When I was a kid I cracked my head open running up the stairs to a water slide. Remember getting up and my best friend saying "I can see your skull" I remember running through the park looking for my mom while everybody watched in shock as a 7 year old ran around screaming and covered in blood ... nobody even helped me. Fuckin npc's
Dude that’s fucking crazy. But people at pools and water parks are actually npcs. I had something similar happen but nowhere near the extent of yours. I was getting out of a pool and somehow pulled off every toenail on one foot at the same time and scraped from above my knee to my toes. I was dying the water around the pool red and only then did a lady ask if I was chilling. But dude holy shit I’m glad you’re okay and living now Jesus christ
The whole point of a slide is so you can freely slip at an accelerating rate. So if you're engineering a slide and the idea to add a cage *for safety* crosses your mind, to stop you from freely moving - that's the biggest indication the slide is already too dangerous. Don't add something to remove the danger - just remove the danger so that you don't have to add stuff.
He's absolutely right. I used to love water slides. Right up until I went down one with a huge corkscrew. I had too much speed going into the corkscrew, and ended up on the roof of the tunnel. Only to not have enough momentum to get all the way over, so I just fell from the roof and slammed straight onto my hip. The corkscrew was the only part of the slide that was a full tunnel (the rest was a "halfpipe"), so if for some reason I'd been on the roofing as I came OUT of the corkscrew I could have been thrown from the slide entirely and dropped 50 feet into the parking lot next to the slide (which was on the edge of the park). After that, I swore never again...
@@StaticLuvr that shit almost happened to my brother we went on a family floater waterslide and it went side to side he accidentally let go of those handles and swished of the side and could of dropped over 100ft into a parking lot. LUCKILY the floater caught him and hopped back on. I was so traumatized at it but noticed that no one realized what could of happened not even him
@@kurozavi jesus, glad hes okay and you didnt have to witness that. I cant believe people dont talk about it more? No ones ever talked to me about waterpark safety. This video was my first time hearing someone say waterparks are scary. I definitely don’t disagree, it immediately reminded me of all the times I almost slipped out of a waterslide as a kid and I never thought anything of it.
As a kid I went on a tube slide, my tube got stuck at the beginning and a kid behind me kicked it and I went flying damn near out of the slide. Then I went down bare assed because my tube flew from under me, and I was crying the whole way down. Somehow mid-ride I got STUNG BY A WASP. The free ice cream did nothing to ease the psychological torture I had just been through.
The moment I saw that metal grate over the slide I was like, “oh shit-“. Humans have a grab instinct when falling, even in that short video you can see the kid at one point tries to grab the grate to slow themselves down. So even if you’re not accidentally throwing your arm through the grate a lot of people are probably gonna end up with dislocated shoulders and broken arms just from their survival instincts kicking in.
@@tashacanney2362 to be fair, that wasn’t a normal slide. It was one where three people were on a raft that was improperly weight distributed on a terribly designed slide that was enclosed in a net supported by metal rings
That poor 10 year olds story really haunts me knowing his little brother, other family and guests were at the bottom waiting for him and witnessed it happening.
It’s seriously the most terrifying thing to even think about. The PTSD to anyone who witnessed the decapitation or the results of it must be unreal. I couldn’t even imagine witnessing that happen to anyone, let alone someone I love. Condolences to the family and hopefully they’re doing better.
@@ezraeditz the 10 year old boy was on a water slide but the raft they were on lifted off the slide and the boy was decapitated by a wire meant to keep the people from falling out
not only that but it was said the boys head and body were able to be seen coming down the last part of the slide seperated if im not mistaken. fucking brutal
5:46 For those interested; the *Euthanasia Coaster* was specifically designed to take the lives of its riders with “elegance and euphoria”, exposing them to a prolonged period of 10g downward force causing cerebral hypoxia; or insufficient oxygen directed to the brain. Riding this slide however, seems to have a high chance for a excruciatingly painful and gory fatality comparable to the ones seen in the Mortal Combat franchise.
what do they do with the people at the end of the ride tho if it were to exist? do the loved ones collect them or what would be the thinking behind that? I would totally sign up for that, it would be a fantastic way to go out in style. having neck and spinal cord injuries and no longer being able to ride a roller coaster, this is just so appeasing and a final way to get to ride a roller coaster again. i love it.
Yes, the perfect option, now your greedy and slightly deranged grandson can now take you out like a diabolical bond villain instead of just smothering you with a pillow. I'd definitely pick the kombat koaster.
@@brodudeguy5843 If I had a disease that would cause me to die a horrific and painful death over many months, then I'd do anything to have the chance to ride the Euthanasia Coaster.
I have zero engineering experience but I can immediately tell you why putting metal arches and a mesh net 2 feet above a path of an open-top raft known to catch air and moves at 60+ mph is a bad idea. How did no one alert to the severity of this design problem until it was far too late?
One of my absolute worst fears when it comes to waterslides is the (although probably very small) possibility of some metal screw or something popping out and splitting me in half. Edit: These replies have reinforced my hatred for waterslides even more lmao.
Man, the most horrifying thing that happened on a water slide for me was that I accidentally slid a bit and rotated and I ended up rolling down the slide. It was the most terrifying shit EVER.
@@oskarbartosewicz89 My man did an uncontrolled barrel roll down the slide. Waterboarding on the way down without being able to tell when you're gonna get thrown into the water at the end.
My sister and her friends snuck into a park late at night when it was closed. They had the big water slides that you would climb all the way to the top to, and then ride down on water. Because it was closed, the water was turned off. My sister's friend went down the slide without the water, and ended up slamming the back of her head on the slide multiple times as she went down because the water was missing. She was paralyzed for life. I'll never forget that story. Slides are dangerous yo.
I've never been on a waterslide that was too scratchy. My thing has always been that they're terrifying. The twists and lack of light freak me out. I think a fully horror themed waterslide would be amazing.
Though I still enjoy waterparks, I can say that I agree with the fact that the slides without innertubes are painful, those segments bump you every two seconds, I wouldn't be surprised if someone got major bruising from that, be it can be really bad at times.
My brother my dad and i went on the Verrückt water slide exactly 1 week before that kid died. I can confirm it was the scariest ride i’ve ever been on in my entire life, and not just because it feels like you’re going to take flight on the way to the bottom. As you get to the top the entire building sways back and forth, but the worst part is by the time your at the top (about a 10 minute walk) the rafts are COVERED in duct tape on the seats, handles, and seatbelts. Most of the handles you grip on to are missing and the seatbelts were shit. you don’t want to be the person that chickens out and has to walk all the way back down and ruin it for the rest of your group. Horrible experience and i absolutely love rollercoasters and water slides. Wasn’t fun or exhilarating, just feared for my life. Being scared is one thing, ignoring obvious safety concerns is another. It was only a matter of time before something like that happened. RIP
The part about it being metal is enough for me. Back in my elementary school the only actual slide was one about 10 feet high but it was pure metal and not near any shade. So on any hot days you better have been wearing long pants because otherwise your skin was getting peeled off your body like an orange. Didn't help that it was almost always infested with hornets nests so you'd have 8-10 year olds fighting for their lives just to get on the thing.
Getting burnt on a medal slide in the 80s was just a rite of passage. So was falling off. Personally I enjoy my limbs attached to my body so I won't be riding something like that. And I'm not aware of someone forcing people to ride it. There's shit going on in this country and with this government that is actually keeping me up at night.
When I was a kid, maybe like 10 or 11, I went to a waterpark near my aunts house, and went down this absolutely massive, straight down, no tube slide. There was an open slide, and a tunnel slide, and I chose the tunnel because I was young and scared and it felt safer. Not only did I hit my head off the top of the slide on my way down, but when I got out at the bottom my entire back was beet red and cut up because there was hardly any water on the slide. I never went down a slide like that again haha
I almost drowned in a waterpark when I was 8 or 9 in one of those big wave simulators. I was yelling for help and the life guard just looked at me and did nothing. Fortunately a couple of people helped me out.
When I was a kid I went on this water slide at Golf Land that was basically just an 80 ft half pipe that you go down in a 4 person tube. I went with my mom, dad and brother and as soon as we reached the bottom after sliding down, the momentum caused me to dip into the hole of the tube and slammed my tailbone into the slide and all I remember after I got off is trying my absolute hardest not to cry so nobody would notice.
@@slipvyne yes sir, just by your reply I can confirm you do know the exact one. Also the other slide thats basically a vertical drop more than halfway down that's ridden without a tube...all I need to say is intense water pressure splashing into my eyes and the stinging pain of every tube connection = absolutely never again 🙃
On the last open-top waterslide I went on, there were a series of sharp metal pipes sticking out of the sides of the slide that spit water onto it. If I were to veer even 6 inches too far to the left or right, they would have cut me open vertically. On top of that, I ended up going airborne for a few seconds before crashing back into the slide and hitting my head. Waterslides are always absolute menaces designed by supervillains. I have no idea why they're legal.
@Kavetion if you were better than him then you would be in the same or better position that he is in and you would have an actual fan base but you and i both know no one wants to watch or entertain your foolishness
Dude same. I went on a slide with my brother on a raft and went airborne for a bit and when I landed I absolutely CRUSHED my back. Water slides are absolutely ridiculous.
2:50 Imagine being the kid’s dad That kid went on that ride with his father Imagine getting off after that awful terrifying experience Only to be greeted with your dead, decapitated son That shit would haunt me forever
What makes it worse is that he actually didn't go on it with his dad, he went on it with a group of random women and his brother was at the bottom of the slide and saw his headless corpse in the raft.
