Cremated remains poured from Power Tower! "08"

Well I guess I could share this. Okay while at Cedar Point on July 4th 2008, we were on Power Tower (Free fall tower) and this middle age woman (35-48) sat in the seat next to me, holding what seems to be a small gray digital camera case. As the ride started to balance its self (raise alittle) she began to shove the case half way out of her sleeve. The ride then began raising slowly to the top facing the Midway, as we sat there for a few seconds, she began to quickly pour out her son cremated remains just before the ride dropped. With a gust of wind the ashes blew over to the other side near Iron Dragon lagoon,and near Top Thrill Dragster. We thougjt this was awesome but creepy lol.

What are thoughts on this? Better yet have you seen anything this extreme?

I would say from the sneakiness of her actions that she didn't have the approval of the park in doing this. It probably wasn't very safe, and it might even have been against state law.

I do think the gesture wass a beautiful one, if Cedar Point had special meaning for her son. There was a beloved member of the Pointbuzz community, Mr. Scott, who passed away four years ago now. If memory serves me correct his ashes were strewn over Sandusky bay.

I agree that it is a beautiful gesture...very sad, yet positive that she's letting go and finding comfort in what her son loved.

It probably wasn't the best way to go about it though. I'm sure the park would have made special arrangements for her, giving her a private ride before it opened for the day or such.

^^ And before that, I do believe his ashes also got one of the auction rides on Maverick which did, as he predicted, involve water. :)

Mr. Scott, we still miss you. :(

People do this sometimes at Disneyland to the complete dismay of the management there....I do recall a tradition where my cousins and I would ride the power tower and attempt to spit pennies into the lagoon, which isn't quite the same but still kinda exciting...

Spit pennies?

Why would you spit pennies?

Would you rather then spit quarters or perhaps "the money that folds"? Seems like a waste to do it with any higher denomination. :)

On a side note to throwing money, I did see a group of college kids throw a dollar bill into the pond in the Maverick line. I'll typically try and hit the fountain with some spare change, but throwing dollar bills is just plain stupid.

I wouldn't want to put any denomination of money in my mouth. Yuck.

Not to mention it's extremely dangerous to spit anything with any solid weight from the top of Power Tower period.

This story creeps me out. Amusement parks are private property, so I'm pretty sure you can't just spread someone's remains there without getting proper permission.

tcgolfer said:
Not to mention it's extremely dangerous to spit anything with any solid weight from the top of Power Tower period.

Why? The terminal velocity of a coin isn't high enough to do any real damage. So even if it hit you square in the head, the worst it'll do is give you a small bump.

All I'm saying is there is a reason why it is against park rules to do something like this. All it takes is for it to hit the wrong person in the wrong spot, like an eye, then things aren't all ok.

Maybe the fact that I follow park policies to a T clouded my judgement of physics and how much it would really hurt someone... but that doesn't change that it's against the rules.

It's funny how the people who do the 'spitting of pennies' or whatever other action, don't think what it would be like to be on the receiving end of said action.

I guess in today's world the mentality is that rules only apply to the other guy.

As a father of a 4 year who frequents the park, stuff like this distrubes me about today's youth. My daughter even know right from wrong compared to these people who think it is okay to do these foolish actions.

What happened to the days of going to an amusement park and the only thing one had to worry about falling out of the sky (besides rain) was seagull droppings!?!?!?

Sledge4cp said:
It's funny how the people who do the 'spitting of pennies' or whatever other action, don't think what it would be like to be on the receiving end of said action.

Or they have thought of it, and realize that a falling penny won't cause much damage. It's terminal velocity and it's mass are too low. It would barely break the skin, if it even does that.

Not condoning the throwing of loose objects off rides, just pointing out that coins and other small objects won't cause much damage.

How did you know that it was her sons remains??

Did she tell you or you asked her?

sad story, though....

Miss_Maverick07 said:
How did you know that it was her sons remains??

Did she tell you or you asked her?

sad story, though....

When we got off, she was joined up with what I believe was her family members. They all had his picture on there shirts, so my friend asked was that her son? they said yeah. They did continue their day at the park. I'm unsure if she had more remains with her and continued to spread them around the park.

I can attest that a quarter to the head from 240 feet does not feel very good. Please don't bring change on the power tower.

I want my ashes spread at Millie's first drop.