Exactly a week ago I learned a roller coaster in Texas from which a woman fell to her death would not be permitted to take another passenger until the Texas Department of Insurance slapped a new sticker on it.
TDI is the state administrator of the Amusement Ride Safety Inspection and Insurance Act. Every amusement park ride owner or operator must possess at least $1 million in bodily injury insurance (per occurrence) and the ride has to be inspected by a qualified engineer—every year. The sticker, similar to an inspection stick on a car, is meant to be seen by riders in order to assure them the ride is safe.
Rhetorically I ask: So you mean to tell me TDI has more oversight of roller coasters than it does a facility—within spitting distance of schools and homes—that stores hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate?
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