I’ve actually been on this water slide before 2 summers before the tragic death of Caleb. The platform was shaking in place the entire time and just seemed super unstable and when you were actually sent down the slide depending on the weight your raft wouldn’t even touch the slide and would be airborne until halfway down
Veruckt was such a shady deal, employees who had to test the ride daily were often afraid of going on the ride after the first time and thus the responsibility of testing the ride fell on the lifeguard managers who held a raffle determining just exactly who had to risk their necks to see if the ride was safe. And then it still wasn't safe.
I remember going to a water slide during summer camp that had a super weak ladder you would climb up to get to the top. One day the ladder collapsed at the top, while someone was there. She got paralyzed, apparently. I actually saw this incident. It was pretty horrific
Earlier this summer I went to Elitch Gardens with some friends and we hung around the water park portion for a little bit. All of their stairs to get to the higher slides were made purely of partially-rotted, wet wood, that would sway a little whenever someone moved too much. If not for my friends (I only did double rides) I would not have set foot on those
Damn man, I'm sorry you had to see that. I hope you've managed to work through it. No one should ever have to act like something like that didn't affect em, so if it still bothers you, don't hesitate to talk to someone about it. Glad you're ok at least, that sounds like it could have been a close call.
I went on a waterslide once, and my shorts turned into a thong, and murdered my balls. So when I get off I'm crouched over in pain, and the person working there asked "did you keep your arms crossed?" Like somehow uncrossing my arms would effect my balls
I went on a really tall waterslide once when I was a kid that was completely straight and basically just a huge playground slide with water, but it didn't have any railings or stuff to keep you from falling and halfway down I somehow spun sideways and my legs and head were hanging off of both sides and it literally terrified me bc I was so close to just falling off so that's the last time I ever did that
Verruckt was even dumber than Charlie says. They ignore the advice of experts when building it, did it completely by trial and error, laughing all the while. Operating the slide required some amount of load balancing as putting a lighter load in front exposed the tallest slide's most striking design flaw: a hill.
I don't know where you can even find it but Travel Channel made a doc about Verruckt construction. (That's why it was so rushed in the design phase btw. The owners wanted to rush the building of it so it could be shown in the doc.) The doc has a positive "this is so cool" vibe in its filming but it terrified me as a kid. Just a bunch of morons with clearly no design experience, dicking around with Hot wheels tracks, and going "fuck it, let's just build it and figure it out later." I begged my dad to change his mind when he wanted to go to that water park. Because I knew he would try this ride and I didn't want him to die.
In germany the sections of the sides arent allowed to be further appart than 0.2mm and these sections have still to be coverd up to make a smooth surface for exactly the reason to not hurt people when going down the slides.
I worked at Schlitterbahn when Verrukt was running. Employees would make a run down the slide before the park opened. I went on it myself. The raft definitely felt like it wanted to lift as it went down the slide. I wasn't really comfortable going on it. It never felt safe and the raft actually had issues before the park even opened the ride with lifting up. It was a death trap.
@@kffhdh9312 you must be uninformed about that slide. The people who built that slide had literally zero education or experience in building water slides. They deadass found 2 people and had them build it. During testing they had to make many adjustments because the raft kept flying off. Instead of fixing the slide they put netting around the top with metal rings. A safety inspector looked at the slide and specifically told them the net design was dangerous. They made zero changes and open the slide for public. Him telling someone he felt unsafe would’ve changed nothing. It was doomed from the start
Since we're all talking horror stories, I've got one. I think this was at Ontario Place or something, but wherever it was they had this whole river with octagon shaped boats crammed full with people on the edges. You rotate it, can kinda guide it, etc. Anyway, see that particular ride had no age or height requirements and no vests requirements or warnings or anything that the slow float along would end in a waterfall. I mean a completely vertical drop into a very wavy pool. The damn boat flipped mid air and almost drowned me. Some fucking idiot kicked me in the nose as the drop/flip started. Broken nose, almost drowning and an awful sunburn AND I didn't even get a funnel cake afterwards.
Since I'm a big guy I don't go on many water slides but the last time I went on one I could feel myself lifting off the slide and it wasn't in a tube it was just a slides straight down. The water at the end would slow you down, and whole reason I didn't start lifting off was because I spread out my arms and feet to stick to the side and keep me from going airborne
Verruckt was about a 10 minute drive from me. The park it belonged to is now shut down. They have been known to cut costs at the price of safety. I went once and was actually about to ride verruckt, but luckily the line was too long and had to go.
A waterpark near me in the Netherlands used to have this absolutely horrific "slide", it was called "Fly Over", it consisted of a long tube connecting 2 seperate pools. The tube was completely filled with water with a current pushing you from the starting point towards the other end. You actually had to hold your breath for 18 seconds until you would be able to get to the surface again. I mean it had safety systems installed to be able to drain in 8 seconds but it still sounds horrifying. It has been removed because most people didn't want to go through obviously. The same waterpark has this slide called X-Stream which has a trapdoor that you have to stand on which will open once the staff presses a button, this slide has had many accidents occur in the years that it has been in use.
@@zh4q klopt! Inderdaad nooit een ongeluk mee gebeurd, dus wat dat betreft werkte het beveiligingssysteem goed. Van wat ik las waren de onderhoudskosten ook te hoog geworden om hem nog draaiende te houden.
I've got a friend who who went on one of those slides and flipped over on his stomach. He tried to stop himself at the end by grabbing the edge of the slide and sliced his hand open giving him permanent tendon damage on all his fingers. Never touching those slides.
A water park near me, kid went down after me and it is called the Toilet Bowl (great fucking name) there was a screw or something sharp sticking out and he sliced the main vein or artery in his ankle right by the bone. I watched and at first it looked like a small cut then the blood just fucking poured. He was rushed to the hospital though and I think was fine? Not sure. These places really need to be regulated and inspected
Best hydroslides I've ever been on were stainless steel and had the welds sanded and polished smooth. The water in it was also warm since it was built over a natural hot spring. Being stainless the slides were also pitch black so twists and turns were a surprise.
Growing up we used to go to Carowinds which has a pretty decent water park but there were these two slides, taller than all the others by far, that were absolutely no fun whatsoever. It was so steep that you were basically just getting waterboarded and a very forceful enema in pitch darkness for like a good forty seconds.
BRUH i've been on those in Carowinds, you step into a pod and it just opens up below you like a trap door and you drop vertically straight for like 5 seconds at 30 mph until to starts to level out, in COMPLETE darkness, i did it once and it was decently fun but I felt like I was getting tortured or something.
Man I loved those. But also I remember one of those toilet bowl ones where it was no fun at all because some douche bags would stop in the bowl and cause hazards
Me and my family went on a cruise and there was a water slide there, me and my bro timed it, going normal, it had a slide time of 20 seconds.... We used our best knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to go down there as fast as possible, we used a strategy that used so much muscle and strength that at one point the G's glued you to the surface and you neared passing out We got the 20 second average to 5 seconds. Also I wasn't joking, we both work out everyday and neither of us could lift our heads because of the G's
Plese tell me what tips you used! I used to touch my toes and for some reason I'd speed up. But now that doesn't work. I'd love to know what can make me slide the FASTEST down! Also, those G's sound CRAZY
@@TheSheepster toes pointed link your hands and push your arms straight and back, (above your head) use your ab strength, start with a swing when you go down the slide
I went on a little water slide once that was literally concrete painted yellow and I didn’t realize it wasn’t plastic until I started going down, and it was super lumpy as well
His rant about slides being painful brought back some memories. Even worse was kids blocking the slide on purpose. Then you just crash into a pile on people 😆
LMAO i just one crashed into someone holding on the slide. Gave him a full teabag into his face. He probably tasted the salt out of my balls in his mouth 🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking the same thing. I went to Kalahari last year (mainly for Riptide 2021, a Smash Bros. major tournament but of course I wanted to try out the actual waterpark) and Charlie talking about the initial slides going bit by bit about the pain of each plastic part scratching you and how you swerve around violently from left to right in some areas.....ngl kind of got to me a little and took me back to that experience of going down one of them.
I'm old enough to remember huge, splintery playgrounds with wide metal slides that needed conditions to be just right to actually slide successfully down.
Omg a kid literally stole my ball that was mine and said that it was theirs so I came to their Hut and told their family that I'm gonna take the ball away and they were pretty chill about it and then the kids got mad (i was 6 at that time and they were like 10 or 11)
I actually rode Verruckt before they took it down. You didn’t have a true sense of how tall it was until you climbed all the flights of stairs and looked down. It was eerie af up there.
Never thought I’d hear Charlie talk about the Schlitterbahn slide. I went on that exact slide a couple days before that incident with the kid. Can confirm that the whole slide was sketchy and at the second hill near end of the slide my sisters strap came undone cause it was a Velcro strap. But she didn’t fly out though and we reported it. It’s still crazy to think about.
such a terrible, haunting incident. I didn't like slides before, but after hearing about it- I can't even look at a water slide without getting huge amounts of anxiety. Coasters too sometimes, it leaves such a sickening taste in my mouth
@@ayolotl4830 the Guy who did that water slide wanted to get a record on how fast he could build it and had no actual engineer to help him design it After a while he decided to had net because if not the test was failed half the Time Now it's pretty safe After new laws tho
@@slimboarder.o7 It doesn't exist anymore. Slide was torn down years ago. It was in Kansas City just past the Legends business district where sporting KC plays and the Hollywood Casino resides. Slide was shut down after the death
Finally someone understands my feelings on huge water slides. I used to complain to my parents about the seams between the sections scratching me. Where was Charlie when I needed him 😂
The worst "Field Trip" my elementary school ever took us to 20 years ago was "Beaver Mountain," a badly run, cheap, wore out, barely functioning water park that was nothing but slides with trickling water... and for some stupid reasons they INSISTED we used these foam mats to slide down. Now, using a mat to slide down water is a fine idea, BUT...when you dont have enough water on the slide to keep the mats from hitting dry spots and suddenly catching, sending you ass first down a slide you werent meant to be on without said mat, it ended up with most of us kids actually scratched, angry and in the teachers words "ungrateful." The park shut down 3 years later. It was literally there so rich country club members could leave their kids while playing golf.
