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Ariellen
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| I'm not saying age is a huge factor, but why would you let your 4 year old on a ride like that? Or be 49 and get on a ride that plays around with centrifugal force? Reguardless of the "all ages" sign, there's just some things you don't get on. |
I think that really depends on the individuals...a person should know his or her own health as best as possible, and as far as children are concerned, a parent should know his or her child. I'm only getting a little defensive here because my brother rode Tower of Terror for the first time when he was 4 (another attraction where a young woman was hospitalized in critical condition after riding it...I never heard a follow-up on her story), and I don't think it was irresponsible of my parents to allow that. He was healthy, met the height requirement, understood what the ride did, and CHOSE to ride it. He went with one of them...whichever parent wasn't waiting in the exit area with my other brother and me who were 9 and 6 and didn't want to ride, so we didn't. (For my parents to 'switch off,' so they could each ride while one of them waited with us non-riding kids, we did have to wait through most of the queue area and that scared me enough...if they'd made ME ride when I was crying in the line, even KNOWING I wasn't going on it, THAT would have been foolish.) I am pretty sure the boy who died on Mission: Space was thought to be in good health...it sounds like the sort of condition that he had wasn't one that would be obvious in a routine check-up and doesn't cause symptoms that would have made the family think there was anything unusual with his health.
And both of my parents are in their early 50s and have ridden Mission: Space. Again, I don't see a problem with that BECAUSE they keep themselves in good health and keep that stuff current aand made the choice to ride. If they knew they had weak hearts or something, it wouldn't be very smart to ride it, but I don't think it's a matter of age at all. Every individual is different.
Your statements make sense can be unpredictable, and age does increase risks of certain health problems, but at the same time, not every 4 year old is too unaware to be able to experience a ride like that, and not every person over 45 has high blood pressure or another condition that could be aggravated. I really believe that people of all ages can and should be able to enjoy the ride. But it does provide another incentive to pay attention to what the rides are, and keep on top of your health so that you can make an informed decision about what's right FOR YOU (and/or your children).  |
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AladdinsGenie
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| But if you're not healthy or had some problems like I think both those people had...why would you get on? That just doesn't make sense to me. |
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Ariellen
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| But if you're not healthy or had some problems like I think both those people had...why would you get on? That just doesn't make sense to me. |
Now THAT I agree with you whole-heartedly. It makes no sense to me either.
I don't know if all of these people recently have KNOWN about their conditions, and that's where things get complicated. It sounds like this boy on Mission: Space had a condition that just doesn't show up during a regular exam...I've heard some reports that his family knew, and others that said they didn't, so I don't know; I wasn't at Mission: Space that day. But anyway, if they DIDN'T know that he had a condition that often has no symptoms OTHER than sudden death, I think that's an instance that's really really sad and unfortunately really doesn't have an explanation other than nothing in life is totally risk=free and sometimes tragedy happens, and it probably could have happened anywhere at any time, but because it was at WDW, it's 'big news.'
The point that I was trying to make is that if they did know he was at risk, then their fault was in allowing him to ride because of his condition, not because of his age. If they had no reason to think he was unhealthy or at risk and he wanted to ride, I don't think that the fact that he was four means they shouldn't have let him. |
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AladdinsGenie
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't mean for it sound like age was ZOMGSUPERIMPORTANT, but if you're a frail older person or a toddler, that just seems like a really silly thing to do. Then again, I am the type of person who can't stand it when parents bring their little ones to movies with stuff that could scare them like Harry Potter and they cry the whole time through. |
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Ariellen
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| I didn't mean for it sound like age was ZOMGSUPERIMPORTANT, but if you're a frail older person or a toddler, that just seems like a really silly thing to do. Then again, I am the type of person who can't stand it when parents bring their little ones to movies with stuff that could scare them like Harry Potter and they cry the whole time through. |
I get what you're sayin'...I think you hit the nail on the head here. You've just gotta use a little more common sense when you're dealing with someone really really young, or getting older.
My worst "This kid should not be at this movie" experience was seeing Liar Liar years ago when this family took a kid who was about 3 and was shouting his nursery rhymes at the top of his lungs the whole time. Hmm, think it was because he was bored and not old enough to get most of the humor there? |
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