Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom defends maintenance

Quoth Jeff: Aren't familiar with it? Wow dude... good thing I'm not Gator, because I'd be really pissed off if you said something that presumptuous and arrogant to me. How stupid do you think he is that he doesn't know how jury selection works?

Hehe, as fate would have it, Jill got jury-duty just the other day. The state's ADA asked her a question during voir dire phrased in the negative ("Did you not see that bird fly by?"). Jill corrected him on his poor phraseology - and was sent home. Note that this (i.e, the SFKK situation) is not going to be a criminal trial (yet!), but instead will be heard in civil court. LOL, I've taken a few law classes, read all the Grisham stuff, and watch a LOT of Law and Order...I was a fan of Wapner when Dick Vitale was just getting into ESPN broadcasting...I'm a fan of sausages AND the law...

Gator's comment was right on. There isn't a soul in Kentucky that isn't going to know about this case. There isn't a soul who would serve on a jury, hear the evidence, and not already want to stick it to Six Flags. There is no situation on Earth that Six Flags isn't going to pay dearly, it's only a matter of how much.

Ah, and here we conme back to the notion of CIVIL court. No one's going to jail unless the State finds something warranting criminal charges. Unlikely, but the more that comes out, I wouldn't say impossible. Nonetheless, because the jury can award both compensatory and *PUNITIVE* damages, there's a decent likelihood that the latter could range upward into powerball territory type numbers...

A lawyer friend speculated to me that the family has been made an offer, and they're likely holding out, as well they should. The good thing that perhaps has come out of it is that they've held out long enough that this apparent disregard for protocol and careful maintenance has become public, which should change their habits drastically.

One of the reasons the family might not settle, even for astronomical dollars, is that they MAY take a look at this whole tragic incident and decide that what they really want (since they're coming out with beaucoup dollars and a maimed child under either option) is for SF, and perhaps the entire industry, to get a real close-up inspection from the courts system and the American people - to make parks truly abide by the "safest reasonably practical" way of doing business. IMO...the only "wrong" thing to do is to second-guess the motiviation behind the Lassiter family wanting this to go all the way to a jury trial.

I actually took the advice of others (indirectly) and stepped away from coaster world for a few days. I actually got a lot accomplished.

Jeff said

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And if you knew me, you'd know podcast me and real me are the same person. What the hell are you talking about?

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All I was saying Jeff was that you come across completely different when you post versus the animated (and I don't mean drawing kids) Podcast or in person when I could see your facial expressions. As you're a former radio DJ, I hope that makes some sense.

Take line 2 of your quote for example. It sounds very stern and very angry. That's not how I've ever heard you come across on the Podcasts.