Posted on 03/27/2018 10:45:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yeah. Of some kind. Good to catch the decapitated head, I guess.
Does decapitated always mean the head comes completely off or just severed internally?
Maybe all the $57.98 tickets per head will pay the damages.
Kind of sounds like rope and tire swing over the creek we had as kids.
Off.
He was the son of a lawmaker.
No, in this case the kids head came off.
Amusement park accidents are either horrible speed and thrashing trauma, or they are kids puking.
There is not a lot in between.
In the end he is responsible for the actions of those under him if it ends in an act of criminal negligence.
It’s just been released that the selected jurors will be required to take several rides down the slide as a fact finding mission, similar to visiting a crime scene.
I have my vehicle serviced over by the slide. It gives me the creeps every time I drive by it.
How could anyone look at that and not understand the danger of that “safety system”.
Sides of the slide should form a slot that is above the outside part of the tube so that the tube could not possibly go airborne.
Lots of negligence, just not sure if it is criminal. $20 million settlement doesn’t replace a life, but money is the only thing available. I doubt a jury will convict him of any serious crime once the jury learns he accepted responsibility and made an extremely generous payment.
Very few lives are worth $20 million, especially when the death is very quick.
I am not sure how they got the ride built, but I know that they skipped a great deal of the design testing. They ran some of the actual ride testing in the dark to keep people from seeing what could happen on the ride. When they saw that the rafts went airborne they added the net with the support bars, which are completely out of compliance with amusement park rides.
The park covered up other injuries on the ride. They lied about maintenance on the ride. They tried to get a copy of a hospital or police report from another family about another incident on the ride, and lied to both that family and the police in order to get it.
“Does decapitated always mean the head comes completely off...?”
I don’t know. I guess the head could be left hanging by a few tendons. I don’t want to find out...although it would probably be a very quick way to go.
It just LOOKS unsafe.
They did a video of them building this thing and in the first test the boat just went airborne... I remember at the time folks here arguing with me when I stated the obvious, the EFFED UP THE MATH!! and I was told, no they did it on purpose as a promotional thing to draw in the crowd... the redesigned it to smooth out the hump after that, but not surprisingly they STILL EFFED up the math and killed a kid.
But I am sure they did that as part of the promotion of their park as well (rolling eyes)
They actually smoothed out the hill, and added the nets. the original design was more of a camel hump and it just basically launched everything into the air....
THey grossly screwed up the math the first time around, and not surprisingly messed it up on the retrofit as well.... Sadly a boy died due to this.
Unfortunately for the folks who run the park, it wasn’t some schlub’s kid but a state politicians kid, so won’t be able to just white wash it.
Yes that is the problem - these water parks are outdoing one another to offer the most “extreme” rides.
I agree, if it had been a ‘commoner’s’ kid, nothing would have happened, but it was a Rep son, royalty!
I don’t know if that’s true. Everything I’ve read says he’s a decent guy, conservative, Christian.
I would guess he loves his kids as much as the next guy, and was as devastated by the loss.
Perhaps his higher visibility resulted in a deeper investigation, but thank goodness it did.
The dangerous ride will be out of service and that will prevent other injuries and deaths. It’s very sad that someone had to lose a son to make that happen but if you want to find some good in the tragedy, that’s it.
Have been by this park many times. That water slide is huge. At 167 ft is supposed to be the tallest in the world.
What about the horrific mental damage caused by the “it’s a small world” ride?
I bet the designer is dead by now so he’s off the hook.
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