Six Flags Fright Fest - ok for tween?
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Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
| We are another family, kids 10&12, that goes all the time during the day. We will take our kids to fright fest but on the early side. |
Anonymous
That's not why. There was gang violence at Six Flags before social media even existed |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
| Six flags is a ghetto. |
Anonymous
This wasn’t gang violence. This is new. Gangs have been around forever. More recently, Maras (MS13, MS18) are a thing. Bloods, Crips, and others are a thing. But Six Flags was a social media “flash mob” type event - and that is NEW. Same with the Devious Licks on TikTok - it is new in the last few months. This wasn’t spontaneous. Not at all. And it was done to create videos to post. |
Anonymous
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Is that safe for your kid? |
Anonymous
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Social media was used to organize those fights and vandalism.
Just look at the list of crimes TikTok is planning for every month of this school year (devious licks was just the beginning). |
Anonymous
hahahahah. |
Anonymous
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No, I'd never let my tween go to that alone or with a parent. We went there (parents, two kids ages 13 and 12) for the first time a few weeks ago. It was a shit show even in the broad daylight. We were aggressively bumped several times, two teenagers cut in front of my kids while they were trying to board the coaster so my husband and I were able to get on the platform but not the kids. Ride attendants did nothing.
But I think that's the kind of crowd you get when it's so inexpensive. A year membership is something like $7/month. That's the cost of a fast food meal. It is effectively a really cheap babysitters. You can drop your kids off for several hours, come back and get them before bedtime (or if they have their own car, just say see ya) and you don’t need to parent for a full day. I’m sure some parents use this as a babysitter so they can go to work themselves but it does mean that the kids who ransack Six Flags are potentially under-parented and certainly under-structured. Just a hot mess. No staff, no security, positioned just so that neighboring counties can complain it’s full of hoodlums and gangs giving it a bad reputation that makes attendance low enough that they can’t afford to make improvements to safety which makes the neighbors complain that… |
Anonymous
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We were members for several years and never, ever had an issue in the daytime; there were mostly families and small groups of teens. People calling it a “ghetto” (which I’ve read on here for years) have clearly never really spent time there.
We did hear that the atmosphere changed a lot at night during Fright Fest so we only did it one time, vey early in the evening, and didn’t stay long. The lines for the big attractions were too long. We e patience’s the jump scare a few times and that was enough for my kids to feel like they had the Halloween experience (they had family-friendly activities during the day). |
Anonymous
| ^^We *experienced* the jump scare |
Anonymous
| Field of fear at cox farm is very safe. |
Anonymous
I was waiting for the dog whistles to come out! Six Flags is fine during the day and after the fights it will be less crowded because parents watched the news (yes, black and brown people watch the news too) and aren't letting their kids go unaccompanied anymore. I'm on several FB Groups of PG Parents and they are all concerned about what went on. If you think that Six Flags is a ghetto, don't come. We don't want you here in PG County. |
Anonymous
| I'd wait till they're teens at least |