Tree branch falls on, kills boy at Lake Compounce

I remember that Disney accident as I was at the park that day, it was around 2 years ago
*** This post was edited by Flashback0978 5/17/2004 3:58:20 PM ***

Here is the old story on the Disneyland tree falling.

http://www.coasterbuzz.com/2003-29-242230.htm

I remember when they were building the Schottenstein Center at Ohio State (where the basketball team now plays), a crane fell over onto a nearby road and crushed a car flat. He had been driving by at 45 mph. Talk about wrong place/wrong time.

Stuff like this doesn't say to me, "Live life to the fullest." It says, "Always be ready to die."

I just have one thing to say: Thank God it wasn't a Six Flags Park...they've had enough incidents to last them the rest of the year.

Maybe you haven't been playing along at home, but Lake Compounce has had more than its share the last few years.

The Gold Coast (Australia... the place Boomerang Bay is apparently loosely based on) was hit by a freak storm earlier this year, which seemingly came out of nowhere and lasted only a few minutes. In that time, a branch from a large gumtree that was overhanging the chairlift managed to fall onto the ride. It did no damage to people riding, or the ride's structure, but caused a bit of a media havoc for a day or two.

Dreamworld's response was to cut every single limb from every single tree that is near any of their rides, and add hideous steel roofs to their antique car ride that meanders through a forested area. The park is now full of these huge lifeless stumps, and a ruined antique car ride. Gotta love reactionary fixes. "We had one tree branch fall onto a ride, doing no real damage, in our 23 year history, so now we have to completely ruin the atmosphere of the entire park."

What's so unbelievable is that for all intents and purposes, it was a nice day in CT.

When the microburst hit Kennywood a couple years back, there were literally thousands of tree branches flying across the park. Not one branch hit anyone. (To give a bearing on the severity of the storm, the giant Basketball Game sign sheared off its bolts and struck the main office building the whole way behind the Enterprise.)

It's just crazy that there can be so much mayhem and everyone can avoid flying branches, and then there's another situation... perfect day, wrong place. Walk a little faster, stop to look at a game, and everything is avoided. Life truly is absurd sometimes.

I can't imagine the pain the family must feel after such a senseless death. What a shame.

Mother Nature is not to be messed with. Lets not forget KennyWood last year or was it the year before last year. Keep and eye on the sky people and stay safe! Remember the guy at PKI and the Lighting? *** This post was edited by Crashmando 5/18/2004 3:28:24 PM ***