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CA: Magic Mountain closed after fights
LA Daily News ^ | 5/22/05 | Various

Posted on 05/22/2005 5:25:47 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

VALENCIA-- Ten people were arrested -- many of them minors -- after two brawls broke out at Magic Mountain about 8 p.m. Saturday and the park closed early, according to a sheriff's official. A fight among park patrons initially broke out near the Goliath ride, according to Lt. Brenda Cambra of the Santa Clarita sheriff's office.

Park security detained three people identified by witnesses as being involved in that fight, Cambra said. As the rest were allowed to leave, a second fight began near the park's entrance, she said.

Park security and deputies detained 10 people in that fight and requested help from the Santa Clarita station.

Three of the detainees eventually were released, Cambra said.

Ten people -- seven of them minors -- were arrested on various charges including fighting in public, assault on a deputy and resisting arrest, Cambra said.

No weapons were used, and only minor injuries were reported. The cause of the fights was under investigation, said Cambra.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: gangs; magicmountain; themepark
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To: Clemenza

"The park outlawed gang colors and booted out anyone who stepped out of line. Problem solved."


That is the most logical and adult action to take. Unfortunately, this country has lost the understanding of being an adult.


41 posted on 05/22/2005 6:25:59 PM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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To: Admin Moderator

Yeah, who'd a thunk it? ;-)


42 posted on 05/22/2005 6:26:03 PM PDT by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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To: So Cal Rocket

Maybe they are Mexican.


43 posted on 05/22/2005 6:28:32 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: BurbankKarl

Magic Mountain has been scary for at least 10 years. We went there two years ago, kept our heads down and our mouths shut, and made sure to leave WELL before dark. There was a lot of line jumping, and there were a lot of thugs.

We saw a lady almost get her child's arm cut off because she jumped in line and tried to go in the exit door of that train-thingy that crawls up and down the hill really slowly. She shoved her kid through but didn't fit in herself. The door didn't have a safety stop like elevator doors, so people were fruitlessly pulling on the door trying to stop it while the mom kept trying to yank her child through the closing space. She wouldn't let go of his arm until another women hit her hand and arm to make her let go. If that woman wouldn't have hit the kid's mom, the kid's arm would have been squeezed off. Those doors were not stopping for anything, and the baby momma was too stupid to let go. When we got to the bottom of the hill and stepped out, another woman stood at the top of the hill that goes around the merry-go-round and shoved a stroller, with her baby inside, so that it went 20 yards or so without her. Who in their right mind shoves a stroller down a hill, with their baby inside? Nearly everybody in that park was a space-eater.

Knott's got a lot better than it was in the early 1990's. I guess after the nickel Cinco de Mayo fiasco they wised up a bit. Or, maybe I just went there on a good day.


44 posted on 05/22/2005 6:31:36 PM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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To: BurbankKarl
Racial makeup of perps please?

Oh, never mind, as it does not say they were White, I will now allow my cognitive powers to kick in.

45 posted on 05/22/2005 6:31:51 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: ReagansShinyHair
I think you might have hit a good day. We went to Knott's about a year ago and it was still pretty bad.

And this was in the daytime.

46 posted on 05/22/2005 6:35:47 PM PDT by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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To: kingu
I'm sorry, but if they closed the park and I was a paying ticket holder not involved in the altercations, I'd be demanding my money returned, or at least a portion of it.

Damn straight.

47 posted on 05/22/2005 6:39:05 PM PDT by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: BurbankKarl

Amusement park???? Walt must be rolling over in his grave about now!!!!!


48 posted on 05/22/2005 6:39:47 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

I hate to say it, but if a violent crime occurs in California, Texas, or Arizona, people assume the perp is usually the member of a certain racial/ethnic group. If a crime occurs in the urban upper midwest or southeast, to say nothing of the urban eastern seaboard, people assume the perp is of a certain other racial/ethnic group.


49 posted on 05/22/2005 6:42:36 PM PDT by Clemenza (Regrets, I've had a few...)
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To: Admin Moderator

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!


50 posted on 05/22/2005 6:51:10 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Yo! Cowboy! I'm praying for a LoganMiracle! It CAN happen!!!!)
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To: So Cal Rocket

the Griswolds...

haha


S-o-r-r-y....Wally Worlds Closed yuck yuck


51 posted on 05/22/2005 6:53:51 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: kingu

They arent allowed to search after that racial profiling lawsuit.


52 posted on 05/22/2005 6:54:43 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Clemenza

"I hate to say it, but if a violent crime occurs in California, Texas, or Arizona, people assume the perp is usually the member of a certain racial/ethnic group. If a crime occurs in the urban upper midwest or southeast, to say nothing of the urban eastern seaboard, people assume the perp is of a certain other racial/ethnic group."

But, if they are White, the MSM does not hesitate to state their race. So, when racial makeup is not given, one can then assume, that we must assume, and assume we will.


53 posted on 05/22/2005 6:54:45 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: truthkeeper

Last I heard it was referred to as Mexican Mountain.


54 posted on 05/22/2005 6:55:30 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: So Cal Rocket

Uh lessee..cuz the names aren't:

Jones
Smith
Becker
Rosenberg
Sterner
Peterson
Glausi
Pongracic
Chen
Hirata
Yung
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55 posted on 05/22/2005 6:59:48 PM PDT by msf92497 (My brain is "twitchy")
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To: Calpernia; Velveeta; SandRat; DAVEY CROCKETT; Pepper777; Tuba Guy; SevenofNine

Ping


56 posted on 05/22/2005 7:14:41 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (My prayer of thanks is for all the Freepers who make my days so interesting,educational and loving.)
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To: 1FASTGLOCK45
I have met alot of "stupid" people

Ignorance is curable,Stupid is forever. ;-)

57 posted on 05/22/2005 7:23:56 PM PDT by HP8753 (My cat is an NTSB Standard,The Naval Observatory calls me for time corrections.)
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To: Clemenza

It sure hasn't worked in Marin or Sonoma.


58 posted on 05/22/2005 7:28:43 PM PDT by Treader (Hillary's dark smile is reminiscent of Stalin's inhuman grin...)
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To: Clemenza

Actually I'm surprised there hasn't been riots at Chuck E. Cheese's over their horrible pizza...heh,heh,heh..


59 posted on 05/22/2005 7:39:30 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Don't steal, the government hates competition)
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To: Uhhuh35
Anyone wanna' bet?

Magic Mountain was over run years ago. ¿Entiendes?

60 posted on 05/22/2005 7:41:33 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (If their Chief of police is okay with it, I am guessing that we should probably be okay with it.)
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