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PK_Spam posted...

Theres not really a precedent for tearing down rides that kill people.

Remember that Batman ride at Six Flags that someone got beheaded because of? Granted, they werent riding it, and they simply got kicked by someones foot as they flew overhead, but still

And then there's Action Park.



Jen0125 posted...

I think they should at least add a secondary safety device to a ride like that because operator error WILL happen. No one is perfect at their job. And it's crazy that simply being too fat was enough for this boy to slide completely out. Put one of those dick buster stoppers on the seat or something damn

The problem is that safety devices aren't necessarily foolproof either. And people tend to get even more lax about safety when they assume the safety measures will handle everything. Odds are that ride DID have multiple safety factors, and one or more of them failed (potentially due to operator error, poor maintenance, or just poor design).

I was once at a park and watched the guy in front of me get on a ride, and he was so fat he literally broke the safety harness as they were strapping him in (and I stepped right the fuck off that line and never rode that ride again). But if it had held at first and only snapped once the ride started, then they would have had the false illusion of safety and he could have been killed once the ride was going.

Arguably what we kind of need is a "weight limit"/"you are too fat to ride this ride" restriction the same way we have height restrictions, but then you'd have people whining and crying about how that's body shaming and they're being discriminated against. Safety harnesses aren't really designed to fit around people who are as wide as they are tall - and trying to make them "one size fits all" just increases the potential failure points.