Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards

Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by badloginagain on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:14PM (#16683126)

Surprised the park hasn't gone totally bankrupt from the amount of class-action suits available here.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by kyleblarson on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:41PM (#16683332)

I'm surprised that any insurer would issue a policy for a place like this without doing enough due diligence to see how sketchy it is.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by djrogers on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:19PM (#16684011)

Class action? Who would be in the class other than the family of the deceased?

Anyone else who rode the ride without being harmed has no grounds to sue...

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by DFHippie on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:24PM (#16684043)

Apparently there were a lot of lesser injuries before this fatality.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by jonhendry18 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:08PM (#16691167)

Another person got fractured orbital bones and other injuries from the ride. So they probably narrowly avoided being decapitated as well.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by ryanmerket on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:47PM (#16684771)

According to a news report I read they settled with those folks for $19M

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by gowld on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:33PM (#16683267)

How do you rub some dirt and get over a decapitation?

Maybe if Kansans held each other to higher standards of accountability they wouldn't kill a kid on a water slide.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by daveFNbuck on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:40PM (#16683328)

You don't get a class action from one decapitation. You need to have a large group of people with the same injuries. Those are the people that shrug it off and don't sue.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by bearcobra on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:57PM (#16683462)

Based on the data from the National Center for State Courts, there doesn't appear to be much of a correlation between coastal proximity and the rate of civil cases. http://www.ncsc.org/Sitecore/Content/Microsites/PopUp/Home/C...

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by crazypyro on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:47PM (#16683378)

What are you talking about? They already settled a civil lawsuit for ~20 million with the park and engineering firms very shortly after it happened. This is the criminal case.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by FeteCommuniste on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:40PM (#16683322)

Not sure even the Black Knight could get over a decapitation.

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