USMCBillsFan Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Woman dies on Disney ride She may have thought she was in decent health but everyone knows how intense some of these rides are... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theesir Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Woman dies on Disney ride She may have thought she was in decent health but everyone knows how intense some of these rides are... 661057[/snapback] IF she ThOUGHT she was in decent health how can you blame her. THis is the second person to die on this ride inthe past 6 months and from what I understand in talking to people at Disney (I was there in Feb.) a few have been hospitalized. When we were there we choose not to ride. The risk may be small, but the track record of the ride was not worth it to me and my family. I know there is an inherint risk in thrill rides, but perhaps hospitalizations and deaths becoming a regular occurance for a single ride might put up a red flag and cause Disney to consider if this is the kind of entertainement they are interested in being associated with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I know there is an inherint risk in thrill rides, but perhaps hospitalizations and deaths becoming a regular occurance for a single ride might put up a red flag and cause Disney to consider if this is the kind of entertainement they are interested in being associated with. 661113[/snapback] Or maybe just make ride designers realize where the practical limit of an average person's tolerance is before a ride becomes dangerous. I mean, part of the problem has to be that every "new" ride has to be faster and pull more G's than the last one. It's predictable that eventually someone was going to create one that can be expected to cause the average person problems. It's also somewhat predictable that it was going to be a Disney ride (or Six Flags), since it practically required someone with deep pockets to build it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taterhill Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I have been on this ride..I did not enjoy it..if it were not for the ice cold air blowing on my face during it, I would have surely lost my cookies.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I;ve been on this, and thought it was actually very lame. Although a guy at work just went there and he said he was sick for several hours afterwards. Personally I think he was a kitty, but.... Anyway, from what I read this woman had high blood pressure and has seen a doctor in the past about some possible heart problem. Maybe Darwin was at work here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I;ve been on this, and thought it was actually very lame. 661173[/snapback] bull sh--. The ride has a height limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Yeah, all people who die of heart failure are stupid. Must be your Marine thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 bull sh--. The ride has a height limit. 661174[/snapback] Yeah, but even 4 year olds pass that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Good. Its about time they brought back some good old fun rides. Too much safety nowadays. Danger = fun. Safe isnt fun. . The engineers of the ride should be commended for making an awesome ride, not reprimanded because a few pansies couldnt handle it and "got sick" or "sent to the hospital" or "died". People like that just need to toughen up. Should my fun be taken away because they couldnt handle it? hell no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Yeah, all people who die of heart failure are stupid. Must be your Marine thing. 661180[/snapback] IT'S STILL AN ENTRENCHING TOOL TO ME, DAMMIT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Yeah, but even 4 year olds pass that. 661181[/snapback] But VA's short. Like hobbit short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 IT'S STILL AN ENTRENCHING TOOL TO ME, DAMMIT! 661223[/snapback] You just dont understand............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Yeah, all people who die of heart failure are stupid. Must be your Marine thing. 661180[/snapback] Hard to think of a possible whitty response.., Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBud Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I have, in my opinion, a fairly high "level of balance" (fished and sailed on Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and Indian Ocean, flown in a small single engine airplane, etc). This ride gave me the willies. I still get the occassional flashback when I think about it. My wife, on the other hand, doesn't seem affected by it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taterhill Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I have, in my opinion, a fairly high "level of balance" (fished and sailed on Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and Indian Ocean, flown in a small single engine airplane, etc). This ride gave me the willies. I still get the occassional flashback when I think about it. My wife, on the other hand, doesn't seem affected by it at all. 661244[/snapback] same with me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eSJayDee Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Or maybe just make ride designers realize where the practical limit of an average person's tolerance is before a ride becomes dangerous. No, that can't afford to design it for the AVERAGE person. I suspect that at least 99% of riders suffer no, or at most minor ill effects. That ride probably gets 1000s of riders a day (I haven't been there in decades, so I haven't seen it) I think the problem lies in that the average persons tolerance for motion and G forces (& desire for thrill derived from a particular level of them) apparently exceeds what a few can handle. Further, most people don't know their tolerance or the realize the risk they're taking (due to their limitations). W/o a thorough pre-screening procedure (which isn't practical), rides must be designed to be more subdued than what some would desire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 IF she ThOUGHT she was in decent health how can you blame her. THis is the second person to die on this ride inthe past 6 months and from what I understand in talking to people at Disney (I was there in Feb.) a few have been hospitalized.When we were there we choose not to ride. The risk may be small, but the track record of the ride was not worth it to me and my family. I know there is an inherint risk in thrill rides, but perhaps hospitalizations and deaths becoming a regular occurance for a single ride might put up a red flag and cause Disney to consider if this is the kind of entertainement they are interested in being associated with. 661113[/snapback] It's for little kids. http://disney.go.com/vacations/missionspac..._mainflash.html I love the fact that it is "sponsored" by HP. I wonder if they will be named in the law suit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I think the problem lies in that the average persons tolerance for motion and G forces (& desire for thrill derived from a particular level of them) apparently exceeds what a few can handle. Further, most people don't know their tolerance or the realize the risk they're taking (due to their limitations). 661258[/snapback] Actually, I was thinking that part of the problem was that there's a skewed idea of what "average" actually is. For example: based on NASA studies, the human body can safely take 2G's for an extended peroid (which is about what the shuttle accellerates at). Ergo, perhaps the designers follow that "conventional wisdom" in designing rides, since it's "common knowledge" that a person can safely take 2G's...forgetting, of course, that the number's based on your average trained astronauts, not Ma and Pa Kettle from East Bum!@#$, Iowa. Plus...I wasn't talking about death, I was talking about intolerance (which includes death, obviously...but is not limited to it). This particular ride apparently has a history of making plenty of people ill. Sever, protracted motion sickness is also a sign of going beyond one's tolerance. If it's as widespread as it's being reported, the ride may very well be beyond the average person's tolerance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Yeah, all people who die of heart failure are stupid. Must be your Marine thing. 661180[/snapback] Yeah nice interpretation skills. What I said, "People who know they have heart problems should not go on this ride" You, "All people with heart problems are stupid". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 For example: based on NASA studies, the human body can safely take 2G's for an extended peroid (which is about what the shuttle accellerates at).661263[/snapback] I don't think that's true because the deep core drilling team in "Armageddon" had no problem being flung around the moon in a shuttle, and that seemed more like 3-4Gs. Well, Steve Buscemi made it seem like 3-4Gs. But they looked very uncomfortable for that extended period of time. So I think you're wrong about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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