Why are accidents in amusement parks treated more special? With all that heavy machinery putting your body through unnatural motions, it's a wonder that accidents don't happen more often - even without people doing things that are stupid.
Over 40,000 people a year die in automobile accidents. Now that is tragedy. Scaling two fences with danger signs and getting your head taken off by a roller coaster is just plain stupid.
Of course, we will get the kneejerk overreaction and the ride will be closed for months pending an "investigation" and may never reopen unless the fences around it are made higher than the ride itself, electrified, with barbed wire on top and at least 50 security guards posted all around the perimeter to make sure no dumb kids try to scale them or tunnel under them.
I hate amusement parks anyway. Overcrowded, too expensive, and I hate heights. Last time I was dragged to one, I just hung out at the water park section with a John Grisham book and $40 to buy margaritas (which still didn't go all that far). Didn't go on a single ride because I hate them. Just told the kids to have fun and meet me at the water park after they were done waiting in line all day for 90-second rides.
The very idea of a Darwin Award is reprehensible to me, whatever the circumstances or location of the tragedy. There’s nothing funny about the death of another human being.