Update: SIX Flagging
Dan Snyder's ahead-of-the-financial-collapse-curve theme park chain, Six Flags, really knows how to scare a guy. And injure a gal!
Snyder's outfit has kicked off its annual Frightfest™ promotion for the Halloween season.
The horror got real real fast at the Six Flags Great America outpost in Illinois. That's where a park employee in a werewolf costume and on stilts got wobbly and then came flying through a plate glass window and into an ice cream parlor.
A female patron in the parlor suffered facial cuts from the flying glass. Litigation to come.
"The werewolf was not injured," reports the Chicago Tribune.
Whew.
Speaking of scary falls: Six Flags stock (SIX) traded for 31 cents a share this morning.
That's down from its $11.93 per share selling price in early 2006, not long after Snyder took over the company by leading a stockholder revolt by leveling charges that Six Flags' stock was undervalued.
Keep the dial right here for all the breaking news in Snyder’s Six Flags soap opera.
12:26 pm
Whoa whoa whoa...you are serious reporting a guy on stilts accidently falling as being part of why Six Flags is failing? I don't know what rock you're living under, but it's called an accident, it was a stilt walker, who fall sometimes, and guess what, occasionally they fall and Universal and Disney too. SURPRISE! It's a person who most probably has flaws as some people do. Not to mention The girl got a Tiny cut on her face, and the performer was not injured, so how could this possibly even be considered news, let alone one of the reasons why Six Flags Stock is failing. In fact Fright Fest is one of the busiest times of year and they are definetely making a profit! So you're allegations are basically irrelevant.
3:01 pm
Wow Dave, can you top that well thought out argument?
8:47 pm
Sux Flags hasn't made a profit in 10 years, Sherry. They owe $2.3 billion in debt, so where did all that Fright Fest profit go? Sherry is irrelevant for posting ill-informed generalizations.
10:54 am
That Fright Fest Profit is going to new Terminater Rides, Adding effects to Medusa and Ride of Steel, New Wiggles and Thomas Areas, A Pirate Themed Boat Ride, And new parades across the chain. It was not Ill-informed, and it was not a generalization. I know that Six Flags is, to say the least, in trouble, I'm not a child, I've been following this stock obsessively since about 2003, and I laugh when I see it traded at 31 Cents, The current corporate management team is showing that they have very little knowledge as to how to run a theme park chain...but the one they replaced had zero knowledge as to how to run a theme park chain, so at least it's a step in the right direction, and if that direction is bankruptcy, then all the better because hopefully a foreign company with money will hire someone to Actually clean up the parks, I honestly think that bankruptcy would be the best thing that would happen to this company now.