Schlitterbahn's "slide"

[centralaustinite]

A couple of things:


1. as mentioned all the criminal charges were dismissed yesterday in Kansas
2. The victims have ALREADY won a very large civil against Schlitterbahn

3. Kansas was specifically chosen for the ride because the regulations were laxer than they are in Texas which if you have lived in TX for a while, you know that is really saying something
4. Amusements parks overall are lightly regulated
5. The park in Olathe is likely to close, the one in Corpus is aleady dead, the Henry's engaged in some "bold financial bets" for the Kansas park and the subsequent expansions and may not survive if they can't make the payments.



The park in NB is still the source of some of my family's greatest memories together.

[TabulaRasa]

Originally Posted by Snowpacked

Texas voted for limited business regulation and this is what unregulated or limited regulation get us. Now a greedy lawyer and our sketchy criminal system get the reins.

Originally Posted by cBach

This happened in Kansas though.

Kansas also has very unregulated stances on this front, too, which is why the park ended up here...actually, far more lax than Texas.

Sadly, the child who died's father, a then-state legislator (and now our newly elected Secretary of State), is among the reasons that regulation of businesses such as this is so poor to begin with. The family's civil suits have been productive (20 million dollar wrongful death suit), but that's pretty cold comfort when your child is dead.

Last week's verdict re: criminal suit is directly traceable to the Kansas AG's fumbling of the case, according to the dismissing judge:

https://www.kcur.org/post/judge-thro...slide#stream/0

[Trainwreck20]

Looks like they can re-file, though.