Hopefully she'll get some kind of settlement, even with the disclaimer, that will help her family with the medical bills, physical therapy, and some prosthetics. What a terrible thing to happen.
I'm really confused how that ride works now. I thought it worked with electro-magnets that alternated current to propel the thing up and then to brake it when it came down. Where the heck was this cable attached and what was it's function? *edit* nevermind. Wrong ride I guess.
"Formerly known as the Hellavator"... there's a Hellavator in Playland in Vancouver, that I took my neice and nephew to last year. They went on it quite a few times... kinda scary in retrospect.
I agree. That is a travesty. The speaking skills of the people at the park are terrible. Oh, and there was something about a girl and feet that seemed pretty serious. I kinda just skimmed that part.
I see, but no I had no idea some guy died from that ride. I imagine his family filed a wrongful death suit. I wonder how it turned out. Yeah I remember riding it and being very dissapointed the Doctor Doom Ride at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure was a lot more fun somehow. What they were riding in fell. Abruptly
Me too. Glad I wasn't drinking anything. While it's a tragic event, what you just said was pretty funny. On a side note, can the feet be reattached? Is that possible.
Hmmm...not sure how it would be that difficult to find. It wasn't a suicide bombing or anything.... Then again, if they were somehow vaporized...yeah that would be a problem.
Good to hear that the girl never died. This would be a good time for all other theme park owners to go check out some of there own equipment...
it depends how the limbs were detached which parts are still intact etc etc i guess as to wether they can reattach the limbs about 20 years ago my uncle jumped over a fence and a nail got caught on his wedding ring and ripped half his finger off (ewwwwwww) even as far back as then they said they could reattach but because of the way the bone had shattered it wouldn't be able to move, i.e the finger would always stay straight, so he just let it heal over and he now has 9 1/2 fingers, if the bone had broke in a certain place he might have been ok, medical science has come a long way in 20 years so i guess we can just hope for the best
I was checking the news here, and apparently they did find her feet and are trying to reattach them. The downside is that apparently, reattaching feet has a very low success rate.
Something like that, I'm betting that without a LOT of luck, she'd be better off in the long run just getting prosthetics. Nerves and muscles are always gonna be at least a little off even if they do it almost perfectly. Plus, prosthetics can have jet thrusters installed.
A friend of mines brother got one of his legs blown off in Iraq. He had the most postive response about getting hurt, it was that he didn't lose a leg, but instead gained a bunch of different legs, like one for swimming, one for running, one for walking, etc....
True, but the odds of having your feet cut off by an amusement park ride are pretty slim. So the girl has statistics on her side.
