Cremated remains poured from Power Tower! "08"

How can anyone spit a penny across the Midway, and into Iron Dragon lagoon? Unless you have lungs like Superman! I would believe its not possible lol

Jugga has been watching Mythbusters. :)

The morality of whether or not it should have occured is emotional for people who are for or against.

While special permission should/could have been requested... I highly doubt it would have been granted. There would be no benefit to the company and I don't believe they would have agreed.

tcgolfer said:
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..

When working at Power Tower last season a girl gashed open her face trying to float a penny on one of the drop towers. She lied to the ride hosts and management about it, which almost caused them to shut down one of the towers to see if there were any bolts that fell off the tower or something. I saw change falling and notified another ride host and the girl confessed.

Pennies do have the potential for injury. You should have seen the blood streaming out of this girl! It put a nasty gash right through her nose.

Spitting pennies because they would not allow you to carry anything onto the ride. Also, pennies are a small denomination you can afford to lose. Yes, it was gross,in retrospect, but none of us ever got sick... Cedar Point has too many rules period. For the record, anyone who wants to throw/spit money at me from any ride, in any denomination is more than welcome to do so!

cptedsdisciple2 said:
Cedar Point has too many rules period.

I'm curious - which rules are unnecessary?

And I can tell you, myth busters, that this one was 100 percent true. Remember, wind currents have an effect as well. No penny is simply going to drop like a rock in place (as anyone who has ever had a penny on the demon drop would tell you.) They tend to flutter and float. This phenomenon also helps debunk the theory of someone being maimed by a coin dropping from the sky at an arrow-straight trajectory.

You know, the real stupid ones like the stupid designated smoking areas...the stupid rule that you can't save someone's space in line while they go buy a 6 dollar soda...and the real dumb one about no firearms in the park.

;)

(winkie added to make the sarcasm official)

Stupid rules.

The no firearms in the park one is pretty dumb.

Sure it may not fall out of the sky at an 'arrow straight trajectory' but it's still going to attain terminal velocity on the way down and if it hits me in the head it's not going to make me feel good or happy about the whole thing.

But hey, glad you know better than those making the rules. Do you disobey speed limits because they are 'dumb'? I'd like to see you explain that one to law enforcement.

You do realize I was being sarcastic?

There's not one single realistic reason I can think of why firearms should be allowed in the park. If you're afraid the government is going to implement a police state (the only imaginable reason for keeping a gun on you at all times), why are you at an amusement park in the first place?

And implementing designated smoking areas, in my opinion, was long overdue. It was pretty annoying having to walk through a cloud of smoke or dodge someone's smoldering butt as they walk next to you.

EDIT: Time to service the sarcasmometer, it seems... :)

I have now added a sarcastic winkie to make it official. Whew. :)

I can think of a number of reasons to carry a firearm into the park, or have it on you at all times. Those law abiding citizens that are licensed to carry a concealed weapon shouldn't be disarmed just because they are in an amusement park. Open invitation for criminals to know their victims have been disarmed.

bholcomb said:
I can think of a number of reasons to carry a firearm into the park...

Such as?

Those law abiding citizens that are licensed to carry a concealed weapon shouldn't be disarmed just because they are in an amusement park.

Even if it's private property and those citizens have no Constitutionally-guaranteed right to be on said private property?

Open invitation for criminals to know their victims have been disarmed.

That's completely illogical. The number of people who have concealed weapons permits is infinitesimally small. In other words, these so-called "criminals" can make the very safe and obvious assumption that damn near everyone around them is disarmed.

As of May 4, 2011, Michigan alone has approximately 267,000 valid concealed carry permits.

And there is no constitutional right, you are correct. It's very ignorant for a business to 'ban' guns on their property thinking it makes their place of business safer.

The total number of concealed permits in the US is around 6 million, according to this article. Given that there are around 312 million people in the US, that means fewer than 2% of US citizens have a concealed weapons permit.

In other words, even if CP allowed concealed weapons, and even if every permit-holding carrier brought their weapon into the park, 98 out of 100 people would still be unarmed. And you're suggesting that the 2% of armed people would deter violent criminals? That's absurd.

It's even more absurd when you take into account the number of violent crimes committed at CP with the park not allowing concealed weapons.

The "deters crime" angle simply doesn't make sense.

I would not bring my child (or myself) to any park that allowed firearms in the park. Ever.

What is the reason for that? Do you bring yourself and your child to the grocery store? How about the movie theater? Gas station? Guarantee you have run across people packing heat without realizing it. What exactly are you scared of?

I want my remains put into the water of shoot the rapids and thunder

canyon. This would be like i am pushing the boats throughout the ride.

I will also be a ghost at the breakers and open people door's when they

are carrying the suitcases to the rooms. And also keep a watch on the

park and keep out unwanted people.

fire arms take care of the line jumpers

and everyone else in front of you in line

I want my remains scattered off the back seat of TTD so that everyone behind the person releasing my ashes doesn't get attacked by my remains. I also want some left by a dippin' dots stand, Top Chill snow cones, the Mantis photo booth, Panda express, and park operations.

Actually, I don't want to be cremated.