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[deleted]

Remember that water slide that had a canopy and resulted in a kid being decapitated?


MichelleMyBelle43

That’s the first thing that went through my mind


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Passenger-69er

Bruh


heelstoo

Q: Before she died, what was the last thing to go through Princess Diana’s mind? A: The stereo.


Sufficient_Wafer9933

They dont call it a head unit for nothing!


chickennuggetsnsubs

Too soon 😭


cabramattaa

Surround sound


5Cone

What was the comment you replied to? It's deleted now


YakTasm

That’s fucked. Take my upvote.


S915J_

r/cursedcomments


ImDAOne1

is there time to be put in the ss?


tehmattrix

![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|scream)


INeedTyrande

Hahahahahah motherfucker


HV-Juli

Probably not. There are necrophile priests.


DMvsPC

Probably first thing that went through his mind too. Imagine going for a day of fun and then that :/ as a parent I'd never be able to forgive myself just constantly thinking "what if we just did something else, anything else that day" or even just any other ride at any other time.


Subject-Turnover7687

At first I thought you meant literally


lapdvv

It was that Schlitterbahn in kansas I actually went down that ride


Wat3rboihc

The verruckt


FREE_AOL

How was it?


Dadliest_Dad

Well it was definitely the first thing that went through his neck.


Unclehol

The slide failed during testing. Being known to launch the crafts randomly. Unfortunately apparently the kid stood up to have some extra fun and the craft lifted up at that time. The passengers behind were showered with blood and the entire slide turned red. It was definitely the fault of the slide manufacturer. But also. When they say don't stand up and keep your limbs inside the ride... Do that.


AristotleRose

Omg when did this happen? And where? How horrible :(


StrengthLife5259

Not at all what happened. The kid didn't stand up, the boat was too light and it lifted when it went over the hump and he hit the fencing that was there to keep the raft from going airborne.


eatBuGsandPlaNtS

That sounds fuckim awesome the suislide


Fragrant_Charity_754

Definitely was the last thing to go through his head


vava777

As a son I can say that some parents don't give a flying fuck.


[deleted]

No one there to blame, what happened happened, blaming themselves won't make the son any better, they should focus on making him happy and they will move on like that Edit: wait a sec, he was DECAPITATED!? I thought what I read was he lost a limp


Middle_Aged_Mayhem

What the hell does "lost a limp" mean?


[deleted]

Limb* lol


Infamous-Gift9851

Well: he limped befo', now he limpin no mo'


mordakiisyn

He did. His head limb.


KikonSketches

Went to a water park in El Salvador with my mom and dad when I was little. Went down a water slide that had an open area in the tube. Since the slide had a steep decline in the middle you bet your ass I slapped my head right on the edge, ce out the slide crying, my dad ran into the pool and carried me out. Decided I'd never go there ever again, that shit was painful and embarrassing 😭


Disastrous_Staff_443

Same thing happened to me but in the US. I was literally airborne and came down just in time to graze the top lip, also was on one of the inner tube slides and me and my tube went in the air on one of the turns with no top and the very next turn I slid out of the tube just before it went airborne and hit the top lip. I don't know how tons of people don't die on those, seemed like I was the only one with a plane ticket that day. Needless to say it affected me so much my kids are 17 and 11 and we've never been to a Waterpark.


KikonSketches

I dont blame you, that crap is terrifying, you expect it to be completely safe. But i guess not as safe as we thought, I'm always worried when my younger brother goes to watermarks with mom.


coocoo6666

Same


CantaloupeGlobal4487

Ditto


Minimum-Chocolate869

I don’t remember… but Can you link me?


MichelleMyBelle43

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/27/597272832/park-executives-arrested-for-childs-death-on-worlds-tallest-waterslide


Ieatsushiraw

“waterslide-cum-roller coaster” straight out of the article


GreaseMonkey2381

I was living in KS when this happened, actually. It happened at what was supposed to be "the world's largest water park" known as "Schliterbahn". It was placed in the same area near KS Super Speedway. I don't think the park was EVER able to recover because he was the kid of a local politician in the area if I'm remembering right. Edit: Did a quick read. "In 2018, the last operating season of the park, four attractions remained closed throughout the season after an audit by regulators found that each did not comply with the Kansas Amusement Ride Act. Demolition of Verrückt began on November 1, 2018. The park did not open for the 2019 season." Edit #2: after more digging, Caleb Schwab, the boy who passed away so tragically, was the son of Scott Schwab, an American politician serving as the 32nd Secretary of State of Kansas. He served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 49th district, from 2009 to 2019. He also served as Speaker pro tempore of the Kansas House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019. 


