Don’t give me that crap about kneejerking and being responsible. I guess it’s easy to say that when it has no direct on you. But what if this had happened to a friend or family member of yours? Would you still be talking about your statistics then.
This was a 13 year old girl who got on an amusement ride, like many other 13 year old girls do. And now her life is ruined because somebody didn’t do their job.
You are RIGHT!
13 year olds die in the bathtub, they die or are severely injured in car accidents, they are mamed or die on playgrounds! They get mamed and die in airplanes, on sidewalks, on monkey bars, playing dodge ball, playing volleyball, basketball, softball... etc etc etc..You are knee jerking foolishly.
You are running around screaming as though the ride was inherently dangerous, or that the designers intentionally built or the operators intentionally maintained it to be so.
This is foolishness. Your defense of your foolishness is even more foolishness.
I pulled my calf 2 weeks ago just running across the basketball court... I broke my arm as a child playing on my swingset.... I dislocated my kneecap on two different occassions playing sports... Would you claim that basketball or softball or volleyball are inheritly dangerous? And go on some diatribe against ball makers and retailers? How about being a passenger in a car? Far more kids mamed and killed doing that, which every kid does every day, than any other .... you going to tyrade against the auto dealers and manufacturers?
Facts are simple, systems fail... ALL systems fail. Its not fair, but its inevitable. Every machine EVER built will fail, its only a question of when and how. Designers and builders of amusement park rides take insane precautions to minimize the risk posed in the event of a failure, but there is no such thing as a 100% safe system, EVER. If you think you are guaranteed safety in life in ANYTHING you do, you are an idiot.
Obviously this girl, nor anyone else who got on this ride expected to get harmed, and expected to have a fun ride and get off and go to the next one... its the sheer fact that these rides are designed so safely that that is indeed what the overwhelming number of people expect and have happen. In fact as an industry, injuries on rides at permanent amusement parks are insanely rare, you are far more at odds to get hurt or killed flying or driving to the park than you are on any ride in it. Even so, like it or not, sometimes bad things happen.
Time will tell if this was a design, or a maintenance or some other catastrophic event that lead to this tragedy.. However to just rant against amusement parks or ride manufacturers over something like this with no facts or anything else is just foolishness.
Tell you what, next time a jetliner fails, and comes plummeting to the earth, I want to make sure I see and hear your outrage about how inept the engineers, builders and maintenance personel are.. the next time a car wrecks I want to hear you ranting about those horrible engineers and workers who built the car... etc etc etc.
Ever hear of Aimee Mullins? Aimee Mullins is a former NCAA track star, model, movie star and currently serves as President of the Women's Sports Foundation. Yes, Mullins is also a double-amputee; when she was a year old she lost her lower legs... 