Resorts Girl injured at WDW Typhoon Lagoon

[Tom Morrow]

Girl injured at WDW Typhoon Lagoon, family suing

Family Suing After Daughter Allegedly Injured On Disney Water Park Ride WFtv9, Florida [color=#B48FBB] An Orange County girl was so badly shaken by a ride at Typhoon Lagoon, her family is suing Disney. They say the park admitted there might have been a problem with the Crush N Gusher ride and claim the injuries it caused cost far more than the pair of complimentary tickets Disney offered. Tempesst Frias, 15, is recovering after she claims she was injured while riding the Crush N Gusher water ride at Typhoon Lagoon. She had some minor injuries, such as cuts and bruises on her elbows, but will now have to follow up with more tests. Doctors had to run CT scans and x-rays and are concerned she may have internal injuries. "The guys said, 'This doesn't happen a lot. It might be the water pressure was too high so we'll lower the water pressure and shut down the ride,'" Tempesst said. The water slide is 35 feet high and has speeds of up to 25mph. Tempesst said, when she rode the waterslide, she felt like she was out of control. She ended up flipping upside down inside the slide and rolled around until she got to the bottom. "It's designed to push a raft through. If you can imagine a human being pushed through with a lot of pressure and speed. It was a traumatic experience and she got banged up," said the girl's mother, RC Frias. complete article

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[mrskellington]

But how'd she get turned around? Ouch. Sounds like it'd hurt.

[Kileli]

I have been on it before, and I could see this happening. They don't strap you in, you just hold on, it does get bumpy. If she was sitting there withoug holding on, I can see why she may have flipped out of the raft. Though, then it would be her fault, not Disney's. I guess if you didn't hold on, there is a small chance you actually would fall out, but things happen. I think this will be like the Matterhorn death, we don't know whether she let go on prupose or if there was a malfunction, since no one else was with her. I doubt it was the water pressure. Wouldn't it be the same for the people who went down 20 seconds before her? They didn't fall out, neither did anyone else who rode it that day.

[AraBrokenDreamer]

Weird. I wasn't a real fan of that ride, and blizzard beach is better the better water park anyway.

-Ara

[mistymutt]

Sounds lame to me... people will sue for anything they can these days. Even if it's their own fault!!

[guitarattict]

ouch. Though this is her fault, and I don't think its cause for sue, it would hurt if you fell out of the raft. The ride is pretty rough, and it was a shock at the beginning of the ride, and my reaction was to, obbiously, hold on tighter. So I think it is actually her fault.

[tomserwin]

(*Sigh-*)

Another person suing Disney?

Bumps, bruises, and a few scrapes do not justify suing by any stretch of the imagination. They "claim the injuries it caused cost far more than the pair of complimentary tickets Disney offered." Growing up as a kid I suffered a heck of a lot of bruises, cuts, gashes, and scrapes. I was always bleeding from somewhere. You know how much my childhood of injuries cost me? Only enought to pay for the water to rinse off my cuts and the bandaids that covered them. My whole childhood of injuries wouldn't be nearly enough to equal one ticket to an amusment park, let alone several.

Give it up Ms. Tempesst Frias. Sure, I could imagine it hurt. Maybe it was an unpleasent experience as well. But suing Disney over this is completely unncessary.

[Kileli]

Lets say you're rollerblading down a hill. (this happened to my friend) So, you can't stop yourself. Your only way of stopping is by running into a rail. You hit it, trying to kill the kinetic energy. It works, but you flip over it, killing your knee. Can you sue the company who made the rollerblades because the brakes were not good enough, and sue the company that made the rail for causing so much pain and damage by running into it, and sue the city because the hill was too steep?

It's all the same thing that happened here. Just as you chose to rollerblade down the hill, she chose to ride this. You decided to freak out, and hope for the best by running into the rail, as she probably was to freaked out to hold on. It's no one's fault but yours. Just because it happens at a waterpark doesn't mean you get to sue.

What if the same thing happend at a friends house? You went sown their waterslide, and you were injured. You wouldn't want millions of dollars and a lawsuit over it. Why are you allowed to when you are at a place with more publicity?

[tomserwin]

^ That's basically all it boils down to.

True story:
Yesterday my friend taught me how to ride his horse. While dismounting the horse, I came down hard and twisted my ankle. So you know what I did? I limped for the rest of the day and took some pain killers. Never once did it occur to me to sue him for being injured on his prorperty by dismounting his horse. It was my actions that ended up in my pain. I chose to ride a horse.

Suing just doesn't make sense.