Man, I feel like if a kid died in front of the other kids at one of these dangerous water parks and those said kids started crying about their classmate dying, the teacher would say “stop crying you ungrateful spoilt rotten brats, I’m never taking you anywhere ever again!” 😅
I had a skin tag a few years ago, and went down a water slide, a bolt caught my skin tag and ripped off about 4 inches of skin off my back. Hurt like hell and had to get surgery.
@@adrodelpedro you don't get skin tags reattached, once they're gone they're gone for good. Some would even recommend getting them removed, just obviously not in that way.
Last time I went to a water park there was a black tube slide, which was so hot it was hard to breathe the entire time. But the best and tallest one, at the bottom a bunch of water shot up my nose so I was coughing and choking as I got off and the girl behind me was like 'oww that gave me the biggest wedgie!' I wanted to agree with her but I couldn't even speak. That was about 20 years ago. Fun times.
I agree I’ve always enjoyed tube rides and even the ones that are enclosed, but the open ones have always scared the shit out of me especially the straight down ones that people die on
Since others here are sharing their slightly traumatic incidents with waterparks, my family went to Mexico last year, and in a certain waterpark there was a lighthouse with slides attached at the end. At that time there was only one slide open, and nobody disclosed how fast you went. Using the same coffin pose I was picking up so much speed it felt like I was falling upside down. And I was so high up that if I dared move I might fall down and die. I couldn’t ask for help either because, well it’s a slide. Just me and my panic in solitude for a good 2 minutes. Theres a good reason I don’t ride roller coasters and take only the waterpark rides I’ve taken before.
Had one experience with some Rec Center in my city. Went down a closed water slide, and I was at such high speeds that I had no control over my body movements, so I hit my head very hard on almost every turn and there was nothing I could do about it. Even worse when the lifeguards nearby get on your ass for not going down the slide feet first if they see you get shot out at 55 mph not laying feet first and don't acknowledge that there may be a different cause for the feet first problem and all the concussions caused by this thing.
I’ll never forget one trip to a water park when I was a kid and it was me and two other girlfriends with their moms. And one of the girls split her elbow wide open on the edge of one of the slides. It was gnarly. We ended up going to first aid, urgent care, and then the hospital. And it took forever to finally get it stitched up.
The only really good water slide I've been on was the one at the pool in the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas. You're on there for fifteen, twenty seconds tops and there's a clear plastic section that goes through the aquarium tank they have on display, it's actually really neat, fun and most importantly, SAFE!
Yes, that one kicks ass. Because the slide isn't too big, they're able to actually have enough water going down the slide to keep you from getting your ass kicked
When I was in middle school I got a job at the county fair, a friend and I were put in charge of the potato sack slide. Part of our job was that we had to put this lube/wax spray on the slide so that people don’t get stuck on it. HOWEVER, nobody told us how much to put on and after about 10 sprays we tested it out - only to find ourselves skipping every other hump and slamming into the slide going mach jesus, i think whatever slide this is probably had a similar situation happen where an employee wasn’t well trained and over waxed it.
Back in the summer 2016, I nearly drowned in Aquatica's Breakway Falls. idk if I'm exaggerating, but my first (and only) experience with that ride was the opposite of pleasant. For context, this slide is where they have you stand on a platform and then they drop the floor from beneath you and you go straight down the slide (they DO have a "normal" slide off to the side as an option for those who don't want to be dropped). They didn't allow me to wear my goggles or nose-clamp. They did the procedure where they tell you to cross your arms and legs. I had fun for only the first second until water immediately went into my eyes, blinding me. Water went into my nostrils, leaving me with only my mouth to breathe until my mouth was full of water half a second later. I basically had water go into every orifice on my face. Because of how fast I was going down the slide, the water that went into my mouth was propelled deep into my mouth and I couldn't spit it out until I got to the bottom of the slide. Basically, I couldn't breathe for the whole thing. Not to mention that the first half of the drop is in darkness. So yeah, it's dark, my eyes are full of chlorinated water, and I couldn't breathe. idk how so many people can handle that ride
That’s my favorite slide, they allow you to cover your nose as long as your arms are still crossed. So I always cover my nose on most body water slides bc water will go into your nose regardless.
I actually agree with what Charlie says about the slides 100%, everyone talks about how fun they are but every single one I've been on has hurt my skin, but I've gaslighted myself into thinking I was crazy. Glad I'm not the only one lmao
Bruh waterparks are the WORST. On top of the slides themselves, most people that go are just miserable in the first place unless they're under the age of 15. This is coming from someone who LOVES the beach (and no not those shitty frozen California beaches that you can't even put your foot in bc you'll get frostbite mid July) lol but damn people really out here okay with burning your feet off walking around, standing in long lines on stairs around smelly sweaty ass people with stale air cuz there usually isn't any wind, whining babies, expensive food & alcohol, & I haven't got to the issue with the slides in general. You definitely aren't the only one lmao the only worse you can get than a water park is an overcrowded community (cess)pool
I sliced my leg open on a water slide when I was like 12 or so I barely felt a thing and I was like hmm my leg stings weird, and then I saw the water going red lol I had to get a bunch of stiched it's a miracle it didn't left a scar just a thin line, guess the doctor was god tier Also I saw one kid flying of the corner and falling on the grass once lol not that high but I think he broke his arm, the curve on that thing was hard and you'll always go up a little
I went to a over filled water slide once and i swear to god i was tossing and turning so much that when it reached to a drop i bonked my head on the tube so low water slide hurt but high water slides cause brain damage
There was a bag slide that I went on as a kid that was in I believe Kentucky and it scared the absolute hell out of me because it was so uneven that I went airborne multiple times, I was just lucky enough to land back on the slide, but it hurt like hell. Never been on one since, and I don't plan on ever having kids, but if I do I won't ever let them on one.
1:39 i have the exact same experience, i even remember the time i quit going down them. It stretched and shredded all my swimming clothing, turning them into 20XL sized bits of clothing, its as if the clothes had been turned into that segmented animal from a Hellraiser movie.
I went down a cart slide in the mountains of Colorado a few years ago. it started raining as we got to the start area, which makes the breaks on the cart not work, but the person running it gave us the the ok to go. as me and my family of 4 over weight adults and 3 small children went down one after another on the 2 lane ride. half way down we realized the breaks weren't working and everyone started panicking obviously. it leads all the way down the mountain, and at the end all of us crashed together. my cousin jumped out of the ride before the end and broke her arm and got a concussion. my step brother, who was going down with my baby brother, was the first down and crashes into the tires ment to stop you incase this happens, but everyone else crashed into the carts sustaining minor injuries. some turns were tight with a "slow down" sign, and when we'd get there we'd have half our cart outside the slide almost flying off the mountain. if we were just a little bit less lucky someone could have easily died.
I went on a “Water slide” in Georgia on some random lake once. It was a metal slide that had a ladder that went straight up and was about 35ft tall. I got the top of the slide and went to grab the railing to pull myself down the slide and I grabbed a f*cking wasp.
Good ole fucking wasps, the bane of my existence. I was working outside years ago and i look to my left and i swear to god i made “eye contact” with that little piece of shit while he was flying full speed towards me. I turned to move out of the way, and that bitch stung me inside of my ear. I threw my tools and started yelling f bombs…. Went into my work truck and i was in tears it hurt so bad. They litterally have no purpose on this earth besides to piss people off 😃
@@TiredEyePilot it stung my hand very badly, also i failed to mention there was literally a line of people behind me/ below me on this comically large ladder.
I remember riding the Verrückt during the same year that kid passed away. Me and two other people(strangers) were waiting at the top to go down for like 45 mins. Turns out there was issues concerning the ride, but because the employees felt bad for us waiting for so long they had us go down. Keep in mind this ride NEEDED to reach a weight requirement, because going down the drop I felt my self slipping through my harness!
I rode the Speed Slide at Wet n Wild in Queensland, Australia when I was younger and I got off terrified and shaking. I LOVE thrill rides and water rides, ive never been afraid of any of them for i've always felt safe on them. I was tall and thin when I rode this slide and I went down it normally, didn't launch myself or anything as this one was already quite high and vertical. Anyone who looks up a pic of the slide can see that it has 3 humps and no safety railing on any sides, just slighty raised lumps on either side of you to "keep you in". The first hump sent me into the air, and I landed my back on the railing, knowing that that scared me I tried to realign while still jettisoning towards the next hump as that hump launched me again, this time towards the side where you would literally just fly off.. no net anywhere, just ground and my head went over the side as i caught myself and then went down the rest of the slide. It was like no more than 10 seconds on that slide and it still feels like it was an eternity. No one really saw it or approached me after and I was just exploring the park by myself at that point.. had to go sit down as my fuckin life flashed before me and I ended up slipping a disc. Fuck that ride. And fuck tall ass waterslides.
