Random Theme Park Workers Share Most Disturbing Things They've Ever Experienced On Job (19 items)

• (#17) A Worker Makes Everyone Think A Child Plummeted To His Death

  From Redditor /u/GuinessSoldier:

  Got a good one here: so back in high school I worked as a lifeguard for a small water park on the east coast. The job sucked, the pay was horrible, and the management was a real b*tch, so after the first month of working there, motivation really plummeted.

  Well, in order to have insurance, the company that insured the water park hired individuals who would come to the pool as "normal patrons" with hidden cameras and pretend to drown in order to see how fast... one of the lifeguards would rescue them. Additionally, they had this life-size child mannequin that would sink to the bottom, and they would carefully put it in the water to see if any of the lifeguards would spot and rescue it in time.

  Now this thing looked like a real kid and was complete with swim trunks and goggles, so underwater, it was close to impossible to differentiate it from a real child. The first time the insurance company did this, the lifeguard on duty failed miserably to spot the dummy within time, so the whole park got audited and everyone had to go through retraining, but the company let us keep the child dummy for training and practice.

  Now for the good part - the park was still open to the public while we were going through our retraining and everyone got to take turns carefully placing the dummy into the water and testing each other on how fast they could find it. When it got to my turn for placing the dummy into the water, everyone had pretty much exhausted every way to put this thing into the pool, so I decided that I would one-up everyone and do something nobody thought of.

  There was a waterslide that pretty much went around the park, and I came up with the idea that about halfway down, I would throw the dummy over the side of the slide and have it land in the lazy river where nobody watches... Well about halfway down I grab this thing and throw it off of the slide and completely miss where it was supposed to land.

  Instead of landing in the pool, this dummy goes headfirst into pavement right in front of where all the chairs and families are relaxing. People were screaming, kids were crying, lifeguards were freaking out - everyone thought they had just seen a kid fall about 40 feet onto concrete and had his face completely smashed in.

  After numerous complaints and threats of lawsuits caused by the emotional trauma the guests had endured, I was fired that afternoon. The dummy itself was too damaged to be used anymore.
• (#3) The Ride Attendant Has To Ignore Safety Codes

  From Redditor /u/MrFinch8604:

  I worked at a certain amusement park in Ohio that was considered America's Rollercoaster in 2005. That summer, the transformer/generator of a particularly wicked roller coaster of a cyclonic nature blew, and we had to literally pull people back into the station with a rope tied to the car, and about 20 people. Instead of completely replacing it, they just worked at making it usable for the rest of the summer, and throughout the rest of the year, we would have the ride go into emergency shutdown mode at random times.

  We were told just to try turning it off and on again until the code cleared, without any inspections or anything like that.
• (#7) The Ghost Of A Dead Boy Haunts The Six Flags Restaurant At Night

  From Redditor /u/rootKRP:

  Six Flags Magic Mountain. While stocking up one of the carts from within an unused, empty location, I had a unexplainable experience. The location I was in used to be a restaurant that served pizza (Laughing Dragon near Superman if you're familiar with the park). It's empty and void of life and only gets used on occasion for maybe some training. The tables that we used for the restaurant were stacked upside on one side. The tables were heavy, concrete-topped tables and would take two guys to move them. Upon entering the location and beginning my inventory I felt uneasy and chalked it up to being tired and creeped [since] it was late.

  To get to the stockroom, you have to pass by the dining area with the tables, and I did so without incident. After counting our overpriced ice creams, I turn around to head out the way I came and lock up. What met me as I turned around the dark corner freaked me out. Right there, blocking my exit, [were] three tables sitting right-side up and lined up obstructing my path. I called out if anyone was there and was met with silence. I simply turned around and ran to the back entrance and left the building from there. Afterwards, I explained to a co-worker how I was alone up there and heard absolutely no one, and how the heavy-as-hell tables got moved and flipped so swiftly and silently.

  I was then later told that a little boy with a heart condition ran all the way up the hill racing his friends and essentially dropped dead right in front of that restaurant, probably 10 feet from where the incident occurred. I hate closing at night now.
• (#15) Someone Made A Painting With Human Feces

  From Redditor /u/duckstuff:

  I was working as a ride operator on the Big Bad Wolf (now torn down). It was a slow day for us, so my area manager had me move from my current position to help out the area staff (cleans the park) in a busier part. I didn't mind because most of the time you just walk around and take in the sights. I also like to keep it clean and the park is usually pretty damn clean. I then got a radio call to come to the men's bathroom at the German Festhaus.

  Now usually this would mean there is an overflow in the trash or some toilet paper on the ground FROM INCONSIDERATE NESTERS (you know who you are!). Well, I walked in and instantly realized something was wrong. The smell... Oh my God, the smell. It was so thick I could taste it.

  I walked past the open stalls and still nothing could be seen, but the smell got stronger. The last stall was in sight and it was the [big] stall. I went to the door and opened it. Inside was what looked like a caveman painting of horses and arrows, but drawn in human feces. It was everywhere, literally everywhere.

  I immediately went to a couple of stalls over and threw up. I then radioed in that the men's bathroom was a big nope from me, and put an out-of-order sign on it, not touching that literal sh*t Picasso that was going on in there.
• (#8) A Worker Lets Too Many People On Slide, So People Die

  From Redditor /u/cheesewedge12:

  Worked at a water park in high school. They had one of those slides where you get dumped out into a big funnel and rock up one side, then back down and up the other until you get funneled out. Well one of the workers wasn't doing his job right, and let several heavy people into one group tube and went way over the weight limit.

  They went up one side, kept going, and fell 40 feet to the bottom of the funnel. I heard one of them died. They shut down the ride for a while after that.
• (#1) A Lifeguard Poops Her Pants After Seeing A Drowned Mannequin

  From Redditor /u/puppy2010:

  A girl I used to know worked at Wet and Wild Sydney for a season when she was in uni. One night, she was working on the lazy river ride (the kind of one where you sit on an inflatable tube and just bob along) when she noticed some legs coming out of the tube, with the rest of the body trapped in the water under the tube.

  She sh*t herself when she saw it and ran over to help the trapped person, only to realize it was a mannequin that had obviously been placed there as a prank.

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