This week, Melanie isn't marked safe, we find the limits of Brianne's love, the Disney songs bracket comes to a close and the Petty Pop Culture Moments bracket begins, a LEGOLAND pirate is not the job to have, and Melanie discovers the seedy underbelly of Pokemon.
Content warnings: death by rollercoaster collision, murder of women/teenager/pregnant woman, gymnastics/stuntman injury, head trauma, paralysis, detailed description of physical trauma resulting from fall, ableism, depression
Links:
https://www.foxnews.com/story/legoland-employee-dies-after-being-hit-by-roller-coaster
https://www.clickorlando.com/video/news/2019/04/05/family-files-discrimination-lawsuit-against-legoland/
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/family-turns-to-10-after-they-say-legoland-made-their-son-feel-different/67-bc8e3ddd-e351-43d2-8a4c-2523b7d521e7
https://www.lego.com/en-us/history/articles/e-the-first-legoland-park
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/legoland-autism-ride-pass-compassion-3870215
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/disabled-worker-awarded-pound20000-for-legolands-model-joke-vmm23v7vxgh
https://soranews24.com/2018/06/30/tokyo-legoland-discovery-center-apologizes-for-blocking-deaf-patrons-from-theme-park/
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/case-round-up-44/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legoland
https://www.fdacs.gov/content/download/81386/file/exempt-facilities-report-01152021.pdf
https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/pleasantville/news/police-investigating-death-of-legoland-worker-in-hudson-valley/826141/
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/06/nyregion/did-the-state-parole-system-fail.html
https://www.oxygen.com/twisted-killers/crime-news/why-nathaniel-white-murdered-6-women-in-new-york
https://midhudsonnews.com/2016/07/26/legoland-property-has-haunting-past/
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https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2019/06/19/goshen-shuts-down-legoland-construction/4874250007/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/nyregion/legoland-goshen-new-york.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372276/Young-stuntman-left-paralysed-landing-head-Legoland.html
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8948805.southampton-stuntman-jay-young-paralysed-in-legoland-accident/
https://www.kristianstill.co.uk/wordpress/2013/04/28/inspirational-speaker-jay-young/
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9184111.paralysed-stuntman-jay-young-determined-to-live-life-to-the-full/
https://www.aspirelaw.co.uk/spinal-cord-injury-following-accident-work-employers-liability
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1338717/shocking-legoland-accident-video-as-pirate-is-flung-off-a-swing-and-is-flung-into-a-metal-pole-in-front-of-shocked-kid-audience/
https://www.irwinmitchell.com/news-and-insights/newsandmedia/2021/august/stuntman-brendan-pollitt-asks-lawyers-to-investigate-legoland-windsor-incident
http://www.sjlawcollective.com/documents/Suarez%20v.%20LEGOLAND%20-%20DE%201%20-%20Complaint%20and%20Jury%20Demand.pdf
https://www.wfla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2020/12/2020-12-02-Mullinax-v.-Merlin-Entertainments-Group-Florida-LLC_Complaint.pdf
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1918841/mom-sues-legoland-forcing-10yo-son-take-off-prosthetic-leg/
https://www.fox13news.com/news/family-suing-legoland-after-staff-humiliated-boy-with-prosthetic-leg
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-bz-legoland-lawsuit-facepaint-20180529-story.html
https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2018/05/29/parents-sue-legoland-florida-claiming-7-year-old-boy-may-be-permanently-scarred-from-face-paint/12103847007/
https://www.goldfarbpa.com/did-face-painting-at-legoland-result-in-a-major-skin-rash/