Amusement Park Employees, What's The Craziest Thing That Happened? 

The caricature artist: After having the $10 bill thrown at me, I would have torn the drawing in half and asked him which half he wanted.

Fyi for anyone that has to deal with human expulsions from either end. Use ground coffee if its liquid. Itll absorb the liquid and help with the smell. Sprinkle some on, sweep it up, sterilize the area. Hope this helps

I can almost guarantee that the ride in Story 13 was Stitch's Great Escape (or it's predecessor, Alien ExtraTERRORestrial Encounter). The reason: I too worked at Stitch and was annoyed by the number of parents trying to sneak their children into the attraction. I even had an incident where a woman put a hat on her baby that made it look like a stuffed animal, allowing her to get past the cast members at the entrance, in the first briefing area, and into the theater before I was the one who finally noticed, when she took the hat off to have the infant sit in her lap. She then tried to pretend she didn't understand English when I told her that wasn't allowed (I'd heard her conversing in it just fine with the rest of her group moments before). She was escorted out by security.

12:00 “…you are monsters, and if hell is real, no prayers will save you from it.” I know this was said partially as a joke but WOW is that a badass line. I’m saving that one for future reference lmao

I once dated a girl who worked at the colorado-based Lakeside Amusement Park. She had quite a few stories but one of them that stuck out was about their food. She told me that there was one time that they ordered a huge amount of soft serve ice cream in those giant bags. Well the ice cream wasn't selling very well so they wound up having a lot of Overstock. Rather than pay for larger Refrigeration units, they just told her (my gf at the time) to store them in the nearby shed.... On the floor. In a shed that reaches 110 degrees in the summer. Once the current bags of ice cream ran out, her boss told her to hook up the extra bag to the soft serve machine. It'd been in that shed for days. From what I was told they had quite a few health and safety violations throughout the park but they paid their own Health Inspectors off so they are getting away with it to this day. My ex quit a few weeks after that incident. Lakeside is a very cheap amusement park but as with most things, you get what you pay for. Janky equipment, potentially poisonous food, less than stellar customer service.

Not a worker, but at one Six Flags my group was going to get on the Pandemonium which is a very spin-heavy ride. Well, the line was super long so we weren't even on the stairs yet. This actually ended up saving us since someone, upon getting off the ride, ran the wrong way to get off the platform and puked over the whole stairwell. Only this one person (out of 40) who brought an umbrella for the sun was spared. We didn't go on the ride that day.

Hey narrator! “Forbidden Journey” is one of the Harry Potter rides at Universal Studios. In the same park, there was a rollercoaster called “Dragon Challenge” (I think that’s what it was called when it moved to the Wizarding World, it was previously “Dueling Dragons”). Dragons was a set of two coasters that ran parallel to each other like two dragons fighting… until people kept forgetting items in their pockets and riders on the other train were getting hurt because of falling items. “Hippo” is the nickname for “Flight of the Hippogriff,” also in Universal Studios Hollywood’s Wizarding World. Hippogriff replaced Dragons because of the misbehaving guests.

Story 15: OP probably didn’t get fired because the owner knew a massive lawsuit would happen if they did get fired. The owner being there absolutely helped but OP was likely visibly dehydrated and exhausted. It’s more worth it to keep OP as an employee than to ask for a lawsuit and payout.

if a thunder storm hit in that same situation with me behind the control panel, i woulda thought i was in the beginning of a final destination movie

Ok story 20 I hope OP got a pay raise for what they did hoping for what they did for keeping people calm

