This time in St. Louis my hometown, one of the local haunted houses here that really builds themselves up as the scariest in town, the best, blah, blah, shot one of their customers on Halloween with a 45 caliber gun loaded with blanks and injured a customer and a co-worker.
The custmer had to go to the hospital. Today I read the sherrif office will probably file charges against the people who fired the gun, and I'm sure without a doubt the haunted house will be sued for un-real amounts of money.
A few weeks ago I talked about how 90% of haunted houses suck are not good... and again I meant those new haunts that open, now this haunt is not new they opened last year, and I think three years prior to that under different names, but again in my opinion all fly by night. They have access to the net, they could have joined HHA, or looked at the hundreds of websites that offer information but they didn't or didn't listen to any of it. Bottom line this haunt falls into my group of 90% of new haunts because they are still what I consider fly by night.
This haunt has changed locations and its name several times, they buy lots of ads, but they don't offer a good haunted house at least not in my opinion and well now we learn they are not even safe.
Who in their RIGHT MIND would do this... oh yeah I remember another fly by night opened a few years ago and shoot a customer and killed them with a loaded gun thinking that would be scary. YEAH IT WAS SCARY!
When you see things like this or read these things, you KNOW it is our responsibility to make things like HHA important to our industry. This person at this haunt could have died this could have been bigger news, and whether we like it or not we get LUMPED IN WITH IDIOTS LIKE haunts who shoot guns at people, or run an unsafe haunt, or say they are the best in the world but offer nothing.
Me personally I'm tired of these fly by night haunts who give the rest of us a bad name, or ruin all the hard work we've built up with television shows, national PR, good will with customers nationwide.
Anyway we have to do more to help these people avoid shooting their customers with guns, doing dangerous things, or to realize the risks involved in opening a haunt so they won't do it. At this point I wonder if this haunt has insurance maybe they do maybe they don't I don't know but they are going to need it for sure... and sadly this could have been avoided!
ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD USE A GUN TO TRY TO SCARE PEOPLE... oh well another example of why we need to work together to educate people hopefully through HHA.
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Larry
The custmer had to go to the hospital. Today I read the sherrif office will probably file charges against the people who fired the gun, and I'm sure without a doubt the haunted house will be sued for un-real amounts of money.
A few weeks ago I talked about how 90% of haunted houses suck are not good... and again I meant those new haunts that open, now this haunt is not new they opened last year, and I think three years prior to that under different names, but again in my opinion all fly by night. They have access to the net, they could have joined HHA, or looked at the hundreds of websites that offer information but they didn't or didn't listen to any of it. Bottom line this haunt falls into my group of 90% of new haunts because they are still what I consider fly by night.
This haunt has changed locations and its name several times, they buy lots of ads, but they don't offer a good haunted house at least not in my opinion and well now we learn they are not even safe.
Who in their RIGHT MIND would do this... oh yeah I remember another fly by night opened a few years ago and shoot a customer and killed them with a loaded gun thinking that would be scary. YEAH IT WAS SCARY!
When you see things like this or read these things, you KNOW it is our responsibility to make things like HHA important to our industry. This person at this haunt could have died this could have been bigger news, and whether we like it or not we get LUMPED IN WITH IDIOTS LIKE haunts who shoot guns at people, or run an unsafe haunt, or say they are the best in the world but offer nothing.
Me personally I'm tired of these fly by night haunts who give the rest of us a bad name, or ruin all the hard work we've built up with television shows, national PR, good will with customers nationwide.
Anyway we have to do more to help these people avoid shooting their customers with guns, doing dangerous things, or to realize the risks involved in opening a haunt so they won't do it. At this point I wonder if this haunt has insurance maybe they do maybe they don't I don't know but they are going to need it for sure... and sadly this could have been avoided!
ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD USE A GUN TO TRY TO SCARE PEOPLE... oh well another example of why we need to work together to educate people hopefully through HHA.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/new...7?OpenDocument
Larry
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