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Someone Flew A Drone Over Geauga Lake Last Week And The Footage Is Depressing As Hell

February 15, 2016 Mike 42 Comments

Published on Feb 8, 2016

An aerial view of Geauga Lake on February 6, 2016 shot by 2 Phantom 3 Advanced. Geauga Lake was an amusement park near Cleveland Ohio which was closed abruptly. Most of the area visited this park regularly and it was a part of Cleveland. This is a tribute to all the memories that this park helped create.

A special thank you to Marc Yeager who came along on the shoot with me and allowed me to use some of his video.

Well. As if your Monday couldn’t get any worse. My favorite place to go growing up… this:

Now currently looks like this:

Way to go, Cedar Fair!

One of the first blog posts ever published on Bottlegate was about the rise of Geauga Lake/Six Flags and what caused the downfall of it. If getting kicked in the dick is your thing, then I suggest reading it.

And Christ, that farewell music. It felt like I was at a wake and waiting in line to pay my final respects to someone in a coffin. Depressing is an understatement.

Quick Geauga Lake/Six Flags ride power rankings

10. Grizzly Run

9. Texas Twister

8. Raging Wolf Bobs

7. Superman

6. X-Flight

5. Big Dipper

4. Silver Bullet

3. Serial Thriller

2. The Villain

Batman

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Westlake senior kicked out of soccer league for being the man

February 12, 2016 Ai 10 Comments

From FoxSports.com:

“It took nearly two full months of shenanigans but Ohio’s North Side Co-Ed Soccer League has finally ousted anti-establishment villain Brian Garruto.

Garruto, a senior and member of the boys’ varsity soccer team at Westlake (Ohio) High School, posted the banishment notice he received from the recreational league’s management to his Twitter account.”

As a bonus, here’s a photo of Brian in action for the Westlake varsity team.

Garruto’s rec league team, the Cleveland Steamers, and other fun-loving members of the league will probably miss him — unless the new father of a two-week-old soccer ball is actually just a jerk and not an entertainer.”

Captain’s armband in the action shot, freakin obviously.

You could have shown me the bullet points in that email and told me they were a list of reasons why this kid was inducted into the Recreational Soccer League Hall of Fame and I would have one thousand percent believed you. That makes a butt ton more sense than him getting booted out of the league for them.

Diego can take his phone and go fly a kite. Brian is a gentleman, a trail blazer and probably a scholar and deserves to have his name chanted by fans from Maine to California. Have fun being shitty and stupid, North Side Co Ed Soccer League.

I would love to sit down and have a beer with this legend when he’s of legal drinking age. In Natty Light bro tanks.

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Guy from Willoughby, Australia mistakenly calls Willoughby PD

February 12, 2016 Ai Leave a comment

From Cleveland.com:

“WILLOUGHBY, Ohio — The Willoughby Police Department received a call from slightly outside its jurisdiction this week when it was mistakenly connected to an Australian caller.

The man — who was calling from the Sydney suburb of Willoughby — identified himself as a member of a local bowling club and asked if officers could help prevent break-ins.

Confusion ensued.”

That’s just good clean humor right there folks. Classic mix up. If you can’t laugh at your local police department, who can you laugh at? That’s what I always say.

“Oh right. That’s why you have an accent. Ahhhhh-kay.”

Love this Australian guy more than anything in the world. Just your stereotypical, happy-go-lucky Aussie, looking out for local businesses. He’s the reason people answer “Hmmm…Australia would be cool” when asked where they would go if they could travel anywhere. Even after the mix up, just polite as hell. “Well heck, while I have you on here how’s the weather up there?” Those kids breaking into the bowling alley were probably only doing so to practice so they could get scholarships to college, too. I wish I had an Australian friend.

PS Don’t lie you looked up what 20 degrees centigrade was in American too and also what centigrade means