Festa Italia (Italy)
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you gotta hope that that mark didn’t come from what i think it came from.
Based on personal experience having worked at a place that was closed as a major crime seen and cleared and reopened in 24 hours I would highly doubt it.
Ahh, that explains my experience tonight. They closed off the entire section of the park from the Pompeii bridge all the way to the Oktoberfest bridge a little before 10pm and wouldn't allow anyone past those points for the rest of the night. Everyone in Festa was required to stay in Festa for a good while apparently. Staff just told us there was an "incident."
I understand the severity of the situation and the personnel required to secure the scene, but my group was a little peeved they closed such a large portion of the park without giving any real explanation. With Griffon already down for unrelated reasons, the park lost Apollo, Battering Ram, DaVinci's Cradle, Turkish Delight, and Trade Wind — meaning 6 of the park's 13 available adult rides were closed for the last 45 minutes the park was open. I at least wish the customer service would have been a little more apologetic than what we got, which was employees passive aggressively telling us to turn around and go the other way with no other explanation (which we experienced at both the Pompeii bridge around 10 and the Oktoberfest bridge just before 10:30).
unless the park is negligent in any way shape or form from allowing the fight to start, (which is a very hard thing to police), i don’t think there’s any reason to be upset at the park, they had what sounds like a very intense incident and had to clear the area for the saftey of the people involved and the people not involved, i don’t know how severe the injuries could’ve been but assuming that it was anything worth having ambulances on the scene, must have been a noteworthy incident that the park had to get under control
@Mushroom dont want to quote your whole post, and I understand being peeved, they should have just stated there was an emergency situation as opposed to “an incident”; but not too sure what more they could have done since they can’t share too much of what happened.
Why would they need to do that??? If for some reason they couldn't use the main path which I doubt there is an entrance behind Sesame that goes to right by Apollo. I think there is about zero chance they would use the service road.
Want to no but I think they would prefer that to walking them through a back stage area, active work site and past the dumpsters.
Given the things that regularly show up in the Quality Control thread... I assure you BGW doesn't care about some cracked paint.
"Emergency situation" is more likely to create fear and panic then incident is. I think incident is the right phrase both from a PR and management standpoint.
I think it's more the way we were treated by the employees that bothered us. They acted like we were breaking a rule by trying to walk past the Pompeii bridge (we had no idea it was closed) and we got the sense that we had inconvenienced them by just trying to walk over there without knowing any better. When we asked by the Oktoberfest bridge if the area was open, it was the same experience. It was a bizarrely aggressive "Nope, turn around." We had no idea!
I agree with what you said about it being an intense event that took a lot to be under control. But my friend paid 85 dollars for a five-hour session at the park with 13 adult rides open. 45 minutes is a huge chunk of time for such a small timeframe, with nearly half of the park's rides closed during that time. It was upsetting. The park is in the hospitality industry. I would have expected a bit more of an apologetic response than the undue aggression the park's employees gave us considering how much of my friend's $85 basically got wasted during that time.
While I agree that there probably should have been a softer better approach taken. I also sympathize with those employees. I sure they been fielding complains all day and like most of the last two weeks. Now they got what from what I have heard was a fairly intense situation going on in a section of park and are having to turn away dozens if not hundreds of guests many of whom are probably already angry from parks operations be less then steller throughout the day. Yeah I can see where they might be grouchy and short. Is it how it should be nope but it's also somewhat understandable.
Is there any mention in the news about what happened at all? I'd think Chopper 10 would be all over it the second they heard anything on the police scanner...
I have not seen anything. Williamsburg is fun on what makes the news and how fast it makes the news.
Prays for the death of the basketball game in Festa next.
Carl Lum’s Hoops Challenge™ will live on forever.