Cedar Point Injuries!

I got a few bruises from the Chaos because of the way the harness is, there isn't really any way to move your arms around and when it goes upside down it hurts my forearms (I am a big boned person, so I guess I can expect that). I can only ride that thing about 3 times before I have intense pain.

I can't ride the Mine Ride because the lapbar jammed into my gut so bad that I was hurting for a couple of days, I never could actually ride it, I just sat in it and the attendant said it just wasn't going down far enough, so I got off.

The swings hurt my hips a little bit (I'm not the skinniest of people and battling with dieting lately), so I can only ride that once.

No real serious injuries, but I really feel the pain the day after I go.

I can proudly say that in 30 years of going to Cedar Point I have not recieved any injury of any kind.

I got pooped on by a seagull once in the parking lot.

Giant slide - Got popped in the eye pretty hard by the elbow of the person in the next lane.

Thunder Canyon - Getting into raft my shoe slipped off the wet step and I fell backwards; left a nice bruise.

DT - Hands crunched by way-too-rapid release of safety bar. Now they have someone to say Raise Your Hands!

Miscellaneous little owwies: Bug hits on MF at night. Mean Streak almost anytime. Mantis being pelted by really dense heavy rain and kept waiting on the exposed brake run for like 3 minutes. Magnum 3rd seat on bunny hills (it's better to keep your restraints REALLY tight). My feet after walking on concrete for 13 hours. Sunburn.

It's all totally worth it.

This may seem strange, but I was leaving the park with my friend at closing time and I went through the turnstyle. Somehow, the metal bar got stuck around my thigh and then finished twisting around. Then I was literally "thrown" out of the park and I landed hard on the cement at the exit plaza!! I had a huge bruise on my thigh for 2 days!!

Totally my own fault, but I fell off my horse on Cedar Downs and got a nasty cut/bruise on my shin... I had been partaking in large amounts of gold schlager in the parking lot 30 minutes before though.

My equally inebriated friend decided that pouring a glass of ice water down my leg would help... so then i walked around with a wet shoe the rest of the evening and got a blister.

I fault cedar point for neither.

the only gripe i have is for some reason while riding mantis i get pains in my legs. Kinda like a centerfuge like feeling.

The worst injury I witnessed was on Calypso. I still

feel bad for the little girl.  I was strapped in, locked

in, I couldn't do anything, and two girls got into 

their car in plain sight directly in front of me.

As the second girl was sitting the other girl pulled

the bar down and the second girl's arm got caught IN 

the latch lock while under the bar. It took a good 

30 seconds for the operator to get over and unlatch her.  

Higher-Ups were called, a group of people gathered,

Cedar Point took care of it - I am sure. - Quiver :(

I was walking through the last turnstile of Skyhawk last year and it didnt turn. Im tall enough that the turnstile bars are at the level of the man parts. I fell straight to the concrete in pain. That was humiliating.

Now I walk through every turnstile backwards.

Probaly 10 years ago on Cedar Downs my friend had his toes pointing down, while under the little foot pegs, and the horse came down crushing his foot between the platform and the foot pegs. It was cool we complained until he got a wheel chair and some sort of pass that aloud us to schedule times to ride coasters without waiting in line. I think we would go up to the station through the exit and get a time to come back based on the line. Its hard to remember how it worked then but it was really coo at the time.
He ended up being fine..

When I was a kid, early teens, I got a piece of coal from the train stuck in my eye. I went to the first aid station and when they couldn't get it out I had to go to Firelands hospital to get it removed.

I was riding wildcat and I had my hands up... and on that final helix my wrist hit one of the supports.... my hand hurt really bad the rest of the day.

I got a couple:

Mean Streak speaks for itself.;)
I rode raptor two years ago and didn't keep my head back on the first hill and loop. My head bent so far down that my lips touched the seat belt, which was gross and painful.

Corkscrew gives me headaches (my name on PB) ;)
I've slipped while getting into coaster trains about 20 times.
I got hit in the rear on Dodgems just as the ride ended, so it seemed that there was a little extra force, causing my head to go up really fast, and my neck really hurt for the couple of days after that.

I hit my "man parts" on skyhawk, maXair and power tower's seat. You know, where your legs are seperated.

I fell on the main midway with a icee in my hand. it hurt and I stained a white shirt.

These were all pretty much my own fault.

I'm sure that there's more but can't think of them right now.

Well, Magnum in the ejector seat with extremely tight hamstrings was not exactly fun. The airtime really pulled on them, and my knees hit the backs of the seat in front of us. The ejector on Mav kinda hurt my hamstrings too. About a month after I was at CP, my tight hamstrings caused my to recieve an alluvial fracture in my pelvis while playing football. Basically, my hamstring tore off a piece of my pelvis. Not fun.

I have not had any extraordinary injuries at the park, just the typical soreness the next morning. I suggest to any guys riding Millennium Force, Top Thrill, or Wicked Twister to adjust yourself and get comfortable before being belted in, there is no give what so ever.

i had my maverick resstraint to tight one time and it hurt my dinky

Yea, Chaos sucks.....I get bruised every time I ride it.

I cut my hand last year on the Mantis seatbelt latch.

Magnum camel back humps throws me up into the lap bar and is very painful.

Corkscrew has an area on the track when coming back to the station that my head always gets thrown into the head restraint and I end up with a headache.

Power Tower (Down) always gives me and my mom headaches. Also our ears pop on both sides of PT and then its hard to hear the rest of the day.

My ears used to pop on the Turbo Drop side but frankly you do have to clean your ears out and it won't hurt or pop when you ride it. I used to have ear problems. The doctor would have to flush them out occasionally. Sometimes it would take a while. (One time an Intern used cold water and I almost fell off the chair I was so dizzy). The same thing happens on take-off and landing in airplanes because of the change in air pressure. He told me to have my ears cleaned out before I fly. Luckily I don't fly much anymore. Debrox and a blue bulb syringe works at home. But consult a doctor. It affects people differently.

Besides that I never got injured at CP. But the rear light, bumper and rear quarter panel on my Honda got banged up in the parking lot. I believe a Hummer was responsible parked next to a light post so it stuck out a lot and I thought about moving my car. I wish I had. It was towards the end of the season. I had come out of the park an hour after the park closed. That can be more of a pain than any temporary bump or bruise on a roller coaster.

My first time on Dodgems, I got rearended and bit my tounge. But hey, who hasn't done that? Then the last time I went, I nailed my elbow on the side of the car on Mean Streak and got an instant bruise and had it for about a week. Then the trip before my last time, I was running for Millennium just before closing to get into the last line, tripped and fell on the cement and had a huge gash on my knee and arm. Luckly someone was nice in the line to give me a couple bandaids so I could ride :)

Your mom is to fat to ride TTD. said:
I was walking through the last turnstile of Skyhawk last year and it didnt turn. Im tall enough that the turnstile bars are at the level of the man parts. I fell straight to the concrete in pain. That was humiliating.

Now I walk through every turnstile backwards.

now since they are like spring loaded would it not be worse to go thru backwards, i mean it could come back around and, well ouch.

^I go through the turnstiles sideways, that solves

that problem....

But I thought of another -My Fault- Stupid injury.

I was on TTD and the car in front of us got a rollback

I threw my arms down in anger, because I wasn't in that

train, and hit my funny bone, left elbow on the metal

bar that the seat belt goes under. - Ow Wee! :)