Theme-park lawsuits leave questions of safety unsettled

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-theme-park-lawsuits-032909,0,22066.story

[zulemara]

omg I can't believe how flippin stupid and sue happy people are! This guy has it right:

Emerson, the Faulkner law professor, said the companies have a strong argument.

He said Central Florida's theme parks have the clearest and most comprehensive ride warnings he has seen, often involving signs plus audio and video recordings. People such as Williams, who might have undetected medical risks, fall outside any reasonable safety guidelines, he said.

"The cost of regulating that, at whatever level [of risk that might exist], would make operating amusement facilities cost-prohibitive," he said.

On the other hand, this is completely retarded:


Williams, the Louisiana woman who collapsed outside Universal's Back to the Future, blames her stroke on the ride's "jerking" motions. The attraction, replaced last spring by a similar ride based on The Simpsons TV show, combined various mechanical movements with visual and audio special effects to give people the illusion of flying in the DeLorean time-machine car of the Back to the Future movies.

Williams, who spent eight months in hospitals and years more in therapy after her stroke, can now walk with a brace and talk, but her right arm is paralyzed.

"I do believe it was the ride that caused the stroke," she said recently. "My doctors and the doctors over there [in Orlando] said they couldn't see why I would have a stroke."


They warn everybody MULTIPLE times on EVERY attraction! If your arteries are frickin clogging, you're gonna have a stroke no matter where you are or what you're doing! What do you mean, the jerky motion? HELLO PEOPLE IT'S A FLIPPIN RIDE! Go sit on a park bench or in a 3-D show if you can't take motion! This is the dumbest, most ridiculous thing in our country.

What part of DON'T RIDE if you have health conditions don't you understand? And if you don't know you have a condition then how the bloody hell is it the theme park's fault? Do you sue the airlines if you have a heart attack on the plane and blame it on turbulence?
DUMB DUMB DUMB

Ok I'm done now.

[TheDisneyGirl02]

"You can bury your head in the sand and say, 'It's tough luck, those people who bleed into the brain,'" Novack said. "Or they [the theme parks] can take the approach and say, 'Hey, we don't know how to predict for these problems, but we can at least warn our patrons and say, 'Even if you are in good health, this ride has the potential to cause serious injuries and death.'"

That has to be my favorite line from the entire article. Is this guy joking? I mean, you can look at a ride like Tower of Terror and see from the outside that it is an attraction that is a free-fall. You make the choice to go on the ride - there isn't a CM by the line forcing you into the queue. :sad2:

It's all about personal responsibility.

[Uncleromulus]

And look at the title of the article--"questions of saftey unsettled". Scott Powers is an idiot to begin with, and this article is intended just to grab headlines. This isn't really about ride saftey--it's about certain people who should know better than to get on a ride in the first place!! And for the others with unknown conditions--unfortunate, but things happen in life.

[bgohre]

How many times a day does someone who is seemling healthy have a stroke or heart attack?

It's too bad what happened to this lady, but sometimes an accident is just and accident and no one is to blame.

[gymnastgirlflips]

Yeah, you just cant blame a ride or something. Especially with all the warnings about it, and then all the information about the ride that is out that you can ask CMs or other employees about at theme parks. Getting on the ride is just your own personal decision that you cant blame anyone else for unless they literally drag you onto the ride... but since when do people do that?

[ChrisFL]

"Theme-park lawsuits leave questions of intelligence unsettled"

FIXED ;)