Tom G said:
They left it too long before changes/inspections - simple as.
I'm still waiting for
anyone to present evidence of this. If you're going to accuse a park of putting the lives of their guests at risk, you had better do it with some evidence to back you up.
That video above shows two things:
1) A large personally injury claim and lawsuit against the park
2) A major ride closed while a H&S investigation is put in place to determine the cause and chance of it happening again (look at Tomb Blaster).
Why would a park risk that? They may have done, nobody is saying they are definitely innocent, just that you shouldn't accuse people of negligence on a public forum without proof.
We know that everyone is aware of the issue with the cables and we know Intamin have produced a tighter maintenance schedule which the park needs to adhere to otherwise they have no come back on Intamin if there is a fault that develops.
Hixee is also right about the cables being different to those on say, the Humber bridge. What is the life span on one of those cables? 20 years? 30? 40? The Intamin cables have a 1 year life span, that's a tiny amount of time for a piece of metal under daily heavy strain that includes wrapping and pulling. It's like saying that the reason you get through 10 hamsters in 40 years is due to bad rodent care, rather than the fact that the things have a very short lifespan.
Anyway, I think Nic summed it up perfectly.
owen[b:wzhbijvr]RITA[/b]121 said:
^This. Never get into an argument with an Alton fanboy.
It's the name that gives it away...