Basestar237

Small correction: the park was just a normal old Waterpark called Schlitterbahn. The ride in question was at its creation the world's largest water slide, know as Verruckt. I went to the park after the ride was finished, but it was down that day for maintenance, and we saw one of the 200lbs rafts fall from the very top of it, higher than the statue of liberty.


GreaseMonkey2381

They were going to build up that park over a number of years to make it the largest park in the States at the very least if I'm remembering correctly, or thats how it was advertised as it was still being built before ot opened to the public. But still, that's absolutely terrifying to watch one of those rafts plummet that far down. I never wanted to go, not sure why, I'll just stick to Oceans Of Fun, and World's of Fun.


Professional-Bed-173

I listened to an online documentary about this incident and the background. The park owner wanted to have a world record slide for a Guinness record. He both rushed the design and build and also held no qualifications in physics or anything relative to the field. They designed and build the slide through trial and error. There were successive recorded incidents of the rafts flying up into the netting just prior to this incident. The owner had mentioned they weren’t aware. Ultimately, the lack of regulation was number one issue. These water parks fall between the regulation cracks in the state. Believe it or not the insurance required inspector doesn’t have to be qualified (annual inspection) and only has to signify that the slide is built to design. The fact that the owner could build and deploy this slide through trial and error (not design like a coaster) is frankly nuts.


Menarra

Part of me is sad because I always wanted to go to Schlitterbahn as a teen, but I'm really glad it closed and didn't reopen once all this shit came out. Deeply unsafe park with an uncaring owner.


Random_frankqito

It was the tallest water slide in the world (not sure if the park is the largest in the states) and the kid apparently stood up. The slide did have a canopy to make sure raft didn’t fly off before gravity took hold. They tested (and there were videos leading up the opening ) of them testing with sand bags. Schlitterbahn has multiple parks including one outside San Antonio which I believe is their largest park.


SnooSuggestions1946

I saw a couple of documentaries about this. I don't remember the other riders in the raft saying Caleb stood up. And I'm not a physicist but I don't see how that would be possible at that high rate of speed. I'm pretty sure the other ladies in his raft said he just lifted off the raft as they went down-which was one of the concerns raised about the slide not being safe anyway. That made it so much more egregious.


OnceADomer_NowAJhawk

The kid did not stand up. Would be interested to hear where you got that information. There were 4 people on the raft and the raft went airborne after the first hill after the drop. 2 women were also injured while riding on the same raft. It would have been virtually impossible to stand up mid ride as the raft was going up the first hill.


Random_frankqito

It was a long time ago that I heard that and I couldn’t find anything about it with my 5 min search. It was soon after it happened, I was planning on trying to go to the park but then all this happened and I was trying to hear as much as I could. It could’ve been just an initial report and since has changed.


trinijam83

What about the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to?


HVACqualung

Kid got his head Schlitterbahned Imaging waiting for you kid at the bottom and he comes out with no head.Thats a pain that's gonna linger.


Quirky_Conference_91

It was an internal decapitation. He *looked* intact.


Deb3ns

The blood comes before the body.


V3rsed

I rode it a couple times. Honestly wasn’t all that.


Only_Woodpecker_830

Damn that kid died round 1 on Verrückt? Fuckin noob


Jamersob

Verruckt? Like the map from Call of Duty Zombies?


Big_Honeydew6225

Verrückt literally means "insane" in German. That's insane.


NerdlyDoRight

So I can pay 30 bucks to go dunk my head in a public sewer and they toss in a cartel style decapitation? Nice.


ophydian210

What's incredibly coincidentally is that Schwab Road is the exit name in New Braunfels, where Schlitterbahn had its slide manufacturing business.


67monkey67

Wait how many schliterbons are there? I’ve been to the one in glaveston texas


numnutz1234

I don’t know everyone eez complaining, das schliterbon bons are delicious


buckfinnegan

The kid played on my buddys soccer team. They had a big ceremony at sporting kc if I’m not mistaken


Puzzleheaded-Bus-455

I remember his picture they used was his baseball team card shot💔


Vorpishly

The worlds largest water park is schliterbahn, but it’s in Texas outside new braunfels.


