The IX Indoor Amusement Park. Yuck.

Just got an e-newsletter from Cleveland’s Q104 radio station. In this edition, Q104 contests Forbes Magazine’s declaration of Cleveland as most miserable city in America. They’re evidence? The IX Indoor Amusement Park!

Look, I’ve been to the IX Indoor Amusement Park … and I’ll never go back again. I brought a wheelchair-bound friend who is a rollercoaster fanatic. Every ride is wildly inaccessible for the handicapped. I had to watch him crawl up stairs and bumpy ramps to get to rides while the oh-so-friendly attendants just gawked while his pants slid down during his struggle.

Besides that, it was totally disgusting in that creepy carny kind of way, and the food made me sick to my stomach.

Granted, it’s no more than a cheapo traveling carnival that happens to be indoors and isn’t going to have the amenities of an established amusement park. But let’s not pretend it’s some glorious event we should be proud of, OK?

And LOOK at this photo! What the hell are those girls riding in? Is that some sort of demented, mutant alien slug?! THIS is the best photo they could come up with to tout the event?!

Sorry Q104. I’m still with Forbes on this one. I think you just proved their point.

Here’s what Q104 said:

Forbes Magazine has really been giving Cleveland a hard time the last few years. Apparently, we’re the fattest, most dangerous, depressed, championship-starved city in the country. While they make us out to be a city out of your typical zombie movie, we know that Cleveland is a lot more than that. Yes, we’re sick of the cold, but we’re happy to live here, so $#%!& Forbes, and let’s celebrate the Cleveland winter with fun indoors!! Listen to Q104 at 8:15am, 2:15pm, and 5:15pm for your chance to win a Family Fun Pack of tickets to the 21st Annual IX Indoor Amusement Park presented by Marc’s in town March 26th thru April 18th!!
The championship-starved part is kinda true though…