imanautie
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Might not be up to merlin.
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Thorpe Park: General Discussion
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And to add two people arrested for attempted murder.
Quite right if this turns out to have been an avoidable incident.
imanautie
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I'm not sure if there's enough time to figure out who's to blame before a decision to not open tommrow would need to be made.
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They re-opened the exit gates 18:12, so I think that's unlikely.
They'll probably wait till the police have concluded their investigation, and I belive the park are assisting with it.
imanautie
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Agreed, unlikely but possible.
Whilst I think they should be shut and there should be a police investigation, the park hasn’t announced they are closed tomorrow. So at this point I would assume the authorities have given them permission to reopen with the same security checks.
Which is ludicrous because from what my friends said today there were no security checks.
Not blame, but assuming they have found the weapon then the park would know if it was brought into the park or if it was something already inside (knife from restaurant etc)
imanautie
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Ah so your thinking it depends on if they get a rough idea if it was preventable?
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It has already been stated that the police are investigating, and Thorpe have said they are assisting. An I right in thinking there's CCTV on the bridge?
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To be fair to Thorpe Park, it is impossible for a security system to detect every possible security threat. If you have ever watched Police Interceptors then you will know how creative criminals can be to hide weapons and drugs from the police. The only way to be certain that a person is not carrying weapons or drugs would be a full body strip search which would be slow, expensive, invasive and massively unpopular. Airport security is far from impenetrable however the fear of being caught is usually enough to stop people bringing weapons into an airport, there are still some people who will attempt it and get through.
imanautie
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Yep, they posted stills when that girl went missing.
I get that but my friends went today and only had temperature check, there wasn’t any security check at all. So the individuals involved must have known it was pretty easy just to walk in without getting any security checks.
imanautie
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They have made efforts to sort one of the bypass routes out by having bag free security at the end where they do temp checks.
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I went last Wednesday and they were doing security checks, I am surprised they weren't today.
imanautie
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If you arrive at certain times you are almost guaranteed not to be checked, other times they check everyone loosely.
Yeah, if it was from outside then you could argue it was possible to prevent if security were active.
@TPJames I think most regular visitors would know that security is pretty much pot luck. It’s part show to try and reassure you but I remember back when they introduced it people were on twitter complaining that waiting hours to get into the park was terrible when security weren’t actually doing anything and the fact there were legal ways to enter the park and avoid security all together.
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This is an awkward one for security at this time. Covid will come into this. Can the normal security screening e.g. bag checks be done with non contact / social distancing rules.
Also security staff are being used for covid secure.
I wonder if this unique change in operations was abused by the attackers to get the weapon in?
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Also security staff are being used for covid secure.
I wonder if this unique change in operations was abused by the attackers to get the weapon in?
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imanautie
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When I went both times they physically touched the contents of my bag.
I think all they need to do to reassure the public is to make use of the metal detectors-they won't actually help but they give the impression they do.