I freaking love water parks and amusement parks in general. I go onto every single ride and never felt truly scared, no matter how high or fast the coaster but that one waterslide in a water park in spain, oooof that shit was the closest I ever have gotten to a near death experience. The slide was open top and you had like half a second of airtime in a height of 20+ meters...bro i thought i was done.
At blue bayou (a Louisiana water park) there is a pair of water slides called the twin vipers. The last time I was there you could feel the entire structure shake and wobble everytime someone went down it while you were waiting in line on the stairwell.
There was a water slide I went on as a teen where you ride mats on you stomach head-first. I fell off my mat halfway before the ending straightway where there were a bunch of bumps. I repeatedly went airborne falling on my back and scraped my skin at the very end where the slide became rough to slow down the mats.
I've had a similar experience with those types especially the ones with fucking closed curved slides. The waterpark we have here has 2 versions; 1 that's just a straight slide and another that has closed tubes with 3 curves before going down the straight slide. I accidentally turned over on my back last minute before exiting the tube and next thing i knew my skin, back and sides were hurting like hell😣😫
@@williamjames7293 goddamn. The slide I was on was a lot like the second one you mentioned. It was at the last turn in the enclosure that I flipped over onto my back. Once I reached the opening, shit hit the fan lmao
When I was about 14, I went down a waterslide and smashed my elbow into one of the rivets holding the sections together. I don't know what getting shot feels like but I assume it feels something like that, the pain was so much I went blind for about 10 minutes. Even now, 15 years later, if I put too much pressure on that elbow it feels like electricity going through my arm and I lose all grip. It definitely caused some nerve damage.
@@Nyrax18 there's an exact spot just above elbow you can hit (even lightly) and it feels horrible, but I guess its something completely different from what you're experiencing.
@@Nyrax18 no you do. If you lean on your elbow and put most or all your body weight on it for some time(doesn't even have to be a long duration) then it does happen hehe.
ive never understood the "safety" cages, they always seem way too small, like theyre designed to specifically hit people in the head, then put them back on the slide so their head can get hit again later
Charlie is half may age so funny to hear him say he's old lol. I remember when I was a kid all slides were made of sheet steel and yes the did burn the shit out of you. We had a 4 storied tall metal tube that you would climb a ladder in to the top and that had 3 metal slides. I can't tell you how many kids destroyed them selfs on it. That thing broke more legs the police in Russia. Not to mention we had tanbark and everytime you went to the playground you can home full of splinters
I actually do like most waterslides I go on, but I still remeber there being this one slide when I was a kid that was one of the ones where you're on your back, and the last time i went on it, i literally felt my head bounce against the walls of the slide painfully to the point where I had a headache after
As someone who just started working at Schlitterbahn (Different park from the decapitation one) I can say they literally only have 1 or 2 body slides that adults can ride anymore because of that incident. Other than that it's just tube slides/ rivers. I would 100% recommend their newer facilities not just because I work there, but because they're actually fun nowadays
As someone who also hates waterparks I feel a sense of community now. Its like the people who throw them together spend as little time as possible being creative. Show me 1 water ride that isnt part of a real amusement park that makes you excited.
Those water slides that are about as steep as a kids slide in a play area but you go down them headfirst on a foam carpet with handles. Perfectly safe without the carpet and plenty of water
The legoland California water park has some fun slides. I didn’t go on all of them and this was a few years ago so it might’ve changed, but they had a big one where you could ride with friends on a tube down a slide. I liked the open slides too. Will never ride a slide that drops you straight down with your arms crossed in coffin position. West Edmonton mall in Canada has some fun ones too. Not the pink loop one though, that shit looks dangerous af. They also have a zip line that goes over the pool.
I will say this every time it is mentioned. My family and I went to Schlitterbahn in Kansas City the week before that accident happened and even rode Verrukt. It's crazy but when we were standing in line waiting, we kept noticing their disregard for safety measures when it came to weight and weight distribution. Which sadly ended up killing the kid. There were two big guys in the front and the small kid in the back, which lifted the back of the raft up and into the rope net on the top.
Charlie's rant at the beginning sparked a childhood memory of mine. So there's this lil waterpark I love that had 2 of this slides, one with a closed top and one with an open top. Being a child I didn't wanna go in the dark closed one but I got around to it and it became my favorite one. One year I slide down the closed one a couple times and felt a raised part that would scrap me whenever I went down. Thought nothing of it. A week later the slides were closed because a kid went down the closed one and his arm got scratched open by that one part. They closed down the slides for the year and the next summer we had brand new slides.
One of the many major reasons as to why I am absolutely hooked on to Charlie's contents is his amazing skill of being able to utilize the right words at the right time. That really allows him to describe his sentence in a more meaningful manner and as for the viewers it helps them to easily grasp and understand the subject perfectly! 👍
I have a story from my home-town around 2015 at our local swimming pool. The pool was usually very packed with all different ages: kids teens, adults. My friends and I used to love to go there during the summer as kids. At the pool there was a water slide (there was only one) that had you walking up about 50-60 feet leading to a twist and turn U-shaped water slide. It was always super fun for me and my friends to have competitions on this slide to see who could go the fastest down. And, this slide went fast, like too fast. I was always really anxious when going down too fast because at times you would find yourself hitting a sharp turn going wayyy too fast and half of your body would be out of the slide. One day when my friends and I were there, we were waiting in line to go down the slide. A dad and his daughter (around 3-4 years old) were ahead of us in line and were preparing to go down together. The lifeguard gave them the thumbs up and they headed down. We couldn't really see them too well once they reached about a 1/3 down the slide but we had a good view of them going down at first and they started at a very fast pace. About halfway down the slide theres a turn that usually was the one I was timid about since it was so sharp and the speed that you could gain was insane. But, when they got to the turn the dad lost control of his daughter, and she ended up completely soaring away from the slide and falling close to 20-30 feet into the ground. Ambulances rushed to the pool and the whole place was in terror as to what just happened. Luckily though, the little girl was okay, but broke her arm and had a major concussion as a result. Just shows that water park slides or any slides for that matter are no joke lmao.
I usually enjoy waterslides, but I still remember going to a waterslide in a waterpark here in my country, and I swear I felt like the water was dragging me up once the waterslide ended, I had to hold on so tight to the railing. Cant say I really like waterparks either
I think you can add those down hill carts to the list of dangerous attractions. You know the ones that has you ascend a steep hill like on a rollercoaster and, at the top, you plunge down a steel slide with no steering, no protective guardrails around the track. All you have is a handbrake and your own sense of self preservation as you descend at speed. And all the while, you're worried about the bloke behind you catching up as you are too afraid to go even faster to widen the gap. Why yes, I am speaking from experience.
Yeah alpine slides can be pretty sketchy. Especially after seeing that video of the guy who just absolutely raged and broke that woman’s back on purpose.
@@Gob. it wasnt even a woman it was a child, dude raged because her family slowed to see the view so naturally she slowed down when he decided to break her back and called her a bitch
I once did a waterslide that was open top, and it went down in this wavey pattern. Not even joking I almost flew out and over the side of it at about what felt like 20-30ft in the air and died. It was my first experience with a waterslide and somehow it didn't make me scared of them... but I don't trust slides that one anymore x)
I was at a waterpark in Cyprus and I watched some poor guy (looked like a kid) crack his skull open after catching some air on one of those slides. Blood everywhere
Not gonna lie as a kid I always worried about that. I was a small kid so I wasn’t worried about it happening to me, but I saw a lot of average sized and heavy set adults almost go off the edge a few times. Those slides always bothered me in that regard
Charlie: “the ten year old kid hit his neck on the safety net decapitating him it’s an absolutely horrifying thing to read”Charlie’s face the whole time:😐😐😐😐
can’t forget the fact that the possibility of escaping the seemingly endless amounts of water showering you face to grab a minuscule amount of breath is rarer than Charlie making a bad upload
The slides I hate the most are metal slides. One time I went on a metal slide during summer and it was scorching hot and impossible to slide down. Idk why places still use them.
Bruh that’s just as bad as wearing a piping hot seatbelt while the weather is 100 degrees. The metal part of the belt gets all boiling hot Btw I make entertaining content just like charile Ong no cap ( I’m not a bot)
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When I was a kid I cracked my head open running up the stairs to a water slide. Remember getting up and my best friend saying "I can see your skull" I remember running through the park looking for my mom while everybody watched in shock as a 7 year old ran around screaming and covered in blood ... nobody even helped me. Fuckin npc's
Jesus! It's sad no one did anything to help you!! Glad you're okay these days.
holy fuck, how did no staff at all did anything about this
Dude that’s fucking crazy. But people at pools and water parks are actually npcs. I had something similar happen but nowhere near the extent of yours. I was getting out of a pool and somehow pulled off every toenail on one foot at the same time and scraped from above my knee to my toes. I was dying the water around the pool red and only then did a lady ask if I was chilling. But dude holy shit I’m glad you’re okay and living now Jesus christ
Reason why you're taught to not run on stairs
water park stairs are the fucking worst. they are so slippable
The whole point of a slide is so you can freely slip at an accelerating rate.
So if you're engineering a slide and the idea to add a cage *for safety* crosses your mind, to stop you from freely moving - that's the biggest indication the slide is already too dangerous.
Don't add something to remove the danger - just remove the danger so that you don't have to add stuff.
@Kavetion no
Thats so redundant
I mean rides are a mixture of thrill and safety...
Tube slides!
