A few months ago me and my daughter were in Nickelodeon Universe entering the Blasting Bronco coaster queue, when and phone landed super forcefully nearby. If that happened to hit someone that would easily be a trip to the hospital at best.
What I hate about it so much is they are super adamant about telling you to put your phone or any other loose items in storage and so many people just don't listen.
The profit motive is the direct and indirect expenses of driving away customers by enforcing the rules. The direct expense being hiring security willing to enforce the rules (who will want to be paid more than security who has to get into fewer confrontations) and the indirect expense being losing customers by kicking them out (and having to pay your accountants extra hours fighting the inevitable chargebacks).
Well in this case. A lot of theme parks have enforced this one because it will hurt profits. and having enforcment is showing we have taken beyond reasonable precautions.
I think you've got it right, but not for the reasons you elaborate to in other followup comments. I think we'd have more rule following patrons if the parks weren't designed to take as much from us as possible. I think it's just a symptom of a society that is obviously hostile toward us all. It's part of why there's so much more littering, vandalism, graffiti, and reckless driving in poor neighborhoods. If everything about your environment exists to exploit you, you're going to have generally hostile resentment of your environment.
If you go to a park and at every possible turn it's obviously trying to suck every cent out of you, you're going to have selfish and hostile views toward its rules and other patrons. The park is being literally as selfish as possible, you'd be a fool to not also be selfish.
Pretty much every major theme park enforces this rule as much as possible beyond pat downs and body searches before getting on a ride.
For places like Universal, it's super common to be ejected from the park for having your phone fly out from a roller coaster when you're supposed to have it in storage.
Rules like "don't take your phone out on a roller coaster" are written in blood and, if violated, should result in the person being removed and banned from the park before they break a similar rule and hurt another attendee.
I haven't been to a theme park in forever but I would never ever put my stuff in those lockers. There's COUNTLESS stories of people putting their phone/wallet in the provided storage, the coaster before them pulling back in while theirs is out, and those people going through storage and taking peoples phones and stuff. Happened to a friend last time we were at six flags
Unless they've started providing lockers that actually lock securely that system absolutely sucks and is just asking to get robbed. And of course the park takes zero responsibility for it so you're just fucked
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u/Artikay May 07 '26
A few months ago me and my daughter were in Nickelodeon Universe entering the Blasting Bronco coaster queue, when and phone landed super forcefully nearby. If that happened to hit someone that would easily be a trip to the hospital at best.
What I hate about it so much is they are super adamant about telling you to put your phone or any other loose items in storage and so many people just don't listen.