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re: Boy dies on Kansas waterslide billed as world's tallest
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:34 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:34 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Safety cages won't do a ton if you fall forward and start rolling. I guess it'll keep your dead hunk of human meat from smacking the pavement.
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Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:34 pm to PepaSpray
I'll buy your tickets
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:35 pm to UltimateHog
That is horrendous if the kid lost his head. Kiss that ride goodbye
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:35 pm to Jcorye1
I would imagine the cage/net came into play if he was decapitated
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:35 pm to Jcorye1
Maybe the whole raft came out of the cage.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:36 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I went down one at Hawaiian Falls and my nuts were in my stomach for three weeks.
F that thing
F that thing
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:36 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I've rode slides where it's just you and the slide and I'd still mope the frick out of there
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:37 pm to UltimateHog
quote:
Erika Tallan Verified account @ErikaTallan
@CourtneeBrokaw @FOX2now according to tweets from @meganbrilley... a witness told her the boy was decapitated. Officials won't say.
holy crap.. i couldn imagine as a parent
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:37 pm to oleyeller
Dear Lord. So terrible.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:37 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
Yeah I just read that. Insane.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:39 pm to UltimateHog
quote:
Riders on the Verrückt are supposed to be at least 54 inches tall. Riders sit in a three-person raft and are secured with straps across the waist and shoulders, like a seat belt. The combined weight of riders per raft must be between 400 and 550 pounds. Riders are weighed at the bottom of the tower and again at the top.
It seems like they have some fairly strict safety procedures in place. Wonder if the employees actually followed them though the age of a rider isn't something an employee can easily check.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:47 pm to bbrownso
I would bet that if the decapitation tweet is true, when you hit the top of the hill, there probably wasn't enough weight in the raft to hold it down and he went up into the cage
ETA: just watched video of people going down. Not sure how else it could have happened
ETA: just watched video of people going down. Not sure how else it could have happened
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:55 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:
I would bet that if the decapitation tweet is true, when you hit the top of the hill, there probably wasn't enough weight in the raft to hold it down and he went up into the cage
I saw a picture on twitter of them removing the safety nets, I think after the apex of the second hump.
Supposedly they weigh the passengers twice but it might have been heavy in front or back and caused it to lift.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:57 pm to bbrownso
Horrible. A poster on Reddit said they were there not long after, couldn't get close, but heard the mother saying "He's not moving"? Not sure about the source, but if it's legit, not moving and he doesn't have all or most of his head?
Internal decapitation?
Internal decapitation?
Posted on 8/7/16 at 8:58 pm to UltimateHog
quote:Probably. The second time I looked at the article it had already changed a bit.
And yeah KC Star sucks major arse, KC Fox, ABC, and NBC reporting he was 12.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:00 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:
I would bet that if the decapitation tweet is true, when you hit the top of the hill, there probably wasn't enough weight in the raft to hold it down and he went up into the cage
Yep. My son is almost 12 and about average height but rather thin (57" but only 70 lbs). If this kid was similar in stature, he would've passed on the height, but the other two people would have to weigh 330 lbs to get it to the minimum 400. If it was unbalanced, it seems like that could make part of the raft lift too.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:00 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
double post
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:00 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:00 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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Kansas waterslide billed as world's tallest
Not for long after this.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:02 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Those nets should be going down wayyyy farther than that.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:04 pm to Sentrius
They built in KS because they have no mandated slide height restrictions.
Poster on Reddit said blood was pouring down the slide
Poster on Reddit said blood was pouring down the slide
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