Schlitterbahn

[8manpick]

They should burn

[steve dave]

There’s not really much to burn but that’s the end for them


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[puniraptor]

criminal

[OK_Cat]

That’s insane


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[Phil Titola]

Very bad people run that company.

[ben ji]

You can read the whole indictment here and holy moly schlitterbahn is F'd

https://www.wycocourtks.org/uploads/4/4/1/2/4412070/2018-03-21_indictment__miles_swkc__filed_redacted.pdf


The raft the kid was on had over 10 maintenance reports and had been taken out of service multiple times for injuring guests before the kid died. The notes basically read "Raft b2 went airborne for no reason" "Boat B taken out of service today because it kept coming down the runout too fast and injuring guests"

2 days before the kid died there was a maintenance log saying "Boat b requires less air than other boats in order to go down slower"

Also the braking system was out of order that day and apparently was out of order alot.

[michigancat]

I really don't think I ever want to go to an amusement park or water park again after reading that crap

[wetwillie]

Is there a regulatory body that oversees amusement parks and such? I mean it had to have passed some kind of government inspection to the point where someone was satisfied enough that it was going to be safe. 

[michigancat]

Is there a regulatory body that oversees amusement parks and such? I mean it had to have passed some kind of government inspection to the point where someone was satisfied enough that it was going to be safe.

Pretty sure Kansas free marketed that department out of existence or something

[wetwillie]

Kansas Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Safety and Health

Terri Sanchez, Director

Allegedly it falls under this department’s jurisdiction.  After my five minutes of research your assertion that never going to an an amusement park again feels right.  No federal oversight exists and the states appear to be very lax in their authority and enforcement.

[Pete]

You communists can take my guns and bibles, and regulate my amusement parks over my cold dead body.

[Phil Titola]

Kansas Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Safety and Health

Terri Sanchez, Director

Allegedly it falls under this department’s jurisdiction.  After my five minutes of research your assertion that never going to an an amusement park again feels right.  No federal oversight exists and the states appear to be very lax in their authority and enforcement.

I remember reading KS (& MO) have pretty lax rules and enforcement at amusement parks...which is a factor in building this kid killer here and moving one of the new rides to WoF from another state that basically banned the ride due to not meeting their standards.

wof - http://www.kctv5.com/story/25019013/troubled-thrill-ride-relocated-to-worlds-of-fun-set-to-open

[GregKSU1027]

Schliterbahn is boned.

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[mhkpasa]

Jeff Henry, the co-owner of Schlitterbahn, was arrested on Monday in Cameron County, Texas, on charges related to the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy on a water slide in Kansas.

Officials in Cameron County, which is the southernmost county in Texas, said Henry was arrested on a Kansas warrant.

"He was arrested by U.S. Marshals out of Brownsville," Texas, said Capt. Javier Reyna of the Cameron County Sheriff's Office.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/article206886324.html

[Phil Titola]

 

[8manpick]

So was he attempting to flee the country, or does he happen to have a ranch down there?

[pissclams]

seems like a competent attorney could really hold the state to task for allowing these guys to do what they did, which seems to be within the state’s rules

[wetwillie]

seems like a competent attorney could really hold the state to task for allowing these guys to do what they did, which seems to be within the state’s rules

Who is “the state”?  I’m hoping you mean the governor that was in office at the time it was approved.

[BW]

So was he attempting to flee the country, or does he happen to have a ranch down there?

There's a Schlitterbahn on South Padre Island... so maybe that.

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[Rage Against the McKee]

seems like a competent attorney could really hold the state to task for allowing these guys to do what they did, which seems to be within the state’s rules

Who is “the state”?  I’m hoping you mean the governor that was in office at the time it was approved.

The father of the kid was one of the people who allowed these guys to do what they did, so I don't expect him to press charges against the state.

[HerrSonntag]

Putting the owner of a waterpark in an orange jumpsuit and hauling him to a federal jail has to be definition of criminal justice theater.

You put people in jail to protect society from them, did they think he was going to go around building rogue deadly waterslides if left loose on the public?

[Rage Against the McKee]

Putting the owner of a waterpark in an orange jumpsuit and hauling him to a federal jail has to be definition of criminal justice theater.

You put people in jail to protect society from them, did they think he was going to go around building rogue deadly waterslides if left loose on the public?

I generally agree, but you have to do something to deter other water park owners from failing to follow the nonexistent safety regulations this state has imposed.

[420seriouscat69]

Like destroying their business and forcing them into bankruptcy and a life of depleted opportunities after doing so?

[Phil Titola]

Putting the owner of a waterpark in an orange jumpsuit and hauling him to a federal jail has to be definition of criminal justice theater.

You put people in jail to protect society from them, did they think he was going to go around building rogue deadly waterslides if left loose on the public?

I generally agree, but you have to do something to deter other water park owners from failing to follow the nonexistent safety regulations this state has imposed.

Really the state should be charged for lack of standards and or enforcement...I don't know how any of that works so don't @ me with "but how" details....I dunno!

[Phil Titola]

Like destroying their business and forcing them into bankruptcy and a life of depleted opportunities after doing so?

What should happen to them wacks?