Just saw it on MSNBC Disney is gonna get sued up the ass now

 

the kid was 12.

damn...thats awful...poor kid...

CNN is gonna cover it now.

Someone can die o the Rock n' Rollercoaster? Driving on I4 to get to Disney puts you through a bigger physical toll.

Actually, the kid was 7 according to the police, Disney reported he was 12.

 

Interesting history of Death and Disney rides in the article about that kid today:

 

Two other people have died after going on another Disney ride: Epcot?s ?Mission: Space.? The space simulator spins riders in a centrifuge that subjects them to twice the normal force of gravity.

 

Daudi Bamuwamye, 4, of Sellersville, Pa., died June 13, 2005. An autopsy determined he died of an irregular heartbeat linked to an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle that can cause sudden death.

 

In February, a 77-year-old woman with diabetes and other ailments died at Disney World after riding the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.

 

And in April, a 49-year-old woman from Germany became ill and died after the ride. A medical examiner?s report said she died from bleeding of the brain and had severe high blood pressure.

 

The ride has signs warning people with heart, back and neck problems not to ride. Epcot now offers a tamer version of the ride that does not include centrifugal force.

 

I don't know how, or why one could crack down if these people are eligible to ride.

The media is spinning this like Disney World rides are death traps. Fact is, whenever someone dies on a Disney ride, it's always because of a prior medical condition and I imagine this will be the same. The media will point out the prior deaths but make no mention of why they died (medical conditions and not defective rides) thus making it seem like anyone can die on there.

They need to incorporate a hold harmless clause on the back of every ticket, just like MLB has. Sure, MLB still gets sued, but rarely, if ever, does the person win.

There have probably been millions of rides taken on that coaster since it opened 7 years ago. The ride lasts 45 seconds or so.

 

So let's say you stick millions of people on a couch for 45 seconds. There's a decent chance that one of them will drop dead.

 

sh*t happens.

 

Here I've done some math:

 

The coaster seats 24 people. One leaves every minute or so. It's pretty much always packed. And the park is probably open at least 12 hours a day, on average.

 

So, let's say 20 people take a ride every minute for 12 hours a day over 7 years. That's 36.7 million rides.

 

If 36.7 million people do anything for 45 seconds, the odds are that one of them will drop dead.

There have probably been millions of rides taken on that coaster since it opened 7 years ago. The ride lasts 45 seconds or so.

 

So let's say you stick millions of people on a couch for 45 seconds. There's a decent chance that one of them will drop dead.

 

sh*t happens.

 

Here I've done some math:

 

The coaster seats 24 people. One leaves every minute or so. It's pretty much always packed. And the park is probably open at least 12 hours a day, on average.

 

So, let's say 20 people take a ride every minute for 12 hours a day over 7 years. That's 36.7 million rides.

 

If 36.7 million people do anything for 45 seconds, the odds are that one of them will drop dead.

 

 

Well done. If you look at percentages, thats nothing at all (7/36,700,000). The people who die usually have some condition and they go on the ride anyways. It sucks they died but in the big picture it isnt alot at all.

Poor kid. That is just a terrible way to die.

There have probably been millions of rides taken on that coaster since it opened 7 years ago. The ride lasts 45 seconds or so.

 

So let's say you stick millions of people on a couch for 45 seconds. There's a decent chance that one of them will drop dead.

 

sh*t happens.

 

Here I've done some math:

 

The coaster seats 24 people. One leaves every minute or so. It's pretty much always packed. And the park is probably open at least 12 hours a day, on average.

 

So, let's say 20 people take a ride every minute for 12 hours a day over 7 years. That's 36.7 million rides.

 

If 36.7 million people do anything for 45 seconds, the odds are that one of them will drop dead.

 

 

 

 

Good point. Im sure Disney's lawyers (all 100 of them) are thinking the same way you are for the civil trial.

I have no doubt the family will get a very nice package from Disney to not sue (as all the familys do, I'm sure). And I don't have the odds off hand but I'm sure more people die from Asprin than riding these thrill attractions.

Just as suspected, the ride wasn't at fault...

 

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-- Preliminary autopsy results found no injuries, but indicated congenital heart abnormalities in a 12-year-old boy who died after a Disney ride in Florida, according to a statement from the medical examiner's office.

 

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so I guess the family cant sue because of the warnings posted on the signs before u board the ride...

That sucks, but most of these deaths are hardly ever caused by the rides themselves. The first time a disney death wasn't caused form the guest's neglegance was when a rope with metal at the end struck two guests and a worker in the head.

 

 

24 December 1998: In a tragic Christmas Eve accident, one Disneyland cast member and two guests were injured (one fatally) when a rope used to secure the sailing ship Columbia as it docked on the Rivers of America tore loose the metal cleat to which it was attached. The cleat sailed through air and struck the heads of two guests who were waiting to board the ship, Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Washington, and his wife, Lieu Thuy Vuong, 43. Dawson was declared brain dead two days later and died when his life support system was disconnected

 

This accident resulted in the first guest death in Disneyland's history that was not attributable to any negligence on the part of the guest (it was the result of a combination of insufficiently rigorous ride maintenance and an insufficiently experienced supervisor's assuming an attraction operator's role) and prompted a movement for greater government oversight of theme park operations and safety procedures.

 

and this one is just horrible....

 

On the evening of 8 July 1974, a 18-year-old woman from Santa Ana named Deborah Gail Stone was working the attraction as a hostess. Her job was to greet each new audience as they settled into the seating area. Standing to the left of the stage, she welcomed the guests over a microphone before the outer ring rotated and carried the audience to the first scene of the carousel. About 11:00 PM that evening, Stone approached too closely to the area between the rotating theater wall and the non-moving stage wall and was crushed to death between them. Ride operators were notified by a guest who heard Stone's screams from an adjacent theater.

 

:o

 

 

Notice these deaths refer to the disneyland park in California, not disneyworld here in Florida

 

 

http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/deaths.htm

yeah, I mean the garbage local TV news will hype this up so much you'll think Walt Disney was some kind of sadist. If there was a structural problem dangerous enough to kill someone, and the engineers & all the inspectors completely missed it, there would be such a high % of problems/injuries/whatever right off the bat, that they'd know it right away.

 

Mabdul's right, 1 death out of a million riders or so, that's not a problem with the ride. That's just life.

 

Unfortunately they'll probably sue anyway because there are no such thing as plain old accidents anymore in our country.

 

In February, a 77-year-old woman with diabetes and other ailments died at Disney World after riding the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.

 

:lol The Pirates of the Carribean ride is like the slowest ride at Disney World. That was probably the safest place in the entire park for her to be.

Millions of people go to the Disney. Some of them are going to die, but not based on the ride alone. Rockin' Roller Coaster is still awesome.

my uncle works there and they are not gonna be sued cuz he had prior heart problems!!

my uncle works there and they are not gonna be sued cuz he had prior heart problems!!

 

 

yeah your right there were signs warning about those types of conditions and stuff.

the tower of terror is 100x worse than the aerosmith ride

I'm starting to feel bad for Disney that this keeps happening to them. Even though they're completely not at fault, there's gonna be people that only read headlines/flick through channels and all they see is "Boy dies on Disney Ride" and think malfunction. Hopefully, there's been enough incidents now that people (parents, mostly) take the warning signs seriously and not take the risk.

i hope i don't die! i'm going to orlando tomorrow and might go to MGM.....

 

*as i stare at CJ and Raquel on marlinsfan4life's sig* *drools*