He should have dropped into the water.

He should have dropped into the water. He wa supposed to just fall off the little cliff and into the pool below. I mean, he wasn’t supposed to do it immediately. He was supposed to walk around for a second, flailing his arms. But after a few seconds, he was supposed to fall into the water and put himself out. He didn’t though. He kept walking to the edge like he was going to, but he would stop right at the edge and stagger backwards. After about 40 seconds of this he just fell down.

The other actors weren’t really sure what to do. I guess they all though he was just hamming it up. After some seconds though some guys rushed out from the side of the upper stage and put him out with fire extinguishers. Paramedics came and took him away.

What none of us in the audience could see was a thin piece of fireproof rope that was tied to his waist. It was the harness from his previous stunt. He was in a hurry to make it up there and it got caught on one of the props.

We were ushered out of the little open-air auditorium and given a bunch of free stuff by the park management. We got to ride all the rides without waiting in line the rest of the day, we ate for free and we got a thousand dollars in certificates to use on merchandise. Sadly, the show never re-opened and I’ll never know if the good guys won in the end.

~ by thethingswethink on January 3, 2007.