More than 3,000 people have signed a petition asking Knott’s Berry Farm to reopen a Halloween horror attraction that was closed after mental health advocates said it was insensitive to the mentally ill.
The virtual reality attraction was shut down this week at Knott’s in Buena Park, California’s Great America in Santa Clara and Canada’s Wonderland near Toronto.
The attraction initially was called FearVR: 5150 — the number of a California state code involving the committal of those with dangerous psychiatric problems. The story line is about a demonically possessed hospital patient.
A new Change.org petition asks Knott’s and its corporate owner, Cedar Fair Entertainment, to reinstate FearVR.
The petition says the story involves possession — not mental illness — and argues that the critics hadn’t experienced the attraction.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
PC has been carried to far!
As one who has decided that being politically correct, is no longer politically correct, I have ceased to be so. In the written word and in speech. The term can now be considered, archaic and has now outlived any usefulness it might have ever had.
Reopen the park. Those offended, or at risk, need not enter, attend, or participate in the park’s attraction. Simple as that.
Maybe we create a PC religion…and anytime a group , politician or activist goes too PC we declare racism or whatever. Works for the gays, blacks, hispanics, etc, etc, etc…
Halloween comes from Hallowed Evening. It was a Druid harvest festival celebration involving human sacrifice. The real history is scarier than any stupid game we’ve invented to take its place.
F^ck that PAGAN CELIBRATION OF SATAN !
The Celtic Druids had no knowledge/belief in Satan as this was pre-Christian British history. They had different Gods and beliefs.
When you you ever learn!? This so p.c. bsin s nothing less than censureship! It’s the easier way for the lunatic left ,anti-Americans to change the way the people can think ,speak, and act without calling it as it really is outright censureship! It’s all just part of their evil plan to destroy America! Wake up and see that the devilcrats have the embraced the enemy’s ideals and are actively working for them against a fee America! If the crooked hilLiary gets elected it’ll be a sad sad day for freedom and America as she has stated that her intentions are to gut and destroy the constitution starting with the bill of rights! Pure evil! She is intent on finishing the destruction of America that satan has started during his eight yrs in office!
Once again stupid editing by the overseers of the site;”the second line should be this so called PC bs is nothing less than censureship!
You got to pay to get in to the Knott’s Berry Farm Halloween attraction (it’s not free) so it’s the person that pays to bring in a mentally ill person with them, that’s being insensitive to the mentally ill. Not the Knott’s Berry Farm Halloween attraction! And even if the person paying to get in is a mentally ill person, They still have the right to choose weather to go in or not This is so stupid on the part of Knott’s Berry Farm to make such a decision.
I support the fun
Trick or Treaters are being charged as hate crime perpetrators as “Zombiephobes”, Black Félix Domesticusphobes and Ghostiophobes.