Lurch took his cousin to Magic Mountain.
While there, Lurch bought himself a large drink in an amusing, oversized souvenir cup.
Then he decided to ride the "corkscrew" roller coaster.
As he sat down with his large souvenir cup full of Coca-Cola, he muttered to himself, "Where are the cup holders?"
(Not actual photo -- reinactment by paid actors)
Unable to find one in the roller coaster car, he placed the drink between his thighs. "But I put the lid on tight!" he claimed afterwards.
You can guess what happened. At the first loop, Lurch became frightened and instinctively clamped his legs together, causing the plastic souvenir cup to collapse and the carbonated beverage to shoot up and spray everyone within several cars of Lurch.
"The worst part about the experience," he lamented to me during my interview, "was that the cup fell out during the ride. It was RE-FILLABLE, so I didn’t get to enjoy another drink. I tried to find it afterwards, but the attendant refused to let me walk under the track and get it."
After the ride was over, Lurch asked for a replacement drink from the counter where he purchased it, but was refused. Exposing his former liberal Democratic tendencies, he urged the teenaged cashier, "But there was no warning sign!"
(This sign would have prevented Lurch from spilling his Coke)
To be fair, back in 1990 when this incident ocurred, the scientific community had not yet reached a consensus on the connection between liquid dynamics and roller coasters. So the science wasn’t yet out there to put Lurch on notice that bringing a drink on a roller coaster was not a good idea.
Amusement Park: 1, Lurch: 0
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