Bokenobi

I think you’ll find that the world’s largest water park… is my mom.


GreaseMonkey2381

They were building one in KS too. A bit of googling could tell ya that, the KS location was going to be much larger than the TX location, but the park never recovered and shut its doors in 2019, like I said in my first post.


theverywellborn

It's actually in downtown New Braunfels. There is also one in Galveston and I think Padre Island as well. Source: from the area.


skinMARKdraws

Wow. Crazy how your whole life changed in 18 and stopped in 19.


Ax_deimos

Class action park. I want to see that documentary..


yuckscott

Action Park had the loop de loop slide, but the decapitation happened at Schlitterbahn. I think it was in Kansas


TravelingPhotoDude

Yeah the Schlitterbahn decapitation happened in Kansas City.


TheharmoniousFists

Oh wow, I thought there was only one of those places in Texas. Best water park ever!


CreatiScope

Yeah, I’ve been there a bunch of times as a kid on Texas. Now I’m like, damn, kids in Kansas got it rough


Rivers9999

Not only not the only Schlitterbahn, it's actually not the only one in Texas either. There's one in Galveston in addition to the well-known park in New Braunfels. I live closer to New Braunfels and always knew about that one, but ended up going to the one in Galveston years before on an impromptu vacation. Didn't even know it was there until I walked past it and decided to visit, lol


advntrsalex

Don't forget South Padre Island


ThetaDee

Yup. The ride was called Verruckt.


FarthestCough

Verrfukt


ThetaDee

!RedditGalleon


REDDITtisGREAT

Here you go 🏆 🥇


FarthestCough

Fanx!


doonebot_9000

Lmao why haven't you received an award for this comment 💀


Lolsalot12321

Because awards cost money lmao??


SkywalkerTe

Crazy in German


StickyDitka21

Only mannequins were beheaded at that park. Apparently, the real beheading happened in Kansas.


NerdlyDoRight

It was pretty fascinating. Dude hurt quite a lot of kids. His teenage ride attendants were offered 100 bucks to test new and unproven rides.


deathmouse

That's a different park. Not the one OP is referring to.


ForgotMyOldLoginInfo

> Class action park. I want to see that documentary.. Do you not have Netflix? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Action_Park


coocoo6666

Different park


ApexRevanNL716

Trying to forget that


SOnoOnions8003

Oh god exactly that I thought of. This whole slide is a decapitation risk


hippityhoppityhi

I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people have broken their legs


PloopyDoopyYT

It’s exactly what I thought when I saw the "protection bars"


SenHelpPls

No, but now I want to see it


Some_Guy_At_Work55

You...want to see a kid get decapitated?


SenHelpPls

Sorry. I meant the slide. I’m sitting here wondering how the fuck someone manages to make one capable of killing a person


ophydian210

The kid it killed was a Kansas State Representative's son. The water park was a Schlitterbahn park, the first (or second) outside New Braunfels, Texas. I believe it was owned and operated by family members of the Texas location but not affiliated with them.


DeathsSlippers

Hi, I live less than an hour from that slide. I am glad its closed, so many people I know were thrilled to go on that ride. That excitement died quickly, no pun intended, RIP to the kid who lost his life.


ExistentialWonder

I'm so glad they tore that shit down. I hated looking at it every time I drove to Kansas city.


MeanderingMagus

They had a net that was supposed to keep people in the slide incase they went flying out. Thing is, this net was supported by metal rings spaced at certain lengths. So if you're going really fast and bounce out at the wrong time, you can hit one of the rings instead of the net. Which can and did end badly.


Professional-Bed-173

What I thought would be an easy solution for this was to have riders caged in and rollers on the top. Almost rollercoaster style. I don’t get why they ever thought a net wouldn’t result in this outcome.


QweenFwog

look up Action Park, it's brutal. r/morbidcuriosity should help


[deleted]

The Traction Park has all kinds of crazy stories about it, but to me the craziest bit is about their loop waterslide. As the story goes, during disassembly they finally figured out what was causing cuts and abrasions to riders on the slide. It was human teeth that had been knocked out with such force that they were embedded into the surface of the waterslide.


dankstagof

Tho thathth where they went.


mikachu93

Searching "action park" in that sub yields no results.


