Xeno Reacts to The INFAMOUS Superman Drop Tower Disaster

[@DisasterthonTrueHorror]

cheers for watching the vid dude (and for the kind words at the end)

[@Wastingsometimehere]

How could people with jobs that lives are at stake not take it seriously? Ask a Boeing CEO. It all comes down to saving money and hoping nothing happens.

[@Selnathorn]

And them hoping that if something happens that the money they have to pay as compensation is less than what they saved by not maintaining

[@Wastingsometimehere]

@@Selnathorn Absolutely.

[@itsprivate3061]

to be fair, most of the time "nothing happens", and when it does happen, the hush (settlement) money is normally cheaper than paying for the required maintenance that was needed regularly

[@Selnathorn]

@@itsprivate3061 Why would you want to be fair with a company cutting costs at maintenance that is for your safety?

[@itsprivate3061]

@@Selnathorn im not, its a way of speaking, its just a reality, paying the settlement is always a better alternative, why do you think they all "settle out of court for an undisclosed amount of", because people only care about themselves and dont care about actually punishing this kind of behavior.

[@SatellaEnvy]

I live in the area where this took place and was close to someone who was close to her. I think one of the worst things about this situation which will never be mentioned in any video covering it, is the supposed harassment from the media (just because of it being so high profile an incident) as well as harassment from people with amputation fetishes, which is fucked enough on it's own but worse when you consider she was a minor at the time. I wish I was joking.

[@its_foi]

I just read the chat saying the narrator got UK debuff. Dude 😭

[@dustinhatfield8373]

I saw that too it was amazing

[@aidang217]

Amusement park rides are scary as hell. Everyone's gangsta till the ride fails and someone dies. I remember a story of a little boy who was decapitated while on a water slide ride. The drop on that water slide was so extreme his body actually lifted off the slide and his head hit a metal guardrail and... well. Yeah. There's a lot that goes into designing, building, and maintaining amusement park rides and all it takes is ONE mistake to be fatal.

[@Selnathorn]

Action Park is a good example on how much can go wrong when park owners and staff neglect customer safety

[@Nesaru]

The Thunder River Rapids ride accident in Queensland was pretty awful, too. "injuries were said to be incompatible with life" was something I never thought I'd read. No one died from drowning. They were crushed (conveyor belt was also involved).

[@ryanexpert]

You mention Orlando, but literally two years ago, the Icon tower drop ride in orlando had a boy slip out during the drop and died. Tower was removed a year later.

[@PulseFGC]

I remember this incident. We have a similar ride at Kings Dominion in Virginia and when the news hit about this they closed the ride down for a good bit for safety checks.

[@wookie181]

I worked at Carowinds on a similar ride called Drop Zone. I remember when this happened and we closed the ride for months after.

[@ferryfernandus1423]

whatever engineering/networking problem or even in life in general, Human tends to react after something negative has happened, for an example. how standards of procedure as changed after 9/11, airport security is becoming much stricter. then for other parts like F1 fatalities, they have to implement a new solution after the last death in 2014. but its all preventable at the start, its just.... people either dont care beforehand or too confident that everything is and will go well.

[@mortammer]

that is fucking wild, she got a transplanted foot and its actually fully functional, science is miraculous.

[@holo_val]

"That's 50% more foot than I thought she'd end up with" 😂😂 Oh god hahaha, chat is the best!

[@mrinferno7141]

They got one on Carowinds on South Carolina. Call the drop zone.

[@RobynPinderify]

Not sure if you have seen it before or not, so apologies if you have, but you should check out what happened at Alton Towers in UK on The Smiler ride in 2015. I still remember seeing it pop up all over the news as it happened here.

[@RaxorX]

I never thought i’d hear a reference to Velocipastor.

[@itsprivate3061]

nothing gets me more excited than going to a an amusement park and put my life in the hands of a multi millon dollar company that is finding ways to save money everyday

[@daethalion1725]

This is one of the most horrific stories I've ever heard.

[@Lasperus]

Never expected this man to talk about loadmaster math!

[@delsingray5923]

I just finished watching a video from that guy and now xeno is too. Nice. Im not getting final destination 3'd on any of those coasters, no thanks

[@DisasterthonTrueHorror]

💪🏻

[@blairowens8912]

1000 fee is wild

[@Raijin-RyuX24]

I live in Louisville right down the road from the theme park. Right next to Churchill. Germantown is not 2 1/2 hours away from the Kingdom. It’s more like 10 minutes with traffic. My first job in highschool was at Kentucky Kingdom back in the late 90’s. I was a ride operator and worked there for 2 years and was trained on every ride in the park. This could have 100% been prevented if the ride operators were paying any attention. They were likely distracted. It’s a sad story but not the last. There was a more recent incident, same ride, but in Orlando, where the young teen wasn’t strapped in and fell out of the seat once the brakes hit at the bottom. The weight limit was 285 lbs and the 14yr old weight 383 lbs. needless to say, the impact killed him. The incident was ruled accidental but I believe it to be safety neglect. I studied aviation in highschool and was going for my private pilot license. Never got my license but learned all about weight and balance.

[@xviii5780]

"14yr old weight 383 lbs" wth

[@Miyuki-Nayru]

I work in medicine production, so i get how important it is to take a job with lives involved seriously. I'm baffled at the negligence of the maintenance here

[@Crow-wv6if]

I now have a new fear

[@arohk4415]

these drop towers never look save to me.

[@Opeth799]

I went on this exact same ride twice when I was a kid (and rode that wooden one too.) This happened less than a year after I last rode it.

[@xbree_]

I don’t ride things like that. Not long ago a boy flew out of one and died. No thank you

[@ferryfernandus1423]

the one in florida? or the Icon Park one where a big boy (Tyre Simpson) got dropped because the seat sensor doesn't work?

[@andrewmarrix3368]

Love u baldo

[@notinusesoon4975]

i bet she is amused now