wouldn’t fit on the rides, she almost canceled.“The fact that I even have to think about if I will fit the rides is the first difference [in being a plus-sized visitor],” the mental-health nursing student told NeedToKnow.online.O’Neill said she worries about pushing down ride seats and safety bars to close them, adding that she also is concerned about safety following the death of a 14-year-old boy who died after falling off a ride at a theme park in Orlando, Florida, in March.
An autopsy subsequently found that he was 96 pounds over the weight safety limit.Deciding she didn’t want other people to be in the same uncomfortable situation, O’Neill — who is a size 24 to 26 — made a TikTok video of herself checking seat sizes for each ride.“I used all the test seats that I could find, which most people don’t have to do,” she explained.
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