Ever been hurt on a ride/attraction?

[rgf207]

well not really an injury but this guy was letting his son do cartweels over the bridge that connects the UK to France in Epcot. There were literally hundreds of people there becuase it was right before illuminations.

Well this kid (about 8 years old) was doing cartweels and he was not good. He was all over the place. we turned the corner going on to the bridge and I saw this kid about 10 feet up. I told my mom to watch out. She moved and the kid headed right for her. He cartweeled right into her and kicked her in the stomach with both feet.

What's even worse is I saw the father watching were the kid was going and he did not even say anythign to him. He just let his kid do that. And to top it all off, no apology. Just kept going. Both of them!!!!

I dont know about you but I would never let my child do that. And if he/she did happen to bump someone walking I would expect him/her to say sorry and excuse me. I would also say it. I dont know why people dont have respect anymore

 

[officer tigger]

I have never been injured, but our family has been in WDW when three people have lost their lives.
A few years ago someone stood up to soon on splash mountain and was knocked out of his car by the car behind him.
The following year an intoxicated man fell over the rode on the docks at the GF and drowned. The next day while we were eating at the Concourse Steakhouse, a CM jumped from the roof of the Contempory.
Very sad.

 

[zap800]

well i went to wdw right after basic training in 1994. i was 150 lbs. of lean mean killing machine. well........... the back of ToT had a lap bar that went straight across us. wouldn't you know it but one of the biggest women i have seen on a ride sat in the center seat. wouldnt you know it the bar came down and stopped about 18 inches away from me and my gf at the time (now my dw). when the tower fell my gf and i thought, "this is it we are going to die at mgm"........ so ok we were not hurt but we sure go the crap scared out of us. lol. to this day we still laugh about that fat women.

 

[Briarprincess]

I haven't been hurt really, but some stupid semi-painful events have occured.
-When I was younger, my family got on TTA and I was the last one on. The CM was taking forever to load, so by the time I jumped in, we were at the point where the doors close. Well they closed on my leg, hard, and then the ride stopped because the ride recognized that the doors wouldn't shut. My family still talks about that.
-I always get sick from the tea cups. But my dad, aunt, sister, and cousin forced me to go on with them when I was younger. My dad and aunt were challenging my uncle and grandmother to who could spin their cups fastest, and wouldn't you know it but I was in the winning cup. The minute I walked out of the line, I collapsed, get sick and passed out as a CM rushed over to help (all I saw were feet...). Woke up an hour later at First Aid with my mom. Never been on Tea Cups anywhere since.
-I get hurt on any ride where you step up and out, like boats/logs, if I step out with my right leg first. That's because I twisted my knee a while ago, dislocating my knee cap/streching the muscles. I can't put all my weight on that leg and be moving at the same time.

I have friend who on a school trip broke her little toe between the bottom of the room door and the floorw (that metal strip).

 

[housecat]

Only one injury in all out times at WDW. It happened to my DS when she was 6 and we were at TL. She was knocked down by one of the gaint waves in the wave pool. We were too shallow and the bottom is rough in the shallow area. Scraped her all up. Went to the first aid station and they were very helpful.

I was wondering if I would hear this from someone else! I scraped my knee on the bottom of that wave pool, trying to hold on to my son after one of those huge waves. Boy, did that hurt! It bled forever, and I still have a scar on my knee from it. I'm sure that happens quite a bit. I wonder why the bottom is so rough? We sure love that wave pool, though.

 

[DepCor0311]

One evening I went to Pleasure Island and Drank many, many Kungalooshes....The next day I rode Mission Space and experience crippling Nausea.... That might have been my own fault.

 

[Jenny]

unfortunately, i saw a lady get slammed up against a wall then dropped to the floor at Cranium Command (which i miss!). for some reason, she walked straight up to the doors that automatically open toward you without realizing that the doors were about to open. i don't think she had any prior knowledge of the attraction plus i don't think that she understood English. she was facing the doors when they FLEW open & pushed her hard against the side walls then she fell & didn't get up....we walked into the show so i'm not sure what happened next. those doors really opened faster than other automatic doors that we've seen. be careful to always stand behind the line in front of those automatic doors. i'm always pulling my toddlers back in fear, especially after what i saw.

 

[keishashadow]

On Pres. Day in boat on Splash Mt., we were sitting backed up after you make the bend @ the end before you float back to exit (quite far away, almost to cave like area).

We sat backed up for a few min. Each time a car hit, impact got stronger...resulting in my DS whapping his head on the padded front of the car - ewwwww blood everywhere!

Complained to CM, said they had no first aid kit & that we had to walk over to first aid station near Crystal Palace.

Took longer than usual with crowd conditions. Kept grabbing napkins to catch (most of the blood).

Nurses on duty gave him a motrin & ice pack...not even a so-sad, too-bad!

Did write a letter & complain that we weren't offered more assistance @ Splash Mt. Contacted my Disney lawyer wanting to know if we were going to sue. No, just thought they should keep a basic first aid kit @ each ride for patrons to avail themselves of in case of emergency.

 

[snowglobe girl]

DH was hurt a few years ago at Typhoon Lagoon in the shark reef. He was sitting on the edge of the concrete at the tank with everyone else getting directions from the CM. When the CM told everyone to start swimming, DH pushed off the side into the rock ledge before the drop-off. There was apparently something sharp that sliced the bottom of his foot open. He said he felt something, but didn't realize he was cut until he got out on the other side and was showering off. Went to first aid and CM there was great. Bandaged his foot, offered to call an ambulance to send him to the hospital, gave us free tickets for another entry to TL, and wrote out a statement for the other parks asking for him to be given a free wheelchair (which DH refused to use). We had always wondered about those sharks in that tank and the possibility that one could bite you, so we joked forever afterwards about how he was living chum for the fish and didn't even know it. I think I would have had a heart attack there in the reef if I had watched a shark bite DH...so they must not be aggressive at all!!

On my Senior Trip in 1993 (yep, telling my age here), we were staying in Daytona Beach and going for the day to Magic Kingdom. My best friend had went out into the hallway about the time I was getting ready to come in from the balcony and the air suction from the two open door started slamming the door shut...so what did I do in my brilliance?? Yes, tried to catch the door which slammed on my middle finger. I'm a pretty big weenie too. Started feeling like I was going to pass out and laid on the bed with my hand in a bucket of ice and remember our teaching coming into the room saying excitedly "Are we ready to go to Disney World?" at which point a mustered out a pitiful "nooooo". I refused to let them take to me a hospital though and insisted we go on to the park. My nail had blood all under it, so we just bandaged it up. Pretty sure I broke the tip of it because it's still crooked to this day. What is funny now though is that in all of the pictures my friends took, there I am holding my hand and staring at my finger - I'm even doing it on a pic of me riding the carosel.