Dave
TS Founding Member
How did they endanger their guests exactly. I am sorry but Alton Towers are stretching a bit there.
Not only is the park closed from guests right now. You would hope (especially after the Smiler incident) they have rigorous inspection routines on all their rides. So that if the idiots did cause any damage that could endanger guests, it would be found and corrected well within time.
I do not condone what they did at all, but i also refuse to look at it with rose tinted glasses and I am sorry, but Alton Towers suggesting guests were endangered annoys me. Totally untrue.
I think that they are pushing the argument with guest safety but as others have pointed out it is possible. Not all rides are inspected in the morning before opening, some checks are done the previous evening after ride close (there isn’t enough resource to check everything in the 4hrs tech services have pre-opening).
It’s unlikely though mostly because the rides themselves will likely identify any safety critical faults.