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(#7) The Madman Ride Operator
From Redditor /u/bionicvapourboy:
The head ride operator and guy that taught us all how to operate each ride was a madman. I saw him ride the swinging ship by standing in the center and holding onto the mast decoration. He apparently hung from the Paratrooper ride while it was spinning around along with a litany of other sh*t like that.
The guy smoked up while on the job. I remember seeing the train ride travel through his pot cloud once. How he managed to stay employed at the park for so long, I'll never know. That being said, he was cool as hell.
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(#13) A Head-Splitting Moment
From a former Redditor:
I was a water ride operator. Scariest incident on a personal level was when I was giving the pre-ride spiel, a boy wasn't listening, hopped in the water and slipped.
He cut his head open pretty badly and we had to call an ambulance and shut down the ride. The worst part was his dad was still on the platform with me, and I had to send him down the slide to get to his son.
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(#8) Stuck After Dark In The Deserted Park
From Redditor /u/wired89:
I was working security at a theme park when I was 18. One evening one of the roller coasters that was stopped in the station got rear-ended by another. There were some injuries, nothing severe, thankfully. I did, however, end up staying up all night, after the park had closed, sitting on the coaster to ensure no lookie-loos or news media tried to get access to the cars.
It was dark and creepy, and I was 18 in a closed, deserted amusement park.
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(#6) A Really, Really Gross Clean-Up Job
From Redditor /u/brittkneebear:
I operated a few different roller coasters during my fun-filled summers at this amusement park, but most of my horror stories come from one ride in particular. The train was one of the ones that you had to step into, with a lap bar restraint.
On one particular day, it was over 100 degrees and the ride had been running as usual for most of the morning. As we were loading the train, a guest came up to me to say that there was an awful smell coming from the front car, and my stomach immediately dropped. Usually with these types of complaints, we’d find that the previous rider had one too many slushees before riding and had lost their lunch. Gross, but we were used to cleaning that kind of stuff.
I started approaching the front car and immediately called for my coworker to direct everyone out of the train and back into the line, and to call our supervisor to close the ride. Instead of a normal puke situation, I found a greenish-brown liquid spread all throughout the front car, from the seat down to the floor. Whoever was the last person to ride the ride had sh*t all over themselves and hadn’t bothered to tell anyone about it.
Cleaning human feces is one thing - it’s absolutely disgusting but it can be done. But trying to clean up human diarrhea in 100-plus degree weather, off the floor of a car where you had to kneel down and stick your head into the car to reach the very front, is a situation that I never would have imagined even in my worst nightmares. The ride was down for the rest of the day, and it took over an hour to clean everything out of the car before we could start really sanitizing it.
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(#2) Two Emergencies At Once
From Redditor /u/JackOhBee:
I was the team leader for one of those raft water rides that sits 12 people on a giant inner tube. A child that was maybe 12 or 13 years old had a seizure while going down the final drop. Because he wasn't going to be able to get out of the vehicle, we pressed the emergency stop, which drained all of the water, and we removed everyone on the ride.
As I was waiting for the EMTs, I got a call on my radio to report to the top of the lift right away for another emergency. I run full speed through the ride and up the five stories worth of stairs to the top. The vehicle at the top had gone over the crest but for some reason did not drop into the water, so the boat was literally teetering on the lift. If it had fallen it would have been about a 10-foot drop on solid concrete.
I had to lead my team in evacuating the entire section of the park, with EMTs treating the kid with the seizure, and the fire department coming to help get these people off the ride safely, while rocking the strongest poker face I've had to keep ever.
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(#10) Bouncing Too Hard
From Redditor /u/buffchickensmoothie:
Not necessarily a theme park, but I used to work at a party place that was filled with moon bounce-like "rides."
I've seen my fair share of knocked-out teeth and bloody noses.
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More and more people are keen to go to amusement parks for fun and excitement, but few people know that seemingly safe rides always have safety hazards. For example, the two running roller coasters in Universal Studios Japan had a sudden breakdown and hovered in mid-air, fortunately, no one was injured in the accident. Have you ever imagined what to do if the wheels of an amusement ride become loose and what if the roller coaster cannot rise?
There are more than 1000 accidents in amusement parks around the world every year, the random tool collected more details about 14 scary things that amusement park employees described.
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