Do park's cover up accident's?

With disney being fined for only giving a plaintiff a list of 8 people who have suffered brain injury's and now disney claims there is more. Do you think park's cover up injury's. Ive heard storys about disney saying people are still alive yet they are cliniclly dead. They wait until they are in the ambulance to declare dead so they dont have a death in the park. Anyone else heard of park's covering up accidents. Its this type of coverup that scares me how many other injurys dont get reported.

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I belive so.

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You know what's weird...I always have been thinking of a cool NEW coaster movie (like Rollercoaster and those other really old ones). Something like Theme Park Conspiracy. It would be really cool and could feature some neat *fake* coaster mishaps.

Wait a sec. What ride does Disney have that is intense enough to kill someone?

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Space Mountain, Indiana Jones, Mattherhorn Bobsleds. Just my opinion. I love them but people can still get hurt on some of those rides.
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http://www.snopes2.com/disney/parks/declare.htm

People have been seriously injured on even the tamest of rides. There was a serious injury due to a child climbing out of the car on Spaceship Earth at Epcot, a ride that travels at 1-2 mph. Parks certainly don't publicize injuries. I believe that at one time Disney had a policy to prevent anyone from actually being declared dead on Disney property. This included deaths due to natural causes.

However, covering up serious injuries in today's environment would probably be difficult, and covering up a death would be nearly impossible.

*steals glitch's idea and copyrights it...*

...hehe :) but seriously that would make a good movie :-D


...as for unreported accidents, I guarenteed at least one "accident" happens at EVERY amusement park at least once a day that go unreported...

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I think that covering up and trying not to publicize are the key words. Covering up statistics when they are asked for by authorities would be illegal. Trying not to let everyone & their mother know that someone got hurt at your park in a freak accident would seem logical.

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I think you are right, sfdl dude, but some are not reported. Like hands hitting tunnel tops, hands hitting supports, feet hitting supports, etc. Personally I have never seen an accident happen.

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What accident? We didn't have any accidents.

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There shoudn't be accidents on coasters period! I thought saftey is the number one concern.

of course parks cover up their accidents, they have to protect their rep.

If you hit anything on a tunnel or support you deserve what you get for being an idiot. On the other hand designers take the idiot factor into consideration and usually give ample clearance eventhough it may not appear like they do.

There was a comment in a thread on here a while ago in which someone said they swore if they reached out they could touch the second tunnel on Magnum... not likely! It is almost as funny as the rumor that someone was decapitated by a Gemini beam... you know the beam I am talking about.

However, there are many injuries at parks due to restraints, seats, ride intensity and exting of rides. There are very few injuries on rides as compared to elsewhere in the parks. *** This post was edited by B&Mfan on 6/17/2001. ***

You also got to think, most accidents are not the parks fault. Usually someone stands up on a coaster, or does some other idiotic thing. Now some accidents might be the parks fault (EG the restraints making your head a pinball on FOF) but most of the time it is the riders fault

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Once at a Disney park some guy got killed on the Roger Rabbit ride and the ops cleaned up the body withen 30 minutes of the accident. They did not tell the cops or family until hours later. The PD could not investigate the incident because the park disposed of all the evidence. That is a cover up if I ever heard one.
If you find the site with park fataleties(Sp?), Disney Parks has at least one fatalaty a month. One year they had 14 deaths many on the Roger Rabbit Ride.
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ZEPPELIN RULES *** This post was edited by no1 on 6/17/2001. ***

Let me get this straight... Ride Ops cleaned up the body? That I have to question.