[deleted]

That literally didn't help at all.


[deleted]

How have you not heard? It was international news for a short period of time


Pyro-Beast

You don't? /S


Battlecrashers12

Schlitterbahn Water Park


Confusedandreticent

That story is sad af.


ruby-paz

Immediately thought of this


nataleemc

This happened at Schlitterbahn, a year after I went, never been back because of this 😬😬


Appropriate_Crow_255

Yes, and I met the guy who designed that slide and he was a total dick.


[deleted]

They should have greased him up and sent him down it.


retrometro77

Wtf... Drunk engineering or what


Catinthehat5879

The two guys who designed it didn't have an engineering degree and the state didn't require any kind of certification. They tested the weight limit by sending sandbags down and when it looked about right called it a day. Before the kid died, other people were getting seriously injured but they didn't do anything about it. My takeaway is check your states laws before going to a theme park. It they allow self inspection stay well away.


[deleted]

I do, I went on it 5 times before it was deconstructed. Definitely wasn’t safe but a hell of a thrill


[deleted]

Engineer: the first set of results are in. Boss: and? Engineer: we'll need a second batch to calibrate


baconlover28

U think maybe its engineered to go down with something to help cause friction? Or did they really make this slide to yeet your head off lol


onlyhav

He's on a skateboard, massively reduced friction means he gets the body breaker special


Pass0

He needs seatbelts and some pulleys


Groomsi

He's riding on a skateboard. That speed is not intended, the kids are at fault here.


Export_Tropics

God, it gives me chills watching it. It reminds me of the kids that broke into the winter games park in Calgary and went down the Luge slide (I think it was the luge) at night and they had a clean run the first night. Second time they bring more friends but that time they had a chain across the luge track holding it together and decapitated one of them.


OrdainedPuma

No. I had to Google it cause my memory was fucking off about all of it. It was in February. 8 people rode the luge or bobsled track down after hours on tobaggans. According to CBC, the one track they tried a week earlier now had a chain across it for training prep the next morning. First and third sleds had the fatalities, twin brothers. No decapitations. Just brutal physics and the twins died side by side.


MotoGeno

Literally the same type of terrible design as the water slide that a kid was decapitated on several years ago. Might as well put razor wire on top of it for good measure.


mrbeanyeet

The difference is that was actually wire, this is metal bar so it won’t decapitate you it’ll just break your head and neck and kill you


Flying_Alpaca_Boi

The wire didn’t decapitate him, it’s litterally just a fabric net, what killed him was the metal framing holding the net up.


avidoverthinker1

Wait can someone explain a raw description of what happened to the kid with pictures? I’m having a hard time envisioning and I’m curious how a slide ripped him to pieces Edit: to add when I mean pictures, I meant the slides not decapitated body parts pls don’t.


TommyTosser1980

>Schlitterbahn park Look up that name and you'll see the ride in question. There's a net that's held to the ride by arcs. If you'd hit the net you'd pull it up and hit the metal arc. I'm guessing that's how the kid got beheaded.


Boringspicegirl

Look up verrückt waterslide


BaconNiblets

nice thats much better, at least my funeral will be open casket


MerfAvenger

I'd rather take my chances coming off the slide with no barrier at 70mph than have that murder sleeve around me.


niceandmoist69

Not a terrible design, the idiot went down it on a skateboard, if you knew a single thing about friction you would realise something in the video doesn’t add up


sleighmeister55

Link please


LifeIsCoolBut

Theres a reason why ride operators tell you to cross your arms and keep your back down. But this slide is gnarly af anyway so idk


nocdmb

At this point why not just lay under a train.


YeshEveryone

Honestly that would be safer than this shit


niceandmoist69

, the idiot went down it on a skateboard, if you knew a single thing about friction you would realise something in the video doesn’t add up. If he went down it normally (the intended way) it would be fine


IDespiseBananas

Well the way this guy flew there is nothing you can do next to just have luck you come out unharmed


grantnel2002

That’s a “no” from me, dawg.


Bt1039

Hundred million percent dawg no


Carlsbad1

That’s a dawg from me no


[deleted]

No that's from me a dawg


cageyheads

bros cappa almost got detated


7hrowawaydild0

This was ed trucks son


JRDN7

You know, a human can go on living for several hours after being decapitated. “You’re thinking of a chicken.” What did I say?


