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Perhaps I'm missing something?

Summit Waves owner said she “didn’t feel comfortable” and “they didn’t represent Summit Waves”.

He also said something about the kids saving up their money and that’s not right either. The father paid for the rental for his son’s 17th birthday. The original article said the park had tried to contact them throughout the day but were unable to reach them. The reported issue stemmed from a policy that people are not allowed to post the party on social media and it had been posted.

While failing to find factual support for racist denial, you might come across the real fact that Lee's Summit is 87+% white, 8+% black.

Maybe that could be used in speculation that, if we could only see into her mind, the manager was glad for racist reasons that city and county codes required the group be denied for size. Without evidence that that was true, that'd be slander, but hey, this IS social media. (She is white, right? Fair game for race-based character assassination?)

Fwiw, assuming racist grievance at every turn has nothing to do with commitment to equality. It's something very different. And leaping to race-based animosities is racist in itself. Of course.

I lived right next to Lee Summit, so I know far more about the racial makeup of Lee Summit, probably more than a lot of people on DU.
And my comment had nothing to do w/ the racial issue, I was just wondering about the ownership of the property, getting more clarification on it, nothing else and nothing more as you seemed to infer and/or attach to my remark. Perhaps maybe before you go making comments on the sideline, find out more, do some further research?

Maybe also look at many of the unfortunately mislead and inflamed reactions triggered by the OP and figure out how how it might have been presented to avoid unsupported outrage.

And as part of the process question whether this incident warrants a political post at all. Sounds to me like it might be better suited to the Municipal Park Management Monthly.

When we aren't part of the solution, we're part of the problem. I'm sure you agree with that.

A City owned water park turning away residents. Kids!!

She didn't feel "comfortable"?

Damn, she (and those lifeguards) need to lose her job.

I'm sorry, but these are the people who chose Josh Hawley over Claire.

Soviet Union.”

United States: “Pardon us, while we turn back the clock
to Jim Crow.”

Outrageous. That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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They reserved it for 250 people, but 500 were going to show up based on sharing it on social media. Park couldn't accommodate that many


https://democraticunderground.com/10615811

Link to tweet

and why 500 people showed up when they had reserved for only 250?

Was there a guest list provided in order that the park could identify who was part of the private party and who wasn't?

What could possibly go wrong?

... the water park didn't get enough security.

Require the party that reserved it to sign a liability waiver accepting full responsibility for any injuries or drownings that may occur. Make everyone entering the park read and sign the waiver as well.

the employees who didn't follow the rules while a full investigation is done. Then fire them for cause. That way they'll have to provide their own legal defenses, a tiny but real way of cutting municipality's (read: resident taxpayers') costs from this.

Such a shame this manager did her job as required by various codes.

Who are also city staff. I need to find it, but they were life lol we heard we are being canceled by whiny people and we don't give AF. I know for a fact canceled and don't give AF were in it, with two or three women lifeguards smirking. They should be immediately fired.

I had to go look.

“We don’t give a single fuck.”

What a bunch of assholes. Fired and never allowed to be in public safety position ever again.

Jesus. And then that snotty AF social media post by several of the lifeguards? Who are public employees??????

This should be a slam dunk, but how are we getting worse as a society as time goes on?

They broke the rules of the rental agreement. They said they would have 250 people (which is crazy for a birthday party, by the way) and expressly agreed not to post it on social media, which they did, causing the number of people who actually showed up to be 500 people. The park tried to contact them repeatedly to tell them their event was canceled because they broke the contract terms and they could not safely accommodate them with that many guests.

I am not prepared to blame the park for not having sufficient security at this point simply because of the staffing issues every sector of the workforce is experiencing at this moment in time. There have been 2-3 news stories every day this week here about how bus routes are being canceled for the school year, how schools are short teachers to start school, how they need subs, how there will be a rotating schedule for bus routes in some districts (you can ride the bus on even weeks, and you have to drive your kids on odd weeks because no bus service to your neighborhood.) It's crazy.

So when I hear that a birthday party was going to have 250 people and that swelled to 500... the first thing I think isn't racism... it's what sort of parents have 500 people at their kid's birthday party. I got to have maybe 20 friends at the biggest birthday party I ever had. Makes me think the problem was NOT with the park...