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re: Boy, 14, who fell from 430-foot ride at Florida park was sitting in MODIFIED seat...
Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:18 am to Vamos Brandonos
Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:18 am to Vamos Brandonos
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Goodbye theme park.
Good riddance, icon park sucks
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Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:21 am to Irregardless
They aren’t 14, and he was more like 350. His muscles just weren’t up to his mass at that young age. The ride operators were absolutely 100% at fault and not that young man. I hope they find the murderer that was responsible for modifying that seat.
We lost a great young man from my high school with a good academic record that was going to have a full ride to play for U of Tennessee to an accidental drowning that a more mature and experienced person might have avoided, but he was only 18. We aren’t talking about a college player here, young men in high school are still working on their muscle development. Sad to see such a young life of promise (he was a straight A student) cut short.
We lost a great young man from my high school with a good academic record that was going to have a full ride to play for U of Tennessee to an accidental drowning that a more mature and experienced person might have avoided, but he was only 18. We aren’t talking about a college player here, young men in high school are still working on their muscle development. Sad to see such a young life of promise (he was a straight A student) cut short.
This post was edited on 4/19/22 at 1:47 am
Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:30 am to East Coast Band
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The ol "modify the safety features" trick.
Works fine until someone is killed.
Then it's all over for everyone.
I have done a lot of machine guarding cases in my career and probably 50% of the injuries or deaths were a direct result of modified interlocked guards to speed production time.
So many times someone thinks safe is "too safe" and endeavors to "fix" the problem in the name of a dollar. Burning the guilty party to the ground financially is "good" but it will never bring someone back from the dead or regrow their arm.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:41 am to TexasTiger08
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His parents probably contributed greatly to his being overweight.
Yes and his parents also contributed to him being on that ride. The Dad gave an interview the day after the tragedy and he said that his son was not allowed on any ride at the park and he wondered why his son was allowed on this particular ride. So Dad, he wasn’t allowed on any ride because he was too big, so why did YOU not question why he was allowed on this ride.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:41 am to Giantkiller
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These shady theme parks will all eventually be closed one by one…
Nope. Just the ones with shitty safety measures.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 2:03 am to Irregardless
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I guess every lineman in college or pro football is morbidly obese?
Uh yes, every pro lineman is morbidly obese, that is literally a qualification for being a pro lineman
Posted on 4/19/22 at 2:51 am to Mizzoufan26
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Uh yes, every pro lineman is morbidly obese, that is literally a qualification for being a pro lineman
Aaron raises his hand. 11-12% BTW
You are living in the last generation.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 2:58 am to loopback
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Don't play dumb and act like 6'5" 340 @ 14 is normal
Well known fact that shitty parenting makes kids tall asf
Posted on 4/19/22 at 4:00 am to Mud_Bone
Is OWA in Alabama similar to this ICON park?
Posted on 4/19/22 at 5:20 am to meeple
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s OWA in Alabama similar to this ICON park?
ICON is an outdoor mall with a few attractions that you pay for each ride. OWA is a traditional theme park with an admission.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 5:26 am to Mud_Bone
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His seat had been adjusted to enable a gap 6-7 inches wide and still register as being fastened securely
Welp, Icon Park bout to pay his family bigly.
How fricking stupid/greedy do you have to be to bypass the safety measures on a theme park ride and still allow guests to ride?
Posted on 4/19/22 at 5:29 am to WaWaWeeWa
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It still doesn’t make a lot of sense. The seats are angle back. It would be very hard to shootout the front. I just keep thinking back to what he was doing with his feet on the way down. Why were his feet moving all erratically? I wonder if he was messing around.
You couldn't be more wrong.
When the ride reaches the top, the seats tilt forward. Go back and watch the video and while people are yelling to let them off, you can see the seats tilt back to their original position. That's why they couldn't be let off immediately.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 5:45 am to Mud_Bone
So, no seatbelt on that ride? Wow.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:03 am to LSUJML
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The report does not address whether the 6-foot-5 teenager should have been allowed on the ride
Of course
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:03 am to teke184
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That’s negligence on behalf of the operator.
The ride should not have been altered, but I believe all of these rides have to be inspected by a Govt agency that should have red flagged this ride.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:18 am to dnm3305
Kid died because of our cultures lack of common sense. In the 80s the operator would have said, sorry kid you can't ride. Now we are more terrified of hurting people's feelings than killing them.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:50 am to JackieTreehorn
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This a good example of why people too fat shouldn't be on these rides. The seat is not designed to hold that much volume. Luckily that fat girl in the gif had straps under her arms.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:50 am to Irregardless
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He was 6’5 and 320 lbs. I guess every lineman in college or pro football is morbidly obese?
Yes pretty much
That’s close to 40 bmi
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:51 am to Mud_Bone
My guess is the seat was previously modified to accommodate fatties because of complaints they couldn't ride the ride.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:54 am to BHS78
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Govt agency
That’ll be a great defense
But the government shouldn’t have let us!
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