@Kavetion nah, you were a funny anti-jackseptic troll last year when everyone was getting mad on you but now your way past your prime.
He's absolutely right. I used to love water slides. Right up until I went down one with a huge corkscrew. I had too much speed going into the corkscrew, and ended up on the roof of the tunnel. Only to not have enough momentum to get all the way over, so I just fell from the roof and slammed straight onto my hip. The corkscrew was the only part of the slide that was a full tunnel (the rest was a "halfpipe"), so if for some reason I'd been on the roofing as I came OUT of the corkscrew I could have been thrown from the slide entirely and dropped 50 feet into the parking lot next to the slide (which was on the edge of the park). After that, I swore never again...
this one. This story is actually terrifying to me
Damn Bro, I'm happy you're still here
@@StaticLuvr that shit almost happened to my brother we went on a family floater waterslide and it went side to side he accidentally let go of those handles and swished of the side and could of dropped over 100ft into a parking lot. LUCKILY the floater caught him and hopped back on. I was so traumatized at it but noticed that no one realized what could of happened not even him
@@kurozavi jesus, glad hes okay and you didnt have to witness that. I cant believe people dont talk about it more? No ones ever talked to me about waterpark safety. This video was my first time hearing someone say waterparks are scary. I definitely don’t disagree, it immediately reminded me of all the times I almost slipped out of a waterslide as a kid and I never thought anything of it.
THAT'S HORRIBLE, thanks for sharing.
As a kid I went on a tube slide, my tube got stuck at the beginning and a kid behind me kicked it and I went flying damn near out of the slide. Then I went down bare assed because my tube flew from under me, and I was crying the whole way down. Somehow mid-ride I got STUNG BY A WASP. The free ice cream did nothing to ease the psychological torture I had just been through.
i cant imagine almost experiencing death and then getting stung by a wasp ☠️ you deserve the next couple of free ice creams my man
that entrance fee needa be free yo
*almost kills a child and gives them permanent trauma*
Water Park: Here kid, ice cream, all better right
Bro I'm sorry but I laughed way too hard at this.
Dang, I'm sorry, man that actually sucks
The moment I saw that metal grate over the slide I was like, “oh shit-“. Humans have a grab instinct when falling, even in that short video you can see the kid at one point tries to grab the grate to slow themselves down. So even if you’re not accidentally throwing your arm through the grate a lot of people are probably gonna end up with dislocated shoulders and broken arms just from their survival instincts kicking in.
exactly what I noticed too!
damn i didnt even think about that
Yeah it’s hard to stay in coffin mode with those kinds of speeds
oh fuck that’s a good point
Humans actually don't have instincts at all. It's a reflex.
He’s right. Every time I climb the steps to a waterslide, I’m trying to convince myself that I’ll like it.
As someone who hates heights, the journey to the slide makes it almost not worth the 10 second ride.
Waterslides are SUPER overrated.
Yeah & remember the young boy a couple years ago that was f*cking DECAPITATED GOING DOWN ONE OF THOSE SLIDES.
@@tashacanney2362 to be fair, that wasn’t a normal slide. It was one where three people were on a raft that was improperly weight distributed on a terribly designed slide that was enclosed in a net supported by metal rings
@@dr.k8610 yea lemme just inspect every ride before i get on it
That poor 10 year olds story really haunts me knowing his little brother, other family and guests were at the bottom waiting for him and witnessed it happening.
It’s seriously the most terrifying thing to even think about. The PTSD to anyone who witnessed the decapitation or the results of it must be unreal. I couldn’t even imagine witnessing that happen to anyone, let alone someone I love. Condolences to the family and hopefully they’re doing better.
what happened
@@ezraeditz the 10 year old boy was on a water slide but the raft they were on lifted off the slide and the boy was decapitated by a wire meant to keep the people from falling out
not only that but it was said the boys head and body were able to be seen coming down the last part of the slide seperated if im not mistaken. fucking brutal
@@NickjikoWho the phuque thought that provided safety?
5:46 For those interested; the *Euthanasia Coaster* was specifically designed to take the lives of its riders with “elegance and euphoria”, exposing them to a prolonged period of 10g downward force causing cerebral hypoxia; or insufficient oxygen directed to the brain.
Riding this slide however, seems to have a high chance for a excruciatingly painful and gory fatality comparable to the ones seen in the Mortal Combat franchise.
good thing its a hypothetical ride, but its still brutal and disturbing to think about.
what do they do with the people at the end of the ride tho if it were to exist? do the loved ones collect them or what would be the thinking behind that?
I would totally sign up for that, it would be a fantastic way to go out in style. having neck and spinal cord injuries and no longer being able to ride a roller coaster, this is just so appeasing and a final way to get to ride a roller coaster again. i love it.
@@optimusp1376 It's basically euthanasia through G force, so I would assume you just do whatever is done in a normal euthanasia procedure
Yes, the perfect option, now your greedy and slightly deranged grandson can now take you out like a diabolical bond villain instead of just smothering you with a pillow. I'd definitely pick the kombat koaster.
@@brodudeguy5843 If I had a disease that would cause me to die a horrific and painful death over many months, then I'd do anything to have the chance to ride the Euthanasia Coaster.
This man did a great job at convincing me to never go to a waterpark
You mean an entire company
Ikr
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Yea
Your ceo is wack
I have zero engineering experience but I can immediately tell you why putting metal arches and a mesh net 2 feet above a path of an open-top raft known to catch air and moves at 60+ mph is a bad idea. How did no one alert to the severity of this design problem until it was far too late?
@Kavetion This ratio is better than you
@@themetavirus thats a bot, you just replied to a bot
Because there was no inspector, they “inspected it” themselves. 2 hicks with no engineering degree.
@@thesilentone3687 didn’t even successfully ratio either
@@mrman12w to be fair, the video was posted 20 mins ago
“Come up with just enough safety to keep most people from dying but just enough wiggle room to have some fatalities” is such a good quote
One of my absolute worst fears when it comes to waterslides is the (although probably very small) possibility of some metal screw or something popping out and splitting me in half.
Edit: These replies have reinforced my hatred for waterslides even more lmao.
thanks, now ill never forget this. :,)
Shit. 💀🗿
That's some Final Destination type shit
my friend have a nice huge scar on his behind from a slide that had something like that on it..literally split his flesh wide open.
In my country, some psycho long time ago put a razor blade in a water slide. After hearing it in news I became paranoid in every water park since.
Man, the most horrifying thing that happened on a water slide for me was that I accidentally slid a bit and rotated and I ended up rolling down the slide. It was the most terrifying shit EVER.
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@@oskarbartosewicz89 My man did an uncontrolled barrel roll down the slide. Waterboarding on the way down without being able to tell when you're gonna get thrown into the water at the end.
Dude i got like 6 inches from flying out of an opened topped one it was fucked
@@GarrettDavisHustle duuuude.. omg
@@GarrettDavisHustle I'd never go on an open waterslide again 🤣
My sister and her friends snuck into a park late at night when it was closed. They had the big water slides that you would climb all the way to the top to, and then ride down on water. Because it was closed, the water was turned off. My sister's friend went down the slide without the water, and ended up slamming the back of her head on the slide multiple times as she went down because the water was missing. She was paralyzed for life. I'll never forget that story. Slides are dangerous yo.
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@@GioLovesYou Um, disrespectful
@@forgivezharion5704 Fr
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I've never been on a waterslide that was too scratchy. My thing has always been that they're terrifying. The twists and lack of light freak me out. I think a fully horror themed waterslide would be amazing.
Fr as a child I went through one that went through a mountain it was literally pitch black I was terrified
You should watch a movie called "The Pool"
Though I still enjoy waterparks, I can say that I agree with the fact that the slides without innertubes are painful, those segments bump you every two seconds, I wouldn't be surprised if someone got major bruising from that, be it can be really bad at times.
My brother my dad and i went on the Verrückt water slide exactly 1 week before that kid died. I can confirm it was the scariest ride i’ve ever been on in my entire life, and not just because it feels like you’re going to take flight on the way to the bottom. As you get to the top the entire building sways back and forth, but the worst part is by the time your at the top (about a 10 minute walk) the rafts are COVERED in duct tape on the seats, handles, and seatbelts. Most of the handles you grip on to are missing and the seatbelts were shit. you don’t want to be the person that chickens out and has to walk all the way back down and ruin it for the rest of your group. Horrible experience and i absolutely love rollercoasters and water slides. Wasn’t fun or exhilarating, just feared for my life. Being scared is one thing, ignoring obvious safety concerns is another. It was only a matter of time before something like that happened. RIP
The part about it being metal is enough for me. Back in my elementary school the only actual slide was one about 10 feet high but it was pure metal and not near any shade. So on any hot days you better have been wearing long pants because otherwise your skin was getting peeled off your body like an orange. Didn't help that it was almost always infested with hornets nests so you'd have 8-10 year olds fighting for their lives just to get on the thing.
@Dim '8-10 year olds fighting for their lives to get on that thing' 😂😂😭😭🤣 I'm dying, their needs to be more back story to this
Getting burnt on a medal slide in the 80s was just a rite of passage. So was falling off. Personally I enjoy my limbs attached to my body so I won't be riding something like that. And I'm not aware of someone forcing people to ride it. There's shit going on in this country and with this government that is actually keeping me up at night.
That shit sounds like some kind of Guantanamo bay torture.
