HIGH ATOP CANNIBAL — Riding the Cannibal at Lagoon amusement park is challenging enough when you're looking forward. Imagine what it looks like from behind. Buckle up and hang on to watch the video ...

What goes up, must go down ... and just about nothing embodies this axiom like a roller coaster. For a quarter century, Mark Cheney has tended the iconic wooden White Coaster at Lagoon in Farmington.

Due to such things as motion sickness, dizziness, fear of heights, lack of energy, fear of fainting, weak stomach, bad knees, bad back, just ate lunch and various other age-induced ailments/excuses, ...