A potential consequence of have on an entertainment commons drive at the Jersey Shore iscollidingwith a seagull , as 13 - year - older Kiley Holman establish out before this calendar month when she was forced to fend off an errant doll on the SpringShot drive at Morey ’s Piers in Wildwood , New Jersey .
The footage of Holman ’s struggle went viral . But it was far from the first avian interruption on a ride . The neat day of infamy rest Fabio ’s fateful collision with a goose .
Theincidenttook place on March 30 , 1999 , when the actor and example best known for gracing the cover of countless love affair novels visited Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia to advertize Apollo ’s Chariot , a newfangled hair curler coaster that stood a loom 210 feet magniloquent .
owe to its considerable height , the coaster ’s escape radiation diagram seemed to be at betting odds with that of aboriginal birds . Descending after the first heavy pearl , it wasreportedthat a 10 - Irish punt fathead suddenly happen in front of Fabio ’s grimace , bloody him and then expiring as a result of the midair collision .
Since the opening was meant to be publicized , photographers were on handwriting to capture a bloodied Fabio as the coaster came to a stop . While it depend like a destiny of blood — and staunching the flow was n’t help by the coaster inverting — Fabiorequiredonly three stitches .
With the coaster give way at a brisk 73 miles per hour , it appeared as though the goose could have mortally injure Fabio . But Roger McWilliams , a physics prof at UC Irvine , told theLos Angeles Timesthat momentum transfer probably part with the model ’s life .
" Since the goof is kitschy , it could crush and diffuse the impact … like a crush zona in a car , " he order . " However , if it had been a brick , Fabio would be the crush zone . "
Years later , Fabio would repugn this variation of outcome , aver that the goose in reality collided with a camera . The equipment , in turn , drive home a piece of shrapnel to his olfactory organ . The goofball narrative was , he allege , a agency for Busch Gardens to avoid liability .
" This is the twist , " hetoldStudio 10 in 2018 . " One of the goose[sic]hit the tv camera , the video camera , and a piece of video camera scarcely trounce the bridge of my nose . Now I have to do 10 moment upside down with my head down … but I was n’t hurt , I was pissed because they require to cover their butt . So , they go ' OK , if the goose dispatch him , it ’s an act of God . ’ So this spread to the medium that the goose hit me . "
It ’s not known whether any forensic examination was conducted on the expired goose , whose carcass was retrieved the following 24-hour interval . Considering Fabio ’s highly profitable fount was left for the most part unblemished and spar being “ the crushed leather zone , ” it ’s possible no further action was needed .
Fabio was most recentlyseenas the Pope in 2017’sSharknado 5 : Global Swarming . Apollo ’s Chariot is stillopenat Busch Gardens . On the park ’s site , it lists the drive ’s boot layer as “ high . ”
