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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,373341,00.html
AUSTELL, Ga. — A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area Saturday at Six Flags Over Georgia, authorities said.
Six Flags officials are uncertain why the unidentified 17-year-old from Columbia, S.C. scaled two six-foot fences and passed signs that said the restricted area was both off-limits and dangerous to visitors, spokeswoman Hela Sheth said in a news release.
Authorities were investigating reports from witnesses who said the teenager jumped the fences to retrieve a hat he lost while riding the Batman roller coaster, said Cobb County police Sgt. Dana Pierce. Police have declined to release the teenager's name until an autopsy is completed.
Six Flags said it closed the roller coaster after the Saturday afternoon accident out of respect for the teen's family. The ride was expected to reopen on Sunday, according to a Six Flags news release.
Police said the ride was going full-speed when the teen was struck. The ride's top speed is 50 mph, according to the park's Web site.
No one riding on the roller coaster was injured, Sheth said. The teen was with another boy who also entered the restricted area but was not injured, Pierce said.
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The teen and his parents were at the park with a group from the Oakey Spring Baptist Church near Springfield, S.C., police said.
In May 2002, 58-year-old groundskeeper Samuel Milton Guyton of Atlanta was killed after he wandered in a restricted area under the Batman roller coaster's path and was struck in the head by the dangling leg of one of the ride's passengers. The ride was closed for a day to allow the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to inspect the ride. It was deemed safe for passengers.
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And now his parents will sue, claiming Six Flags didn't do enough to warn their son not to be there.......
I cant believe he is the 2nd person to have been killed by the ride, how stupid can some people be?
O_o o_O
DO NOT understimate the power of Stupidaty and teenage Hormones.
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
It was a brand new hat!
Damn. I was pretty stupid when I was that age. I'm glad I never got hurt like that.
I used to do the dumbest shit. I look back on some of it and wonder if I have a worn out guardian angel now. It was like I thought I was invincible or something.
Poor kid. I feel bad for him. His family must be mortified.
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