Strange Things you have seen at the park…
Tell us what is the weird, different, abnormal or Odd things you have seem at a Theme Park… Or even on your travel to a Theme Park….
I will start with some weird things….. In May while travelling to Orlando, I stopped by the bathroom in the Airport (MCO) before we went to retrieve our bags… During this bathroom visit, some guy comes in and clears his nose in the sink with a few snot rockets…. This is strange because there were paper towels and toilet paper available for such cleansing…
I also saw the same thing in the Theme Parks… Someone come in, go directly to a sink, Blow snot, then leave….
5 seconds later this other guy comes out of the crapper stall, passes the sinks and goes into back out into the airport. No time to wash I guess…
These events are strange to me… Do some cultures practice such events? Is blowing snot rockets in a public a religious event?
Thanks for your input.. I look forward to hearing crazy events….
Airports really are a great place to people watch, the colorful characters you see there are really only outdone by cruise ships and theme parks.
Weird things, oh there are so many so I'll start with the most current one.
We went to Kennywood last week up here in Western Pennsylvania and this one stuck me as completely odd.
Picture if you will: Random group of teenage girls had yanked benches out of their normal place, set them up on the sunny sidewalk and proceeded to sunbath right then and there. At least they where slightly out of the way but where still half blocking the pathway to the picnic area.
We just returned from a couple days at Hersheypark. On the bumper cars this woman got all mad because she got bumped and hit the back of her head on the padding. She started screaming at the workers to stop the ride and let her off!!! They did do that and then started the ride over for the rest of us. What part of "bumper" cars didn't this woman understand?
From Tom Rigg
Posted July 4, 2011 at 11:17 AM
I find it odd when people argue with employees at parks about park rules. Just two weeks ago I was at Busch Gardens Williamsburg and I saw a woman yelling at a security officer who wouldn't let her bring in her cooler. She claimed that she was allowed to do so even though she was standing right next to a sign that clearly stated the opposite.
Lisa,
I just returned from a four-park trip, and I always ride the bumper cars. I've said this many times:
Why do people get on bumper cars, then spend the entire time trying not to hit people and going out of their way to avoid being hit?
Maybe because some are called "DODGE"-Ems?
Weird things I have seen at theme parks in the last week:
1. A woman DRAGGING a child on a leash. Not a kid leash either. No, this woman had put a dog collar and leash on her toddler and when he refused to walk was dragging the poor kid on the ground until it got too painful and he got up to walk. I wanted to smack her.
2.A second woman stripping her 5-6 year old girl buck naked in full view of everyone and telling her to go play in the Curious George area at Universal. Thankfully a team member caught this one and forced the girl to go back to her mom and get dressed.
3. A couple dropped off their 8 year old son at the ticket and transportation center to magic kingdom with a child ticket and told him to have fun. I was waiting for a friend to be dropped off and I did get Disney security for this one.
Sometimes I think child services should be stationed at the front gate to every theme park...
Leash Children are always fun!
My favorite thing, as terrible as it sounds, is try to bet with my brother how many kids will leave a 3D movie at Disney (like Eo or Its tough to be a Bug). Stitch's great escape is another interesting one due to the "false friendliness" of Stitch.
One of the strangest things I ever saw was in Seaworld, after the night shows in the summer.
A woman tried to grab one of the birds from one of the displays on the way out of the park. I believe this was a 'wild' bird that had landed in Seaworld for some free pickings, but she literally grabbed it by the neck.
I admit I went wild and saw red, I grabbed the ignoramous and shouted what the he!! did she think she was doing!
It just happened that a security guard was quite nearby.
Maybe too much beer in the old hospitality centre? Still no excuse in my book.
From Rob P
Posted July 7, 2011 at 3:07 AM
I once watched a guy standing with his partner at the dolphin encounter in Seaworld. Another woman of similar size and hair colour walked up and stood on the other side of him to view the dolphins. When she walked away he went with her for about 5 yards before he realised it was the wrong woman and , red faced, scampered back to his partner.
I think that must have happened to most of us at sometime but I still laughed.
From Crystal A
Posted July 7, 2011 at 5:44 AM
Once at Adventure Island (BGT Waterpark) we were on a family raft water ride where aprox. 6 people ride in one tube. We were going up the lift to the top and could see the other people going down the slide on the other side. While watching the slide side we saw a very large woman standing up in her raft while going down the slide trying to "surf" on it. People really are crazy.
