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 Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:06 Post subject: speaking of stupid parents
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/14/disney.death.ap/index.html
WTF??? Why would you put a 4 year old on this ride??? 
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida (AP) -- A 4-year-old boy died after passing out aboard Walt Disney World's "Mission: Space," a ride so intense that it has motion sickness bags and several riders have been treated for chest pain.
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j1miller
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:07 Post subject:
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cherylpf
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:08 Post subject:
Thats terrible. 
If thats what I'm thinking of, I rode that and was sick for an hour after. HORRIBLE. 
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:10 Post subject:
and why the hell would you name a hospital "Celebration?"
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:12 Post subject: Re: speaking of stupid parents
| JACKED UP wrote: |
WTF??? Why would you put a 4 year old on this ride??? |
Like the story I found last week, for the same reason a mom would let her 11-year old drive a van in Chicago. With her in it.
Disney will be forced to settle on this one. And they shouldn't.
(and this from someone who doesn't like the Disney omnipresence - except for our Mickey here, of course)
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gretriever
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:13 Post subject:
| Maddie's Wench wrote: | | and why the hell would you name a hospital "Celebration?" |
It's the whole frickin' community there - the city is called Celebration.
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kristin31
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:15 Post subject:
That's awful!
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 14:29 Post subject:
| Maddie's Wench wrote: | | and why the hell would you name a hospital "Celebration?" |
It's in a Disney designed community called "Celebration".
Family and I went through the town when we were there some years ago. Celebration freaks me out !! Its like a "Stepford" town. All the lawns are perfect, all the streets are spotless. It looks like a movie set. I don't think I saw anything out of place.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 17:26 Post subject:
he must have been one big 4 year old!!!! My nine year old finally meets height requirements for real rides.
which brings up an issue//////maybe rides should have and age AND height requirement. I remember a friend she's 5'11 hubby 6 something, kids supertall, complaining that because her son was so tall they wouldn't let her go down a slide with him (can't remember if it was Sea World or Six Flags), they said he had to go alone. He was 4.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 17:31 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | It's the whole frickin' community there - the city is called Celebration. |
yup, I've skated Celebration before, it's all Celebration. it's like if Willy Wonka ran Communist Russia down in those parts.
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 20:41 Post subject:
| HYPERASHEL wrote: |
yup, I've skated Celebration before, it's all Celebration. it's like if Willy Wonka ran Communist Russia down in those parts. |
Or, about Branson MO -
"It's like Vegas if Ned Flanders ran it." - B. Simpson.
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 21:27 Post subject:
If that same kid had died in a car wreck, it wouldn't even make the papers.
/cars are just as dangerous. just sayin.
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 21:31 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | If that same kid had died in a car wreck, it wouldn't even make the papers.
/cars are just as dangerous. just sayin. |
But its Disney, its magic! bad things don't happen there.
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 21:35 Post subject:
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Posted: 06/14/05 - 22:43 Post subject:
My daughter is 6 and 48 inches tall. I can't say I wouldn't let her ride it. If it was detrimental to her health, I would never forgive myself.
Like PH said, I drive her to day care everyday. I cross a major highway in the process, we could get broadsided and flip over. I live in a state with poisonous snakes, she could get bitten and die. I let her use a slip and slide and the risk is she could fall and hit her head and die. I've served her beef and I didn't check the temperature beforehand.
There are risks associated with everything in our lives. As parents, we should do our best to take the necessary precautions to prevent injury and/or death. I believe these parents and Disney took necessary precautions. It was a fluke.
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