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Thorpe Park bans rollercoaster fans from putting hands in air - due to body odour

Thorpe Park is banning visitors from putting their hands in the air while riding its rollercoasters following complaints about body odour.

This is soo unbelivably stupid, anyone else feel like writing a letter of complaint

We are all there to enjoy the whole coaster experience, sure, noone likes BO, but if i wanna put my hands up and scream, i dont think i should be stopped



The new rule will apply at the theme park in Chertsey, Surrey, from Wednesday and signs will tell visitors to keep their arms down and 'Say no to BO'.
With temperatures expected to reach 84F (29C), managers expect an excess of perspiration as visitors queue to go on rides.
Wardens on the rides will also remind people to consider their fellow passengers and anyone ignoring the warnings will be escorted off. Those who continue to do so will be asked to leave the park.
Mike Vallis, a director at Thorpe Park, said: "We've found that when the temperature tops 77F (25C) the level of unpleasant smells can become unacceptable and we do receive complaints.
"Our rides are really scary and people tend to sweat more than normal due to the fear and anticipation they experience while queueing up so it can get really pongy. Therefore, we felt a ban in temperatures of 25C plus would be the best way to ensure our guests have the most enjoyable experience and aren't exposed to any unsavoury armpits."
Brendan Walker, an aeronautical engineer and theme park ride 'thrillologist', said people queueing for rides designed to release adrenaline would inevitably sweat more than usual.
Mr Walker attaches his uniquely developed 'Thrill Technology' equipment to riders to monitor their changing physiology, including heart rate and their sweat.
"When people are scared they produce more sweat due to the sympathetic nervous system kicking in," he said. "This reaction will bring on what is commonly known as the 'fight or flight response', as humans decide whether to face the threat they are faced with head-on or flee from the scene.
"Those who don't bottle it and stick out the queue to go on a ride will produce lots of sweat as the skin's pores open up to cool the body down and prepare it for action.The anticipation and terror felt by people while queueing to get on really scary rides will certainly fuel odour levels."
Mr Walker, who runs a design practice called Aerial specialising in the creation of rides, said Thorpe Park rides such as Stealth, Colossus and Nemesis Inferno were guaranteed to make people sweat.
"Because rides like Stealth are so scary - rocketing you 205ft high at speeds of 0-80mph in just 2 seconds - peoples' sweat pores will be working overtime. The other big rides on offer, including Colossus and Nemesis Inferno, are equally terrifying - so there is bound to be lots of fear-induced perspiration in these queues as well."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... odour.html
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Post August 19th, 2009, 3:11 am

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This has got to be the most ridiculous rule! Who goes on a ride (besides frightened people) and don't put their hands up? How do they expect to even catch people? "Sir, you put your hands up, please leave the park immediately." Really?

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I doubt the ride ops would even care. Besides how can you smell the BO when you have winds pushing the odor the other way. Are that bored that you don't even pay attention to the ride, but instead the smells around you.

I swear to jesus. This is almost as dumb as the old couple trying to sue Six Flags over noise complaints.

Here's a bright idea.........IGNORE IT!! Jesus christ, I hope I hit the person/s that came up with this, when I get to drive...legally[devilish]
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Post August 19th, 2009, 3:42 am
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Originally posted by sapporo93

I doubt the ride ops would even care. Besides how can you smell the BO when you have winds pushing the odor the other way.


Sometimes the winds don't always push the odor the other way........




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I've been on rides hundreds of times in the heat, and never once smelled an armpit. Is it really that serious?

Post August 19th, 2009, 5:08 am
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^ I was just thinking, I can't remember an occasion when I got on a ride next to someone I didn't know and think that they smelled when they put their hands up.

If they have BO, they're going to smell regardless of whether they put their arms up or not, surely?

Surely when you go on a roller coaster, the person sat next to you is usually a mate or someone you're at the park with anyway, aren't they? It's not that often you sit next to someone you don't know. And then even those few times where this is the case, what percentage of them have bad BO? I honestly can't remember a single time and I ride more roller coasters than the average member of the general public, so I really don't see how they've had enough complaints to warrant this.

Ridiculous.

Post August 19th, 2009, 6:43 am
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Its all down to personal hygene, if people went to the park clean and use BO spray there shouldn't be much of an issue.
I can't wait for my next trip down to see how many rides I get to ride before I am ejected from the park, I will always put my arms up regardless of any rule stating otherwise.