“Give’em a ride down the slide”
“NOO FUCK PLEASE GOD NO I’LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING”
Yeah that is metal as fuck 🤘🏽
Props to the kids for the dedication tho
When I was a kid, maybe like 10 or 11, I went to a waterpark near my aunts house, and went down this absolutely massive, straight down, no tube slide. There was an open slide, and a tunnel slide, and I chose the tunnel because I was young and scared and it felt safer. Not only did I hit my head off the top of the slide on my way down, but when I got out at the bottom my entire back was beet red and cut up because there was hardly any water on the slide. I never went down a slide like that again haha
I almost drowned in a waterpark when I was 8 or 9 in one of those big wave simulators. I was yelling for help and the life guard just looked at me and did nothing. Fortunately a couple of people helped me out.
When I was a kid I went on this water slide at Golf Land that was basically just an 80 ft half pipe that you go down in a 4 person tube. I went with my mom, dad and brother and as soon as we reached the bottom after sliding down, the momentum caused me to dip into the hole of the tube and slammed my tailbone into the slide and all I remember after I got off is trying my absolute hardest not to cry so nobody would notice.
What Park did you go to lmao the Park i go to are Always super chill
Same place and same slide didnt happen to me but saw a group of four kids flip over while at the peak of the slide
golfland sunsplash in az? dude i know exactly the one.
Ouch that had to hurt like hell.
@@slipvyne yes sir, just by your reply I can confirm you do know the exact one. Also the other slide thats basically a vertical drop more than halfway down that's ridden without a tube...all I need to say is intense water pressure splashing into my eyes and the stinging pain of every tube connection = absolutely never again 🙃
On the last open-top waterslide I went on, there were a series of sharp metal pipes sticking out of the sides of the slide that spit water onto it. If I were to veer even 6 inches too far to the left or right, they would have cut me open vertically.
On top of that, I ended up going airborne for a few seconds before crashing back into the slide and hitting my head. Waterslides are always absolute menaces designed by supervillains. I have no idea why they're legal.
@Kavetion no one asked
@Kavetion if you were better than him then you would be in the same or better position that he is in and you would have an actual fan base but you and i both know no one wants to watch or entertain your foolishness
@Kavetion cap
What park was this?
Dude same. I went on a slide with my brother on a raft and went airborne for a bit and when I landed I absolutely CRUSHED my back. Water slides are absolutely ridiculous.
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Imagine being the kid’s dad
That kid went on that ride with his father
Imagine getting off after that awful terrifying experience
Only to be greeted with your dead, decapitated son
That shit would haunt me forever
What makes it worse is that he actually didn't go on it with his dad, he went on it with a group of random women and his brother was at the bottom of the slide and saw his headless corpse in the raft.
I’ve actually been on this water slide before 2 summers before the tragic death of Caleb. The platform was shaking in place the entire time and just seemed super unstable and when you were actually sent down the slide depending on the weight your raft wouldn’t even touch the slide and would be airborne until halfway down
Veruckt was such a shady deal, employees who had to test the ride daily were often afraid of going on the ride after the first time and thus the responsibility of testing the ride fell on the lifeguard managers who held a raffle determining just exactly who had to risk their necks to see if the ride was safe. And then it still wasn't safe.
Holy gosh golly yikes too much for me
I would’ve quit on the spot
I remember going to a water slide during summer camp that had a super weak ladder you would climb up to get to the top. One day the ladder collapsed at the top, while someone was there. She got paralyzed, apparently.
I actually saw this incident. It was pretty horrific
This is fine scary. I hope you put some more details about what you saw and what happened later
Earlier this summer I went to Elitch Gardens with some friends and we hung around the water park portion for a little bit. All of their stairs to get to the higher slides were made purely of partially-rotted, wet wood, that would sway a little whenever someone moved too much. If not for my friends (I only did double rides) I would not have set foot on those
@Hunter Vonnegut the fuq?
@@0gammag0 How is this allowed? All waterparks I've been to had concrete and steel stairs.
Damn man, I'm sorry you had to see that. I hope you've managed to work through it. No one should ever have to act like something like that didn't affect em, so if it still bothers you, don't hesitate to talk to someone about it. Glad you're ok at least, that sounds like it could have been a close call.
I went on a waterslide once, and my shorts turned into a thong, and murdered my balls.
So when I get off I'm crouched over in pain, and the person working there asked "did you keep your arms crossed?"
Like somehow uncrossing my arms would effect my balls
Body slides are some of the worst things we as humans have created
I went on a really tall waterslide once when I was a kid that was completely straight and basically just a huge playground slide with water, but it didn't have any railings or stuff to keep you from falling and halfway down I somehow spun sideways and my legs and head were hanging off of both sides and it literally terrified me bc I was so close to just falling off so that's the last time I ever did that
Dont read my name,,🙄
Penguinz0 more like bad. Alex the movie is better.
@@dontreadprofilephoto1728 sounds good, not reading it.
So it was the exact opposite of Nikocado Avocado.
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Verruckt was even dumber than Charlie says. They ignore the advice of experts when building it, did it completely by trial and error, laughing all the while. Operating the slide required some amount of load balancing as putting a lighter load in front exposed the tallest slide's most striking design flaw: a hill.
why did I think call of duty zombies
I don't know where you can even find it but Travel Channel made a doc about Verruckt construction. (That's why it was so rushed in the design phase btw. The owners wanted to rush the building of it so it could be shown in the doc.) The doc has a positive "this is so cool" vibe in its filming but it terrified me as a kid. Just a bunch of morons with clearly no design experience, dicking around with Hot wheels tracks, and going "fuck it, let's just build it and figure it out later." I begged my dad to change his mind when he wanted to go to that water park. Because I knew he would try this ride and I didn't want him to die.
and it got shut down afterwards
@@k2mpe The map Verruckt
I’m the 222nd like
In germany the sections of the sides arent allowed to be further appart than 0.2mm and these sections have still to be coverd up to make a smooth surface for exactly the reason to not hurt people when going down the slides.
That slide is a straight-up saw trap
I worked at Schlitterbahn when Verrukt was running. Employees would make a run down the slide before the park opened. I went on it myself. The raft definitely felt like it wanted to lift as it went down the slide. I wasn't really comfortable going on it. It never felt safe and the raft actually had issues before the park even opened the ride with lifting up. It was a death trap.
This is the best comment
Verrukt was an outlier though, most proslides and water roller coasters are safe
@@kffhdh9312 you think other employees didnt say that
@@plantbot9593 iirc the kid that died was too small but they let him on anyway, which is why he went flying.
@@kffhdh9312 I actually did let them know about my concerns at the time and they were just brushed off. Plenty of us that worked there did.
@@kffhdh9312 you must be uninformed about that slide. The people who built that slide had literally zero education or experience in building water slides. They deadass found 2 people and had them build it. During testing they had to make many adjustments because the raft kept flying off. Instead of fixing the slide they put netting around the top with metal rings. A safety inspector looked at the slide and specifically told them the net design was dangerous. They made zero changes and open the slide for public. Him telling someone he felt unsafe would’ve changed nothing. It was doomed from the start
Since we're all talking horror stories, I've got one.
I think this was at Ontario Place or something, but wherever it was they had this whole river with octagon shaped boats crammed full with people on the edges. You rotate it, can kinda guide it, etc.
Anyway, see that particular ride had no age or height requirements and no vests requirements or warnings or anything that the slow float along would end in a waterfall. I mean a completely vertical drop into a very wavy pool. The damn boat flipped mid air and almost drowned me. Some fucking idiot kicked me in the nose as the drop/flip started. Broken nose, almost drowning and an awful sunburn AND I didn't even get a funnel cake afterwards.
Isn’t this the shitty rapids ride at canadas wonderland where people shoot water guns at you for 5$?
no cake damm that sucks
@@fatallywounded790 It was the worst part.
@@someloser6041 dude I would be raging
No height requirement for a rapids rides seems really dumb. Probably the only reason it flipped in the first place was weird weight distribution
Since I'm a big guy I don't go on many water slides but the last time I went on one I could feel myself lifting off the slide and it wasn't in a tube it was just a slides straight down. The water at the end would slow you down, and whole reason I didn't start lifting off was because I spread out my arms and feet to stick to the side and keep me from going airborne
Verruckt was about a 10 minute drive from me. The park it belonged to is now shut down. They have been known to cut costs at the price of safety. I went once and was actually about to ride verruckt, but luckily the line was too long and had to go.
A waterpark near me in the Netherlands used to have this absolutely horrific "slide", it was called "Fly Over", it consisted of a long tube connecting 2 seperate pools. The tube was completely filled with water with a current pushing you from the starting point towards the other end. You actually had to hold your breath for 18 seconds until you would be able to get to the surface again. I mean it had safety systems installed to be able to drain in 8 seconds but it still sounds horrifying. It has been removed because most people didn't want to go through obviously.
The same waterpark has this slide called X-Stream which has a trapdoor that you have to stand on which will open once the staff presses a button, this slide has had many accidents occur in the years that it has been in use.
They really made a water filled Futurama tube
@@ScibbieGames oh yes they did, didn't even think of that
@@zh4q klopt! Inderdaad nooit een ongeluk mee gebeurd, dus wat dat betreft werkte het beveiligingssysteem goed. Van wat ik las waren de onderhoudskosten ook te hoog geworden om hem nog draaiende te houden.
nice pfp
@@preston_4824 thanks
I've got a friend who who went on one of those slides and flipped over on his stomach. He tried to stop himself at the end by grabbing the edge of the slide and sliced his hand open giving him permanent tendon damage on all his fingers. Never touching those slides.
God damn... Did he press charges? Or his parents I guess
jesus christ
Hope so, take them to court and take their money.
