Deadly Monorail Crash

1. Vonskippy
   July 5th, 2009 at 11:45 pm

   Wow, how neat is that?

2. Flux
   July 6th, 2009 at 12:04 am

   And not that long after the neatorama post on the dark side of Disney.
   http://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/30/the-dark-side-of-disney/
   OMG, Neato-premonition? mayyybeeee...

3. mci209
   July 6th, 2009 at 12:20 am

   I talked to some of the monorail operators many years ago and my understanding of the monorails is this. The tracks are set out in grids or sections. These grids are X number of feet long. ( he didn't elaborate) and are run by computers. If another monorail enters the same grid as another, the current to that grid is supposed to shut off, preventing exactly what happened last night. As it was very late (2am) there is the possibility that the operators turned the computer control of the grids off so as to operate the track cleaners and maintenance trains. I doubt we will ever really know what happened. Disney isn't known for their openness about park operations and such.

4. Dude
   July 6th, 2009 at 12:28 am

   How exactly is it neat?

5. 7anya
   July 6th, 2009 at 1:57 am

   Lordy people, quit whining. Neotorama is for anything interesting or out of the ordinary. I find this very neat, sad but neat. Why does neat have to always be positive? Oh neato, what a strange fluke! I wonder what could have gone wrong.
   Maybe they should change it to weird-o-rama. Then things could get posted without any complaints.
   Not particularly ranting at people commenting here but every time something 'negative' is posted people whine.

6. ted
   July 6th, 2009 at 5:56 am

   Sorry, but this one's just not what I expected to see here. Not that it's not interesting. It's just more newsy in nature.

7. CheeseDuck
   July 6th, 2009 at 6:32 am

   What.

8. Gail Pink
   July 6th, 2009 at 8:05 am

   I think this may have been posted since just a few days earlier the site posted the story of Disneyland accidental deaths. It is a coincidence, you must admit.

9. Guest
   July 6th, 2009 at 9:37 am

   monoraaaiiiiill

10. astrodex
    July 6th, 2009 at 9:41 am

    It is interesting that the "neatness" of the previous post about deaths at Disney parks was not disputed.

11. Michelle
    July 6th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    From what I've gathered, this article details what is most likely what happened:
    http://miceage.micechat.com/kevinyee/ky070609a.htm

12. ted
    July 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    While I didn't think the previous post about Disney deaths was neat, there was a certain distance in time from its list of gruesome deaths. this was enough to make it an article of curiosity to some people.

    This is more of a news story than most Neatorama posts are, but it's a little tacky to post it as "another example of a Disney death". The driver's body is not yet in the ground.

13. astrodex
    July 7th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Neither is Michael Jackson's.

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