Alright, who threw up?

I was down at Kings Island last weekend when the Diamondback train rolled in with 1/2 of the riders freaking out. Someone threwup about midtrain and people got pegged behind them. As the dragged out the hose and mop to clean off the train a thought rolled through my head. I wondered if I was fortunate for never having this happen to me. How many people here have had this happen to you? That was the first time I have even seen somethign like that happen and I ride a lot.

I rode Maxair before and got thrown up on before.....:(

The thing is it didn't really gross me out that bad, not after I went to a beach vacation and went to a seafood restaurant and ordered scallops and shrimp.....uggghhhhhhh! I was up all night sick......But I've never thrown up on a ride before, though. :)

I was riding some ride at KI a long time ago (I don't even remember which ride) but someone threw up mid ride. They did it off to the side though so it didn't get anybody.

A few weeks ago someone threw up on raptor, the row behind me thank god, but took out his whole row some how.

Never on the same ride as me, but during this season, it seems there has been a spike in me being inconvenienced by people throwing up a couple trains before me. This has happened on Iron Dragon (multiple times for some reason), Magnum, Raptor and Diamondback at KI.

I've never noticed this to be a problem on Dragster or MF. Maybe I'm just lucky.

My first time there this year, we were riding Mantis and had been sitting outside of the station. After about 5 or so minutes they came by and said that a person 1 or 2 rows up got sick. Luckily we didn't get any on us, but did have to wait for it to get cleaned up

I was in line for Maggie going up the ramp when the line stopped moving. They made an anouncement that the ride was down for "mechanical reasons". Actually a fella hurled from the second seat and doused most of the train!! After the clean-up they had to air-dry it 3 times. Now unless the lapbar squeezed the congirulated, decomposing stomach contents out of him, How is that a mechanical reason?

I have heard tons of stories of people throwing up on Diamondback. Many of my friends who went this year threw up on DB and I'v seen other people do it. The first time I rode DB I felt a little sick too. Just a coaster you have to get used to.

This was at least 20+ years ago, as we were walking past the Witches Wheel a nice "splat" hit the glass shield protecting the operator. Guess that shield actually did what it was designed to do.

Someone threw up on Wicked Twister when i was there over columbus weekend,made a real mess,the ride was shut down for an hour,while the crew cleaned it up.

Some kid threw up after getting off Voyage at Holiday World when I was there opening year. A bit of it got on the back of my shoes but the person I was with got it all over her back! In retrospect she got what she deserved!

This year some kid (who had the blue ice cream pretty recently before riding) threw up on Diamondback right before I got on. Also had a delay at SFGAm on Viper for the same reason (sans Ice Cream). I dont think it happened when I was at CP this year though.

I have noticed a lot of vomiting this year as well, for some reason.
The first day we got to the park this year was a June evening, and the park was really dead. We walked all the way up into the station before there was a line, which is a rare happening on our trips.
In the time it took us to wait for the front seat, there were 2 or 3 (I forget) accidents. It was funny, the ride ops kept apologizing for the hold up, because they took a reallly long time to clean up the last one. All of the ride ops were just...disgusted. They said they see vomit every day but that was the worst they had ever witnessed.
We also got stopped for it on Magnum and Iron Dragon this year.
I always wonder what it is about Iron Dragon that makes people puke? Is it because inexperienced riders go on it as a first? There is really no motion to jar your stomach around.

brieeee said:
Someone threw up on Wicked Twister when i was there over columbus weekend,made a real mess,the ride was shut down for an hour,while the crew cleaned it up.

No ride will ever shut down for an hour to clean up an illness.. If it did Bill Sphen himself would be there helping clean it up...

I'd imagine the time it takes to unload skyride, park the ride, clean up the puke, and reopen the ride could be close to that if it was a real mess.

bholcomb said:
I'd imagine the time it takes to unload skyride, park the ride, clean up the puke, and reopen the ride could be close to that if it was a real mess.

no they just take the cabin off which doesnt take but 2 seconds or they just throw oil dry on top of it and continue loading... its probably the only ride that doesnt somewhat shut down for guest illness...

In 2004 we had someone puke all over the exit on west station, and had to unload, park the cabins, clean it up, then start it back up and start loading again.

That happened this year too when I was working at west. A sup just came and directed people around the illness while a team of sweeps cleaned it up. It was all over west and down the exit and some of it was on the midway as well.

I have been dizzy from riding Witches Wheel before, but never threw up from it. Once one time though I was waiting in line for Corkscrew just to kill time and we were the next train, but the crew shut it down due to guest illness. I guess they just threw up as the train was coming into the station. So after washing it down and letting it go through a couple test runs, it was open in 10 minutes. My thought is, how can you get sick riding Corkscrew of all rides?

Maybe it was a ride before that made them sick and it just took that long for it to show.

Does CP call this a "protein spill" like Disney does?