Fat people suck for sure but the presence of two fat women on that raft wasn't the problem.  The engineers set the weight limit per raft an the raft was under it.  One of the problems was that the staff should have seated the boy between the two fat women.  They didn't.  Another problem was that people went airborne, sometimes all the way up into the netting, whether or not there were fat people on their raft and whether or not the weight on the raft was evenly distributed.  It had been shut down and worked on at least twice due to people flying up and due to failure of basic restraints.  If you read about the construction and "troubleshooting" of the problems this slide had, you suddenly realize that a child could have constructed a safer ride using Legos.  The nets on metal bars that decapitated this child were placed on the ride because the design was so bad that rafts flew over the side of the slide.  In their quest to make this slide the largest standing structure in Kansas City, the engineers didn't take into account how unmanageable a 70 mph descent from an eleven-story tall slide would be. It was a complete clusterfuck and it never should have been permitted to operate until it was shown that the rafts could stay on the ride.  Netting with metal supports during a rapid descent like that with careening rafts was eventually going to kill someone.    The real "fuck" part of this story is that Scott Schwab was one of the state senators who pushed hard for reduced safety regulation at the park in order to tempt the company to build the facility in the city. He openly endorsed the lax environment that killed his son.