Boy decapitated by roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia
 

A 17-year-old South Carolina boy on an church outing was killed Saturday when he was struck by the popular "Batman the Ride" at Six Flags Over Georgia. It was the second Batman ride-related death at the [URL="http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/index.html?cxntlid=linkr"]Cobb County[/URL] park.

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Well, this was obviously this kid's fault for climbing over two security fences, but Danny's parks don't need anymore negative PR. What a horrific story. I feel so badly for his family.

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Sad and the scary thing is that my sister was at 6 flags on Saturday

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what is wrong with people?
Six flags will get negative rep for this, when it was 100% that kid's fault. Now someone will come up with the bright idea for more security or something costing the parks a lot more money, and thus costing us more money for entertainment. Not smart.

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Jesus, what's wrong with kids these days? What part of "Danger" isn't clear? It's not a video game and you don't re-spawn once you're dead.

Can't blame the park for a Darwin Award candidate.

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[quote=saden1;454546]Jesus, what's wrong with kids these days? What part of "Danger" isn't clear? It's not a video game and you don't re-spawn once you're dead.

Can't blame the park for a Darwin Award candidate.[/quote]
Kids have done things like this all the time we just now hear about them with 24hr news and the internet. Those kids probably had to walk all they way around the park to go to their bus to get lunch. When heading back they said man we can just cut through there and be right at the coaster. I'll bet there is a laws suit coming after they can figure out how to blame the park. Something like they need a third fense, fense not tall enough, warning signs where to far apart, etc... Its a trgic way to loose such a young life.

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Even if the family filed a lawsuit against Six Flags I doubt they would win it. The area is clearly defined, obviously if it says, Danger Do Not Enter, etc., Six Flags can't be blamed because the kids had to know they couldn't enter through there. That's just a dumb idea by those two kids, and one of them payed for it with his life.

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Who knows why he climbed the fence... he must have just lost his mind!

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I was at six flags san antone friday and lost my cellphone on the superman ride,I came very close to going back in the restricted area to look for it but decided against it,then I just read this story today and I guess maybe I made the right descision

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Tragic story but I don't see this as anything that will impact 6 flags negatively.

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[QUOTE=Schneed10;454573]Who knows why he climbed the fence... he must have just lost his mind![/QUOTE]

Horrible...

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[QUOTE=djnemo65;454576]Tragic story but I don't see this as anything that will impact 6 flags negatively.[/QUOTE]Seriously? Of course it will negatively impact the park, even though it was 100% the kid's fault. There are plenty of people who will avoid going to the park because of this kind of crap.

Plus, this isn't the first incident at a Six Flags park in recent history:
[QUOTE]Over the years, several ride-related deaths have been reported at Six Flags parks nationwide.

Last March, a worker dismantling a ride at Six Flags Great America near Chicago fell 40-feet to his death. In 2004 at the same park, a maintenance worker was hit by a roller coaster and killed.

A 55-year-old disabled man was killed in May 2004 when he was thrown from a ride at Six Flags New England near Springfield, Mass. Five years ago, a grandmother strapping her 4-year-old grandson into Six Flags New Orleans' Joker's Jukebox ride was hit by a spinning car when the ride began operating before she was out of the way.
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What a horrible thing for the family and friends.
What a stupid F... idiot. There is only so much stupidity one can reasonably be protected from

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Seriously how can you not see the tracks or a coaster coming around it????

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If he climbed a fence despite signs that said danger, do not enter, he clearly wasn't using his head!

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[quote=Schneed10;454605]If he climbed a fence despite signs that said danger, do not enter, he clearly wasn't using his head![/quote]

So much shtick, so little time. :)

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[quote=Schneed10;454605]If he climbed a fence despite signs that said danger, do not enter, he clearly wasn't using his head![/quote]

Oh he used it, he tried to stop a roller coaster at 50 MPH with it!

Train 1
Head 0

Game over.

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I can't even begin to imagine being the friend that was with him at that moment

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[QUOTE=mredskins;454603]Seriously how can you not see the tracks or a coaster coming around it????[/QUOTE]

That's what I was thinking. If he was some retarded deaf kid then I would feel sorry for him. But I seems like this kid was simply just a complete moron.

