The News LIES About Ride Accidents - Theme Park Nonsense 

The news overreacts to the fury or any incident

It was pretty serious I heard up to 4 supports had to be redone

It’s view based. Anything ‘sensational’ will be kept on screen for as long as possible. It’s discriminatory sometimes. If a gay man stabs someone they will report it but not the other 20 stabbings last week because they were too boring.

And unfortunately many gullible people fall for it

Hit it right on the money. They what every dime they can get, and that's exactly the tactics they have for it. My biological father is scared of his own shadow, afraid to go out in the backyard after dark (I am not exaggerating), because half of every day is sitting on the couch watching tv, news whenever it is on. We aren't in some big city either, we're in bum**** nowhere out in the rural-ist of the Midwest. They have drilled fear of every person that ever has the misfortune of encountering him, because that's what makes him watch their channel. DuurtyDavie (like that name) makes a wonderful point as well with how discriminatory it is. How many people made it a point to focus on the shooter that stated they were nonbinary? (completely ignoring the fact that, whether they were nb or not, it is still a hate crime that happened because of the flood of anti-queer rhetoric and propoganda propagated by, you guessed it, the media) The news these days just exists to push ignorance, hate, and to keep the public divided, because that is what makes them money.

Yup its disgusting i'm a big coaster fan and those things are ussually as safe as can be but yes shit happens sometimes. Mostly its because of stupid riders but every now and then its the ride or the parks "fault". Just let me say it like this i'm much more nevous about driving on the highway then i ever am in coaster even one thats stopped and has an "emergency".

Look at the misinformation story every news reporter was giving moments after officials finish their press conference after the 2008 Universal Studios Backlot Fire and not even the studios own news stations would correct themselves afterwards. Almost every station ran with the same narrative LIVE after being told what happened overnight since the officials already had finished their investigation before the press conference started.

The best customer of ANY media is someone who is not savvy.

It all depends on your judgement and reasoning of the information you have received and knowing when you think you've gathered enough to really know what happened.

My hat's off to you. You nailed it.

She said it's being dismantled as we speak, I believe she meant in the sense that they're changing or adding safety protocols to the ride, after he had just stated the safety already in place was more than enough.

@@hundoe100 Yeah i believe it was a problem in the protocale that an operator couls override. thats why after this you get an evac. Not sure if it was this accident though but i believe it was.

@@arturobianco848 tight I get that, but the person I was replying suggested the woman wasn't listening to what he said and assumed the ride was being torn down..

@@hundoe100 Hmmm very strange what did i ride if it was torn down..... Yeah she wasn't even listening to the guy must be one of the worst "intervieuws" from the reporter side that i have ever seen.

14:30 "So Smiler is being dismantled as we speak?" 2024: Smiler still being open and operational

When she asked they would have replied a minimum of 3 times a day since there are 2 ride operator inspections and at least 1 maintenance crew inspection each day on rides that will be operational that day. Maintenance crews inspections happen while the park is closed and the rest of the staff is not at work, ride operators inspections happen right before opening the ride for the day and then halfway through the day they inspect again.

Five bucks that report said it was going to be sunny.

They didn’t evac riders from that location did they? Seems like it would of been super unsafe to evac there instead of just pushing over the crest

Well i ve been stuck 2 times in the rain one of it was also cold i can tell you thats pretty horrible and youre cold to the bone. But the coaster did what it needed to do it stopped when it became to "dangerous". And we all got evacuated safely i even got a free ticket out of it wich i used the next day. O and also a couple of free hot drinks. Mostly i sort of hope on an evac on a familiar coaster they are ussualy fun this one in the rain and cold not so much.

I think rainy day is ideal for amusement park visit and I mean just light to medium rain. Less people in park

@@vjollila96 Got a good rain coat so not to bothered with getting a little wet

Very well said indeed. However, as someone who has journalist friends who do correspondence from places like Israel/Gaza, Ukraine, and other war-torn places around the world, it's not entirely a lie. It's just the local news driving up ratings by fostering outrage over things that should simply be reported upon and not sensationalized.

Eh, she's from Sky news. Brits stopped listening to them years ago. Except for the flat earthers and anti-vaxxers.

@@KestralKuthule that explains a lot

is it ok to call it retarded? i feel like it fits the defenition, but it's used a lot around gays.

Yea, Sky News is for wacky right anti-vaxxers, like GB News. The interviewer is Kay Burley. That said, Nick Varney of Merlin is a professional imbecile too but at least he handled it pretty well!

If it is an 'interview' why would she lot let him finish his answer nor listen to his answers? It sounded like she was being fed questions from a writers room.

@@RocketboyX def not an interview

Cable News has been losing popularity, so they run sensationalized and polarizing new to try and stay relevant. It’s only going to get worse as they get more desperate to retain viewership

I agree, it creates a false sense of panic, even leading to dangerous situations.

News Agencies: Don’t get punished for false information Public: Gets sent to jail for false information

Look at how many of them get official statements and still can't keep the facts straight moments later even after a investigation was performed and a press conference was held giving them the information on Live TV.

