BBB Complaint

[Jim Warfield]

"Are you old enough to go through the haunted house , and enjoy it?"
The answer should have been "No." Obviously.
I mostly agree with treating my customers very well, but then we had the bus load of sloppy drunks, and there was no way we could treat them like "Gold", and guess what? The odds were heavy that most of them would not be remembering much of what went on here anyhow!
I have seen this in the past, bust my butt (watch out for the ensuing smell!) entertainig them, babysitting them, scaring them nearly to their death and a night later , coming here sober (To return a mask they stole when here drunk)
They did not remember enough of their experience here to even bother with.
I really trully value my customers because guess what? They sure did not HAVE to come here, now did they?
For many from the Chicago environs they will have invested about 8 hours to see my house! (3 hr, drive here, 3 hr. drive back home, 1 hour standing in line, an hour or more to actually tour the house!

[drfrightner]

I think that this is pretty funny... I'd say good job!

I would post that on my website, that we have people reporting us to the BBB for being too scary! Yes we scare our customers! After you come out screaming please report us...

'That is not how you treat your customers, making them scream, crawl and cry for 20 minutes...I want my money back'.

LOL

Larry

[shawnc]

Definitely lemonade, not lemons

This reminds me of the alarm manufacturing company that made sure the local newspaper heard about every complaint filed with police about how loud they were, and the speedboat manufacturer that welcomed speeding tickets. This falls right in with the industries they were in and what they got out of complaints. A haunted house that someone has compalined is too scary? What more could you ask for? You can't buy publicity like that!

[Jim Warfield]

Remember what was said concerning publicity:"Just make sure they spell my name right!"
One of my original financial backers started a lake, swimming, fishing, boating, camping.....
One fine Memorial Day weekend not one but TWO men drowned while trying to swim there!
The tragedy was covered by three local TV stations, all located in the town these men lived in.
"Well there goes this season of swimming, no one will want to swim here where people died!" He thought.

WRONG! The next weekend they were packed!
Everyone wanted to see where those two guys had drowned!!!??
(Right over top of the hatch of the submerged UFO hiding under the lake, probably)

You just never really know?

[HauntVentFX]

Something similar at Six Flags

Something very similar happend at Six Flags St. Lous many years ago. The park had decided to "convert" one of their two Runaway Mine Train coasters into one where the riders would stand up during the ride. The ride was very rough and turbulent and threw riders around quite a bit (no doubt because it wasn't designed that way to begin with). I thought that it was more of a novelty ride and was better in its original form. It was considered more of a "curiosity" with the park guests and did have decent lines throughout the day.

The support system included a very large shoulder restraint system that came down from above the riders and down to their waist. There was not much of any support system on the sides of the riders. This was an accident waiting to happen....

One day, a rather large woman took a ride with her husband on the "stand up" mine train. Sometime during the ride, the woman popped out to the side when the train took a sharp turn and was killed. Turned out that because of her size there was a lot of room on either side of her to pop out from under the restraint system that kept riders positioned from above (but not on the sides).

At any rate, once the state of Missouri allowed the park to re-open (with a new policy that "large" guests could not ride), there were **HUGE** lines of people lined up for the rest of the season (no doubt out of morbid curiosity) to ride the coaster that killed the park guest. The park had very good attendance despite the incident. (The ride has long since been dismantled, was purchased by Dollywood in Tennessee, and converted back to the original sit-down version.)

[Jim Warfield]

I do understand the concept of killing a customer to generate publicity , I have just never quite figured out how a place ever retains their assests or is ever allowed to ever open again?
This doesn't seem to be the "Tricky Part" for the amusement parks though.......
OK, I'm just jealous!
A really knowledable guy like Larry might know? Someone could write a book explaining how to do this, kill for publicity then be able to open up again?
Of course we all know the title would be:

"Getting Away With Murder!"

(For fun and profit)

Could some of the huge crowd of tourists coming after the death be potential suicides that needed some place to die, by "accident" of course, so it wouldn't be suicide and the life insurance people would have to pay off?

"Good news Mrs. Waxmeyer! With new technology we saved your husband's head, it will probably live another 50 years, what with no body to drag it down, the bad news for him is though that the extreme quanitys of Viagra in his blood stream made is nose grow bigger and it impaled his only other remaining living body part...yes, sad to say...(here it comes) .....his anus"

"Honey! what is that incredibly bad smell? It just won't go away!"
"For the thousandth time, Milburn, it's YOU!"
(Happy next 50 years!)

[Greg Chrise]

How do they stay open?

Don't worry, the man who used to inspect this no longer works here, he is now a school bus driver. It is a sucky ride that we wanted to replace anyhow, we didn't design it or install it even thought we did modify it to make it more effective. Using an unlicensed subcontractor of course.

A long time ago, we put texture finish on a pre war, large multi story, granite and 8 foot thick concrete fall out shelter/Post Office front steps. For a hundred years, more than 400 people a day had gone up and down these steps but one 80 year old lady did a tumble. So it never happens again they spent $6,000 on a texture non skid surface. Now if anyone ever slips, there will be nothing but a skeleton at the bottom. Good Job! Nothing left to bitch about the stairs ever again.

[Jim Warfield]

Just like "Tator Gloves" As advertised on TV!
Abrasive texture glued to a kitchen glove to rasp-clean potaoes or anything else the least bit pliable.
They use these in the next Hostel or Saw movie?
A product just aching for perfect movie product-placement.
Use a diamond blade, remove the palm from a Tator glove, super glue it to the Grandma's rear and she will suddenly have an overall effect like power brakes when her butt hits the steps!
Super Wedgie!
This posterior application could be slightly modified to reduce waste product diameter to ease the strain on the plumbing drains. (or just chew your food alittle more?)