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Disney didn't kill the kid - Fairiedust - 06-15-2005

No Trauma Found to Boy Who Died at Disney

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 13 minutes ago



An autopsy on a 4-year-old boy who died after passing out on a Walt Disney World spaceship ride found no trauma, and more tests will be conducted to determine a cause of death, officials said.

Daudi Bamuwamye of Sellersville, Pa., passed out Monday on the "Mission: Space" ride, which simulates a rocket launch and trip to Mars. The attraction is so intense that it has motion sickness bags and several riders have been treated for chest pain.

During the ride, Daudi's mother, Agnes, noticed that his body was rigid and that his legs were stretched straight out, but she thought he was just frightened, according to a sheriff's report.

When the ride ended, the victim was limp and unresponsive, and he could not be revived.

An autopsy Tuesday showed no trauma so further tests will be conducted. A cause of death may not be known for several weeks, said Sheri Blanton, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner in Orlando.

"Now it's going to be a matter of, 'If it wasn't trauma, what did it?'" Blanton said.

The ride was closed after the death but reopened Tuesday after Disney World engineers concluded that it was operating normally. No changes were made to the ride or to rules regulating who can ride it.

"We believe the ride is safe in its current configuration," Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Polak said. The sheriff's office said the boy met the ride's minimum 44-inch height limit.

More than 8.6 million visitors have gone on "Mission: Space" since it opened in 2003, Polak said.

Elsewhere, another heavily promoted, scary theme park ride was shut down last week. The Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., billed as the world's fastest when it opened to the public last month, was closed June 8 after it malfunctioned during a test when no one was aboard.

On Tuesday, park officials determined that a piece of liner covering an area under the coaster's tracks had dislodged and "damaged a number of other parts," spokeswoman Kristin Siebeneicher told the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press.

Siebeneicher said the park is trying to identify the problem to make sure it does not recur.

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Disney didn't kill the kid - ntype - 06-15-2005

interesting piece of bad journalism :

article : "disney didn't killed the boy"
- ok we're talking about Disney the person or Disney the corporate entity or Disney the theme park ? (the theme park was correct answer you had to read the article to understand that)

content : bla bla stuff boy died we don't know why bla bla AND some other news without any relevance (some malfunction in ANOTHER themepark while testing, no dead here, just a malfunction during a test (quick note, this is what tests are made for)).

- ok what do we know after reading that stuff : nothing, I mean the boy died but nobody knows, the doctors says "he's just dead" the engineers "everything working fine yup". then we put that 8.6 million people had a ride on that; this doesn't mean anything worse it contributes to says "right now there is a 1/8.6 million chance for you to die" you've got almost more chance to win the lottery or receive some meteorite on your face.

This is only some corporate whore journalist who made some compleasant article about Disney's theme park (go on this kid was worthless he died and no-one knews why chances are that he would have died doing his homework too) but he adds some nasty words about another theme park (booo other thempark booo boo don't go there)

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