Meeting one person from Dayton and saying all of us are stupid because of one generalization is stupid, particularly when that one person from Dayton isn't generalizing. Sample size is the key here, folks.
It isn't a generalization, it's an observation. My dad's family is from Nashville and my parents like to vacation in cities on the southeastern coast, I've been going to the south all my life, and based on what I've observed, the people there are nothing short of garbage. My dad's family is absolutely awful, the neighborhood they live in is full of mentally ill people and druggies, and they all demonstrate a complete lack of morals or common sense. Anybody who's been to a park that has southern people as part of their demographic has probably seen the idiots dragging their knuckles around Dollywood/Holiday World/Carowinds clad in camo speaking with a stupid accent that makes them sound like the inbred devolved excuse for a degenerate human being they are. Not to mention that as of recently, someone I found was helping with efforts to stalk me was from Texas and threw a major fit and skipped school because I called him out on it. I have two coworkers that are southern at my job and I hate them, both of them are awful and treat everyone else like crap. I've been around them plenty and yet never met one I liked. I don't like them, I never have liked them, and I never will like them.
Now we were discussing the accident and I listed this as a potential cause. We also have poor training listed as a factor, in which case the fair company is at fault. But anybody who pushes a button to release a ride that's in motion clearly lacks any sort of common sense. And if you're a ride op and don't understand the purpose of an e-stop, you need fired.
As I say, stupidity is the number one killer of people at amusement parks. Clearly this was the case, and in getting to the source of the stupidity, I blame location. If anybody has any concrete, actual points to contradict this let's discuss it.