Post August 19th, 2009, 7:11 am

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Thorpe are going to put those signs everywhere and make anyone who puts their hands up feel like an outcast.

This is such bs it's not even funny.

Post August 19th, 2009, 7:23 am

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Publicity stunt, Merlin like doing them.

Alton banned stiletos for a similarly stupid reason, it's just to get people talkin about the park.

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That is so ANNOYIN! God, your only sat on a ride for what? A few minutes? What should it matter if you put your arms up? Putting your hands up is something everyone does, how on earth do they think they are gonna be able to stop every single person from putting their arms up. Also, its part of the fun, and i think that this rule would make more people annoyed and angry then it would happy, and so therefore, isnt it just going to turn people away from the park?
Stupid, stupid rule that one. Kinda annoyed me a little.

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Well, if the Brits would just take showers more often...
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Post August 19th, 2009, 1:22 pm

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Originally posted by bob_3_

Publicity stunt, Merlin like doing them.

Alton banned stiletos for a similarly stupid reason, it's just to get people talkin about the park.


Exactly right.

None of you should be taking this seriously - it's a PR stunt [;)]

Another example would be Merlin banning Speedos at Alton Towers' water park...

Post August 19th, 2009, 1:37 pm

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Wow, and everyone was taking it so seriously. If you would just call the park, or even check the website, they would verify the hoax.
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Post August 22nd, 2009, 11:06 pm

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I find that this would be a good rule, but body odor would be a ridiculous cause for it. The real cause should be that it ruins peoples' onride photos, too many times hands block faces. You'd think more people would purchase photos if some moron's hands aren't in their faces. I don't buy pictures, so that's no matter to me, it's just plain annoying in my eyes. I can hardly imagine a roller coaster ride where not a single teenage girl is screaming bloody murder, and not a single idiotic man-child is thrusting his skinny arms into the sky in hopes that the teenage girl will think he's brave. Must be something.

Post August 23rd, 2009, 12:02 am

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Even if this was true, i'd still put my hands up, IRREGARDLESS of what anyone says.

It's not like they can control people. They may try, but they will fail miserably [;)]

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Originally posted by GTzeroH

Wow, and everyone was taking it so seriously. If you would just call the park, or even check the website, they would verify the hoax.


can you verify that it's a hoax? For all you know, this is true. It's shown up on reputable sites and I actually believe this. So until you get your own facts straight and provide proof, don't be a smartass.
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Post August 25th, 2009, 1:18 am

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some euros don't use deodorant...

i still don't see why that's a rule though.... They could put up cameras everywhere like they used to have in britain... but thatd be a waste of money.

Post August 25th, 2009, 3:18 am
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^ keh?

People from Europe (Europe being Europe, not the UK) may not use deodorant but I would say that pretty much every English person that would attend a place like Thorpe Park would use deodorants and anti-perspirants. Most of them are chavs, they put too much of the stuff on!

Anyway, I'm off to Thorpe Park on thursday and probably friday as well, I'll keep an eye out for any signs of this nature.


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Originally posted by sapporo93

I doubt the ride ops would even care. Besides how can you smell the BO when you have winds pushing the odor the other way. Are that bored that you don't even pay attention to the ride, but instead the smells around you.

I swear to jesus. This is almost as dumb as the old couple trying to sue Six Flags over noise complaints.

Here's a bright idea.........IGNORE IT!! Jesus christ, I hope I hit the person/s that came up with this, when I get to drive...legally[devilish]
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There is no way this is true. It has to be a joke.
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Post August 28th, 2009, 4:42 pm
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A hoax, is it?


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these are everywhere, around the park and in the stations.

However, I stuck my hands up on every ride just the same as usual so...

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well, they've banned screaming and putting your arms up. I think you'll find the only time i've seen a theme park even attempt to enforce this is when i was boarding pandemonium, even then it was "please try to refrain from screaming on pandemonium as it does disturb our neighbours, unless you just can't help yourself" i mean even the operators didn't really give a carp!
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Still don't get what the fuss is. It is a PR stunt. End of. [flush]



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If only you brothers and sisters "across the pond" would wear deodorant... We(some) Americans may be overweight, but atleast we don't stink.
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