A water park near me, kid went down after me and it is called the Toilet Bowl (great fucking name) there was a screw or something sharp sticking out and he sliced the main vein or artery in his ankle right by the bone. I watched and at first it looked like a small cut then the blood just fucking poured. He was rushed to the hospital though and I think was fine? Not sure. These places really need to be regulated and inspected
@@andash123 I never asked about that. Probably not worth their time though. Too expensive
Best hydroslides I've ever been on were stainless steel and had the welds sanded and polished smooth. The water in it was also warm since it was built over a natural hot spring. Being stainless the slides were also pitch black so twists and turns were a surprise.
They designed it to turn you upside down and shake your valuables out
Growing up we used to go to Carowinds which has a pretty decent water park but there were these two slides, taller than all the others by far, that were absolutely no fun whatsoever. It was so steep that you were basically just getting waterboarded and a very forceful enema in pitch darkness for like a good forty seconds.
lmfao bruhhhh
BRUH i've been on those in Carowinds, you step into a pod and it just opens up below you like a trap door and you drop vertically straight for like 5 seconds at 30 mph until to starts to level out, in COMPLETE darkness, i did it once and it was decently fun but I felt like I was getting tortured or something.
I live in NC, and I know exactly what you're talking about
Man I loved those. But also I remember one of those toilet bowl ones where it was no fun at all because some douche bags would stop in the bowl and cause hazards
I know that slide! My dad went on that one, and he had these horrible gross cuts and bruises from where the tubes met.
" I don't think anyone owns a one big slide in their backyard"
"Hey Ferb I know what were gonna do"
😂
Did they not do that in an episode? That really feels like the kind of thing they'd do in a Phineas and Ferb episode.
im not laughing.
@@TheReaperOfSouls i am laughing.
Me and my family went on a cruise and there was a water slide there, me and my bro timed it, going normal, it had a slide time of 20 seconds....
We used our best knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to go down there as fast as possible, we used a strategy that used so much muscle and strength that at one point the G's glued you to the surface and you neared passing out
We got the 20 second average to 5 seconds. Also I wasn't joking, we both work out everyday and neither of us could lift our heads because of the G's
Plese tell me what tips you used!
I used to touch my toes and for some reason I'd speed up. But now that doesn't work. I'd love to know what can make me slide the FASTEST down!
Also, those G's sound CRAZY
@@TheSheepster toes pointed link your hands and push your arms straight and back, (above your head) use your ab strength, start with a swing when you go down the slide
I went on a little water slide once that was literally concrete painted yellow and I didn’t realize it wasn’t plastic until I started going down, and it was super lumpy as well
They have you cross your arms so that when you get to the bottom of the slide, it will be easier for people to put you in a casket.
His rant about slides being painful brought back some memories.
Even worse was kids blocking the slide on purpose. Then you just crash into a pile on people 😆
LMAO i just one crashed into someone holding on the slide. Gave him a full teabag into his face. He probably tasted the salt out of my balls in his mouth 🤣🤣🤣
SOOOO ANNOYING
I was thinking the same thing. I went to Kalahari last year (mainly for Riptide 2021, a Smash Bros. major tournament but of course I wanted to try out the actual waterpark) and Charlie talking about the initial slides going bit by bit about the pain of each plastic part scratching you and how you swerve around violently from left to right in some areas.....ngl kind of got to me a little and took me back to that experience of going down one of them.
I'm old enough to remember huge, splintery playgrounds with wide metal slides that needed conditions to be just right to actually slide successfully down.
Omg a kid literally stole my ball that was mine and said that it was theirs so I came to their Hut and told their family that I'm gonna take the ball away and they were pretty chill about it and then the kids got mad (i was 6 at that time and they were like 10 or 11)
The best water slides are the smaller ones
Big enough to make it feel worth it
But nice and small and straightforward, no turns and shit
I actually rode Verruckt before they took it down. You didn’t have a true sense of how tall it was until you climbed all the flights of stairs and looked down. It was eerie af up there.
How bad did your legs hurt after climbing up there?
Never thought I’d hear Charlie talk about the Schlitterbahn slide. I went on that exact slide a couple days before that incident with the kid. Can confirm that the whole slide was sketchy and at the second hill near end of the slide my sisters strap came undone cause it was a Velcro strap. But she didn’t fly out though and we reported it. It’s still crazy to think about.
such a terrible, haunting incident. I didn't like slides before, but after hearing about it- I can't even look at a water slide without getting huge amounts of anxiety. Coasters too sometimes, it leaves such a sickening taste in my mouth
I'm pretty sure he had another video where he researched that
@@ayolotl4830 the Guy who did that water slide wanted to get a record on how fast he could build it and had no actual engineer to help him design it After a while he decided to had net because if not the test was failed half the Time
Now it's pretty safe After new laws tho
@@slimboarder.o7 It doesn't exist anymore. Slide was torn down years ago. It was in Kansas City just past the Legends business district where sporting KC plays and the Hollywood Casino resides. Slide was shut down after the death
he made a whole video about that already, thats why he only briefly talk about it here
We all gotta agree with Charlie here, we all absolutely hate that slide. Hope that guy is okay from riding that disaster.
You need to learn English.
@Kavetion lol
@Kavetion who asked
@Kavetion keep dreaming bud
No
Finally someone understands my feelings on huge water slides. I used to complain to my parents about the seams between the sections scratching me. Where was Charlie when I needed him 😂
Saaaammmeeeee
2:25 you know when it has the same name as a cod zombies map it aint gunna be safe
Yeah the next it gonna be shi no numa lmao
Get skinned on our newest slide “five”
The worst "Field Trip" my elementary school ever took us to 20 years ago was "Beaver Mountain," a badly run, cheap, wore out, barely functioning water park that was nothing but slides with trickling water... and for some stupid reasons they INSISTED we used these foam mats to slide down. Now, using a mat to slide down water is a fine idea, BUT...when you dont have enough water on the slide to keep the mats from hitting dry spots and suddenly catching, sending you ass first down a slide you werent meant to be on without said mat, it ended up with most of us kids actually scratched, angry and in the teachers words "ungrateful." The park shut down 3 years later. It was literally there so rich country club members could leave their kids while playing golf.
oh that sucks cause idk who rather spend time playing golf than with their kids
@@user-nj6bt5gy4s people who like golf I imagine
@Kavetion what a bad bot, can't even say why you are better
Man, I feel like if a kid died in front of the other kids at one of these dangerous water parks and those said kids started crying about their classmate dying, the teacher would say “stop crying you ungrateful spoilt rotten brats, I’m never taking you anywhere ever again!” 😅
@@Re-Todd_Howard like what psycho looks at their injuries and say they’re ungrateful about a pain slide
I had a skin tag a few years ago, and went down a water slide, a bolt caught my skin tag and ripped off about 4 inches of skin off my back. Hurt like hell and had to get surgery.
Did they manage to get it reattached??
@@adrodelpedro you don't get skin tags reattached, once they're gone they're gone for good. Some would even recommend getting them removed, just obviously not in that way.
@@DaSheepKiller I think they meant the 4 inches of skin
@@fritz404 oh yeah, I guess I didn't read lol
Last time I went to a water park there was a black tube slide, which was so hot it was hard to breathe the entire time. But the best and tallest one, at the bottom a bunch of water shot up my nose so I was coughing and choking as I got off and the girl behind me was like 'oww that gave me the biggest wedgie!' I wanted to agree with her but I couldn't even speak. That was about 20 years ago. Fun times.
I agree I’ve always enjoyed tube rides and even the ones that are enclosed, but the open ones have always scared the shit out of me especially the straight down ones that people die on
Since others here are sharing their slightly traumatic incidents with waterparks, my family went to Mexico last year, and in a certain waterpark there was a lighthouse with slides attached at the end. At that time there was only one slide open, and nobody disclosed how fast you went. Using the same coffin pose I was picking up so much speed it felt like I was falling upside down. And I was so high up that if I dared move I might fall down and die. I couldn’t ask for help either because, well it’s a slide. Just me and my panic in solitude for a good 2 minutes. Theres a good reason I don’t ride roller coasters and take only the waterpark rides I’ve taken before.
Had one experience with some Rec Center in my city. Went down a closed water slide, and I was at such high speeds that I had no control over my body movements, so I hit my head very hard on almost every turn and there was nothing I could do about it.
Even worse when the lifeguards nearby get on your ass for not going down the slide feet first if they see you get shot out at 55 mph not laying feet first and don't acknowledge that there may be a different cause for the feet first problem and all the concussions caused by this thing.
Roller coasters are safer lol
Yh tbh alot of theme park rides today are just too much. People are better off with safer hobbies. Like skydiving
@Robert Arnold lesson learned frankly
Roller coaster rides are much safer
That slide looks like a nightmare id have.
I’ll never forget one trip to a water park when I was a kid and it was me and two other girlfriends with their moms. And one of the girls split her elbow wide open on the edge of one of the slides. It was gnarly. We ended up going to first aid, urgent care, and then the hospital. And it took forever to finally get it stitched up.
Definitely one of the slides of all time
Dont read my name,,,z..
Ratio + yb better + I didn’t ask + this u 🤓🤓👶🏽👨🏼💻👨🏼💻
@@dontreadprofilephoto1728 sounds good, not reading it.
Penguinz0 more like bad. Alex the movie is better.
