Recently a man who patrolled a state fair ride called 'The Vortex' in North Carolina was charged with three felony counts of assault. This ride operator, Timothy Dwayne Tutterrow who is a 46-year-old from Quitman, Georgia, was faced with such charges by harming others with a deadly weapon. Also, after officials thoroughly inspected the ride they uncovered that it was tampered with and is not up to any safety regulations. Thursday night Tutterrow tricked people into thinking he stopped the ride to let them off when he started it up again out of the blue and the riders were not quite off yet. 5 people were injured and stuck in the hospital for several days after. The rides were even inspected three times a day. Other arrests are possible in this case for it is still ongoing. The fair ended today.
Do you think fair rides should be more patrolled by security guards or police officers? How do you think all the problems were overlooked during the daily inspections? What would you do if you were on this ride and all of these things happened to you?
Here is the link to the story: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/26/us/north-carolina-state-fair-incident/index.html?hpt=us_c1
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Well don Halley!
I think they security guards should patrol the rides. I think the operator set it up to look like it was safe when the inspectors checked it, and then tampered with it. I think I would just have to try and brace myself on the ride if it happened to me.
I think they should be patrolled much better, especially after something like this happens. I can't say for sure why they were overlooked, but my guess would be that someone doesn't like their job, and just didn't care. Well this time it lost him a job and should get jail time. I think I would take someone to court to get my medical expenses paid for.
Most fair rides are super ghetto anyway so this could open up eyes to the rides in the fair. It is a bad thing that this man did something like this to the people.
Definitely! I am sure there are other cases in smaller scale fairs that have happened similar to this, but just haven't been as big in the media. This should hopefully bring to attention the people running the fairs, and show them that not just everyone should be aloud to operate rides. They should make a special contract saying that if the operators purposely hurt anyone in anyway they will suffer consequences depending on how violent it was, and maybe it should also state that they have to keep it up to certain safety regulations.
That would be crazy if something like that happened to me, and would probably hurt a lot depending how you landed. If someone would have broke their neck he could have been charged with murder instead. That guy should be sent to jail for a while. I want to know what was going through that guys head when he started the ride back up.
First off, I'd be very upset with the employee. No way should he have done what he did. And you bring up a good point: how did this ride pass daily inspections? I think fairs should check out their employees so maybe this wouldn't happen, but the man should be punished for hurting those people.
I definitely think he should be punished too, and maybe even the people patrolling should get the rules and guidelines of how to know a ride is truly up to safety regulations or not discussion again. They need to enforce the rules and regulations better, so no more things like this happen!
I do not think that they should be patrolled but I do think that they should do something like background checks or weekly check ups on how the workers are doing.
I also think it would be a good idea to do weekly check ups, and that is basically what the daily inspections are, but maybe officials should be more alert about the things going on at this ride when doing check ups. Maybe it would be a good idea to install security cameras or something, and then officials could patrol everything easier and more efficiently. Plus they could have evidence if something were to happen. Overall, I think there definitely should be some kind of patrol, because you never know what could happen.
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