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re: Boy dies on Kansas waterslide billed as world's tallest
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:32 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:32 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
This is just terrible. I feel for the parents.
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Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:32 pm to EastNastySwag
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Devil's advocate....minimum age restriction with the boy. So where's the responsibility on that?
100% with the theme park
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:34 pm to UltimateHog
They also tore down the bottom of the slide and redesigned it after they started testing.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:35 pm to UltimateHog
Holy frick that is an insane amount of blood if that's really all blood.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:35 pm to GetCocky11
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This slide may not reopen ever again.
"May"?
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boy was decapitated
Hell, the park itself might be on eggshells.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:37 pm to EastNastySwag
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And the other riders on his raft too.
Did he have family in the raft with him?
I cannot imagine watching your son get decapitated helpless in a harnessed raft.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:37 pm to UltimateHog
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Looks like it was initially going to open without any netting.
Can confirm that it was.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:39 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Hell, the park itself might be on eggshells.
Multiple known slide issues.
Multiple known safety issues.
Multiple known harness issues.
All ignored by park.
Boy was under the age restriction and the park let him on anyway.
The Park is about to pay this boy's family an infinite amount of money.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:41 pm to Breesus
Even as a parent you knowingly skirted the age restriction? As a parent, that shite would weigh on me like a millstone.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:43 pm to EastNastySwag
To be clear, the website does not list an age restriction, only height and weight. LINK
Looking at their photos, there are 3 mounted GoPro's, probably for pictures like most rides, sure don't want to be the person to have to review those pictures/vids.
Looking at their photos, there are 3 mounted GoPro's, probably for pictures like most rides, sure don't want to be the person to have to review those pictures/vids.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:44 pm to UltimateHog
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To be clear, the website does not list an age restriction, only height and weight
Was he under those?
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:46 pm to Breesus
No way of knowing, they check them at the bottom and at the top, so have to think he was.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:48 pm to UltimateHog
That raft harness seem like a simple fastenal buckle not a mechanical harness. If that is failing, holy shite that is really bad.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 9:49 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:50 pm to Breesus
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Was he under those
Not trying to be morbid, but you know lawyers are gonna try to argue if it was even close.
How exactly would they determine that at this point? Just go off of last doctor visit?
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:52 pm to fr33manator
Well I mean if the harness was malfunctioning there are 3 cameras on the rafts, lawyer won't need anything else besides that footage of it failing and the multiple witnesses I wouldn't think.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:53 pm to UltimateHog
Sup redhead
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:54 pm to fr33manator
All I know is I felt uneasy riding some of the slides at Atlantis and went airborne on some of them, no way would I have rode this thing.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:54 pm to UltimateHog
WTF did they think those curved joists supporting the netting would do to someone thrown into them at 70 mph? Heck, the net alone could tear you to pieces.
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:57 pm to UltimateHog
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Well I mean if the harness was malfunctioning there are 3 cameras on the rafts, lawyer won't need anything else besides that footage of it failing and the multiple witnesses I wouldn't think.
Do you realize that those 3 people seem to be in some of the pictures advertising the ride? I'm guessing those cameras were added to get pictures/reactions for advertising.
Video uploaded to youtube on June 30th showing no cameras.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 10:00 pm
Posted on 8/7/16 at 9:57 pm to UltimateHog
Yeah that footage or pics that those cameras took will be all the evidence needed in this case. Wonder if this changes if the boy is seen unstrapping himself or it was a malfunction strictly caused by shitty maintenance.
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