Excellent article about park safety

[Harpo]

Whenever an amusement park accident occurs, it makes global headlines, and a bunch of people start calling for legislation to make the rides safer.

Well, USA Today had an article that put things in a better perspective.

You can read the article here: Perspective, Please (http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-07-31-vanderkam-edit_x.htm)

I found some of the 2002 statistics to be very interesting.

For example, did you know that, in 2002, 20 times more people died from hot tap water than died from amusement park rides? 176 times as many people died from drowning in a bathtub. Even venomous spiders claimed 5 times as many people as amusement park rides.

This article, and the statistics with it, help to confirm what I've said before about media blowing amusement park incidents out of proportion. I'm glad to see one newspaper finally acknowledging it.

[Cyberleader]

Excellent! :up: At last something like this has appeared!

Now all we need is a UK newspaper to say the not all youths are thugs...

[-NGS-]

Very good find, Harpo. It's nice to see something like this to help the rest of the insane world put things in perspective.

[george b]

nice find intresting article
>cyberleader i don't know bout where you are but in Manchester about 99% are thugs except for me cos I'm a good kid (cough cough)

[soundgodz]

A side corrilary to this is that Disney, with the highest attendance of any parks, seemingly have more than their share of accidents. But even then, almost all incidents seem to be caused by underlying medical issues.