A good swift kick in the crotch...

I had a problem on Blue Streak the other day. I put the bar down on my leg, as far is it would go without cuasing pain before the ride even started. Well, some operator comes up and mutters something along the lines of "I'll show this Acer" and starts leaning on my bar. I told him i wouldn't go down anymore (and it wouldn't) and he was hurting me ( I already had pain in my thighs from soccer conditioning). The operator thought it was funny and told me to "deal with it". This guy pissed me off to the point of walking down to Park-Ops. After waiting a few minutes and telling what had happened my freind and I were given ride passes. This goes to prove that you can do something about being stapled to the point of pain.

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"Wheres the Callahan factory?!?!?"

Some idiot did that to me on MF just because I run this site. The next week he was booted off of the ride. Being an asshole never pays in the service industry. Safey and being a jerk have nothing to do with each other.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"Let's stop saying 'don't quote me,' because if no one quotes you, you probably haven't said a thing worth saying." - Dogma, KMFDM

Jeff, funny as how it happened to me on Magnum last year too, and on top of that, I had my GTTP shirt on. :)

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"Wheres the Callahan factory?!?!?"

Why would employees treat GTTP members/administrators like that? We promote where they work, thus ensuring their employment. I don't understand this...I must be missing a piece of the puzzle. Or should I say, "putzzle"?

Did you do anything to piss off the operators, Jeff? lol! :)

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"If we go any faster, she'll blow apart for sure!"

In a way...we had a topic on here that had to do with ways of getting space between you and the lapbar. I believe the crew was given a printout of the thread, had to read it, and had to sign something saying that they had read it. This is why he got stapled by the employee.

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy

Eh Rideman, your remarks must have fell on deaf ears.

I received this treatment last night for the fist time in many moons. The guys (new I believe) idea of checking was to punch the lap bar down and move on. So when he punched my lap bar he also was punching me. Yeah, assault with a deadly weapon. ;)

This is the reason why I'll still take Magnum over all the Intamin Hypers I have been on. The Darien Lake Superman seemed more friendly though than the New England version, and the same down the line to this.

Interesting. I rode Sunday evening with no trouble at all. Must just be one blockhead up there who just doesn't get it or something...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Haha, now I know what you're talking about. I also would like to give a swift kick in the crotch to the designer of Intamin's lap bar. Millennium Force the past two days have come very very close to giving me a high picthed voice.

Same goes for Wicked Twister. Aparentally someone had a grunge against the green "crotch guard" on the seat (4-2), and somehow it's ripped off. I found that pretty funny :)

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Tommy Penner - Variable X
Cedar Point FanBoy since 2001.

Well, heres the letter I recieved earlier today apolagizing for the my problem on Blue Streak. (you have to view it on at least "normal" to be able to read it.)

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"Wheres the Callahan factory?!?!?"

Perhaps the redesign of the lapbar used on Xcelerator was made so that the ride ops could staple you into the seat without hurt any other portion of the body...

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy

Went on MF on 8/28. One of the ops pushed my friends lap bar down so hard, he yelled out in pain. My friend is saying to him and the others, this is too tight and it hurts. They just ignored him. So when the train starts to leave my friend reaches up and slaps the ops hand while he had the thumbs up,who checked his bar. We ride, my friend in pain the entire time, and when we get back that same ride op left the load station and runs up to our seats yelling at my friend for hitting his hand. This op gets in his face acting like he wanted to fight. My buddy starts to clench his fist and at this point I grabbed my friend by the arm and walked him towards the stairs. That ride op ( I wish I knew his name) was and most likely is an a$$hole. Mind you my friend hit him no harder then the small kids you have seen done this countless #'s of times.

That's just dumb. Even if your friend was in pain, hitting the op is a very immature way to handle it. It would have been much easier and classier to just find out the guy's name (you probably could have asked one of the ops on the unload platform) and make a complaint in park ops. It probably would have gotten you some free tickets or boarding passes or something too.

The only people I've seen get stapled on MF are the ones who deserve it. There's been several times while waiting for the front seat that some people will argue with the op as to why they can't wait for a certain seat. If the guest wins the argument, the op gives a signal to the people checking lap bars and then points to the guests that were arguing, and they get stapled hard. Those kind of people deserve to be stapled for being so ignorant.

