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Actually, they knew there was a possibility the rafts could flip and decided they had done enough about it. As we now know, they had not. There's a difficult to determine but nonetheless distinct difference between knowing about a risk and believing you'd done enough to mitigate it and knowing about a risk and continuing to take it even though you know you hadn't done enough to mitigate it. That's why criminal charges are so hard to make stick with this stuff. The reality is that in almost every incident there's a case of an entity thinking they have done enough to mitigate a risk and finding out that they had not, or indeed not even having identified the risk in the first place. For all of the attention and the tragic outcome this unfortunately boils down to both (depending on who we are talking about).

That's a very strange arrangement of fire sensors.

It's easy to look back now and say "$2,500 was what they decided a human life was not even worth" but that's hyperbole. After all, it's no more meaningful than telling someone who had just killed someone in a car wreck that if they had just left 10 seconds later then it wouldn't have happened and that therefore they decided another person's life wasn't worth 10 seconds of their time. Yeah, they totally should have done it but you never know at the time that's what's riding on it. Here's a bit I found interesting;

https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/641830/10545784-final-dreamworld-draft-6-for-upload.pdf

ABC News is mixing narratives:

Wuh-oh:

(because I know you guys are busy I'll try and aggregate social snippets here for people - by all means fix me up if I get it wrong)

Social media reports indicate that the brother of Cindy Low criticized Dreamworld as 'money-driven cowboys' who were more concerned with damage control. He goes on to say that DW isn't interested in paying for his counselling and would rather spend the money on marketing the park.

You can just imagine the conversation at Dreamworld HQ: "Well guys, I'd like to continue developing new experiences for guests and take proactive steps to delivery a new generation of rides and all, but it's this log ride. The log ride is why I can't do anything."

It wouldn't be Parkz if we didn't have people lording insider information over others, only contributing it when they think their authority might be challenged, would it?

"If within the first year" hahaha. Way to back the house!

Other option is to just do Star Tour. It's now my go-to for MW visits.

Also not helped by how it presents to the pathway. Easy for many to pass it by without even realizing it's something to see.

Right before schoolies. Bad for business.

These people know they are running a theme park, don't they?

Pretty much this. It's not on the way to any other ride or attraction. It's not particularly near lockers (which is rather dumb). If you've got a (for example) four year-old and a nine year-old chances are one parent is going to be stuck down in the kids area with the youngie and the other parent is going to be up the front of the park with the older kid - the walk time there is 5-10 minutes, and it doesn't exactly make for a good family day out.

I'd rather see the kids area developed into a standalone (not kids-focused) area with some rides relevant to multiple age groups, and then see kids rides integrated into the other areas of the park to spread them out a bit. Speaking as a parent, the kids area is frustrating because it feels miles from everywhere else in the park - so inevitably one parent is saddled with the youngest kid in that area and is isolated from the rest of the family as they do the rest of the park. An approach of integrating a kids ride into each area of the park allows families to stay together throughout the day, and to move together through the park from area to area without tedious back-tracking to a far-flung corner of the park.

If DW had left you out to dry after you'd been giving them a sweet ride for years would you be in a hurry to play ball with them on their next ride?

One more outburst like that and he's going to send you to your room, mister.

Yeah, a friend of mine who is on the large side couldn't ride it. I was fine. You didn't miss much. It was pretty crap.