Incident at Harry's water park

rspann · Postby **rspann** » September 2nd, 2017, 4:05 pm

They under repairs with water flowing, seems legit.

10-01 · Postby **10-01** » September 2nd, 2017, 5:35 pm

nemisis wrote:
10-01 wrote:if i was d parent i taking dem for a kool $1m ... normel normel ...

if you think a mil is enough you clearly not much older than the child in that vid

u feel any local judge going to giv u anymore than 1$M ? this is trinidad not USA :!:

maj. tom · Postby **maj. tom** » September 2nd, 2017, 9:16 pm

http://www.looptt.com/content/harrys-wa ... jured-girl

Harry's Water Park defends facility after viral post of injured girl

Harripersad Ragoonanan, owner of Harry’s Water Park, is defending his facility’s safety record after a young girl was injured on one of the slides.

Speaking to Loop about the injury, an account of which has gone viral on Facebook, Ragoonanan said people need to obey the rules.

“If you watch the video, she fold her foot and hold on top and pull off with a speed. You are supposed to lie down with your hands behind your head,” he said.

“We had over 2000 people pass through the park for the whole holiday with no incidents. Once people obey the rules and regulations you will have no problem,” he said, stating that the slides carry a disclaimer noting that people are free to participate on the slides at their own risk.

On Friday, a woman by the name of Tiffaney Griffith posted an account of an incident on one of the slides at the water park that left her daughter, Meghan Pace injured. The post has gone viral with over 11,000 shares.

“My daughter went on her first slide. It was for ages 15 and over. The lifeguard at the bottom told her to use either one of the two slides on her left. Meg was the only rider and she watched her go up to come down. The slide is supposed to have water shooting upwards on it to slow the descent of the rider. As you can see in the video, it did not. Therefore, Meghan came full speed down and straight into a metal bar at the bottom,” she wrote.

“The screaming in agony from Meghan was horrible to hear and the same lifeguard commented "that the water should have slowed her down" (obviously she, the lifeguard knew that one of the slides was not working properly and got them mixed up!!) The lifeguards proceeded to rush Meghan to Rio Claro medical where I was sure her feet were broken and her back hurt badly. It is only with a lot of prayer that she "walked" away from this with bad tissue damage and nothing broken. A miracle really.”

The upset mother said her daughter has been unable to walk since only with the aid of crutches as both feet were hit hard. She will return to Abu Dhabi, where they live, in a wheelchair.

She said she got a text message from one of the lifeguards the following day to say that they discovered the slide malfunctioned and they were sorry.

Ragoonanan told Loop the bar at the bottom of the slide is made with fiberglass and is normal on slides to keep the water in.

He said contrary to the woman’s account, the water was working as it should on the slide and there was no malfunction.

Asked to comment on the Lady’s claim that he has been ignoring her calls, Ragoonanan said he missed her calls as they were made during peak time when he was dealing with customers. He said he has since reached out to the woman via whatsapp and apologised. He said on the day of the incident he refunded the family their money and his relatives went to the hospital with them.

He said he did direct the woman to submit the medical claims to Maritime Insurance under which the Park is insured.

Ragoonanan assured that his park has been inspected and even the water has been tested by Cariri.

“I go out of the way for people. I start off selling milk house to house, this is God’s work here. I there for the people, I doing this for the people,” he said.

UPDATE: Ragoonanan said his insurance company Maritime will contact Griffith and her daughter. He again apologised for the incident.

maj. tom · Postby **maj. tom** » September 2nd, 2017, 9:20 pm

The lawyer can sue for facility safety. Then personal injury. Then punitive damages.

WarrLordd · Postby **WarrLordd** » September 2nd, 2017, 9:26 pm

Lmao wait the purpose of a slide is to end up in a pool that's atleast up to your stomach area wtf is that bar doing there whoever is the dummy that had such grand idea should be shot

On a second note a slide that shoots water upwards is worse when the slide is so small it can direct anyone who hardly has weight and push them out off the slide

maj. tom · Postby **maj. tom** » September 2nd, 2017, 9:35 pm

i still don't understand the purpose of that welded post at the end of the slide. WHAT other function was it going to have than a bone crushing barrier?! How someone coming down at high velocity supposed to negotiate that?
Who in their right mind would install that for any other reason than to damage someone? What if the person was coming down head first, facing down, a common practice on waterslides?!

