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Enron has been featured since its bankruptcy in popular culture, including in The Simpsons episodes "That '90s Show" (Homer buys Enron stock while Marge chooses to keep her own Microsoft shares) and "Special Edna", which features a scene of an Enron-themed amusement park ride.
Enron was a major electricity, natural gas, communications and paper company, which was named by Fortune as “America’s Most Innovative Company” for six years in a row and employed around ...
Kenneth Lay, Enron's former chairman, died of a heart attack in 2006, one month after his career ended with a criminal conviction for lying to investors about the company's finances. 'Birds aren't ...
An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001.
On June 13, 2003, a man was seriously injured in a 30-foot (9.1 m) fall from the Scenic Skyway chairlift ride at Knoebels Amusement Park. The man was a member of a group home for mentally disabled people and was riding alone. He was airlifted to a local hospital and recovered.
Every day from May through September in each year between 1990–2010 had an average of 20 injuries by amusement park guests under 18 years of age that required hospitalization. [4] In 2011, 1,204 people were injured at 400 amusement parks, according to the IAAPA. [2] In 2019, there were 1,299 injuries from amusement park accidents in the U.S. [5]
In the long history of financial frauds, Enron ranks near the top of the list, with the once high-flying energy trading company suddenly unraveling in a web of lies and accounting sleight-of-hand.
Bud Hurlbut (left) and Walter Knott (right) riding the Timber Mountain Log Ride, Knott's Berry Farm, 1969. Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut (June 13, 1918 – January 5, 2011) [1] was a designer, builder, entrepreneur, and one of the first creators of theme parks in the United States.