On 2017-04-15 10:28 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 3:55:02 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-04-15 9:39 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/15/us/atl...ies/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>> (CNN)A 5-year-old boy died after being crushed Friday in a rotating
>>> restaurant atop a downtown Atlanta tower, with the child getting caught
>>> between a table and a wall as the floor moved, police said.
>>>
>>> The boy was at the Sun Dial restaurant -- whose dining area topping the
>>> 73-story cylindrical Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel rotates to give
>>> patrons a panoramic view of the city -- when he left his parents' table
>>> Friday afternoon.
>>
>>
>> Wow. That is tragic. This is a sad example of the many reasons that
>> young children should not be allowed to leave their parents' table and
>> roam around the restaurant.
>
> Mostly it's an example of why restaurants should not rotate.
>

There are lots of rotating restaurants. It's a bit of a gimmick that
people have been enjoying for years. Sit there and watch the scenery change.


I have to say I am having a hard time understanding how a child could be
fatally injured in a situation like that. It's not like the restaurant
is spinning around at high speed. I would expect a person, even a child,
to see that there is a problem and to get away in good time.

In the past we have discussed the issue of kids running loose in
restaurants. Servers can tell stories about kids running into them,
tripping over them, the danger of spilling things on them, or because of
them. Apparently nobody ever envisioned a child being crushed in a
revolving restaurant.