YUCK!

Just to show how stupid guests can be regarding bugs, it was recently overheard at the front gate, "Those bugs are just out here, right? They're not actually in the park?"

The people who actually complained to park op are perhaps even more stupid. That's nature, folks. Not much you can do about it.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Futuristic bow-wow... do the dog catcher!

Ughhhhhh.....I'm one of those ones that is DEATHLY scared of spiders and I always seem to be running into them at the park while everyone else laughs at me. I just ignore them unless there's a particularly bad spot and they start coming down on a thread into a platform area...I've run into that on Raptor and Magnum and that's when my hair stands on end and I turn white. Some of us just can't handle spiders, so when we see them, cool, natural, or necessary as they may be, we're going to squeam out. Honestly though other parks are a lot worse regarding things like that...at least our queues and platforms are clean, unlike some I've been to where trash, obviously very old cobwebs, and zero junkbins exist. Funny though, you really DON'T see many bugs for an outdoor place besides the usual spiders...at least I don't.
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*** This post was edited by CP Irvine on 8/9/2001. ***

How dare those bugs invade the natural human environment of an amusement park!!!  And these alligators down here in Florida...how dare they swim into our neighborhood canals!  And those sharks...what gives them the right to come to the beach and bite people?

We need more concrete!!!!!!!!!

All I gotta say is better that it is spiders than bees, OH WAIT!

My sister's friend just got back from CP and she was inside a store with her family. She looks outside and all these people are running, screaming, and swating at bees. This one girl runs inside and is like they're stinging me, they're stinging me. The bees were all in her hair, people start leaving the store back outside into the bees.

Funny story!

I have the right to say they arent working hard because she wasnt. She was FEEDING the spider! Does that sound like she was trying to clean it up??? Jeez... I know cobwebs are gonna form, but when she has time to stand there and feed spiders she has time to clean cobwebs. I wouldnt mind seeing a few because of course its outside and its gonna happen, but they were EVERYWHERE. Nearly every ride I was on. We went put putting at Challenge Park and they were all over those railings. Big Spiders! Maybe the sweeps on here are doing there best but then maybe Cedar Point should hire some extra sweeps so there is time to clean the cobwebs. I didn't post to be rude, mean, or degrading... I posted so maybe someone would read this and do something about it. Some people dont like walking through spider webs and seeing spiders crawling where they put there hands... once or twice maybe but 10 times in line for one ride, that needs to be taken care of.

Who cares if they keep some of the spiders around? They reduce the amount of bothersome bugs...leave 'em be.

I do think that we need some spiders at the park to get rid of bugs, but when it gets out of control, something needs to be done. Maybe leave a spider web here or there, just don't let them build up that much. I realize that the sweeps can't always get every single spider web, but it would be nice if they didn't cover everything (not saying that they do now, but...well, you know what I mean).

Something "needs to be done?" What do you suggest? Put a dome over the park?

Nature happens. Get over it.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Futuristic bow-wow... do the dog catcher!

Clean

By saying that something needs to be done, I just meant that they shouldn't let the webs get out of control. I know that some webs are necessary, I just don't ever wanna see the whole park covered with them, and with the staff there, I don't expect to.

...and the webs aren't all over the place! Especially someone not looking for them. I saw maybe 1 or 2 in the park the last time I was there. So what...the Sea Gulls poop on every coaster at Cedar Point (especially Raptor) so do you guys want so professional marksmen to be hired to shoot every one of them that flies over the peninsula?

No...I think that we can try to co-exist with one of the remaining natural things at Cedar Point...after all, they were there first. It's kind of like the whole thing with SFWoA and the residents not wanting a coaster in their back yards...I doubt that the bugs would have wanted to have their ecosystem radically changed over the years if they had a say.

In closing, a few spider webs never hurt anyone...unless they were really dense and obstructed someone's airways and...never mind, I'm rambling...

Just as long as the park doesn't look dirty by them, they are just fine where they are.