Comments on: Leave Your Leg at the Door Prosthetic Limbs and Roller Coasters http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/leave-your-leg-at-the-door-prosthetic-limbs-and-roller-coasters Art, Ideas, Culture & Capricious Opinion Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:29:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Roderick Russell http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/leave-your-leg-at-the-door-prosthetic-limbs-and-roller-coasters/comment-page-1#comment-4978 Roderick Russell Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:00:15 +0000 http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/leave-your-leg-at-the-door-prosthetic-limbs-and-roller-coasters#comment-4978 True enough! You have to admit though, it's a funny sign. ;) Another favorite found on many rides is what we affectionately refer to as the "no disco" sign. ;) As it turns out, a guy *did* actually lose a prosthetic leg back on 2003 on the very ride at which I took the photo! There are articles about it everywhere, but I particularly liked this <a href="http://sptimes.com/2003/08/19/Pasco/Theme_park_ends_searc.shtml" rel="nofollow">one from the St. Petersburg Time.</a> My favorite quote? <i>"It was a good leg, the best I ever had," said Webb, 34, of New Port Richey</i> True enough! You have to admit though, it’s a funny sign. ;) Another favorite found on many rides is what we affectionately refer to as the “no disco” sign. ;)

As it turns out, a guy *did* actually lose a prosthetic leg back on 2003 on the very ride at which I took the photo! There are articles about it everywhere, but I particularly liked this one from the St. Petersburg Time.

My favorite quote?

“It was a good leg, the best I ever had,” said Webb, 34, of New Port Richey

]]> By: Chris Urban http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/leave-your-leg-at-the-door-prosthetic-limbs-and-roller-coasters/comment-page-1#comment-4967 Chris Urban Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:39:25 +0000 http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/leave-your-leg-at-the-door-prosthetic-limbs-and-roller-coasters#comment-4967 Well, I wouldn't want a prosthetic leg coming off during an inverted coaster ride! Shoes are dangerous enough! Well, I wouldn’t want a prosthetic leg coming off during an inverted coaster ride! Shoes are dangerous enough!

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