One of, if not the favorite toy of geeks and Makers everywhere is Legos. The small plastic snap-together bricks can be used to make about anything. In fact, Lego is considered by some to be the most popular toy in the world. So popular, in fact, that in Denmark there is a theme park dedicated to the bricks.
And it was at this theme park earlier in the week that a Legoland employee lost her life. A guest at the park had lost his wallet on a Lego roller coaster. The 21-year old woman jumped over a safety fence to retrieve it, and was promptly hit in the head with the Legocoaster’s car. She died instantly.
We could make a tasteless joke about how heroic bystanders quickly built an ambulance out of the available bricks, but we won’t. Instead let it be a cautionary tale: even if you are an employee, safety fences are there for a really, really good reason.
Legoland Employee Dies After Being Hit by Roller Coaster [FOX News]
Another innocent life claimed by Lego. This would never have happened at a Megabloks park.
They couldn’t put her head back on?
lol @ ilya oh and Mark, you’re mean haha
There is also a Legoland in California
http://www.legoland.com/california.htm
Darwin works in mysterious and wonderful ways – my condolences to the family.
Jon
I don’t know where you got the wallet part from, but as danish news reported it, she jumped the fence because she saw someone drop something from one of the rides.
oh, and it’s Lego bricks, not legos, saying it like that makes Denmark melt
there is a legoland in windsor in UK http://www.legoland.co.uk/