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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 04:24 PM
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Great America Owner Implements Life Jacket Rule at All Parks
Great America Owner Implements Life Jacket Rule at All Parks

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- The parent company of an amusement park where a 4-year-old boy drowned last week will now require children under 48 inches tall to wear life jackets in all its pools.

The new rule implemented Monday applies to pools at the 18 parks owned by Ohio-based Cedar Fair.

Great America's Great Barrier Reef wave pool remains closed indefinitely since the death of Carlos Flores. But the life jacket rule has been implemented at the park's Castaway Creek "lazy river" ride.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=30417
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MsKandice01 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 04:39 PM
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1. Good idea...
But it wouldn't be necessary if people would WATCH THEIR KIDS. How do you not supervise a four-year-old in a swimming pool filled with hundreds of people and then blame the lifeguards for not seeing that your child was in distress??
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 04:41 PM
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2. Hopefully they've also gotten rid of those disembowling drains.
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 04:44 PM
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3. Of what do you speak? n/t
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 04:46 PM
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4. There was a little girl who lost her large intestine in a pool when she got too
Edited on Tue Jul-17-07 04:47 PM by Ilsa
close to a drain. She'll be on parenteral nutrition for the rest of her life. Horrible accident.

Edited for huge typo.
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 05:01 PM
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7. I don't think that happened at these pools.
IIRC, you're referring to the tort case that made Edwards in/famous for its $25M settlement.

That was a different pool.
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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 10:06 PM
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11. There was another case posted on DU a couple weeks ago. n/t
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 03:08 PM
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14. Too sad. I'd hope the manufacturers would stop this by now. n/t
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 07:48 AM
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12. delete, dupe.
Edited on Wed Jul-18-07 07:49 AM by Ilsa
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TommyO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 04:48 PM
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5. I don't think that happened at one of the Cedarfair parks
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 04:53 PM
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6. Just sayin' in general - they need to be gotten rid of *everywhere*....
... preferably BEFORE some kids' guts are clogging someone's pipes.
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TommyO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 07:09 PM
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8. I agree, but what leads you to believe the suspect drains are at Great America?
Edited on Tue Jul-17-07 07:09 PM by TommyO
or any of the other parks in the chain?
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 09:44 PM
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10. Nothing. That's what "in general" means.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 09:43 PM
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9. self-delete.
Edited on Tue Jul-17-07 09:44 PM by BlooInBloo
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 08:19 AM
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13. Super, more nanny rules
I really am starting to fear the future.

Not because of global warming or endless war or corporate slavery though, but because our work force is going to be comprised of those who have no idea how to function without someone holding their hand.
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