There was originally an amusement park in Ohio that had a wooden roller coaster called the Big Dipper. It currently the fifth oldest wooden roler coaster in america, and has been rotting inva wreck since the park closed in 2007.

Late last month, it was announced Big Dipper was recieving the werking ball, and two unknown fans of roller coasters bought this deralect wooden coaster for 5,000 dollars, claiming that they would put the coaster into storage, and re-assemble it elsewhere...but they had no plan. Yeah. No. Plan.

I am a member of the site www.themeparkreview.com (TPR) and my username is SoCalCoasters. I witnessed the following events unfold:

Everyone begins to mock these fan's efforts for seveal reasons. First, neither of them ever rode the coaster, second, one of the people lives in New Zeland, and has never been on a wooden roller coaster, and third, their original website was a joke. Text links from page to page asking for money to restore the coaster.

Finally, the true site emerged, but they seemed to have their priorites mixed up. They posted profiles, t-shirts you could buy, but no info on the actual coaster.

Robb Alvey, the owner of TPR found that their site was:
www.savethebigdipper.org
And decided to make a parody site:
www.savethebigdipper.com
which portrayed the project directors as fools and people who had no idea what they were doing.

HUGE Ammounts of contraversy emerged, TPR on one side Big Dipper Supporters on the other.

Several hundred flame e-mails later, it is revealed that Robb did it to teach them a lesson, and has now sent a link to the real site.

But still...the coaster is beyond repair, why buy it?

That's smarts you ya!


Lesson of the day: Make sure you are 100% free idioticness when trying to acomplish a task.

Have a good day!