Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards

Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by eh78ssxv2f on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:25PM (#16684046)

Does anybody know if there were any safety inspections of the park by the city, state or federal bodies? If so, how did it pass the inspections?

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by gwbas1c on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:12PM (#16684289)

Usually city inspectors don't know enough to evaluate those kinds of things.

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Re:Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design St... by Johnny555 on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:11PM (#16684883)

Which is why they require engineering signoff for things they can't evaluate themselves. Try to replace a beam in your basement to create a longer span and the building inspector isn't going to do load/span calculations himself, the building department is going to require a PE to sign off on the design.

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