General Discussion

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...