I’ve had to get off Colossus once because I didn’t fit - I’m overweight, not ridiculously so but because I’ve got a bit of a rugby player kind of build, being overweight makes me not fit on certain rides (thankfully Colossus is the only one it’s ever resulted in me not being able to ride).
I’ve also been unable to go on a couple of zip slides due to being over the weight limit
I took that as a sign to lose weight and eventually did.
It isn’t rocket science and nobody owes you a favour. It isn’t Alton Towers’ job or anyone else’s to accommodate people who are seriously overweight.
I do have sympathy and I do accept that it isn’t always easy to lose weight, mentally I found it very tough to get on the right path (and far easier once I’d crossed that threshold,) but never blamed any of the people organising the things that I wasn’t able to do for the fact that I wasn’t able to do them, it was my fault for drinking beer and eating crap all the time.
To be fair to her she doesn’t seem to be complaining all that much about it?
What I would say is that it’s really important that the staff handle these issues sensitively - my problem on Colossus (and on some other rides where it’s been borderline,) is getting the seatbelt to connect as they’re quite short,) I can get the restraint to lock but not always connecting the belt. I’d queued about 2.5 hours for nemesis inferno and couldn’t quite get the seatbelt to click in, it was fairly obvious that someone standing up (the ride-op), would be able to so I asked him to do so and the response I got was ‘I’ll do my best,’ now it didn’t bother me, he tried, it connected so as was fine and me and my friends had a laugh about it but if that was someone a bit more mentally fragile it could be quite damaging. I can’t remember too much about the Colossus incident as it was years ago but I do remember it not being handled at all well.
Difficult as you’re often dealing with teenagers with minimal training but at the very minimum the parks should be training people to handle it sensitively.
I’ve also been unable to go on a couple of zip slides due to being over the weight limit
I took that as a sign to lose weight and eventually did.
It isn’t rocket science and nobody owes you a favour. It isn’t Alton Towers’ job or anyone else’s to accommodate people who are seriously overweight.
I do have sympathy and I do accept that it isn’t always easy to lose weight, mentally I found it very tough to get on the right path (and far easier once I’d crossed that threshold,) but never blamed any of the people organising the things that I wasn’t able to do for the fact that I wasn’t able to do them, it was my fault for drinking beer and eating crap all the time.
To be fair to her she doesn’t seem to be complaining all that much about it?
What I would say is that it’s really important that the staff handle these issues sensitively - my problem on Colossus (and on some other rides where it’s been borderline,) is getting the seatbelt to connect as they’re quite short,) I can get the restraint to lock but not always connecting the belt. I’d queued about 2.5 hours for nemesis inferno and couldn’t quite get the seatbelt to click in, it was fairly obvious that someone standing up (the ride-op), would be able to so I asked him to do so and the response I got was ‘I’ll do my best,’ now it didn’t bother me, he tried, it connected so as was fine and me and my friends had a laugh about it but if that was someone a bit more mentally fragile it could be quite damaging. I can’t remember too much about the Colossus incident as it was years ago but I do remember it not being handled at all well.
Difficult as you’re often dealing with teenagers with minimal training but at the very minimum the parks should be training people to handle it sensitively.
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