In a recent story, two park officials were hospitalized and 15 people arrested after an altercation over a NY amusement park's ban on headgear on certain rides. The problem is that there were about 3,000 muslim visitors in the park as part of a tour and the women, wearing the traditional headscarf, were turned away from some of the rides. Some people started arguing and the officials were injured after things escalated a bit...anyways, I wanted to get this out there...you look at it and many people will cry about how their religious freedom was being taken away and I'd ask you to stop and think about it.
The rule is there for the safety of the riders, first of all. Headgear can fall off, be caught in the machines, land on tracks or any number of situations. The park is simply making sure they can't get sued. That's all it is. It's too bad something like this occurs, but you can't reverse a ban because of religious practices. That's simply where we are as a society. There are so many rules and regulations and opportunities for companies to get screwed with lawsuits that they have to cover absolutely every possibility, no matter who it excludes.
They can't make exceptions for the height or weight requirements. They can't make exceptions for religious practices. it's all the same. If you want to blame anyone about how it's unfair, blame the society in which we live where nothing is our own fault, always someone else's for not making sure for us. It's not our fault we get sick from smoking, it's the cigarette companies for not being completely obvious (see new label requirements). It's not our fault for eating 50 twinkies, it's the twinkie company for not saying that we shouldn't. It's not our fault we were screwing around with a gun, it was the gun's fault for not being safer or harder to get ahold of.
It's a world where every company has to explore every possibility from a person being too small for the harness to someone being able to unhook themselves during the ride to the possibility of someone choking on gum from the momentum of the ride. It's gotten to the point where, if we reserve the right to sue a company for pretty much anything, they have the right to restrict their product to certain guidelines to prevent that. It's unfortunate, but it's not anti-religious or racist. It's simply how it is.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44340971/ns/travel-news/#.Tl5qU2AkLKE
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