Ted_v2 · Postby **Ted_v2** » September 2nd, 2017, 10:02 pm

Ollur does go harrys and play in the water? i ent sending nobody of my family down any of those hazardous pieces of contraption.

that looking like a fail from the time i see its a homemade unit. Trini eh smart, and smart trini eh building no waterside bc of failure.

Allergic2BunnyEars · Postby **Allergic2BunnyEars** » September 2nd, 2017, 10:21 pm

Harry mc

ismithx · Postby **ismithx** » September 4th, 2017, 8:12 am

what a poorly designed slide. sorry to hear the girl injured, but on the bright side they in for some nice $$$

Monkey Man · Postby **Monkey Man** » September 4th, 2017, 8:32 am

dannnnn that slide look ghetto as fk. there is a waste of space

nemisis · Postby **nemisis** » September 4th, 2017, 10:47 am

Monkey Man wrote:dannnnn that slide look ghetto as fk. there is a waste of space

Can't get Disney rides for ddI price.....

RBphoto · Postby **RBphoto** » September 4th, 2017, 10:52 am

So the girl did not use proper technique is the owner's response? Something like this should be safe by design and not rely on the average person being an expert in Olympic water sliding.

Les Bain · Postby **Les Bain** » September 4th, 2017, 11:20 am

It ever had any good stories to come from Harry's water park?
From anyone besides Harry of course.

racedriverpro · Postby **racedriverpro** » September 4th, 2017, 11:25 am

Alyuh too ungrateful!!!

Cantmis · Postby **Cantmis** » September 4th, 2017, 11:41 am

Drunk Indian Disney world

rspann · Postby **rspann** » September 4th, 2017, 12:41 pm

Sallie lucky it wasn't vertical.

Monkey Man · Postby **Monkey Man** » September 4th, 2017, 12:45 pm

Les Bain wrote:It ever had any good stories to come from Harry's water park?
From anyone besides Harry of course.

i think it have a story about when naresh and ravi clash with each other in a wine off as soon as roshan start to play he tassa mix.

and another time where Deon had to ruff up Quami for talking to he empress.

hong kong phooey · Postby **hong kong phooey** » September 5th, 2017, 12:35 am

Monkey Man wrote:
Les Bain wrote:It ever had any good stories to come from Harry's water park?
From anyone besides Harry of course.

i think it have a story about when naresh and ravi clash with each other in a wine off as soon as roshan start to play he tassa mix.

and another time where Deon had to ruff up Quami for talking to he empress.

lol lol

Postby **toyolink** » September 5th, 2017, 4:52 pm

Are there any safety or other regulations that these parks must satisfy or is it a free-for-all.
I would hope our 'health and safety' authorities do some survey and issue certification, dependence on insurers to make these kinds of determinations is a known of no,no.
Public liability coverage if provided by one of our barely solvent insurance companies means that claims are going to be a game with attorneys hoping to prolong any possibility of settlement with injured party just giving-up.
In this case negligence can be easily proven since the design flaw is real and visible (this really a joke to attempt a defense).

Slartibartfast · Postby **Slartibartfast** » September 5th, 2017, 4:58 pm

toyolink wrote:In this case negligence can be easily proven since the design flaw is real and visible (this really a joke to attempt a defense).

But she didn't have he hands behind her head though. The slide was designed for people with their hands behind their head with a factor of safety to allow people to go down with their hand on their head and even as low down as the sides of their face. The only negligence here was her own.

Postby **toyolink** » September 5th, 2017, 5:14 pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
toyolink wrote:In this case negligence can be easily proven since the design flaw is real and visible (this really a joke to attempt a defense).
But she didn't have he hands behind her head though. The slide was designed for people with their hands behind their head with a factor of safety to allow people to go down with their hand on their head and even as low down as the sides of their face. The only negligence here was her own.

This really is the joke!
The standards of duty of care as it relates to minors in situations like these is a killer.
I can hear the judge saying "the defense offered is disingenuous" as part of the judgement.
The only way out for the park's owner is if it can be proven that the claimant entered into an agreement which included some kinda waiver of liability (negligence however cannot be avoided by a waiver).