I was on the Superman coaster at my home park when it stopped and had to be evacuated. Never saw it reported on the news after that. And we were stuck for an hour on it.

Weird how people panic about having to evacuate rollercoasters. I live in the Disney bubble but everyone I know gets excited when they have to be evac'd off a ride, whether that be a dark ride or a rollercoaster

@@jessicacallaghan8082 exactly! Like its one thing to be a little anxious or just not excited when you learn you have to walk down the stairs from real high up, but its another for the news report to act like something major is happening??? Like its just people walking down some stairs. You don't see people going to those super tall sky viewing towers and talk about the people going down those steps.

Yep it was magnum! Remember all the local news stations freaking out lol 😂

@@jessicacallaghan8082 I remember getting super excited on my first ever emergency evac on a ride! (i got to walk the catwalk on breakers edge at hersheypark because it got stuck on the breakrun)

Theme Park don't have give any INFO to the Media at all...

@@KennyRyman Well they do just not to people that aren't real journalists.

Yup. There should be some sort of law against simple stoppages being put on the news or something. An unrealistic idea but one could dream lol.

Do you know how they recovered from cheeta hunt being stuck? They didn’t evacuate riders at that part did they? That would be crazy. I would think they could just push the train over the crest

@@Zinojn I think they did, it would have made more sense to send it back into the station

@@BackRowCoasters That is crazy. I would think doing rider evac without the train being locked in a place it can't move would be extremely dangerous. They really could of pushed the train either way I assume. Would of just completed the circuit or slid back into the first launch. Weird

“The Cheez-It Hunt is so dangerous cuz it stopped mid ride and everyone was so scared that one of them unlocked their shoulder bars and plunged to their death!”

@@edt-ze3ke the cheater hunt is a stupid coaster that rips yo legs off, and when you think it’s over, it throws you into the water and you drown to yo death!

I try to avoid news and current affairs period. Besides those of the entertainment industry. 90% of main stream media news is either boring, depressing, or both.

Don’t get me started on all the “hAs ThIs RiDe EvEr bRoKeN dOwN” questions. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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To be fair car accidents happen every like 2 seconds

@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3od And that is even more reason to bring it up and make it into a national issue. US is far behind on overall safety because almost everyone is *forced* to drive, and now they are pushed to driving larger and larger trucks because they tend to "win" in the accident scenarios, pushing the stakes higher and higher overall. The car industry lobby against it - hard pushing media to normalize and under-report it - is not a hoax, it is quite real with a LOT of money involved.

trust me bro, its not just the us. media all over the world ist just disgusting

Yep. I remember when I saw a news article that declared my dad dead before the doctor did by a day. Like not opps we messed the date up but no the original article said he was dead the day before he was declared dead. Pissed me off. Granted it’s better than the final investigation report into my Dad’s death where they misspelled his name repeatedly so there’s that.

@@ninjagirl226 Holy hell, that's insane.

As soon as you know anything about a topic or occurrence, you realise how inaccurate literally every news report is about that topic

Glad it came across correctly!

Yeah 100 percent agree they have new safety systems in place I live in the same town as the park but yeah manufacturers added some system that won't allow the cart to operate with higher wind speeds ect

That’s the best safest place to stop. It did it was supposed to.

Nice

The bigger issue with that incident was the fact that two of the seats had been tampered with so that they could fit larger riders who otherwise shouldn't have been able to fit. If the seats hadn't been tampered with, then even if he tried to "force" himself on the ride, the restraints wouldn't have closed, and the ride operator wouldn't have gotten the signal that he could dispatch the ride.

@@daisy12pinkanime85 I used to follow the channel too of that ride! The dispatcher was an awesome guy and had quite a following and he was super friendly, the whole situation was beyond shocking.

either that or they gloss over important details and stories

Was both human error and ride error yeah they didint check before releasing the test cart but system shouldn't allow the cart to go out while other cart was on track . The have new safety system in place manufacturer of ride put in a system that means ride cant operate with higher wind speeds now so most the time u go there it's only open at set times depending on weather

I'm constantly impressed with how reactive the aviation industry is to their various incidents and I do think there's similarity in the roller coaster world. Both industries will do full reports and make recommendations after even super minor incidents that were somewhat uncomfortable or inconvenient. It's pretty cool. That's why I like to watch videos about those incidents, because it really serves to make you feel more comfortable and safe on the coasters, at least it does for me.

There is a lot of crossover between the two, though ours is a lot smaller. We have taken a lot from the airlines/aviation industry though.

But the REASON why they are so safe is that they get this much attention. I witnessed the higher-ups' thought process on this. If they didn't get journalist pressure they would make it as unsafe as they could get away with. This effect is happening right now in Russia which got both cut off from the world and from proactive independent journalism. Bad journalism with exaggerated reports for the ratings is doing more harm than anything but making safety issues a publicly known problem is what keeps those issues at minimum.