There seem to be new policies this year that I've now noticed a few times. First, they are making people wear shoes on Apollo's Chariot. When did that start? I know this is a thing at other chains with the same type of ride, but Busch never cared. Several different people were getting (rightfully) confused why they were being told to wear loose shoes while being told to remove every other loose article.
The second, and far more ridiculous, policy is twice now I've seen employees tell kids who have gone under the bars in the lines to go back and walk around. Mind you, it's not like they were going under the bars and skipping other people, just going under the bars instead of walking all the say around as small kids are wont to do. A few weeks ago a woman told a kid in line for Loch Ness to go back and walk around and even at the time I thought it was a bit stupid and power-trippy.
Today was another level: an employee called out over the intercom for a group of kids to go back to the beginning of the Finnegan's Flyer line and walk through it normally after they went under the bars or they wouldn't be allowed to ride. They just stood there and said no and asked why. The employee just kept repeating that "it was the policy." To which they continued to ask why. To be honest, good for them. I'm not often agreeing with teenagers nowadays, but that was just moronic. If it's a safety thing, then tell them to please walked around next time. Making people go back solves nothing, makes the employees look extremely petty, and it's just stupid. Kids go under the bars. They have for years. I did it. Everyone has. Like suddenly "it's just the policy?" It's a stupid policy.
