Roach Eating At Six Flags
If amusement park lines really bug you, here's one "solution": In what might be the weirdest gimmick since Stanley Spadowski's 'find a marble in the oatmeal win a drink from the fire-hose', Six Flags Great America is offering unlimited line-jumping privileges to customers who eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. Though Illinois Health Department officials caution that consuming live roaches might increase risks of gastrointestinal illness, Six Flags is giving anyone who munches an entire 2-3 inch horned bug four passes to cut to the front of ride lines through October 29th. Organizers are hoping this bug buffet, along with their cooked roach eating contest on October 13th, will stimulate interest in the maligned thrill park. Which it might -- but I wonder if they considered the stomach-turning mess that feeding insects to people moments before they get on roller coasters is also likely to stimulate?
By Emil Steiner | September 21, 2006; 12:35 PM ET | Category: OFF/beat
Posted by: chris | September 21, 2006 2:02 PM
I'm nautious just looking at that picture
Posted by: DOug | September 21, 2006 11:11 PM
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"Clean-up, Iron Wolf!" You know they must have considered this, and if his business savy rep. is any indication, Dan Snyder is heavily invested in the cleaning and janitorial products industry and stands to make a killing off all the barf.