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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Six Flags’ Kentucky Kingdom wants to tear down its Superman Tower of Power ride on which a girl lost both of her feet earlier this year.

The move has been the subject of intense negotiations between attorneys for the theme park and the teenager who lost one of her feet on the ride after both feet were cut off.

The family of the 13-year-old injured on the ride, Kaitlyn Lasitter, is suing Kentucky Kingdom, saying it failed to maintain safe equipment.

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Lasitter’s lawyer wants to make sure critical evidence is preserved.

“We really need to get the ride down before the start of next season,” Kentucky Kingdom attorney John Hauley said.

For that to happen, the park claims the ride needs to be down by Feb. 1.

Lasitter’s feet were severed while riding the Tower of Power as a cable snapped.

Attorneys for the family and the theme park are still debating which of two companies will test that cable and other parts of the ride.

“If this tower is begun to be taken down, there might be somebody not just at these tables, but behind me that will say we found stuff on what the lab did that requires us to go back, but that evidence is altered or gone,” the Lasitters’ family attorney, Larry Franklin, said.

Kentucky Kingdom proposes dismantling the 170 foot ride and preserving key parts in a warehouse.

But there are still questions about exactly what parts to preserve.

“We’ve been discussing a reasonable time frame even after the cable has been tested, but there’s no date as of this date we can start taking down the ride,” Hauley said.

Six Flags said it will take four to six weeks to dismantle the Superman Tower of Power. But, first, both sides have to agree on a lab, and then find out how long it will take to test the cable and other parts.

The next hearing will be held on Dec. 14.



http://www.wlky.com/news/14731013/detail.html



The amusement parks lack of willingness to abruptly stop the ride after such an incident not only shows the lack of concern they have for public safety but it pisses me off to every extent...

And people ask me why I don't go to amusement parks...Why I don't fly...

This is why I do not go to amusement parks...And this is why I do not fly...Why?...Because not only are people idiots,..but they're greedy to the point of sheer danger...

It's not so much that I fear for my own safety rather I fear for the ignorance of my fellow man...

If you ask me amusement parks should be under greater observance and should have way stiffer penalties...

I never go to Great Adventure and I can't go to the water parks because I always get impetego. And that is not fun.

These places scare the life out of me read just this weekend of a kid getting decapitated while leaning over the safety rail to get his cap..

When I was little my aunt used to take me to Battersea park fun fair. We were there just a couple of days before the accident that sealed its fate.

I still liked the going to the fair though, until I got married. My OH is an engineer and explained how the rides worked and just what kept them held together it put me off fun fairs straight away.

Victoria;903126 wrote: These places scare the life out of me read just this weekend of a kid getting decapitated while leaning over the safety rail to get his cap..

When I was little my aunt used to take me to Battersea park fun fair. We were there just a couple of days before the accident that sealed its fate.

I still liked the going to the fair though, until I got married. My OH is an engineer and explained how the rides worked and just what kept them held together it put me off fun fairs straight away.


I totally avoid those carnivals alltogether and my kids are not allowed near them.

Victoria;903126 wrote: These places scare the life out of me read just this weekend of a kid getting decapitated while leaning over the safety rail to get his cap..


I believe I read that story...Christian kid there with a Christian group I believe...Only the story I read was that he had jumped two 6 feet high fences to retrieve his hat...I'm interested as to where you read this story...So that I can see which is biased...

Victoria;903126 wrote: My OH is an engineer and explained how the rides worked and just what kept them held together it put me off fun fairs straight away.


Well there you go...One from whom worked within an amusement park who has informed you as to how these rides work and you've grown completely terrified...:wah:...My sentiments exactly...