WildCat

Ooh ooh! I totally know this one!!!

^ - the accident happened AND people are lying (about the severity of injuries anyway).

Heck, if anything Ed "I suck at politics" Markey would have jumped all over this.

Ok, with as many employees as there are that belong to this site you're telling me no one can walk over and ask one of their crew, rather than type 5 pages of speculation? If it happened on their shift, I'm pretty sure they know.

Here is my problem with this whole story... Several of you have come on here and given testament to this accident, you saw it, you heard it happen, you were walking past it AS it happened....

Then why oh why didn't YOU come here and start this thread? Why did it have to be started based on a roumer before you felt moved to post about what you saw or heard?

But are said employees allowed to talk about it?

for all of you that aren't buying this story because they have yet to hear it on any 'legitimate' news channels... http://www.wwj.com/Riders-Get-Unexpected-Jolt-at-Cedar-Point/2228089

There problem solved, no bloody faces on stretchers and no broken limbs. :)

SoEffenBored said:
Ok, with as many employees as there are that belong to this site you're telling me no one can walk over and ask one of their crew, rather than type 5 pages of speculation? If it happened on their shift, I'm pretty sure they know.

If they want to keep their jobs, they will keep their mouths shut. It's generally accepted that employees won't post about internal stuff while working for the park. That's one of the quickest ways to get fired. And not because they are divulging anything, but because they are not official spokes-persons of the park, so if a reporter construes them as such, it could look very bad for the park.

Nine people were taken to a first aid station at the park. No one was seriously injured.

Jeff said: The local paper combs over the emergency logs daily. Don't you think a call where they transported that many people would've caught their attention?

Guess the answer to that is no.

I guess the answer is yes, because according to WWJ, no one was transported to the hospital and no emergency call was made.

So while scary as hell that it happened, at the end of the day it was a non-event in terms of injuries.

I'll even spare everyone the quoting of myself from 5 pages ago.

Although I did enjoy all the people who "knew" there was no incident at all proclaiming their righteousness.

^ - not true. According to the story, no one was transported anywhere, so there was no emergency call out to EMS. No call to EMS means no logs to check. The biggest story was only in the rumor mill, and like most stuff going through that mill, it was much smaller in reality.

Loopy said:
I'll even spare everyone the quoting of myself from 5 pages ago.

Although I did enjoy all the people who "knew" there was no incident at all proclaiming their righteousness.

Says the righteous guy who knew better. You are so full of crap.

I just saw it on Local 4 news in Detroit. I'm just glad no one was seriously hurt.

Well, at least it makes more sense now. An accident did happen, so people who reported it weren't lying (although I don't know where that bit about Life Flight-ing victims came from). And since nobody was taken to ER, it didn't catch the media tripwires.

Even the stretchers make sense, since one or more of the passengers might have complained about back/neck pain. As far as the bloody face, I could see somebody getting a gash on the forehead that in itself might not be considered serious, but which might produce enough blood to look pretty bad.

The only thing I can't figure out is how this didn't make the media via the Youtube circuit or bystanders with cell phones.

Case closed. We now return to our regularly scheduled series, "How to fix the Middle East in ten minutes". ;)

Jeff said:

Loopy said:
I'll even spare everyone the quoting of myself from 5 pages ago.

Although I did enjoy all the people who "knew" there was no incident at all proclaiming their righteousness.

Says the righteous guy who knew better. You are so full of crap.

If I tried multiple times to let people know that there was indeed an incident yet people who somehow "knew better" didn't want to believe it, I'd say that makes them full of crap, huh?

As Kevinj prematurely and incorrectly said, "time to put it to rest", except now it really is.

As an assignment editor, who monitors this stuff daily, I see how this didn't get caught the day of the accident. The only chance any station had was getting a tip call from someone at the park, which obviously didn't happen. I'm guessing radio signals from Sandusky are tough to get from Cleveland and Toledo. Emergency radio systems in smaller areas are typically much weaker (and analog, ick) than metropolitan systems. Further, if Cedar Point FD Medics checked the "victims" out, they very well could have kept communications on their own system, which I'm sure is only strong enough to be recieved in the immediate area.

Jeff, what type of emergency run logs are you talking about? Here, we have obtain run printouts through a public records request, and they take days, if not weeks to be completed. If you don't catch it on the scanners, you don't get it. This explains why I'm surrounded by 19 scanners as I type this.

The Park did a good job keeping this quiet, as much as I'm sure the local media hates that they all missed it.

The sad thing is that this could have been easily prevented. They should have made sure during the off-season that the anti-rollback was working. After all, isn't that it's job, to prevent cars from rolling back?

-TedFuzz

You can test it 1000 times, and have it work 1000 times. What would be sufficient to ensure it was working? Should they just not open it (Markey's preference)? Accidents happen, and while the CHANCE of an accident can be reduced, no amount of testing can eliminate accidents.