Incredible catch: man on high-speed rollercoaster saves stranger's phone

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/man-on-high-speed-rollercoaste.html

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Professor McGonagall, I think we found you a new seeker.

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Dexterity check? NATURAL 20!

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Later in the video, he drops it while waving it around.

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The video I want to see is what that phone would have been recording on that trip.

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There’s always that one spot on the ground under big coasters, where all the poorly secured items land and collect. The operator will send you over to it to find your stuff. Even on grass, don’t know how many phones survive.
I can’t tell you how I know this. It would be embarrassing.

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What exactly is the protocol for phones snatched flying through the air. It seems like maritime law of salvage should apply.

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I hope he didn’t get as equally depressed about dropping it as he was happy about catching it. That would be a full night at the bar doing shots territory there.

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It’s an amusement park. Seems like only happytime laws apply.

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:rofl: 

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End of Level Boss John Coffey shows how it is done with a drink…

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Dad reflexes!

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The hero we need.

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Back in the day I had a gig job selling admissions and ride tickets for a traveling carnival. The ride operators knew how where “the good stuff” landed and were quite territorial about what fell. This included the coins that I could hear hitting the roof of my ride-ticket-hut.

My number one memory from one of those days of ticket selling was a recording for a tent exhibit: GIANT RAT (actually a nutria, I think): “See the Giant Rat”… “Giant Rat”… “Larger than a cat!”… (repeat)

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And then even LATER in the video Legolas appears and surfs the phone down the rails while filling orcs with arrows.

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I love how excited he was even before the ride started. He had the best ride ever!

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He had a fantastic day!

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Does the grass survive the sprinkle of vomit?

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Assuming the owner was using phone at the time to record - possible violation of ride safety rules?

I’m going on with my fishing tackle box, maybe a bag of ninja throwing stars… gonna hold them out, wave around, see what happens.

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