I suggest watching the video. You can see much better how she's dressed.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=202963
NBC -- A 30-year-old mother of three said she was refused entrance into Six Flags Over Texas because of her tattoo.
Samantha Osborn, a Texas girl through-and-through, has two six-shooters surrounded by yellow roses tattooed on her chest.
"I got it because I love Texas," she said. "I thought of cowboys and six-shooters and the yellow rose of Texas."
But a Six Flags employee stopped her at the entrance gate when she and her husband, Matt, went to the Arlington amusement park to celebrate his birthday.
"We tried to enter, one employee grabbed me and said my chest tattoo was offensive and that I may not be allowed into the park," Osborn said. "I was flabbergasted."
She said the employee told her Six Flags was a family-friendly place.
Osborn told the employee she was the mother of three girls.
"She said it was as offensive as a swastika and that she would sell me a $5 shirt to cover myself up and that they didn't let people with swastikas into Six Flags, and that my tattoo condoned violence," Osborn said.
Six Flags' dress code says park management can deny customers entrance if their clothing is deemed inappropriate or vulgar.
The code does not mention tattoos.
The Osborns, determined to celebrate the birthday, eventually entered the park through another line without being bothered, but the damage had been done.
"It just soured the whole experience, and we left," Samantha Osborn said.
IDK what other people think about tattoos but I think having them out like is very distasteful. I also think that it was in poor taste that the family went to another line to gain entry. That's the same old game of "putting mom vs dad - where one says 'no' so you go ask the other one". I'm a little ticked that mgmt bent over and took it sending an email of apology instead of backing up the gate person. Personally if I worked at the gate and mgmt didn't back me up, I'd would be done working at that park. No job is worth not getting backed up by mgmt.
Sounds like they need to rewrite the rules and make them a little more "easier to understand" for some people.
Oh and in Japan. There are some parks that will not allow entry if you have a tattoo or even a temporary tattoo on your body. No ifs ands or buts. You have one, you can't come in.
Personally I don't see a problem with it. I've seen people at sdc with vulgar shirts and tattoos and never thought anything about it.
Back during my time working at SDC, (late 70s/early 80s) a popular t-shirt said "Free mustache rides" and we Dugan boy's had fun with that one...acting like we did not know what it meant. We didn't do it when there were kids around, though! Also, file this in the "Believe it or not" category, but the park did sell roach clips for a very brief time in the early 80's...briefly, for just a few weeks...in the summer of 1981 during the Urban Cowboy period. The roach clips were sold as "Cowboy hat clips" and had a long piece of leather with some beads and feathers on them. Obviously someone in the Merchandising Department did not know what they really were. Seems like I bought one, too...in what was called the White River Merchantile. Funny thing is, I don't remember owning a cowboy hat at the time. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. ;)
Quote from: Swoosh on May 31, 2010, 03:39:41 PM
IDK what other people think about tattoos but I think having them out like is very distasteful.
"Distasteful" isn't park policy. And even if it was, and you were the gate attendant,
your opinion of what is "distasteful" or not shouldn't be the determining factor.
QuoteI also think that it was in poor taste that the family went to another line to gain entry. That's the same old game of "putting mom vs dad - where one says 'no' so you go ask the other one".
No, that's the putting to the test one person's unreasonable application of "socially unacceptable". When that person's peers don't agree, and don't object to the same tattoos, it looks like the customer was right, and the attendant was out of line.
QuoteNo job is worth not getting backed up by mgmt.
If I was management, and you grabbed a guest and berated her about that particular tattoo being "threatening" and equivalent to swastikas, I'd fire you on the spot and apologize to the guest right there in front of you.
QuoteSounds like they need to rewrite the rules and make them a little more "easier to understand" for some people.
Absolutely. Especially their employees.
I wonder what the reaction from SDC would be....I am imagining the street troupe poking fun at me for my clothes, hair (all in good fun). I think they would have had plenty of ammo (pun intended) on this one!
Hey Rube! During my time on park, we did kid around with people about the way they were dressed or looked....a few examples:
(To a red headed woman) "Hey lady, it looks like ya shoulda come on in outta the rain! Your hairs done rusted!"
(To man wearing leather sandals) "Hey mister, you better get up to the leather shop and get yourself a new pair
of boots...the ones yer wearin' have done worn plumb out.":
(To someone wearing a clear raincoat or poncho) "You must be new here in Silver Dollar City, they ain't even took
ya outta the wrapper yet!"
And those are a few of the mild ones...I once saw a performer at one of the stage shows rip into somebody that had heckled him. He is now a big boss in the Entertainment Department.
Everything we did way back then was in good fun...not meant to actually be mean to a visitor.