"After inspection of the ride, we determined that it
had been tampered with and critical safety devices were compromised,"
Harrison said. I can’t believe that nobody knew about this. Nobody had any kind
of clue that the ride’s safety wasn’t intact and that people’s lives were at
danger. The point of inspections is to make sure everything is running smoothly
and check everything out to make sure nothing bad could happen to anybody on
the ride. Another thing is when you are in charge of the safety you need to be
extra cautious because nobody else is responsible for it other than the
operator. He should be at full blame even without evidence. It is nobody else’s
job other than the operator and an inspector to make sure the ride is safe.
“Witnesses
said the ride had stopped Thursday night and people were getting off when it
restarted, resulting in five injuries.” They are very lucky that nobody else got hurt
and died from this incident. Nobody that rides the ride expects things like
this to happen at the fair. When you go to a fair, you don’t think oh what if I
get injured or how safe is this I’m about to go on? You just think, wow this is
going to be such a fun ride or to others who do think bad things you usually
tell them everything will be alright and you won’t get hurt. Imagine if you
were that person that thought you might get hurt and saw this or you were one
of the victims. Could you imagine how that must of scarred that person for the
rest of their life already? I know that before I even started riding rides and
scary things that I was skeptical about, I would not do it even if you bet me
money. So imagine what they will be like after seeing and experiencing this
scene.
“Harrison
had said the ride operator was one of the people injured, though it wasn't
clear whether he is among those still in the hospital this weekend. The victims
included family members between the ages of 14 and 39.” I wouldn’t ever say it
was anybody’s fault really but if you were in charge you need to take full responsibility.
The best way to solve this problem is to charge the man and probably consider
if the ride is safe enough to be at fairs because in the back of everybody’s
minds now is going to be that fact that the Vortex was the ride that broke down
and injured 5 people. Even on other rides they might think that. But hopefully
the victims and bystanders will find the courage do go on another fair ride
without being worried about it.
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