Family of teen with disability says he shouldn’t have been removed from Six Flags ride

LOS ANGELES — A neighborhood teen says he was faraway from a experience at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California due to a incapacity, and he and his household need solutions.

Seventeen-year-old Ryder Gonzalez is like every other fun-loving teen.

He was a Little League pitcher within the metropolis of Commerce, California. He bins. He performs basketball.

Gonzalez was born with one hand and is deaf. But, his household says he features higher than lots of people with two arms and with listening to.

That is why a visit to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Sunday left him devastated, when his household says he was instructed he couldn’t experience the West Coast Racers curler coaster due to his incapacity.

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He had already been strapped into the experience when a park worker instructed him he couldn’t proceed due to coverage considerations.

“She was very dismissive, and stored saying it is coverage; it is coverage,” stated Raul Gonzalez, Ryder’s father. “It was extra humiliating for him as a result of he was allowed to board the experience after which pulled off.”

James Gonzalez says his brother was mad that he was kicked off the experience as a result of he was actually wanting ahead to it.

Ryder’s mom Annie Gonzalez says her son has been to a number of theme parks, together with Disneyland, and by no means had a problem, till he visited Six Flags Magic Mountain for the primary time Sunday.

“I would like folks to know Ryder’s story,” she stated. “I would like folks to know what occurred.”

Six Flags Magic Mountain issued an announcement:

“Six Flags has designed and developed a particular security harness for 98% of our theme park rides to higher accommodate the wants of visitors with sure disabilities. With all necessities met, riders who don’t meet sure extremity necessities could possibly experience using the total physique harness. Company can go to Visitor Relations whereas contained in the park.”