Disabled girl barred from theme park rides

Tell the family to head to PKI. I personally witnessed a man with no legs ride SOB 2x and no one even questioned him. He was also mentally disabled as well. This was 2 summers ago, so maybe policies have since changed to to other incidents elsewhere since.

The sign on S:ROS @ SFDL specifically states you need at least 1 arm and 2 legs to ride...

I agree w/ what was said above, if the manufacturer states she can/t ride, then she can't. She even got a refund so I don't see anything wrong.

-- alan j

The article wasn't as bad as most. At least they printed Busch's side of the story.

Unfortuneately in this sue happy country they can't allow everybody access.

I wonder if they know Busch also owns Adventure Island.*** This post was edited by Bartman2 7/21/2005 9:23:06 PM ***

If I were really cynical and nasty, I would say that at least with a boycott, the park wouldn't have to worry about having to accommodate people with disabilities. But I'm not so I won't.

When you think about it, this really is no different than telling larger guests they're not allowed to ride certain rides because the seats or restraints can't accommodate them (that is, their safety couldn't be guaranteed).

You have to feel sad for the kid though, it certainly isn't her fault. It's also not her fault that her mother seems to be starved for attention. Who else ran and notified the press? She totally lost me with the line about "other people imposing their limitations on her." Sorry but that stuff just galls me.

I think I heard the other day that Medicare now considers obesity as a disability. That means that like 30+% of our country has just become disabled!

"The park refunded their money which I thought was a nice gesture." - agree totally! :)

Whether or not the girl can swim, or play the piano, or write award-winning novels, is irrelevant. Point is the *manufacturers* deem what is safe because they have the engineering background to determine how the body interacts with ride restraints. We can feel sorry for the girl for being unable to ride, but allowing her to ride DESPITE the mfrs. stated rules, that would be plain NUTS....

A prosthesis would not permit her to ride either, since they can, and do, detach...

According to the article Bill she could hae ridden all of the rides if she had brought her prosthetic leg but they left them at home.

Hmmmm....that makes no sense at all. Say she HAD worn her prosthesis and it came off during the ride...would she still be *safe*? LOL!

Of course, I know what kiddie rides are at BGT, and there's not really a valid SAFETY concern for a child riding those either way...we're not talking Knoebels' HSTC here...and definitely not Montu (see other thread)... ;)

P.S. Seems to make more sense to need one leg and two arms for a RoS and vice versa for an invert....but what do *I* know, LOL... :)
*** This post was edited by rollergator 7/24/2005 1:54:40 PM ***

All I could think of was Tom Green reading that whole news article...

"I have no legs, I have no legs!"

Ok, I'm going to hell.....