If it is made to fit fat people,, before long it probably becomes unsafe for the normal size people.
If it is made to fit fat people,, before long it probably becomes unsafe for the normal size people.
They are complaining about a basketball player who was able to get on weighing 265...well I believe the people who are getting turned away are the disgusting obese gross people who deserve to not put other people in danger with their fat hanging off the sides. This is a good incentive for people to lose weight and then they will be able to get on the ride. People are getting really fat and until they stop this type of thing will happen. What is sad is it seems that kids are the ones being turned away. A kid who ways 265 is the fault of the parent who should be shot or put in jail. It reminds me the that disgusting Huckster Family and how revolting they are and who wanted to represent the Americans as President...Good God Thank God that fugly family was turned away. How to lose weight....push your chair away from the table when you are full. Not a difficult concept.
Just waiting to see any of those individuals hire a lawyer and sue for discrimination.
But amusement park expert Dennis Speigel says the restrictions likely have as much to do with body type as they do with weight.
"Height can be a factor either way -- too short or too tall -- and girth could be a factor too," said Speigel, who is president of the amusement industry consulting firm International Theme Park Services.
Well, if girth is the issue - stick a girth chart next to the height chart before a ride. Have a scale handy too. Without that guide any employee is making a judgment call and it could be discrimination - if a basketball player with the same weight got on and this fat kid couldn't - being the same weight - there's an issue where none needs to be - break out the scales & measures......without them you have 'would have*could have*should have'
You see this a lot at Disney etc - which I no longer go to. Loads of fatties who eat like pigs and live in a fantasy dream world. This guy at 5’8” 265 lbs should save his money from universal, sign up at a fitness gym and work on saving his life.
Amusement park rides have always had a size limit, because of the physics and engineering involved in safe restraints on these G-force rides. Riders can be too small and too big. Kids have to wait to grow up, and morbidly obese folk need to lose weight. The very short and the Hagrids of the world are out of luck, ironically ;-)
This has to be the most shocking part of the entire story.
Next thing you'll hear is that many Twilight fans are heavy-set women in their 30's living in fantasy land.
"This sounds like a job for Spider Man!"
Fatties at the amusement park ping.
What? Did I just read that some dude is about to drop dead of a massive heart attack and he is worried about getting on a Harry Potter ride???????????????????
265 is pretty high a weight limit and should cover most people? I am still too short for many rides at 5’2” so I have little sympathy sicne I will never be tall enough to be 5’3” or taller.