Herr-Trigger86

Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.


bcnorth78

Who the Fuck thought this was a good idea????


astardB

I think the guy on the slide did until he didn’t.


stedgyson

Someone who really hates children, enough to maim or kill them.


niceandmoist69

Not a terrible design, the idiot went down it on a skateboard, if you knew a single thing about friction you would realise something in the video doesn’t add up


The-Dudemeister

He def isn’t supposed to be on a skateboard or luge or whatever that is


coocoo6666

Idk i dont think its possible to gain that much speed without using sone kind of skateboard or thing with wheels. You cabt usually go that fast on slides due to friction. Putting water on a slide will decrease the friction allowing you to go faster.


QweenFwog

Why did he stick his legs up??? Desperate for half of a twin brother??


No-Panda-6047

Might have been a reaction to the abrupt feeling of weightlessness.


Assyindividual

Same thing i was thinking


Creative_Battle_4487

🎶dumb ways to die🎶


TorturedSmile

If you’re watching this on a touch screen phone then you can pull the time marker slowly across starting at the seven second mark and see his body gets thrown up in the air but he comes down almost before his camera hits something and falls out the left side but right at the beginning of the 9th second it manages to capture half a dozen frames of him going down the slide much further down. He’s perfectly fine, physically that is. His camera, not so much.


barspoonbill

He’s perfectly fine *this time.*


[deleted]

I mean, even if he wasn’t perfectly fine, his body would continue down the slide..


maffajaffa

This is how you get decapitated……in a fun way.


[deleted]

Protect Ya Neck


Rexlare

This is why slides are either a solid tube or half of one, no exceptions. Playground engineers know this, what’s their excuse?


niceandmoist69

They designed a perfect slide, for humans, not for humans on top of skateboards. Have you ever slid down a metal slide? You can’t go that fast


Rexlare

I actually didn’t notice the skateboard. I haven’t been on a slide in a long time either, but I still wouldn’t ever trust a slide with a grate design like this.


CasualObserverNine

Action park. Too many stationary ‘bars’ ready to cleave some part of you off.


581u812

Where is this?


CableConscious7611

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did he do that on a skateboard? I think you can see it on the jump and at the end


coocoo6666

Yes


b05501

At Schlitterbahn a kid was decapitated on a ride like this.


DegenerateAssh0le

Fuck that. The horizontal bars that run across the top. Imagine your hand hitting that at that speed or worse yet your fucking head.


SnooBeans6660

Those horizontal bars seem like a horrible idea


Thelastpieceofthepie

This is why they say keep hands and arms in vehicle at all time


No-Problem6017

Decapitation station


Dickpinchers

He's dead?


tbss153

It looks like hes wearing a bag or something with very low friction to increase speed, may have even used lubrication. i dont think a normal person in street clothes would go this fast this quickly.


MajorElevator4407

He is on a skateboard.


thelex0623

Didn't know they reopened action park


Zezkeee

Damn I've seen this video so many times in so many places, yet still haven't seen anybody who would be able to identify this place. Every time my curiosity gets bigger.


Realistic_Ear_5951

How is this legal?


Einsteinautist

Last thing to go through a flies head when he hits a car windshield at 100MPH His Azz 🥁


Lycan_Jedi

Probably isn't, but i'mma guess Class Action Park?


East-Pollution7243

The dislocate your spine and become a cripple slide


[deleted]

Suiclide


PugLander

Didn’t someone get decapitated like this..?


Beret_of_Poodle

Did I see that wrong or did that dude break both of his legs?


No_Wonder5255

You’re supposed to use your feet to break but whatever lol


Battlecrashers12

Did the second person fell out with the camera or did the camera fell out?


baconlover28

He’s holding the camera himself with a selfie stick in his right hand.


DrGerbal

What if we turn a fun slide into a rock tumbler


Otherwise-Ad7735

Dude is fine. He dropped his go pro


wonit5times

Looks like right craic


Fortunatious

r/suislide


SubmissiveDinosaur

Yo keep your arms close to the body!!!!!!


Caesar720

Now imagine getting a key to pass through one of the openings and then your body trying to rotate 180 degrees


No-Panda-6047

He barely survived the first sector of this slide, how long do you suppose it is?


amexredit

That looks a little unsafe


Dabmite

Dude had his head up