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-Chris Woodard
Who finally met the infamous Magnum Dan!

I can see some people still think CP employees do no wrong. He didnt deserve to get stapled. I was sitting next to him. We walked up the the train, sat in the second to last seat and that was it. And he hit the guys hand no harder then the many kids I've seen do the same. Immature? Yes maybe hitting his hand was not the smartest, but when he stapled him it really hurt him. I would have been angry to. And BTW, running up to him and acting like he wanted to fight was real mature.
*** This post was edited by Winston306 9/2/2002 11:24:30 PM ***
*** This post was edited by Winston306 9/2/2002 11:25:33 PM ***

I wasn't saying your friend deserved to be stapled, that's just what I've seen in my experiance. There's a good chance that your friend didn't deserve to be stapled and the op was just being an idiot.

Also, it doesn't matter if your friend tapped him or sluged him. He's not a little kid, therefore the behavior is unacceptable either way. I still think the situation could have been handled better by both your friend and the op.

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-Chris Woodard
Who finally met the infamous Magnum Dan!

I didn't get stapled too bad on any of my MF rides this weekend, but got some brutal treatment over at Blue Streak! One op had already checked the bar and another one came along and gave it an extra check (ie stapled)! Still have a problem with ops that push down, but fail to pull up. Magnum's crew was at least pulling up after they attempted to staple me.

-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew

Ok, let me just start off by saying that if you get stappled (thats not what they call it at the park) you did something to piss off a ride op. Weather it was at the entrance, in the line, on the platform, or in the train. Even if you sit on a que rail. We dont do it just for the fun of it (at least not on MF). Ive been a ride op on there since May and still are. And for those of you who complain in park ops and get the ride-again passes. Dont feel special. They give hundreds of those out a day. There called, " Shut up and make them happy passes". So if you dont want to get stapled. Make sure you have you lapbar down before we come by to check it and it wont happen. I dont staple people unless they are to lazy to put there own lap bar down.

So you agree with yourself? What a remarkable coincidence that the last two posts originated from the SAME IP address.

That's lame.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"Let's stop saying 'don't quote me,' because if no one quotes you, you probably haven't said a thing worth saying." - Dogma, KMFDM

Whatever dude... your e-mail is the same and I doubt very highly that two people from some little church school in Pittsburgh posted on GTTP from the same computer.

Lame.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"Let's stop saying 'don't quote me,' because if no one quotes you, you probably haven't said a thing worth saying." - Dogma, KMFDM

Well I was there and he didn't do anything to deserve it. It's done and over with now. However, the things you described that people "get it" for are really silly. So you put someone in pain for the entire ride because they made you mad? Would you be saying this if a cop busted you in the nuts for some bad driving that upset him/her? I bet you wouldn't. I guess we all better watch the way we even look at ride ops for now on. They may have the crew thug staple you.

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chris thomson said:
Make sure you have you lapbar down before we come by to check it and it wont happen. I dont staple people unless they are to lazy to put there own lap bar down.

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Due to capacity reasons, you like to get trains dispatched quickly. On many occasions, a person is still doing their seatbelt when the ride-op comes by to check and pushes the bar down before the guest has a chance.

I agree with you that there are a lot of idiots out there that causes problems. I've only been on MF twice this year and had no problem. You have to remember with larger people,they aren't coming out of their seats anyways due to the belt being so short. I could have the bar all the way up and I still would not leave the seat.

With Intamin,it will only get worse. Goliath at SFH were worse. I felt like the belt was going to cut me in half on the bunny hops! Colossus at Heide Park had a little more room to move. Then GeForce at Holiday Park was almost as bad at Goliath. The male ride-ops on Ge were terrible. Myself and anyone that looked a little heavy got plastered into the seat. I have NEVER had a lapbar pushed that hard on me. One occasion, I got the belt fastened, then TWO ride-ops pushed on the lapbar with all their weight. Everyone on the platform were astonished at how much they were doing it. The female ops would push lightly or not at all and then pull up. Then they let up on the heavy stapling when ERT started.

Hopefully they will get new bars on MF to prevent future "casualties". Of course,I won't lose any sleep over it since I don't ride it much anymore. They can do whatever they want to and I wouldn't care!

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