![]() I went to Busch Gardens with a story that was slated to run on the bottom of page B-2, and I came back with an A-1 centerpiece that moved on the national wires. Jay Leno quipped about it on late-night TV (“a collision between birdbrains”), and the pictures were all over the national news. This was before the age of social media, understand, but word of the bizarre accident quickly spread across the country and around the world. The story, which started out as a perfunctory theme park photo op, suddenly turned into a national headline. And it happens in full view of the media that the park has called to serve as witnesses. In all the years that Busch Gardens has been open in Williamsburg, the only time a park guest is ever hit in the face by a goose while riding a roller coaster, it is not just a celebrity but a model famous for his fine facial features. ![]() The women riding with him took some splatter, which is what happens when a bleeding man with an open wound rides in an open car at high speeds. He wasn’t hurt too badly, and he was a good sport about it. No bones were broken, but there was some swelling. The bird’s carcass then flipped upward, striking Fabio on the bridge of his nose and causing a cut that would later require three stitches. Best anyone can tell, the goose hit the front of the car, breaking its neck. A goose who had been nesting nearby flew into the path of the speeding coaster car. It seems there was an incident on the ride’s first drop, as the riders hurtled toward the ground at approximately 70 mph. Fabio’s face was smeared crimson (was it lipstick from the overzealous ladies?) and everyone on the ride seemed rattled. Cameras rolled as the train pulled out of the station, but two minutes later when it rolled back in, something was wrong.
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