God knows...and so does AZ, that I certainly call him out when I disagree with him...which seems to be about 80% of the time...so it's only fair to stand up for him when I do agree with him.
I don't get the whole chainsaw thing either. I'm sorry, but it makes about as much sense as being scared of someone running around with a leaf blower reving it up. Anyone with a smidgen of intelligence knows that it has to be harmless...especially in this lawsuit happy world of ours...how anyone is SCARED I have no idea...I can understand startled, but NOT scared.
And by your logic, anyone with a smidgen of intelligence also should not be scared by ANYTHING they encounter at Haunt...or anything else for that matter that's inside the park as they know it all to be harmless. But we all know that not to be true.
Haunted attractions play off the fears of each individual. Some people might be afraid of blood and guts, zombies, small places/rooms, chain saws, mutant animals, clowns, children toys, and just the fear of the "unknown" of what is coming up in the maze. Some people are scared by all of these things, others are scared of none, but most people fall some where in the middle. So by using as many different techniques to try and scare someone, Kings Island is trying to make it enjoyable to the largest number of people possible.
No one expects you to be scared with everything that you encounter at Haunt. But even though you find something stupid, it doesn't mean that it isn't worth having at Haunt (and from what I saw at Wall of Monsters last Friday, the chain saw was scaring a large number of people and I would consider it a worthy "scare item")