I worked at an amusement park... sort of some years during college. Specifically, I worked in the medical assistance wing of the park. I wasn't a nurse or anything. Qualification for that job was more "can you do CPR, and do you know first aid?" Spent most of my time just helping people who had gotten too much sun. In any case one day, I was sitting back in the medical building when I start hearing an 'all hands' call coming from one of the roller coasters. All hands things happened so rarely, I had to ask what it meant, and it was basically anyone who can help, had to drop everything they had and come to the location. When I got there, we found security pushing people back from the ride, medical surrounding one area, and several people up at the roller coaster's station. I got sent up there to help tend to a patron who had broken their ankle pretty severely on the ride, and a couple others who had suffered some kind of trauma to their feet. It wasn't until the supervisors came around stating that they were closing the park, at least for a couple hours, that I found out what had happened. Some rider on the roller coaster had lost his hat on it, and he really wanted it back. This wasn't an issue, as we'd collect things and hold them for people at the office so they could pick them up the next day. This guy didn't want to wait, so he jumped over the fence, went in to get his hat, and got decapitated when the roller coaster (one of those kinds where you hang under it) came by. I think he'd actually gotten hit by people's feet, which prompted the other injuries we'd seen. If you think you've heard this story, and know the park... yeah you're probably right. US park for those curious.

Not an amusement park but a water park. We have a slide that's as close to a 90 degree angle as you can get that's about 60 feet high. No matter the slide you go down, even the slow twisty slide, you have to cross your arms over your chest and your legs at least at the ankles, aways staying feet first on your back. Many people unintentionally unconscious on the straight down slide out of fear. We also have a weight limit, but we can't enforce it. We just say please pay attention to all rules of the slide. One guy, we'll over the weight limit, told the guard to shove off when they asked him to assume the position. He went down like a starfish. His heel hit the bottom of the pool causing his ankle to break. When i say break I mean imagine your leg down to your ankle, but your ankle is now 2 inches to the left. No bones broke the skin, but it was a sight to see. Many new lifeguards that year and the guard who responded first....it was his first day. He had just completed training the day before.

Story 19: I'm willing to bet that the guy was simply trying to make enough of a scene and accuse the original poster of being a pedophile in the hopes that the original poster would back down and just let them on.

The second one is hilarious too haha I wish there was video of that 😂😂😂😂

I worked at a Six Flags as a ride operator back in the mid-80's. One day I was sent to operate the Round-Up, a stand up spinning ride that tilts up into the air at about 45 degrees. I start the ride, it gets up to full speed, then I pull the joystick back to raise the ride into the air. As the ride nears its maximum height, a huge splatter of spaghetti and marinara sauce get spewed across the operating booth plexiglass. I immediately hit the emergency stop button, and the ride comes back down and slows to a stop. I then rush over to see if everyone is alright. According to the guests on the ride, a little girl vomited up her lunch which mostly ended up all over my operating booth. Luckily the plexiglass protected me from becoming covered in it. Thankfully I had a full 5-gallon cooler full of ice water, which I used to wash the yucky, stinky, vile mess off of the windows. I didn't even know our park sold spaghetti.

8:08. I work retail and ive never related so hard to a story in my life until now. Why do people leave bathrooms a mess!? Is your bathroom smeered with poop and pee!? No? How about clogged toilets with bananas in there... No? Then stop leaving bathrooms a mess!!

Regarding safety: Loosely there are two kinds of amusement park, travelling and permanent. Permanent park have fairly good safety, but are full of teen workers making minimum wage and even the better positions have high turnover. This is a problem because you have poorly trained staff and a lack of consistency. Travelling parks are the opposite, well-staffed but inconsistent safety. The workers are a fairly tightly-knit group and while there is a lot of turnover, it's turnover between different companies, fairs, and positions. There's a lot of people who have been on the circuit for decades and have worked a different company every year. Problem is that the rides are decades old and minimally maintained. Also, no machine is really designed to be taken apart, driven a few hundred km, and put back together again every week for 50 years. I wouldn't freak out about it, but I wouldn't be in line to be first on a ride, either. Source: Spent about a decade working with a couple of ex-carnies. For them, getting jobs at a casino was settling down and being responsible in their old age. [@20:00 - I would definitely check out Opossum Catastrophe.]

