AMUSEMENT PARK WEIGHS PATRONS BEFORE GOING ON RIDES

An Australian amusement park is being accused of “fat-shaming” visitors after imposing a new guest-weighing policy that bars people from rides for being too heavy. Adventure World in Perth opened for the season last Saturday, posting weight limits for their rides, which they enforced by equipping attractions with “self-serve” weighing stations that flash green or red depending on if the rider meets their standards. Some of the rides have a limit of 1,300 pounds for every eight people. This means that the average weight of the patron needs to be 165 pounds — 20 pounds less than the weight of the average Australian male. Angry park-goers have swarmed the Adventure World’s Facebook page to protest the discriminatory policy, as more than one person said, “I’ll take my kids elsewhere for fun.”
* Hey, gang – shorter lines for the rides at Adventure World!
* Adventure World: It’s an Adventure in Humiliation!
* Of course, once you pass a certain size, you need two seats and you count as two people, so now your group can get on the ride.
* Maybe if you’re an average Australian male, and you’re old enough to weigh over 165 pounds, maybe you should find other pasttimes than going on carnival rides.
* Make people configure their own 1300-pound group, and if they do that, they get to the front of the line. Problem solved.
* But really, do you want to be the one who turns the Tilt-a-Whirl into just a Tilt?