"I Started Spitting Out Feathers..."
By: Jeremy Brown
Updated: July 31, 2012
A 12-year-old New Jersey boy is speaking out after he was struck by a bird while riding a roller coaster at Six Flags.
Shane Matus he was riding in the front car with his friend on the Kingda Ka roller coaster around 5 p.m. last Thursday when a bird slammed into his face.
When it hit me I was like, "What the-? Did somebody through a ball or something? When I started spitting out feathers, I was like, that was a bird", said Shane.
Shane still has bruises and scratches on his neck and face from where the bird struck him.
They say the bird exploded, said Shane. It hurt a lot for like three seconds. People behind us had feathers and blood all over them.
The coaster was returning to the station when Shane collided with the bird.
He says he turned his head towards the parking lot when he heard a car alarm seconds before impact.
"If that car alarm didn't go off, it would've hit me dead in the eye," said Shane.
The ride was immediately shut down until state regulators gave the all-clear for it to reopen around 30 minutes later.
An ambulance rushed Shane, who was at the theme park with his aunt, to the hospital.
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His father, Adam Matus soon arrived.
"I couldn't believe it," said Adam. "I mean what kind of freak accident is this?"
A Great Adventure spokesperson says that what happened to Shane had never happened before at the theme park, referring to it as "a true act of nature."
"It was just a freak accident," said Shane while chuckling. "Like one in a million that would happen."
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