I am now officially afraid to go to Disneyland.

EDIT: This thread was nothing more than a pointless reaction to an overdose of High Octane Nightmare Fuel related to Disneyland incidents. Ignore this thread.

edited 13th Jun '11 11:35:11 AM by HappyComputerist

17 incidents out of how many million visitors and how many hundreds of staff over a period of nearly half a century?

Let's break it down: The scary stuff:

• 4 deaths by poor maintenance or accident, including one back stage accident
• 14 minor injuries
• 1 brain hemorrhage which probably had nothing to do with it
• 1 dislodged heart tumor entering a brain and causing an embolism.

Idiocy:

• 1 man jumped from a train and survived
• 1 death by having an idiot friend that undid his restraints
• 1 death caused by the kid sneaking in on a monorail track
• 2 deaths caused by jumping between two moving cars on the People Mover
• A drowning while trying to swim across the Rivers of America,which you shouldn't do.
• 1 death while stealing an emergency boat from Tom Sawyer's island.

• Both costumed character incidents were lies.

• 2 murders caused by rival gang fights on Disneyland property.

So obey the rules, don't jump off trains or into whatever if you can't swim, and don't be in a gang.

edited 13th Jun '11 11:03:05 AM by MatthewTheRaven

Seriously?

I think your risk assessment is a little flawed. How many people visit Disneyland every year? What proportion of them are injured or killed?

Compare those with the odds of being injured or killed in an auto accident.

Do you also refuse to ride in cars or buses, and refuse to cross the street? All of these are riskier.

Please cease your idiocy. The risk assessment of a six year old could determine that this is meaningless.

Accidents happen. It's inevitable, even in Disneyland. Relax, the chances that you die there are more-or-less equal to the chances of getting killed on the street or even in your own home.

You have a much better chance of being killed on the street, actually...

Which reminds me of that hilarious statistic by which one has a greater chance of being killed in a car accident on the way to buy a lotto ticket, than one usually has at winning most kinds of lottery.

edited 13th Jun '11 11:15:02 AM by Toodle

Disneyland gets around 14 million visitors a year based on what I found.

So compare that incident list to that of say, New York City.

I think it's just creepier when it's at Disneyland because it's supposed to be the Magical Land of Happy.

It's simply an amusement park, like all others.

More stats:

Since it opened in 1955, Disneyland has accommodated an estimated 600 million guests. With only 6 deaths that it has been responsible for, that's 1 death per 100 million visitors. SAFEST. PLACE. EVER.

Clearly, we need a serial killer to strike his/her victims by stalking them at Disneyland. Then we can truly terrify the masses!

Oh, also, speaking as the parent of an 8 and 5 year old, I would not trust a six year old to evaluate those odds.

Plotbunny alert. Someone needs to write this.

Alternate plotbunny: our heroes get stuck in a land where an empty Disneyland is the only thing that exists, and it is genuinely magical. Incidents in Real Life cause the formation of monsters-and the more disturbing the incident, the more disturbing the monster.

Yeah...person for person and square foot for square foot, Disneyland is one of the safest places in the world. You're much more likely to be killed on the drive there.

You know that friendly voice that tells you all the safety precautions and to "Please stay seated"?

HEED HIS WARNINGS.

This. Also the written warnings.

On my drive? I don't think anyone's been killed there...

That sounds rather suspicious, Allan...