RYE, New York (AP) -- A man drowned after wading into a lake at a historic amusement park, the third fatality at the park in as many years, authorities said.
Won Yong Kim, of Queens, was celebrating July Fourth at Playland Amusement Park with his wife and 5-year-old son Tuesday when he waded into the man-made lake and began struggling in the water, said Westchester County Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Belfiore.
Kim, 43, was removed from the lake, which is off-limits to swimmers, and was pronounced dead about an hour later at a hospital.
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Another idiot gives amusement parks a bad name.
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Hey Aero, you post at somethingawful's forum?
Indeed, I didn't think someone would catch my blatent copy and paste job.
dumb people
http://themeparkcritic.com/scripts/profile/ViewProfile.asp?ViewID=2909
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Idiots. I feel sorry for the man's wife and little boy. But isn't that why the man-made pool was off-limits to swimmers!?!! People don't listen these days!!!!! No wonder amusement park deaths are at an all-time high!!!!
R.I.P. Splashwater Falls and Space Shuttle America. Deja Vu, enjoy Idaho.
Hear ye, hear ye: "After 45 years, Six Flags has stopped smoking."
No matter how many saftey systems you get, you can't protect people from stupidity.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking, isn't thinking of.
^ Very well put. You can have the safest park in the world, but people's stupidity rules over anything. You can try to make things safe, but how people think is beyond your control.
"And that farm girl walked off with slippers off a dead woman? She must have been raised in a barn!" ~Wicked, an excellent musical
I agree. The amusement park industry can't do anything to stop the stupid egos of some people. That's how someone got injured on the Tornado. Folks this stuff is nothing new! Many factory workers had parts of their bodies cut off in the industrial age because they took a step off the safe road.
R.I.P. Splashwater Falls and Space Shuttle America. Deja Vu, enjoy Idaho.
Hear ye, hear ye: "After 45 years, Six Flags has stopped smoking."
This is just so sad because it was unnecessary. Follow the rules; don't go where you're not supposed to go, and you'll be fine. There's a reason why there are signs telling people to stay away from such things. It's just a real shame that this man lost his life and the family lost a valued member.
I'm gonna twist ya, and I'm gonna flip ya. Every time you squeal, I'm just gonna go faster and harder.
I wouldn't say the girl on Tornado was injured because of her "stupid ego." I will say that it could have been caused by rider error, though.
Geez, people need to use their common sense. Amusment Parks arent day care for adults where people think that nothing can go wrong. Idiot
wow, if he would have followed the rules, then he'd be alive.....hm...
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