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News: Woman claims line jumpers beat her

Posted at 2:13 PM EDT (1813 GMT)

Sep. 3rd, 2004 -- A woman has claimed that during a recent visit to Valleyfair! amusement park in Minnesota she was beaten by line jumpers. She also says no one tried to help her.

The woman said she was in line and she began to scold them for cutting in line for the Steel Venom roller coaster when they attacked her. No one was willing to give her a cell phone to call for help. It is unknown if charges will be filed.

For more information: WCCO-TV 4, Minneapolis


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sfne stinks

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Valleyfair seems like a great park...

why wouldnt anyone help the person?

9/3/2004 2:28 PM
CPdude05

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^They probably didnt help her because it was the same lady that wouldnt put a shirt on the girl in the waterpark.

9/3/2004 3:01 PM
Chip

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It should have been the other way around: Beat the line jumpers.

That's terrible. Stupid kids.

9/3/2004 3:31 PM
HPStormRunner22

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Jumping in line, beating a lady up. They should be arrested. I hate it when people jump in line. But then they go and beat somebody up?

9/3/2004 3:58 PM
sfne stinks

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Why do they show a photo of WT at CP and not VFs coaster?

9/3/2004 4:34 PM
iluvcoasters

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They should have you take a ticket with a number on it at the beggening of the line, and then when you get to the station have to give it to an employee checking the cards there to see if the numbers are in sequence. If they did that then line jumping could be elliminated.

9/3/2004 4:42 PM
bk2004

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They should get charged! That's horrible. Who would just stand in line and watch that?

9/3/2004 9:34 PM
countingcrow

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This story sounds a little fishy to me, the lady claims no one would help her after getting beaten down by a bunch of unruly teenagers? I'm sure half the line would be more then happy to hand her a cell phone or rush to get medical assistance. That just seems pretty odd to me. Either she had cut in line herself and the crowd enjoyed watching her get justice, or the people of Minnesota at Valleyfair are morons. I wouldn't want to choke on food, or have a heart attack if people are going to jsut stand around and stare at me, instead of trying to save my life.

9/4/2004 1:54 PM
coasterlove

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That's disgusting if that happened like that. If my friends and I saw a woman getting beaten by a bunch of teenagers, we would start to beat them until they couldn't even stand. I'm really starting to lose patience with some of the ignorant people at parks and I guaruntee it won't be long before I hurt someone at a park.

9/4/2004 2:35 PM
Phil

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Too bad Drew wasn't around to help her out, lol.

9/4/2004 3:46 PM
e.entropy

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For further inquiries, get in contact with our Marketing Department (er Public Relations).

ALL ValleyFair! employees are trained to give our guests the BEST day possible with the MOST courtesy and thrills. Rest assured, our employees were following the best available protocol. It is possible the employees at that time were unable to respond to her needs because the ride was in-cycle and their attention focused on the ride.

Steel Venom is awfully loud, and it may be hard to hear anything occurring in the queue lines.

5/9/2005 3:00 AM


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