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My favorite was the brochure Busch Gardens put out the following year which had a quote from Fabio saying he didn’t care for apollos chariot.
That ride slaps by the way
https://youtu.be/2RIEPKEhE2s a faithless recreation of the incident!
You can own them, you can kill them, you can eat them, but you can’t fuck them…because of woke.
The tie in with Adam Savage and the slomo guys is gold
Bobby Fingers makes the Internet worthwhile.
I did not expect to finish that whole thing when I started it. Gold.
“Nuked”
Can we use the words that mean what happened instead of throwing random verbs around
Nope, you’re about 70 years too late for that
More like 7000
You want “Slammed”?
How about bit, pecked, headbutted, divebombed, clawed, flew into, you know something informative
To be more accurate, the bird flew into a camera rigged on the front of the coaster intended to capture Fabio’s reaction during the ride. None of that footage was used because that camera didn’t survive the impact with the bird, and pieces of it are what hit Fabio’s nose. At that time cameras weren’t able to wirelessly transmit digital video. So anything it recorded was lost.
So, sliced might be the best word to describe the interaction.
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Yeah, that my face whenever it’s covered in blood.
“Well obviously something cool happened, but sometimes this is a bad thing, especially if it’s mine.”
Oh my god that was 1999???
Better take my fuckin back pills I guess…
Are the pills made of back or is the back made of pills? The man screams because he ails from age related degeneration
the names are changed but the cases are real
I was under the impression it was a ride issue, and Fabio didn’t want their reputation ruined, so he called it a bird. Regardless, it’s not nearly as clear cut as the image would have you believe. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fabio-hit-goose-rollercoaster/
Read this Snopes article. Fabio never claimed the goose hit him, he said the goose hit a video camera in front of him, there to record his ride for a promotional video he signed up to do. A piece of the destroyed camera hit him on the nose causing a small cut that required one stitch. He refused to take part in suing the rider operator.
Edit because TrackinDaKraken already posted much the same thing. I will add though that the link says nothing about wanting to protect their reputation. In fact, in one interview quoted he clearly wants the ride shut down or fixed.
In a 1999 local news interview at the end of the clip, Fabio was visibly upset about the incident, “It wasn’t a freak accident, and it’s going to happen again, and I cannot live in my conscience to know that the ride is still running. And even a person, even a child, can be killed.”
He’s in a band called King kong kompany as well that’s pretty cool if you’re into the genre (I’m not affiliated with him or then, just a fan!)
Edit: band name is king Kong company, evidently I just can’t spell. (leaving the original for context of the replies)
I’m sorry what’s the bands name? 👀
Bands name is king Kong company, I’m just an idiot.
I get that he’s not American, but KKK is hard to see.
Sorry that’s my bad, accidental alliteration. They’re definitely not even on the same continent as KKK (both figuratively and literally)
The media got the story wrong (he wasn’t hit by a bird) but…they never reported it was a swan.
Because this part is also wrong (it was a goose)
I don’t understand paganism enough to see what this has to do with it.
The implication is that Apollo’s most favored bird took offense to Fabio’s comparison or that Apollo encouraged it to do so, resulting in this “attack.”
There are other clarifications about the actual circumstances in thread that are worth reading, but they don’t really change the humor of OP, IMO.
Wait apollo is a pagan god? I thought pagans worshipped nature or something like that.
Paganism is whatever you want it to be man
From the perspective of Christians anyone else is a Pagan IIRC, but I could be wrong. It’s kinda potato/potato though I understand your preference for accuracy either way.
Well he should have ducked
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