Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards

Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by willglynn on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:23PM (#16683186)

From the indictment:

    19. HENRY and SCHOOLEY lacked the technical expertise to properly design a
        complex amusement ride such as Verrückt. Neither of the two men possessed any
        kind of technical or engineering credential relevant to amusement ride design or
        safety. As SCHOOLEY admitted, "If we actually knew how to do this, and it could
        be done that easily, it wouldn't be that spectacular."

Full text:

http://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/article206611679.ece/B...

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by slg on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:41PM (#16683333)

>"If we actually knew how to do this, and it could be done that easily, it wouldn't be that spectacular."

The same logic applies for a majority of cryptocurrency and gig economy startups.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by ams6110 on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:40PM (#16683766)

Most of which don't put lives at risk.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by slg on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:39PM (#16684120)

"Most" might be true but it certainly doesn't apply to all. Uber's self driving car recently killed someone and there are plenty of indirect examples of deaths like the reported suicides after Mt Gox collapsed. Either way, "it isn't going to kill anyone" shouldn't be an excuse for ignoring the law or reasons for why that law might have been created in the first place.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by jakelarkin on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:00PM (#16683888)

just the wealth/livelihoods of people who don't know any better.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by itronitron on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:26PM (#16683209)

so basically, they were doing water slide _research_ instead of water slide _engineering_

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by thisacctforreal on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:35PM (#16683287)

Water slide experimentation might be more apt.

Don't test in production. Or with human lives.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by wolfgke on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:39PM (#16684418)

> Don't test in production. Or with human lives.

They surely tested it with their own life before. It worked. ;-)

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by munificent on Monday March 26, 2018 @07:32PM (#16683710)

"Disrupting the water slide economy."

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