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What, if anything, is creepy about this? Tragic, yes, but creepy? No.
The incident? No. The fact that tens of thousands of people have probably ridden that ride since then with no idea that someone died horribly there? Kinda, a little.
Idk, I find it creepy in a sense that Disney closed the place down and opened it up again three days later. Can’t let that cash flow stop.
Except they literally did let it stop for three days so it's weird to use the fact that they did as evidence that they wouldn't