On Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 10:54:58 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >
> > On 4/16/2017 9:22 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Maybe we'll get the rest of the story. Perhaps a guard was removed,
> > climbed over, something was moved. I'm sure it will be investigated.
>
> I'm actually surprised that a rotating restaurant would only
> rotate the floor and have walls not. That sounds like an accident
> waiting to happen and now it has.
>
> A rotating restaurant on top of a building should be completely
> enclosed...walls and floors attached and the entire restaurant should
> rotate only from the bottom underneath part. What the hell were
> they thinking?

They were thinking that it's a whale of a lot more weight to move
around to have all that glass on the outside moving, and whatever
infrastructure on the inside as well.

The design they used is sensible, but there ought to be some
protection against sticking things into the gap.

Cindy Hamilton