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Postby linebacker131 on January 5th, 2004, 10:14 pm
my freind was able to reach the rail going up th lift on viper but hes tall right kyle?
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Postby twixmix0303 on January 6th, 2004, 6:04 pm
Do you mean the rail the car goes on, or the railing that runs along both sides of the track?
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on January 6th, 2004, 8:29 pm
why would you put your finger/hand on the coaster track? unless U want to have your finger lodged/cut off between the car and track....

he probley ment the wooden railing on both sides of the track, right? :?
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Postby Aero737 on January 6th, 2004, 8:47 pm
Idiots who reach out of coaster cars ruin it for the rest of us. If people keep trying to do stupid stuff, soon, we're going to have to lock our hands to our lap. :roll: Just ride the ride and don't reach out of the coaster. (Think about it, a 10 million dollar lawsuit is enough to buy 1 new coaster (minus shipping and construction costs))
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on January 6th, 2004, 9:17 pm
I agree, if it comes to that it just be more uncomfortable, it would take longer to load/unload and we couldn't put our hands up!
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Postby coasterzak on January 7th, 2004, 7:02 pm
Arms up no matter what, even TTD
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Postby Papas on January 27th, 2004, 12:53 pm
Time for my favorite word.........bleh I don't really care, normally I keep em down cause holding them up is too much of a hassle every time I ride a coaster :lol:.
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Postby joiclarrissa on March 16th, 2004, 6:33 pm
Its hard to raise your hands on the hanging coasters. I just gave up
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Postby juice_LP_cavs on March 16th, 2004, 6:53 pm
The only rides i put my hands up on are the ones that don't have over the shoulder restraints. Other wise i have my hands up all the time 8)
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Postby Great America Guy on March 16th, 2004, 6:55 pm
I dont usually lift them on the demon and Iron Wolf because of the headbanging
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Postby Coaster_Chick on April 8th, 2004, 2:14 am
with ots restrainsts it's too hard for me to put my arms up...but usually I keep my hands on my lap...or something. Same for regular lap restraints...sometimes I'm too lazy to put my arms up, but I'll keep em on my lap...not holding on.
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Postby Papas on April 11th, 2004, 10:22 am
twixmix0303 wrote:I always keep my arms up for the armchoppers. Like on Viper, I'm usually the only one on the train with my arms up. Has anyone heard of someone who put their their arms out sideways on Viper when it first opened and they got cut off?

Yeah that happened, on a lot of coasters if you stick your arm horizontally sideways you will not be feeling good afterwards :wink: , but you'll be fine if you just keep them up.
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Postby SFGA Bob on April 11th, 2004, 1:33 pm
I thought the finger chopping happened in the station. the way I heard it, the person had his arm down over the side near the silver step and when the train rolled into the station, the platform and that step crushed his fingers.
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Postby w00dland on April 11th, 2004, 7:04 pm
Ouch, that wouldn't feel good.


I put my arms up on everything but Demon, Iron Wolf, and sometimes batman, depends if the person thats sitting next to me is or not because my arms might not even fit.
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Postby RagingBullDude13 on April 11th, 2004, 7:40 pm
For me, it's impossible to ride RB without my arms up. 8)
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Postby Aero737 on April 11th, 2004, 10:27 pm
You don't want to put your arms up if your tall on Space Mountain in WDW Magic Kingdom. I was too scared to put mine up after hearing the stories that have come out of there.
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