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A 45 year old man has been struck by Raptor at Cedar Point after crossing the safety barriers to fetch his dropped mobile phone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana ... w_facebook

No offence but that guy is an idiot. There is a reason the safety fences are there and if he had asked any nearby employee, they would have been able to fetch the phone for him at the end of the day.

I was at Kings Island when it happened and I didn't even find out until later on in the night. if I am correct the fence around raptor is a 6 or 8 foot fence so it is quite ridiculous that he would jump the fence just for a (most likely destroyed) phone.

on another note the announcement for the 2016 attraction has been postponed to a later date (not sure when).

Exactly! He would have had to put a lot of effort into crossing the fence to retrieve it. It would have been a lot easier all round if he had asked a member of staff to fetch it for him.