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[QUOTE=mredskins;454603]Seriously how can you not see the tracks or a coaster coming around it????[/QUOTE]I thought I heard on the news this morning that the friend dove out of the way, so I guess it's possible that he saw/heard it coming but for whatever reason he didn't get out of the way in time.
It reminds me of a line from the end of the movie Snatch: [QUOTE][B]Turkish:[/B] Have you ever crossed the road, and looked the wrong way? A car's nearly on you? So what do you do? Something very silly. You freeze. Your life doesn't flash before you, 'cause you're too fuckin' scared to think - you just freeze and pull a stupid face.[/QUOTE]

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Damn you guys are harsh. I did some really dumb things as a kid too. I just feel bad for him and his family.

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Forget about why he didn't see/hear the train coming, why did he jump two fences in the first place?

It does suck that one dumb decision cost him his life.

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Well the worker who was killed by the same roller coaster was struck by someones leg. I think the problem comes with the roller coaster hanging from the track instead of riding on the track. They heard it coming but did not realise how low it was and it took them out.

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^

It would be OK if you don't ignore the fence and several signs.

The park did nothing wrong. This idiot did and unfortunately, he left his family to deal with the results.

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[QUOTE=Buster;454645]The park did nothing wrong. This idiot did and unfortunately, he left his family to deal with the results.[/QUOTE]

I don't think anyone is saying the Park did something wrong. If you didn't do anything really dumb as a 17 year old you (a) are kidding yourself, (b) were paralyzed during your teenage years, or (c) must be in seminary school.

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[quote=Sheriff Gonna Getcha;454647]I don't think anyone is saying the Park did something wrong. If you didn't do anything really dumb as a 17 year old you (a) are kidding yourself, (b) were paralyzed during your teenage years, or (c) must be in seminary school.[/quote]
I agree and I can say that I did things that could have gone wrong and cost me or someone else their life. We could start a new thread on this "Dumb Stuff I Did When I Was Younger" for the younger posters we could start "The Dumb Things I did Last Night".

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[quote=Mattyk72;454637]Forget about why he didn't see/hear the train coming, why did he jump two fences in the first place?

[B]It does suck that one dumb decision cost him his life[/B].[/quote]

Sucks for him, hilarious for us!

I heard that when a security guard saw him climbing the fence, just before the train struck him, he told him to knock it off. The security guard is in therapy today.

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[quote=SmootSmack;454614]I can't even begin to imagine being the friend that was with him at that moment[/quote]

Yeah, he's probably head over heels with grief.

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On a serious note, he made a bad decision and got himself killed. It's a crying shame in all honesty, and it's nobody's fault but his own.

But people die on account of their own stupid decisions every day. Some people drive home after 10 beers. Some people feed wild animals. Some people dash across the street in busy traffic just to make it to work on time.

This particular death however, gets press because of the gruesome and rare nature of the death, not to mention that rollercoasters and thrill rides have become a hot-button for people.

But in the end, this was just a guy making a dumb unfortunate decision that got himself killed. Is it sad? Yes. Is it out of the ordinary? Not really.

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[quote=Schneed10;454662]On a serious note, he made a bad decision and got himself killed. It's a crying shame in all honesty, and it's nobody's fault but his own.

But people die on account of their own stupid decisions every day. Some people drive home after 10 beers. Some people feed wild animals. Some people dash across the street in busy traffic just to make it to work on time.

This particular death however, gets press because of the gruesome and rare nature of the death, not to mention that rollercoasters and thrill rides have become a hot-button for people.

But in the end, this was just a guy making a dumb unfortunate decision that got himself killed. Is it sad? Yes. Is it out of the ordinary? Not really.[/quote]
Some people put on deer scent to attract bucks not thinking that if one does show up its going to want to mate.

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[quote=Sheriff Gonna Getcha;454647]I don't think anyone is saying the Park did something wrong. If you didn't do anything really dumb as a 17 year old you (a) are kidding yourself, (b) were paralyzed during your teenage years, or (c) must be in seminary school.[/quote]

My head is still attached. All kids are stupid at times, but to lose your head like this is beyond being a normal teenager.