From Scott B
Posted July 7, 2011 at 6:26 AM
When I was at Blizzard Beach last year, this lady who looked to be in her 60s walked by us wearing a horribly skimpy thong bikini. Suddenly there was an really super tanned old man catching up to her wearing a hardly there 'banana hammock' and they held hands and walked away. That is the type of image that just burns into your brain.
This isn't quite weird, just funny. I took one of the kids to Magic Kingdom on Monday. I was browsing in a shop in Liberty Square when two kids came in, looking frustrated. They ran up to their mom and the girl yelled "You said the Haunted Mansion wasn't scary, but it was! And then this DUDE kept trying to spook me the whole time!" The other kid rolled his eyes, and replied angrily, "His name is DAD!"
BTW - if you want to see strange behavior at a theme park, you should try bringing identical triplets into Disney World. You simply cannot BELIEVE the incredibly weird and rude behavior we're subjected to. We regularly have perfect strangers ask if I had in vitro, or people trying to manhandle the kids, just really invasive stuff. The characters make too big a deal out of our kids. Elmo and Abby Cadabby actually shoved a little girl out of the way at Busch Gardens so they could keep following our stroller. Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother broke character in the middle of the Electric Parade at Magic Kingdom to ask how old the kids were and if they were identical. But the weirdest is when people treat our kids like they're some kind of zoo exhibit. People constantly take the kids' picture without asking, or try to pose for pictures with them while we're walking. We hear people say things all the time like, "I've never seen triplets! This is cooler than Mickey!" I just want to scream at them, "My kids are not here for your entertainment! They are not an attraction! Move along!"
Seriously theres a million other things to see and do at an theme park besides look at triplets. Sorry for your bad expierences
I saw birds sing and flowers croon......
The haunted mansion is scary?!
I went to Epcot in August 2001 (one month before the 9/11 tragedy) and I was inside the American pavilion watching the singing group. It caught my eye to see three middle eastern men who were also watching (they had angry faces). They left the building before the group finished singing.
I'm not going to jump to any conclusion, but their attitude looked strange to me and when 9/11 happened I wondered if they were "terrorists" scouting targets.
In case you hadn't noticed, I have a bit of a sense of humor...which gets me in trouble from time to time.
One of my favorite rides to mess with people is the Haunted Mansion. I just can't seem to contain myself in the stretching room when the lights go out and you see the body hanging from the rafters, I just have to scream as well...freaking out everyone in the room.
Last October we were toward the end of the Haunted Mansion ride in one of the quieter sections before going to the unloading platform and the ride stopped. After sitting there bored for a couple of minutes, I let out a bloodcurling scream. After a couple of seconds, I could hear the people in the cars around us laughing as the endorphins kick in after being startled....job accomplished, that's what I wanted. The ride comes back to life moments later taking us into the unload platform where everyone was still giggling about being scared. The ride op gave me a look as if to ask if it was me, and I quickly admitted to it. The ride op then pointed with his eyes at a group who had just got off the ride who had a little girl around 5-7 years old who looked terrified and was crying.
As I realized that it was my fault, the ride op leaned a little closer and said, "I thought it was really funny, though".
When someone is on a ride like the Monster, where they are twisting and twirling around, and yet, have an expression like Lurch on the Addam's Family, it cracks me up every time.
Jeff is apparently the guy that is always standing behind me in the Stretching Room at the Haunted Mansion. . .
"One of my favorite rides to mess with people is the Haunted Mansion. I just can't seem to contain myself in the stretching room when the lights go out and you see the body hanging from the rafters, I just have to scream as well...freaking out everyone in the room."
I like to do this too! Not sure I scare anyone with my wimpy scream, but it is fun. :)
From Tony Duda
Posted July 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM
A few months ago, I was sitting in the monorail going to the Magic Kingdom and this 20-something guy was standing in front of me with a graphic style t-shirt on. I was staring at it and realized it showed, in colored silhouette, a woman blowing her brains out with a gun with the blood splatter flying to the side and turning into butterflies fluttering away. I asked him if he realized where he was going when he chose that shirt. He and his friends nonchalantly remarked that it ends with butterflies so it is a happy ending.
