were behind them in the line and some people who were farther up in the line. In the end, the line-jumper ended up joining the line, but karma provided justice. About 10 minutes later, the ride started having technical difficulties and broke down. An employee walking down the exit informed everyone in the line that the ride would be down for at least 15 minutes and these girls and the line jumper immediately left the line. So now this lady and her 8-year old daughter were right behind me. During this downtime we started talking and I made sure to commend her on how she was raising her daughter correctly by following the rules. You could tell she was surprised to hear it based on the comments yelled at her that I mentioned earlier.
The other big thing I noticed was that most people don’t listen to their body when out in the direct sunlight and high heat. So many people was getting dizzy and falling over because their bodies were being de-hydrated because they refused to get out of the lines when they started to feel sick. I took myself out the lines a couple times to go cool my body down and get some water in my system, but some people are just too stubborn and stupid to do that.
As the day went out, it was just getting worse, so by the time we left at 4, the 5 biggest coasters in the park were all down. 4 of them were down to technical difficulties and 1 was down due to part of the lift was getting replaced.
Six Flags has a new policy where anything that can be stored in cargo pockets must be placed in a locker before getting into the line for the coasters. This was done to help speed up the load and dispatch time of the coaster trains, which I did notice that the average time to send a train out had decreased, so the policy is working. Well, it works until you get the SGs. Yesterday in the 6 hours we were at the park, I saw 10 groups of the following scenario: group of 4+ people enter the queue line as a big mob so the greeter at the queue entrance can’t fully see if the person is carrying around anything that can’t be stored and not let them in the line, so when they get to the boarding area they are not allowed onto the train. I was thrilled to see the ride operators standing their ground and kicking them out of the line for not following policy no matter what the people were saying. Of course every other word these people were saying was profanity.
There was one time where I did see a parent who was properly raising their kid. My friend and I were in line for the newer of the wooden coasters where the queue has areas where they have erected canopies to provide shade while you wait. There were these 2 girls standing in line behind us and all of a sudden this gap just keeps getting bigger and bigger because they did not want to leave the shade and continue walking forward, even though had they continued to stay right behind me they would have been back in the shade in about 20 seconds. They started stating loudly that they were not gonna move forward or let other people get ahead of them until the people behind them let their friend join them who still had not entered the line, even though at this point we were in the line for at least 25 minutes. This lady who had her 8 year old daughter with her flagged over one of the Six Flags employees walking the sides of the line selling drinks and asked him to call security because they were trying to get a line jumper in the line with them and for not moving forward (of course nothing happened because he didn’t see it). These girls just started chewing the woman out as well as a bunch of people who were behind them in the line and some people who were farther up in the line. In the end, the line-jumper ended up joining the line, but karma provided justice. About 10 minutes later, the ride started having technical difficulties and broke down. An employee walking down the exit informed everyone in the line that the ride would be down for at least 15 minutes and these girls and the line jumper immediately left the line. So now this lady and her 8-year old daughter were right behind me. During this downtime we started talking and I made sure to commend her on how she was raising her daughter correctly by following the rules. You could tell she was surprised to hear it based on the comments yelled at her that I mentioned earlier.
The other big thing I noticed was that most people don’t listen to their body when out in the direct sunlight and high heat. So many people was getting dizzy and falling over because their bodies were being de-hydrated because they refused to get out of the lines when they started to feel sick. I took myself out the lines a couple times to go cool my body down and get some water in my system, but some people are just too stubborn and stupid to do that.
As the day went out, it was just getting worse, so by the time we left at 4, the 5 biggest coasters in the park were all down. 4 of them were down to technical difficulties and 1 was down due to part of the lift was getting replaced.
