'Fabio Survives Goose Encounter, but Take a Gander at His Honker,' the L.A. Times wrote at the time.
, Fabio was invited to the Busch Gardens amusement park in Williamsburg, Virginia, to inaugurate a new roller coaster ride called Apollo's Chariot.
One of his publicists boasted:"This is a testament of the man's strength. Only a strong man could have survived an onslaught like this."scientists if such an incident was possible. Roger McWilliams, a physics professor at UC Irvine attributed Fabio's survival to"momentum transfer." They built the fastest roller coaster in the world, but when they built it, they built it on a flying path of geese. So the geese, they have to fly into the roller coaster to get into the pond, and fly out of the roller coaster and get out of the pond.
They thought, 'Oh my God, it was like a broken nose and this and that.' They thought, because all the blood. My nose wasn't broken. You know how big was the cut? One stitch.Now, let me tell you, during that time, every single law firm in America, three or four of the big law firms, they come up to me and say, 'Fabio, that's going to be the first easy four or $5 million in your life.' I said, 'No.'" Fabio says he took full responsibility."No, no.
"The Charlotte Observer." Newspapers.Com, 3 Apr. 1999, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-fabio-2/126340418/. Accessed 13 June 2023.
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