Should've known most of these would be poop and puke stories x) And here i was expecting some interesting omfg that's crazy stuff 🤣😛

1 is crazy

I’m assuming the Gary Busey story happened before he sobered up, but from what I know about Busey, he very well could’ve pulled such a stunt post sobriety.

So apparently the lesson here is never to go to an amusement park in the US on July 4th.

Story 39: How did a homeless man get into Disney world? Their tickets are crazy expensive.

That first one is hilarious 😂😂😂

Not an amusement park, but while I was doing a side gig at a convention center we had one of those weird pop-up fair things come through once. I'm checking tickets and waving people through for a janky teacup ride I would never trust in a million years when I hear scraping metal and then *BOOM!* Yeah turns out one of the four motors under the thing had literally just straight up exploded and the only thing between it and us was some corrugated metal sheeting and a few two by fours. Never again.

Story #3 - I wonder if that radio station got sued, because I'm pretty sure that's illegal. Story #18 - Oh goodness, yes. Head wounds bleed like crazy, even if it's a tiny little cut. Years ago, when I was 11 or 12, my brother's friend, who was younger than me, got hit in the head with a baseball. It split the skin under one of his eyebrows and, according to my brother, it was bleeding so much, he thought his friend was dead. I think 6 or 7 stitches later, he was fine. Had a huge bruised lump on his head for some time though.

Yeah the parents trying sneak their baby on rollercoasters are on another level of dumb lol.

19:50 well, to be fair, when you have names like Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey and Hagrid's Magical Creature Motorbike Adventure, you tend to start abbreviating them to Journey and Hagrid's lol

Holy Crap! Starting strong with this one!

Hi. I used to be a lifeguard, and hopefully after watching you don’t need to be told, but nearly all pool rules are either directly or indirectly for your safety. Directly for your safety are things like “don’t run on the pool deck”, the activity is forbidden because it significantly increases the risk of injury. Indirect safety rules are things that make it easier for us to keep everyone safe, to watch everyone.

I remember an accident in a traveling fair in the town after ours. I don't know what the ride is called but it's a long arm with only four seats - two on each side - and it goes 25 meters up in the air and travels with 90 km/h. (I think that was the right speed and height but it was a couple of decades ago.) It was a big thing back then since there were only 6 of these carousels in the world and one of them was here in little Denmark. A guy fell out of it on top and died. He was a big man and the security belt couldn't close completely, and the young guy in charge of running this carousel felt bad and still allowed him to ride.

11:36 I’ve done this before with fresh dog poop. I used gloves and kept it inside 2 ziplock bags 😂😂😂

16:20 Employers HATE employees that will not risk peoples lives... and employees that keep their word....

For all the small kids being short ones, I think a friend of mine has a great idea for kids in amusement parks. She would prefer to take kids to amusement parks like Disney when they're old enough to remember and somewhat give a sh*t. Her logic being, with the Disney example at least, at least give them a chance to remember what's going on and on top of that they should be tall enough for at least some of the "non-kids" rides. Which I can understand, my first time at Disney world I was 2 and only remember main street and me cutting in line to meet Chip and Dale.

I was looking for more information on the Timothy Fan incident, and found the original r/AskReddit post!

Yes, that poor little girl!

Y'know, you could just _Not_ Read the Poo Stories.

20:55 the Minecraft gameplay matches with the description

Was the guy in Story 24 the same owner of the water park from Piranha 3DD? Same thing happened.

Yep, been to the poop show a couple times! Only these were adults. Even though wedding parties in the hotels are fun to work, they make a tremendous mess. And if there's nothing that cleaning people's houses taught me, they're 10 times worse than their houses than they are in public!🤮 As his supervisor I would have assisted him in this chore.

I prefer a fair or carnival over an amusement park.

4:42 in the words of a famous man: "That's NOT right!"

love SILVERWOOD!

Lmfao the dude narrating is scared of fireworks 😂😂

Story 21: oh, because people are idiots.

