Person Hops Fence, Killed by Katun at Mirabilandia

straight from screamscape.com

Park News - (8/20/07) Lacking all common sense, it seems an Italian fellow climbed a 2 meter tall fence to retrieve a hat lost by his fianc????????? while riding Katun, a B&M Inverted Coaster at Mirabilandia. Focused on the hat, he wasn't paying any attention to the speeding coaster train coming right at him and was struck in the head and killed by the leg of a female rider on the coaster. Parksmania has confirmed it also and mentions that the rider broke her leg from the impact.
In a strange twist, an almost identical accident took place in 1998 at Paramount?????????s Great America on Top Gun when a guest climbed over a fence to retrieve his wife?????????s hat, only to be kicked in the head and killed by the legs of a female rider on the coaster who broke her leg from the impact.

That sucks. When the hell will people learn to stay out of areas that they are clearly not supposed to be in!?

That's amazing!

And EElover2's contribution to society falls to a new low!

I feel worse for the girl that broke her leg. If she had to go through the zero-g, a cobra roll, and a corkscrew in that pain...Youch!

Originally posted by GerstlCrazy

I feel worse for the girl that broke her leg. If she had to go through the zero-g, a cobra roll, and a corkscrew in that pain...Youch!

I totally agree.

^At least this wasn't on a rough, vibrating Vekoma SLC. But yes, OUCH!

This guy really should have thought twice about what he was doing.

jeez.. i dont understand how you could even do that.. obviously don't go into the fenced area in the first place, but to stand right under the track too... ughhh

check out the other accidents too, jeez, a bad day...

"Spider accident injures two
(Saturday, August 18, 2007) - At the Price County Fair in Phillips, Wisconsin, a gondola dropped to the ground from a Spider amusement ride, leaving a man and his daughter injured.

Ferris wheel collapses; 15 injured
(Saturday, August 18, 2007) - A Ferris wheel collapsed at a fair in India, leaving 12 children and 3 adults with minor injuries. Witnesses said that the arms of the ride appeared to come loose.
The ride operator was arrested. Police are investigating."

taken from rideaccidents.com

That really sucks. I cant really understand how he could climb over a 2m tall fence? And yes, I agree, that I feel worse for the girl, cuz, as Gerstl said, the accident happened right after the loop, and she had to go through all those elements, plus 2 high G helixes!

i cant trust any fair rides, they cause so many accidents. i guess katun must be quiet, usually you can hear a beemer inverted coming, haha.

^^yeah... normally you can.. lol

I have heard tons of claims of peoples harnesses coming loose. Or they tried to get them loose in the middle of a coaster going and then for being dumb they fell to their death.

what an idiot of a guy, no way in hell does losing a hat so badly.

in the rules usually number 4 "remove all loose articals, hats, glasses, ECT"

rules are there for a reason, shurely they knew that from watching final destination 3 where the whole coaster fell apart after a camera stopped the train in the middle of a loop

And if your going to chose one place to obey rules do it on an amusment ride. I hope this guy gets arrested for breaking that girls leg and for disobeying park rules.

Originally posted by B and M

And if your going to chose one place to obey rules do it on an amusment ride. I hope this guy gets arrested for breaking that girls leg and for disobeying park rules.

hmmmm, how do police arrest dead people?

lol[:p]

I also feel terrible for the guys girlfriend- seriously, she probably thinks it's her fault... poor girl, now she has to live with that.

Originally posted by B and M

I hope this guy gets arrested for breaking that girls leg and for disobeying park rules.

You're really stupid.

The Guys girl also probably watched it happen from a front row seat behind the fence, nothing like watching your significant other get killed just a couple of feet away(pun intended).

i have to agree with gerstlcrazy, that guy death was a stupid move on his part.

Hmm... I would hate to be that lady that struck the man getting the hat.

Man, that is extremely terrible.

[jayman]

lets eee... hmmm, obey sign, live, OR ignore sign die... that can't be THAT hard to figure out..

Originally posted by SFMM homie

Originally posted by B and M

I hope this guy gets arrested for breaking that girls leg and for disobeying park rules.

You're really stupid.

stupid but yet that's possible with todays legal system, and will probably occur

Wow... thats really sad. But, dont you think that you would be smart enough to NOT climb the fence?