safety of dragster? are you concerned?

Yeah but I only got on twice. I was going to go on but again but thats when it started raining and they wouldnt let anyone in line. I was just too late.:(

I thought you were, I remember the disscussion on here after we got back. LOL

Gomez said:
CP is known for their awesome safety record and the fact that they have all their rides running at full capacity more than 90% of the time.

You're obviously not counting TTD when "calculating" that "statistic", right?

^I meant running at full capacity. When TTD is open it always runs 5 trains (full capacity). During some of the slower days like weekdays in May, the park doesn't run all the trains on a few coasters (CCMR, MS, Corkscrew, and a few others). That's where I got more than 90%. I found it very cool to see Raptor running 3 trains even though the trains never left the station full on May 8.

Ah, I see. My eyes just about popped right out of my head when I first read your comment. My mistake.

But, yes, it is always nice when they are running at high capacity.

Am I concerned? That answer will be no.

Isn't a rollercoaster safer then driving a car, I know an airplane is but I thought I also heard a rollercoaster is as well.

Does anyone have a link to an article or something, and it is back open or not?
*** Edited 6/14/2006 10:03:58 PM UTC by MichiganStateFan***

Riding a roller coaster is safer than playing billiards. I heard it in a roller coaster video a long time ago...haha

Someone asked me about dieing on a rollercoaster at Cedar Point and I said they had a better chance of getting heat stroke in Antartica. :)

Well with Global Warming. ;)

EDIT: Just relized how old the thread was. *** Edited 7/3/2006 2:17:54 PM UTC by CP4eva'04***

Well now im a little concerned only because last night I had a dream that I rode TTD and I fell out and died. ;)

I can think of worse ways to go...

MrScott

Like pool ball striking you in the face, I rarely play the dangerous game of billiards. ;)

My favorite scene from Ace Ventura is when he's in the bar looking for info on Ray Finkle and one of the bikers playing pool through the ball at the mirror right next to Ace. Ace picks up the ball and says "That would be a scratch...".:)
Though there’s other quotes I like from the movie more than that one.

Do you think that SF will open KK by the end of the season or has it met the fate of SD2000?

SD2000 is only closed because the Japanese are very supersitious people. There's nothing wrong with the ride anymore.

DragonFire, it reopened a while ago. That breakdown was in May.

This is dirrected at a much earlier post that I don't feel like quoting

Other things I've seen collide/ fly from rides/found on a ride

Pool Balls (demon)
Rabbit (deamon)
various insects
a 7 inch bowie knife.... (raptor)
Fruit (oranges apples)
Crack pipe
A baggie of urine.... I kid you not... ziplock baggie of piss
those little parachute army guys (I want to throw one off power tower SO bad... it won't hurt anyone, its got a PARACHUTE!)
A sweater got stuck in the tower once
fake leg (not tape leg)
glass eye
dozens of hats
shoes
dragster bottles

DragonFire said:
Do you think that SF will open KK by the end of the season or has it met the fate of SD2000?

I rode KK the 12th and the 13th and I have to say everytime I have been out there the ride has ran great. The first time I was out there they had problems with the catch car breaks and eventually shut the ride down for the day but it reopened the next day. I talked with some of the employees and they dont have half the errors we have with Dragster. It was pretty neat to see the improvments that Intamin made in the 2 years. Makes me wonder what intamin could do now with a rocket that was taller!

Wow, that's like completly different from what I've read from other people who have ridden both.:)

I'm not concerned about the safety of the ride. At least if I die I get to die on something that I enjoy. If you're ever at the Point and it had a malfunction and you heard someone screaming, don't worry. It's probably just me falling to my death ;)