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America Sings accident - Hostess working the America Sings attraction crushed to death by a rotating wall (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What, if anything, is creepy about this? Tragic, yes, but creepy? No.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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