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

• (#13) A Kid Passes Out On A Ride

  From Redditor /u/TubbytheIDD:

  Worked at King's Island on a ride called Diamondback. One day the train came back and this kid (about 10 or 12 years old) was completely unconscious. He was slumped over in his seat being held up by his mother. (For those of you who don't know, the seats on Diamondback are lap bars, so this kid was literally like folded in half, slumped over. Also, the ride is smooth as silk, so he didn't hit his head or anything.)

  Anyway, we immediately call 911 (inside the park, any park telephones route to the park's first aid station when you call 911) meanwhile all we can legally do as teens who weren't medically trained was offer a subpar first-aid kit (two gauze pads, a box of band aids, and some other misc items), and water.

  I had to stand there completely helpless watching his parents try to wake him up. They said he passed out while going up the first hill (230 feet) and they had to hold him up to keep from flopping around throughout the entire ride. When the first-aid cart got there, they lifted him off the seat and onto a stretcher and wheeled him off the ride, and he regained consciousness near the entrance of the ride.

  My area supervisor asked us all if we were okay to keep working and said if we needed to, we can all go home. It was terrifying. I thought the kid was dead and the moment I saw him slumped in his seat, [and it] is still etched in my mind. That memory isn't the worst part, though.

  Standing there, legally unable to do anything even if I knew how, while the mother was crying, just trying to get a response while the father tried to keep it together for the boy's sister, is the most haunting memory I have and I think it will be for a while.
• (#5) A Guy Jumps Onto Tracks, And Passengers Think A Conspiracy Is Afoot

  From Redditor /u/finelineLD:

  Some... years ago, I was working my summer vacation at an amusement park, running a rollercoaster. I got to sit and push buttons, give the safety instructions, etc.

  So, we get the train full of people, I get the all-clear, hit the button to start the train up the hill, when I see something out of my periphery. A guy has somehow climbed the gigantic wall surrounding the ride, and has dropped down next to the track, where I am about to send a metal train full of people at 40 mph. I slam on the emergency stop button, which shuts down everything on the ride, and grab the phone for security.

  My coworkers come up to see what's happening, and I point to the guy down in the ride zone. He's acting weird and erratic, and is actually climbing on the rollercoaster's track, and is taking off his clothes. Security tells us not to approach him, in case he's dangerous, and to move the people in line away. Meanwhile, I head up the stairs to talk to the people who are stuck in the ride. The stairs were open, metal things - extra narrow, steep, and - at this point - damp. In the best of times, I hated climbing them.

  I get up and most of the people are calm, except for one woman who is freaking out. She's panicking that the ride is malfunctioning, and that she wants off. Now, I understand panic attacks and how you're completely [a] slave to them. So I'm calmly telling everyone that I was the person who hit the emergency stop, why I did it, etc. From their viewpoint, they literally could see the guy climbing up the track, security chasing after him, etc. I've called for a manager to let this lady off because I'm not able to do it.

  So the manager finally arrives, lets this woman off with dire warnings about how dangerous the steps can be. By this point, the police are arriving, there's all sorts of stuff going on in the sights of the patrons as they are trying to arrest this guy.

  And then, a guy on the ride announces he wants off, too. So the manager lets him off. He climbs over another guest, faces the train, and calmly announces that this entire thing - the half naked-man, security, the police - all of it was just a cover-up for the fact that the ride had malfunctioned and that they were all going to die.

  And I'll be damned if they didn't believe him. We evacuated that ride, and two people slipped walking down those stairs. I had to fill out massive paperwork to keep people from suing, thankfully we were able to call a cop over to witness. After police left, the ride was started back up, with no issues.
• (#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.
• (#6) One Passenger Gets Beheaded

  From Redditor /u/M1n10nD4v3:

  Guy lost his hat on a suspended roller coaster and decided to climb the fence to get it back afterwards. Quite literally had his head kicked off by a lady on the ride as it went by, which also shattered her leg.
• (#9) A Parent Pulls A Knife On A Worker

  From Redditor /u/okiewxchaser:

  Operated rides for four years. Two moments stand out. The scariest moment I had was when lightning struck a utility pole below me (my position on the ride was about 50 feet up) knocking out power to my ride, and forcing me and my supervisors to unload the ride in the middle of a lightning storm.

  The second was a guy who was very upset that I wouldn't let his kid who was a foot under the height requirement ride. I told him no early in the day, but one of my coworkers let the kid ride while I was on break. The family comes up later and the father who was noticeably drunk, jumps two gates and over the tracks to threaten me with a knife. I called security and he ran.

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