Talking about these things has mae me remember one particularly embarassing thing my father has done. We are big ToT fans and so like most TPI's we know when the camera will take our picture...we sat in the back row and he decided it would be a great idea to stick his finger up his nose for the picture! It made him laugh all day that people would buy their picture and not see him in the back until they got home... My apologies if that was you :-))
Oh and Mark - my dad does that too...and he screams or shouts in the pre-show for ToT at the lightning strike.
^My dad used to love to say "MOO" really loud in long, slow-moving lines. I hated it!
^ My husband does this while saying "Herd Mentality!" everytime. It always makes me bust out laughing though since it's so very true!
My entire family will softly bleat like sheep. It's great to see people in front of us look around wondering what's going on.
Haha love some of these responses!
The weirdest thing I've seen was an armadillo at Typhoon Lagoon (a water park I know!). As a Brit, I'd never seen one before.. and then someone walked into it and kicked it. Honestly such a strange moment.
That's funny. There was an armadillo just outside my apartment. They're considered pests, but that doesn't condone kicking it.
I have to admit that I actually did the weirdest thing I ever saw at a theme park. One of our last trips to Disney World, we thought we would get some huge sombreros and then just try to take as many photos of us with random people as we could. . . while wearing the sombreros. Well, the sombreros were going to be a hindrance to riding rides, so I just decided to get into the backgrounds of as many photos as possible. I wasn't a distraction or ruined photos. I simply walked behind people as they were taking their photos (right on the walkways where other people are walking), even if it was out of my way. I must be in hundreds of photographs during that week.
Is it just me or isn't it odd behaviour to go on a water ride wearing a poncho??
One time, wifey and I were on Popeye and Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges with the usual varied group of fellow park-goers, including another hubby-wife team. Hubby boarded covered in a plastic-wimp-tarp, fidgeting the whole time making sure he covered as much territory as possible. The wife on the other hand was in full commando-mode like us...showing no fear (or maybe hubby was too cheap to buy her one). Inevitably, we're all getting a nice soaker and having a great time, including the braver of the hubby-wife team. She looks over at her dry husband with disdain, then proceeds with ripping off hubby's poncho mid-ride!! We all cheered her on loudly!! He was no longer happy nor dry. :)
I was wondering around the sweet shop in WWOHP and I kid you not. A mum was shouting at her son to put the chocolate frogs back because, and i quote, "Of course its real, did you not see the movie? I dont want that slimy thing anywhere near me!"
Strange? there were maybe 15 preople watching and we all just looked at each other and shrugged. One Lady even had to check with her husband "They arent really alive are they?" Still gives me giggles.
More than 20 years ago I was at Buenos Ayres Zoo, in a sunny afternoon, full of people around, and a Polar Bear started to masturbate! The only thing weird than that was my mother’s face when my little 6 years old brother asked “Mom, what is he doing???”.
Mark Fairleigh, I totally agree. Every time I ride Kali River Rapids or something like that, I see some people getting on the ride with a poncho on. I always think that doesn't make sense whatsoever. If they don't want to get wet, then don't go on the ride.
From N B
Posted July 21, 2011 at 2:56 PM
I've got one for you.... We were heading into Spider-Man at IOA on our last day (July 19th 2011) and there was a tall African American gentleman arguing with the Express entrance employee who must have been 17 years old. This guy and his entourage of 12-15 people stood there and blocked the entrance while he argued that they should all be let into the Express Pass lane because they had such a huge party.
He whipped out a credit card receipt which he got from the main gate after paying for his group's IOA tickets yelling about the money the spent and how they should all be let on through Express. They finally moved out of the way and we went through.
He was being such an ignorant jerk in front of everybody... so, we get on the ride (no wait) and are coming out of the exit through the store and he is still out there arguing. He noticed we had blown past him on the way in and were out of the ride in less than ten minutes.
I wanted to really bust his chops, so we all got in line a second time and blew past him again. At this point he was livid. The second time we exited the ride, he was still there... the regular line was well outside the front entrance and every queue / maze was being used to accomodate the afternoon rush.
He finally stormed off ranting and raving, dripping with sweat after spending 15-20 minutes screaming in almost 100 degree weather. I heard the employee tell him he had to purchase Express Pass for everyone in his group to get in quickly... the point is, it pays to stay on site..
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