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Now You Tell Me?
A German theme park owner has been forced to shut down his newest thrill ride. Somehow no one seemed to notice that, fully extended, the attraction forms two massive “flying swastikas.” The owner says the ride will be “redesigned.”
Don’t they model these things for weight and balance issues? How could that fall through the cracks?
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Eggs < Omelets.
The other giveaway was the ride was called the Hackenkreuz.
For the love of God does nobody have anything better to do than this stuff?
[ Misthiocracy runs to DuckDuckGo News … ]
News sources says the ride was called the “Eagle Flight”.
https://news.yahoo.com/german-theme-park-forced-close-173319688.html
I was wondering how hard it would be to redesign the ride. Apparently, they’re just going to reduce it from four cars per arm to three cars per arm.
So, the new version will be a tribute to the flag of the Isle of Man.
My general response these days to people who freak out over this kind of nonsense is to dismiss it as “First World Problems.”
Adlerflug, eh?
This story reminds me of when we were designing a hospital in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s and the landscape architect selected a decorative design for the concrete blocks of a retaining wall at the parking lot. When the Interior Department representatives were reviewing the drawings at a design meeting, they pointed out that the design in the block faces was the form of a Star of David. They weren’t pleased; thought it was a deliberate insult.
Exactly, they where concerned about the weight and balance issues, the over all appearance fell through the cracks, because people only see things that they go looking for.
Like the Star of David that a Jewish engineering subcontractor managed to get built on the roof of the main terminal building in Tehran, nobody looked for it in the design – so nobody saw it until it was built.
They do, and the swastika is perfectly well balanced.
As for the symbolism, thats not their department.
By golly, Hitler really just ruined everything for the Germans didn’t he? One seemingly can’t use any German word without it already having been used by the Nazis in some way, shape, or form.
Heck, it’s not just the Germans either. I remember a few years back a little league team, whose name was the Eagles, getting in trouble because they called their clubhouse the Eagle’s Nest.
How about this building?
Or Sicily.
US Navy barracks!
Obviously in the design process, they did Nazi that.
Hey, @ejhill. Was that your Trump Tower in Greenland picture featured in a Trump Tweet?
That was all Jon.
Speaking of political incorrectness at amusement parks, Denmark’s second-oldest roller coaster features a tunnel whose entrance is straddled by a naked woman.
How such a thing has survived to 2019 is beyond me. Then again, the Danes also have this. There must be something in the water.
Yep, caught my error. Your effort would be more realistic . . . (snicker snicker)
I hope its some ‘Woke’ Ivy League college campus.
Now that we’ve had our fun, I suspect that without prompting very few people would see a swastika in the design of a carnival ride. As others have noted, people see what they’re looking for. And today many social problems we have are due to people looking for things at which to be offended. And the rest of us get blindsided because we are thinking about lots of other things.
Sadly, it’s getting easier and easier to find “offenses”. Someone had to go back and look at all of Kate Smith’s work to find those songs . . .