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For weeks, desperate-looking volunteers with hand bells and Santa Claus hats have been hard at work in front of shopping malls, soliciting donations for various worthwhile causes. If only they knew there was an easier way to get the money out of your pockets: Strap you into a roller coaster and take you for a ride.

Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, has donated more than $6,500 to local charities this year. All the money comes from the very aptly named Loose Change Fund, comprised of money found on the midway, in the fountains and, of course, under the rides. (Now you know why the roller coaster paused while you were hanging upside down and starting shaking you from side to side.)

Since its creation 20 years ago, the Loose Change Fund has donated more than $182,000 to charity. There's only one thing we wonder about -- what percentage of all that money is vomit-covered, and how do they wash it?