Child dies at Schlitterbahn in KCK

[suzzer99]

I'd lay money Mr. Miles is gonna serve time.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I'd lay money Mr. Miles is gonna serve time.

Right, but he's not "Schlitterbahn." In theory, he could be found not guilty, they could be found guilty, and no one goes to jail (unless I'm misunderstanding how this works).

[007]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Right, but he's not "Schlitterbahn." In theory, he could be found not guilty, they could be found guilty, and no one goes to jail (unless I'm misunderstanding how this works).

I hope this gets so damned public that the company gets rocketed out of town.

[mdchiefsfan]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Right, but he's not "Schlitterbahn." In theory, he could be found not guilty, they could be found guilty, and no one goes to jail (unless I'm misunderstanding how this works).

Criminal charges cannot be applied to a company; only a person within the company. You can sue the company civilly for gross negligence and losses though.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by mdchiefsfan

Criminal charges cannot be applied to a company; only a person within the company. You can sue the company civilly for gross negligence and losses though.

Not to bring politics into this but I have a question.....Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people in the Citizens United case and can give as much as they want to PAC's.

My question for you lawyer types.... Since the SCOTUS ruled corporations are people in the Citizens United case, has anyone tried to sue them as people? Prosecutors try to charge them as people?

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Not to bring politics into this but I have a question.....Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people in the Citizens United case and can give as much as they want to PAC's.

My question for you lawyer types.... Since the SCOTUS ruled corporations are people in the Citizens United case, has anyone tried to sue them as people?

People have been doing this since modern corporations came into existence here.

[mdchiefsfan]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Not to bring politics into this but I have a question.....Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people in the Citizens United case and can give as much as they want to PAC's.

My question for you lawyer types.... Since the SCOTUS ruled corporations are people in the Citizens United case, has anyone tried to sue them as people? Prosecutors try to charge them as people?

I don’t believe you can prosecute a company (I’ll never say can or can’t in regards to laws). You can’t send a company to jail. You can sue the company and prosecute the offending individuals within the company.

[carcosa]

This article... did not age well

http://grantland.com/features/the-we...schlitterbahn/

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by carcosa

This article... did not age well

http://grantland.com/features/the-we...schlitterbahn/

To think, if only Brownback had tested the ride out...

[Fish]

Originally Posted by carcosa

This article... did not age well

http://grantland.com/features/the-we...schlitterbahn/

“Feel the shaking tower?” Jeff Henry, the designer, asked.

Sam Brownback, the governor, said, “I thought it felt like it was a little …”

“It wobbles,” Henry said.

The designer had a slightly wild look in his eyes.

[saphojunkie]

There was a guy in California who drove in the HOV lane with articles of incorporation in the passenger seat.

[smithandrew051]

Holy shit. I grew up with Tyler. This is crazy.

[srvy]

So much fault everywhere in this whole damn mess. How did Schlitterbahn get a building permit from Wyndotte Co. to build this thing. Certainly it had to have a engineer seal the plans same for an architect. Was it all in house? A structure of that height probably needed a rezoning because of the impact of height around a suburban neighborhood. Who the hell inspected this thing and signed off on it?

I know when this German company was looking at building this park in the metro everyone was bidding for it both sides the State Line. I wonder if Wyndotte Co. was chosen by Schiliterbahn because in the quest to grow that area they were lax on what was going to be built there. I dont see how this company survives in this area what parents could trust them for safety.

[Halfcan]

On the local news last night- they interviewed a woman that was seriously injured long before the kid's death. She practically broke her back on that slide.

Fact is they knew there were major design flaws and covered it up.

They knew someone would most likely get hurt or killed and covered it up.

Several people did, in fact, were seriously hurt and they covered it up.

A kid was killed and they tried to cover it up.

I think the managers, politicians and owners that knew it was unsafe deserves jail time- and the park should be fine the largest penalty that law can levy. Their actions were criminal and they should be punished for it.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

On the local news last night- they interviewed a woman that was seriously injured long before the kid's death. She practically broke her back on that slide.

Fact is they knew there were major design flaws and covered it up.

They knew someone would most likely get hurt or killed and covered it up.

Several people did, in fact, were seriously hurt and they covered it up.

A kid was killed and they tried to cover it up.

I think the managers, politicians and owners that knew it was unsafe deserves jail time- and the park should be fine the largest penalty that law can levy. Their actions were criminal and they should be punished for it.

What baffles me is that these people had the hubris to assume that this was somehow going to all work out? Several people had been seriously injured in the half a year (yes, that's it) that it had been opened.