Story 2: unfortunately, some people just want to be assholes to people even if they heard the employees and saw the prices even if their kids are next to them

I remember riding the shockwave when I was in high school. Everyone was so excited because it was standing. The way it was set up, you were supposed to hold onto the padded bars that closed around your shoulders. I am short so my head hit the padded bars over and over. Side to side the whole time. I had so much neck pain that I never rode it again. I probably had whiplash... OH and the same day I rode the Anaconda and my fake ponytail flew off into the water underneath the ride never to be seen again. HAHAHA

34:10 Go Karts ... I had "fun" driving one, I wanted to go around as fast as possible, while safe... Nope I couldn't, as I was going to pass my brother he kept blocking me from passing, side to side.... and he thought it was funny.... ruined it completely

Just a visitor but I did watch the whole waterpark explode out in flames(Sweden)

It was a small traveling amusement park set up in the village park. My sister and I rode the ferris wheel, even though it looked rickety. We got off safely. Mom or Dad commented on how unsafe it looked and that s/he was surprised I hadn't examined the bolts. I had -- but while we were riding (I have a fear of falling).

You know that "joke" phrase where one calls someone back, saying, "What's so urgent? Did someone die?" The last time I used it was in the 1980s. You see, someone had committed suicide and I was given the message and asked to call the next mutual friend in line with the news.

I feel bad for the asthma attack kid, but my sympathy for his parents is very limited. Why didn't they have his inhaler with them? It's irresponsible parenting on their part to not have it with them at all times.

I always wondered some of the more extreme measures of safety. What would require them to do this? I wish I didn't have to know

17:40 sands undertable (real)

Story 1 and 2 were definitely in older videos of this channel 😅

HE is SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR HIS KID. This is how the father thinks people Should behave when dealing with their "inferiors" so this Is his "good example" of correct behavior... THIS is HIS GOOD EXAMPLE. >.< (sorry for the caps, keyboard isue and only managed to retype about half before had another glitch so left the first bit caps. sorry everyone >.< ))

Story 39: avoid doing it around a bunch of hormonal teenagers, please. If you’re surrounded by teens, please don’t. Otherwise, yeah, you’re find.

The most shocking thing about this video is the uploader doesn't know that BC borders Washington.

11:40 - omg this made me gag. Ew

Is this a narrator from emkay?

Ive managed to jump off a ride when it was just starting to go. If i had timed it wrong i could have lost my foot. I was like 14 and just had this rush of fear. That kind of fear just is not rational, you'd do anything toget out of the situation, even if the plan is stupid and you're better off staying put. I was told off by the person working the ride, my cousins and older sister were really confused and i just walked up the hill where my folks were whilst they scolded me. I tore off my wrist band cus i didnt want to ride anymore rides. Hell i still don't ride that many to this day cus i know i'll do something irational and I'd much after be the bag watcher. It was a water ride, hence why i was able to jump off onto the platform where you get into the boats. It was called the wild rapids rafting and had a few steep drops that just scared the shit out of me. I've never liked heights since. When my mom and I went to italy we both wantedto see mount velusis. However the roads to that volcano are twisty and tiny and we were in a massive coach. I had another panic attack and when we stopped halfway (theres a gift shop there) i point blank refused to get back on the coach. Mom had to pay something like 200 euros to send me back to the hotel where I stayed by the much safer (to me at least) pool. It also didnt help that my dad phoned me to calm me down and told me a story about a time he was on a coach and one of the wheels was off the road. He was trying to tell me that since it was 2023 safety regulations were way better but it didnt help. Now, if we had gone up in a car, i'm sure i would have been fine, cus with coaches you're a lot higher up than in a car and that really freaked me out. I didnt like seeing down the very steep mountainside

How many times have you uploaded the same frikkin stories?

I usually love following channels like this but saying things like “Go ahead disagree with me if you wanna be wrong” is kinda of an arrogant thing to say, don't ya think? Regardless of the topic

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