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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

The full injunction is available online [9MB PDF]

It forbids these defendants:
  • (1) Alistair Law, (2) Rikke Brewer and (3) Scott Mackay
  • (4) Persons unknown who entered Legoland Windsor on 26th April 2018 with the above 1, 2 or 3
  • (5) Persons unknown who entered Alton Towers on 5th May 2018 with the above 1, 2 or 3
  • (6) Persons unknown entering any of the Merlin attractions without permission
So section 6 seems to be broad enough to cover anybody, even those unaffiliated with Ally Law.

However it does say "The Sixth Defendants must not enter the premises listed in Schedule 1 ... at any time and for any purpose without the express written permission of [Merlin]" which seems slightly odd. Doesn't this mean everybody needs written permission to enter a Merlin attraction? :confused:
 
It is part six that is unenforceable in law.
It is simply too broad to be meaningful under the terms of the law.
It is legal to put it in the order, but it cannot be enforced apparently.
It is a bit like the "no liability" signs in car parks.
They are liable in certain circumstances, and no amount of signs will take that liability away, but the signs themselves are legal.
 
How would they recognise them though? Surely they could just whack a cap on, security must see thousands of faces a day...
 
Some of the sites I work at have such injunctions. I don't know if they are structured in the same way.

Is this supposed to/does it create the same consequences as if you were entering a RAF/MOD/other government site? (I assume not).
 
Rick said:
Some of the sites I work at have such injunctions. I don't know if they are structured in the same way.

Is this supposed to/does it create the same consequences as if you were entering a RAF/MOD/other government site? (I assume not).
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Perhaps, however anyone going into a government site would have ID on them and would be ID checked on entry. That would be impractical when getting 20,000 impatient guests through the turnstiles.
 
Different rules for military/defense and government sites.
My wife misplaced her work id yesterday...took three different people to agree to let her in.
Then they agreed she could not stay on the premises, under law, without the pass.
Luckily it had dropped out of her bag in the car, or it would have been no work for two days.
And back on topic...aren't Thorpe due another coaster by now?
 
DiogoJ42 said:
Hmmm, I wonder if Thorpe is close enough to Heathrow to get them areested?
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No it's halfway between two FRZs.

Lurker said:
It's ~4.1 miles from the southern perimeter of Heathrow to the dome at Thorpe park.

I don't know what the rules are.
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The rules are simple but do depend on what type of flight it was (commercial v leasure), either way they technically broke the #1 at least half a dozen times (maintain VLOS) but that rule is utterly stupid and nobody would ever fly if we had to adhere to it strictly.

I think the video was done with a 360 camera, the movement isn't natural for a racing/freestyle quad and it looks like it was all done in post, that makes it even less impressive tbh.
 
rob666 said:
Different rules for military/defense and government sites.
My wife misplaced her work id yesterday...took three different people to agree to let her in.
Then they agreed she could not stay on the premises, under law, without the pass.
Luckily it had dropped out of her bag in the car, or it would have been no work for two days.
And back on topic...aren't Thorpe due another coaster by now?
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I thought they weren’t meant to be getting on next year - project 2020
 
There's some pretty interesting stuff online about said injunctions, how they operate etc. Having a read through.
 
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