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re: Boy dies on Kansas waterslide billed as world's tallest
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:06 pm to The Cool No 9
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:06 pm to The Cool No 9
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Those nets should be going down wayyyy farther than that.
Looks like the nets go the entire length of the slide.
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Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:06 pm to RogerTheShrubber
A priest spokesman for the family said the boy was 10. The dad is a lawmaker in Kansas as well.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:08 pm to UltimateHog
Pic removing part of it.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:08 pm to Dorothy
Aren't they supposed to weigh the riders before allowing them on? Noah's Ark had a ride that my daughter missed the weight and wouldn't let her on.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:09 pm to UltimateHog
Picture posted on Twitter from overhead helicopter shot from local news.
Appears to show a huge amount of blood in the water at the bottom. It's pretty disturbing considering.
Appears to show a huge amount of blood in the water at the bottom. It's pretty disturbing considering.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:09 pm to EastNastySwag
Is that blood red water?
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:10 pm to UltimateHog
yea looks like that is blood
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:11 pm to UltimateHog
Dude I feel like a shite head thinking the nets were the answer. This sounds terrible
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:11 pm to heartbreakTiger
This keeps getting worse for the park IF true
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THE Fake Ned ?@TheFakeNed
41 reporting multiple witnesses saying the ride harness wasn't functioning prior to the accident. Awful. #Verruckt
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:13 pm to Itismemc
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no mandated slide height restrictions.
That will be ancient history after this.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:13 pm to UltimateHog
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blood red water?
wow
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:15 pm to UltimateHog
I know people always throw out "lawsuit" with these stories, but I see a huge lawsuit coming.
This slide may not reopen ever again.
This slide may not reopen ever again.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:15 pm to The Cool No 9
Yeah appears to me the "netting" or at least the framework for the netting might have been what killed him
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:18 pm to JPLSU1981
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Alonzo Washington ?@kccrimefighter 12 minutes ago
Workers are telling me that it's been a issue with the harnesses on the Verruckt had been messing up 4 a while!
Alonzo Washington ?@kccrimefighter 35 minutes ago
My sources who work at Schlitterbahn are telling me that the boy flew in the air & hit a pipe & his head came off. I can't prove it yet!
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Melissa Yeager ?@melissayeagr 3 hours ago
Open letter national media: Pls press Kansas re: why inspections of Verruckt/amusement parks are not open records.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:24 pm to GetCocky11
Devil's advocate....minimum age restriction with the boy. So where's the responsibility on that?
But that won't really matter if the harnesses were not securing properly.
But that won't really matter if the harnesses were not securing properly.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:25 pm to UltimateHog
His head had to come off for that amount of blood to be present in the water.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:27 pm to 50_Tiger
I'd pity the workers at the bottom that had to see that. And the other riders on his raft too. You just can't erase that from your head.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:27 pm to 50_Tiger
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His head had to come off for that amount of blood to be present in the water.
From Reddit:
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I was walking up to Verrukt right after it happened wondering why everyone was crying. The mom (I'm assuming) was screaming " he's not moving!", talking about her son as people held her back from running up to him. It was very surreal, it felt like a movie. People were throwing around the word decapitated at the park but the mother was pulled away from her son when paramedics arrived, she was concerned about him not moving, not his lack of a head. I feel so terrible for the family.
If the harnesses were malfunctioning, that's really bad.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:29 pm to UltimateHog
Looks like there's blood further up the slide, possibly on the net. He must have come out before the bump
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:31 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
Yeah, and if that is where then it would have to be a bad harness malfunction.
Good Morning America video about the opening delays and showing the raft going airborne
Looks like it was initially going to open without any netting.
They added netting later after the airborne problem during testing.
Good Morning America video about the opening delays and showing the raft going airborne
Looks like it was initially going to open without any netting.
They added netting later after the airborne problem during testing.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:33 pm
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