Dollywood Facing Lawsuit

[Paradox]

From Screamscape:

I have no love for frivolous theme park lawsuits?????? and unfortunately it looks like Dollywood is now the latest victim of one. According to TMZ a Tennessee couple is attempting to sue Dollywood for nearly half a million after claiming that the woman slipped out of the park??????s Waltzing Swinger ride (wave swinger), falling 10 feet where she struck her head and now suffers from brain damage. The couple blames the park for running the ride in wet weather, making it more slick.
What makes no sense however is that like all wave swinger style rides, the Waltzing Swinger ride at Dollywood holds guests into their seats during the ride with a steel bar across the chair, held in place by connecting the crotch strap attached to the front of the seat, which prevents any rider from being able to ever slip out of their seat, no matter how wet or dry the conditions are. In fact, the only way one would ever slip out of the seat would be if they were to reach out in mid-ride, unclip the crotch strap, and try to slip out of their seat on purpose in order to try and file file a frivolous lawsuit.
So unless there is evidence that the crotch strap somehow broke, I can??????t see this lawsuit going very far, as there is a long and sad history of people across the nation who risk true personal injury by trying to fall out of rides, down stairs or whatever else is handy, in order to file a lawsuit in the hopes of a quick out of court settlement.

Aww it came from peta lovers now tmz going against dollywood

[Paradox]

Most likely the couple is suing because Dolly's name is attached to the park and they know she has money.

It came from tmz and tmz loves peta and peta ruins any park that's helps animals to kill the animals

This would never happen in Europe right?

[Paradox]

deere839 wrote:

It came from tmz and tmz loves peta and peta ruins any park that's helps animals to kill the animals

I hate PETA after what they did to Sea World. All they care about is money, not the animals.

Acutely they kill animals they did blackish because they wanted seaworlds animals dead

cool5 wrote:

This would never happen in Europe right?

Only in good ol' 'Murica

[TTD03]

Yea that lady is stupid.

She must have undone it and then opened the lapbar.

Idiot.

They actually are suing because Tennessee Tornado is too cool.

[Paradox]

I had a bad experience on Tennessee Tornado, but it was still the best Arrow I have ever ridden.

Paradox wrote:

I had a bad experience on Tennessee Tornado, but it was still the best Arrow I have ever ridden.

Way to stay positive my man!

The intelligence level in this thread is very low.... Don't see any mention of PETA in the original post..... and TMZ is well TMZ, not very credible

[mkingy]

CKidd wrote:

The intelligence level in this thread is very low.... Don't see any mention of PETA in the original post..... and TMZ is well TMZ, not very credible

Agreed, the link to PETA was about as frivolous as the reported lawsuit and about as useful as reporting this as news.

[Paradox]

It was from Screamscape lol.

If you read the article it says according to tmz lol

[Paradox]

Here is a better article from the Orlando Sentinel.

A Florida woman's brain injury from a headfirst fall from a ride at Dollywood was caused by a mix of sleet and rain that made the ride "dangerously slick" and a lack of adequate safety measures, according to a lawsuit against the Tennessee theme park's operators..

Defendants are Herschend Family Entertainment Corp. and Dolly Parton Productions Inc. Herschend operates and manages the theme park at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, the suit said. Brown and her husband filed the lawsuit recently in U.S. District Court in Knoxville, Tennessee.

"Out of respect for the process and as a matter of practice, Dollywood does not comment on pending litigation," Dollywood spokesman Pete Owens said in a statement Wednesday. "We look forward to this issue being resolved and anticipate commenting at that time."

The Brown family had not been on the ride before. Brown and her husband, Derryl, asked a Dollywood employee if the Waltzing Swinger was safe to ride in the wintry conditions, the suit said. The family was told not to worry, it said.

The Waltzing Swinger is a revolving ride with individual seats ascending 25 feet into the air and tilting outward. The swinging chairs lacked locking mechanisms to restrain riders, and anyone could lift the lap bar and become unrestrained, the suit said.

When the ride is completed, the chairs come to a stop about 10 feet above the ground, it said.

Once the Brown family's ride had stopped, Tedi Brown thought the ride was over and lifted her lap bar to exit her seat, it said. She quickly realized the seats were too high to exit safely, but lost her grip on the lap bar due to the slick conditions, the suit said.

She slid from her seat and fell headfirst onto the pavement. She also suffered spine and neck injuries, torn ligaments and a broken jaw, it said.

"Defendants failed to exercise due care and breached the duty owed these plaintiffs by failing to close the Waltzing Swinger ... when the weather was a wintry mix of rain and sleet, which rendered the seats and lap bars of that ride dangerously slick," the suit said.

The park also failed to warn the family not to raise the non-locking safety bar until the ride was safely on the ground, it said.

The Browns are seeking $475,000 in damages, along with court and discretionary costs. The amount of damages sought by the plaintiffs could change depending on follow-up medical reviews on Tedi Brown's condition, her attorney, Darren Berg, said Wednesday.

[Coasterkidmwm]

>Purposely undoing your restraint and falling

I bet PETA made them do it...

Paradox wrote:

Here is a better article from the Orlando Sentinel.

When the ride is completed, the chairs come to a stop about 10 feet above the ground, it said.

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If that is the case...how the EFFFFFFFF!!!! do guests get IN the chairs to begin with....time to start 2015 with and epic facepalm:

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[Paradox]

They are claiming that the park failed to tell guests to wait until the ride has touched the ground before undoing your restraint. How do they expect to win with this statement? There is a thing called common sense and if that woman was stupid enough to think that the ride was over when she could clearly see that it was off the ground then she should not have even been allowed to enter the park.

Faith in humanity lost.

[Mr. Freeze]

The things that are happening now. Wow, just wow. I gave up faith after the NTG accident happened a few years ago

[mkingy]

spacemountainfan619 wrote:

Paradox wrote:

Here is a better article from the Orlando Sentinel.

When the ride is completed, the chairs come to a stop about 10 feet above the ground, it said.

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If that is the case...how the EFFFFFFFF!!!! do guests get IN the chairs to begin with....time to start 2015 with and epic facepalm:

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Its really poorly worded. I get what they mean - it stops spinning before lowering to the ground. Hopefully common sense will prevail and this'll get squashed.