Six Flags Over Georgia (SFOG) Discussion Thread

Don't know if it has been posted here yet, but apparently Splashwater Falls is also leaving SFOG, the ride is up for sale:

www.irmpri.com/Ride%20Info%20Sheet%20ShootTheChute.pdf

send the track to SFGAm so we can have a 2 one running and one bieng repaired (just an idea, but it would be useful)

Hey guys...I was just going to give yall a small update on what ive heard on the status of the removal of the ride..."ITS STAYIN"...NOT lol...alot of us wish though! But seriously though on the SFOG fan site they have said that the Cobra Roll has beed removed already. Thats all ive heard...ill post more if i hear it or read it on the fan site.

Oh yea...does the park in Spain have problems with "Stunt Fall" like the Six Flags parks have had with Deja VU???

I drive by the park a few times a week, and yeah, the cobra roll was gone at least a week ago. The two towers remain though, at least as of this past weekend. Maybe on Thursday I can bring a camera since I'll be headed down that way again..

Maybe on Thursday I can bring a camera since I'll be headed down that way again..

another beer run?

i was plannin on goin by there too when i pick up some tix downtown so when u goin?

See story here.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A boy died Saturday after being decapitated at the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park outside of Atlanta, authorities said.

 

The Cobb County, Georgia, Fire and Emergency department said the victim was part of a group of boys who jumped a fence and entered an area of the park they were not supposed to be in. No one else was injured, the department told CNN.

 

Cobb County police Sgt. Dana Pierce said a 911 call of the decapitation came in about 2 p.m. ET. The person was located near the back of the park, he said.

 

A Six Flags spokesman said the park would make a statement after assessing the situation.

I wonder what happened? Did he lose his hat or shoe on Batman and run in a low zone? I recall something similar happening when a maintenance worker was in a low zone while Batman was running, and I think it was at this same park.

But not many details are out now.

Another source.

One of the boys jumped up and tried to grab someone's feet who was on the Batman ride.

So they jumped the fence, and the kid tried to grab someone's feet? That's insane. Batman goes 50 mph. Even if it's going 35 after one of the corkscrews in a low zone, it will do some serious damage to anything it hits. This is ridiculous.

It's like running onto a busy highway and trying to grab someone's mirror off their car. No one does that! So why do people lose their minds (no pun intended) when they enter amusement parks?

I dont understand people?

why would you go into a restricted area were your not supposed to go.

Obviously you wouldn't go in there anyway seeing as there is a huge rollercoaster there :S

I am always amazed at how dumb people are in this world..

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Authorities said the incident happened just after 2:00 p.m. Saturday. A church group went to the amusement park and a group of boys with the group jumped a fence and entered an area that was marked off limits.

One of the boys jumped up and tried to grab someone's feet who was on the Batman ride

Hate to sound like an a-hole but the boy was an idiot and that what he gets.

I feel sorry for the family though.

I wonder if his head was kicked off by the feet he was trying to grab? Crazy! It just goes to show that you never come out a'head' when you break the rules. Wacka, Wacka, Wacka!

But seriously stupid as the kid may have been I feel bad for him and his family.

17 year old too. . .

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is saying the police won't say whether or not he was decapitated, and the park statement doesn't say that either. But this is all late-breaking news, so we won't get the details for a while.

Oops. That site requires free registration. Anyway, it also says that he hopped over two six-foot fences to get there. Come on, kid! They're there for a reason!

As amazingly stupid this boy may have been for going into the restricted area, I can't help but think about all of his friends and family. As a 16 year old, if this happened to one of my close friends their stupidity would be the last thing on my mind. My thoughts and prayers go out to the boy's friends and family, this is an absolutely horrible accident.

Unlike the SFKK incident last season this one cannot be blamed on the park.

I swear what is wrong with people these days? Most anyone would know that if there's a large fence surrounding the ride with the words danger keep out or authorized personnel only it should be more than enough to make them realize that it's a restricted area & to stay out.

What really gets me however is the assinine reason these kids had for entering such a restricted area in the first place.....to grab a rider's feet as a train passed by.Usually we have people entering such areas in search of lost items dropped from the ride which is bad enough but this is just plain aweful.

Anyway, it also says that he hopped over two six-foot fences to get there. Come on, kid! They're there for a reason!

What a strange place to be headed.

I feel sorry for the family, but how much of a dumba$$ can you be.

--Jay

Austin Powers: Not the time to lose one's head.

Vanessa Kensington: No.

Austin Powers: That's not the way to get ahead in life.

Vanessa Kensington: No.

Austin Powers: It's a shame he wasn't more headstrong.

Vanessa Kensington: Hmm.

Austin Powers: He'll never be the head of a major corporation.

Vanessa Kensington: Okay, that'll do.

Austin Powers: Okay.

Guess the boy wasn't as head strong in the end.

Ok, I love puns, but now I feel kinda bad about that.

Simply put, bad choice and his poor family and friends.

The stupidity of some people these days...

I feel sorry for the family though. Losing a child under any circumstance is unimaginable.

Hate to sound like an a-hole but the boy was an idiot and that what he gets.

 

I feel sorry for the family though.

Well the guy was an idiot but I don't think he deserves to die.

Well, now that his age has been released and he was 17, that rules out the ignorance factor. I would certainly hope, at the age of 17, one would understand the meaning of the word "DANGER" I'm sorry for his friends and family, and the employees of the park that have to deal with this

So on CNN.com it now says it was a GROUP of teens that crossed the fence. No one on the ride was hurt, thankfully.

I'm not sure he was decapitated, as the news media uses that word loosely in a lot of cases, but I guess it could be.

I feel sorry for those that saw the incident, the family of the teen, his friends, and yes, even a little bit for the teen, even if he did do something idiotic. Remember that video of the teen going after his hat in the Jurassic Park ride?

Hate to sound like an a-hole but the boy was an idiot and that what he gets.

 

I feel sorry for the family though.

 

Well the guy was an idiot but I don't think he deserves to die.

Nobody deserves to die. He just didn't make a good choice.

-Tatum

Can I start the countdown to the family's lawsuit alleging that Six Flags made it too easy to get into a restricted area? Why, those two six-foot fences with "RESTRICTED AREA" signs practically beg you to scale them.

I did this Photochop last year. Turns out it was for the wrong ride.

This should be nominated for a Darwin Award.

While I have pity for the kid's family, I have no pity for the kid himself. If your going to ignore common sense and the fences and warning signs that have been put up for your own safety, than you probably deserve to to be die, especially if it's for something as idiotic as grabbing the feet of a rider. Sorry if that seems heartless, but I just can't pity people who ignore common sense on an enormous scale.