"‘I’d like to see them tear it down after what happened." - Mother of injured,
from this article.
Oh here we go! Wondered when this **** would start. After they've
just been told it was caused by human error. Surely your instinct would be to immediately demand to know whats going to happen to those responsible, or criticise management or training or question the safety of ALL rides? But no. I just find it so hard to sympathise with people who aren't very smart, regardless of the awful things that have happened to them.
Also, from the same article, "Mr Varney said: ‘I genuinely thought that the right thing to do was to meet with each of them individually to explain our main findings and to answer their questions directly.
‘The question [of the potential for a reopening] was not raised in a context of the drop in revenues.
‘In all my conversations I expressed our sincere apology and acceptance of responsibility.’"
I can totally understand why the victims would feel sick to their stomach at the idea of the ride reopening, not through any logic but due to personal involvement. I feel physically sick when I think about blood tests because I had a bad experience as a kid, imagining that on the extreme level of being stuck for hours on this ride in pain and then
loosing my leg is impossible... I can see why they would be emotionally triggered by the thought that Merlin is experiencing a drop in profits in a "well good!!"
kneejerk reaction.
I know first hand how people will outright lie to the media about events that took place. I have no idea if that's more the media twisting, or those involved intentionally twisting it or if it's a natural reaction, but I too find it very hard to believe that Varney sat down and said "look, we're loosing a lot of money, so we're going to be reopening the ride soon!" Like, surely anyone with half a brain can see that clearly didn't happen.
“This has happened to me on their ride so why would they want to reopen it so quickly? It has changed my future. My independence has completely gone and I cry all the time.” -
From here.
I hope next time she's stuck in traffic on a motorway due to a terrible accident, she doesn't expect the road to reopen. That would be insulting!
Once when I was working at a park I witnessed a guest faint and another guest get incredibly angry that we wouldn't just move her out the way to continue operations. Everybody thinks only of themselves. All the time. There's never an ounce of consideration for logic or the wider world. Until you work with the public in an environment that brings that out, you can't even begin to imagine how awful people are.