I make entertaining content just like charile Ong no cap ( I’m not a bot)
The only really good water slide I've been on was the one at the pool in the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas. You're on there for fifteen, twenty seconds tops and there's a clear plastic section that goes through the aquarium tank they have on display, it's actually really neat, fun and most importantly, SAFE!
Yes, that one kicks ass. Because the slide isn't too big, they're able to actually have enough water going down the slide to keep you from getting your ass kicked
The beginning of you explain why you hate water slides are why I love them
What kind of Waterparks are yall going too? I've never had a bad experience with waterslides.
When I was in middle school I got a job at the county fair, a friend and I were put in charge of the potato sack slide. Part of our job was that we had to put this lube/wax spray on the slide so that people don’t get stuck on it. HOWEVER, nobody told us how much to put on and after about 10 sprays we tested it out - only to find ourselves skipping every other hump and slamming into the slide going mach jesus, i think whatever slide this is probably had a similar situation happen where an employee wasn’t well trained and over waxed it.
I'll these comments got me dead bro 🤣😭😂
Thank you for the term “Mach jesus”
Mach what
@@Suzume175 you didnt get it
@@EndymionThemightyMasterofMagic hi God, how are you.
Back in the summer 2016, I nearly drowned in Aquatica's Breakway Falls. idk if I'm exaggerating, but my first (and only) experience with that ride was the opposite of pleasant. For context, this slide is where they have you stand on a platform and then they drop the floor from beneath you and you go straight down the slide (they DO have a "normal" slide off to the side as an option for those who don't want to be dropped). They didn't allow me to wear my goggles or nose-clamp. They did the procedure where they tell you to cross your arms and legs. I had fun for only the first second until water immediately went into my eyes, blinding me. Water went into my nostrils, leaving me with only my mouth to breathe until my mouth was full of water half a second later. I basically had water go into every orifice on my face. Because of how fast I was going down the slide, the water that went into my mouth was propelled deep into my mouth and I couldn't spit it out until I got to the bottom of the slide. Basically, I couldn't breathe for the whole thing. Not to mention that the first half of the drop is in darkness. So yeah, it's dark, my eyes are full of chlorinated water, and I couldn't breathe. idk how so many people can handle that ride
That’s my favorite slide, they allow you to cover your nose as long as your arms are still crossed. So I always cover my nose on most body water slides bc water will go into your nose regardless.
@@dedrick7949 that sounds like torture wtf is wrong with y’all
We do it because it’s fun
Did it occur to you that you could HOLD UR BREATH
@@jeepisbeepis9344 when you're panicked, you don't think very well. sorry that not everyone is 100% logically thinking at all times like you, hun ❤
Keep up the great work.just mentioning someone getting their arm caught in this slide gives me deep pain thinking about it.
I actually agree with what Charlie says about the slides 100%, everyone talks about how fun they are but every single one I've been on has hurt my skin, but I've gaslighted myself into thinking I was crazy. Glad I'm not the only one lmao
Bruh waterparks are the WORST. On top of the slides themselves, most people that go are just miserable in the first place unless they're under the age of 15. This is coming from someone who LOVES the beach (and no not those shitty frozen California beaches that you can't even put your foot in bc you'll get frostbite mid July) lol but damn people really out here okay with burning your feet off walking around, standing in long lines on stairs around smelly sweaty ass people with stale air cuz there usually isn't any wind, whining babies, expensive food & alcohol, & I haven't got to the issue with the slides in general. You definitely aren't the only one lmao the only worse you can get than a water park is an overcrowded community (cess)pool
@YeaMan 🧢
@@cybrunettekitty5197 to each their own.
I sliced my leg open on a water slide when I was like 12 or so I barely felt a thing and I was like hmm my leg stings weird, and then I saw the water going red lol I had to get a bunch of stiched it's a miracle it didn't left a scar just a thin line, guess the doctor was god tier
Also I saw one kid flying of the corner and falling on the grass once lol not that high but I think he broke his arm, the curve on that thing was hard and you'll always go up a little
I went to a over filled water slide once and i swear to god i was tossing and turning so much that when it reached to a drop i bonked my head on the tube so low water slide hurt but high water slides cause brain damage
I honestly think all water slides are hardly ever safe depending on how you angle yourself you are guaranteed to get hurt in any way small or big
Two times, I've been on the type of slide where the floor drops and you fall down. Both times I exited the slide with a bloody nose.
How is everybody getting injured all you have to do is keep your head back and not move, I’ve never had in incidents
thanks for sharing your thoughts walter white
you arent gauranteed to get hurt on all waterslides otherwise no one would use them and i never got hurt lol
I've never been on a water slide, mainly because of my fear of large bodies of water since I drowned in a pool when I was 4 or 5 years old.
There was a bag slide that I went on as a kid that was in I believe Kentucky and it scared the absolute hell out of me because it was so uneven that I went airborne multiple times, I was just lucky enough to land back on the slide, but it hurt like hell. Never been on one since, and I don't plan on ever having kids, but if I do I won't ever let them on one.
1:39 i have the exact same experience, i even remember the time i quit going down them. It stretched and shredded all my swimming clothing, turning them into 20XL sized bits of clothing, its as if the clothes had been turned into that segmented animal from a Hellraiser movie.
I went down a cart slide in the mountains of Colorado a few years ago. it started raining as we got to the start area, which makes the breaks on the cart not work, but the person running it gave us the the ok to go. as me and my family of 4 over weight adults and 3 small children went down one after another on the 2 lane ride. half way down we realized the breaks weren't working and everyone started panicking obviously. it leads all the way down the mountain, and at the end all of us crashed together. my cousin jumped out of the ride before the end and broke her arm and got a concussion. my step brother, who was going down with my baby brother, was the first down and crashes into the tires ment to stop you incase this happens, but everyone else crashed into the carts sustaining minor injuries. some turns were tight with a "slow down" sign, and when we'd get there we'd have half our cart outside the slide almost flying off the mountain. if we were just a little bit less lucky someone could have easily died.
Do yk what the place was called?
@@ryandecelles4823 I believe it was called "the howler"
sounds like you made poor choices :/
@@komosky3706
Sounds like that staff member made poor choices. Idiot shouldn’t have given them the ok.
@@masacross8551 100%. And I was like 11 at the time it wasn't my decision lmao
I went on a “Water slide” in Georgia on some random lake once. It was a metal slide that had a ladder that went straight up and was about 35ft tall. I got the top of the slide and went to grab the railing to pull myself down the slide and I grabbed a f*cking wasp.
Good ole fucking wasps, the bane of my existence. I was working outside years ago and i look to my left and i swear to god i made “eye contact” with that little piece of shit while he was flying full speed towards me. I turned to move out of the way, and that bitch stung me inside of my ear. I threw my tools and started yelling f bombs…. Went into my work truck and i was in tears it hurt so bad. They litterally have no purpose on this earth besides to piss people off 😃
Did it sting you or did you just kill it?
real life is exactly like this, it's funny how in movies/ads everything goes right, try it irl lmao, there is always some shit like this
@@TiredEyePilot it stung my hand very badly, also i failed to mention there was literally a line of people behind me/ below me on this comically large ladder.
@kota ouch. Did the wasp at least pay the price afterwards?
I remember riding the Verrückt during the same year that kid passed away. Me and two other people(strangers) were waiting at the top to go down for like 45 mins. Turns out there was issues concerning the ride, but because the employees felt bad for us waiting for so long they had us go down. Keep in mind this ride NEEDED to reach a weight requirement, because going down the drop I felt my self slipping through my harness!
I dont think this slide is the most dangerous anymore. If you know, you know
I rode the Speed Slide at Wet n Wild in Queensland, Australia when I was younger and I got off terrified and shaking. I LOVE thrill rides and water rides, ive never been afraid of any of them for i've always felt safe on them. I was tall and thin when I rode this slide and I went down it normally, didn't launch myself or anything as this one was already quite high and vertical. Anyone who looks up a pic of the slide can see that it has 3 humps and no safety railing on any sides, just slighty raised lumps on either side of you to "keep you in".
The first hump sent me into the air, and I landed my back on the railing, knowing that that scared me I tried to realign while still jettisoning towards the next hump as that hump launched me again, this time towards the side where you would literally just fly off.. no net anywhere, just ground and my head went over the side as i caught myself and then went down the rest of the slide.
It was like no more than 10 seconds on that slide and it still feels like it was an eternity. No one really saw it or approached me after and I was just exploring the park by myself at that point.. had to go sit down as my fuckin life flashed before me and I ended up slipping a disc. Fuck that ride. And fuck tall ass waterslides.
so nothing bad actually happened ?
The speed slide at wetnwild is no joke, got serious friction burn going down it when I was like 13 those high speed drop slides are so dumb
@@thatwaterriver3824 you happened sadly
Sorry to hear that. It must have been awful! I'm glad you're ok tho, still the disc isn't good either. Wish you all the best and full recovery.
@@thatwaterriver3824 he almost died and ended up slipping a disc.
Rip techno bro
I freaking love water parks and amusement parks in general. I go onto every single ride and never felt truly scared, no matter how high or fast the coaster but that one waterslide in a water park in spain, oooof that shit was the closest I ever have gotten to a near death experience. The slide was open top and you had like half a second of airtime in a height of 20+ meters...bro i thought i was done.
At blue bayou (a Louisiana water park) there is a pair of water slides called the twin vipers. The last time I was there you could feel the entire structure shake and wobble everytime someone went down it while you were waiting in line on the stairwell.
There was a water slide I went on as a teen where you ride mats on you stomach head-first. I fell off my mat halfway before the ending straightway where there were a bunch of bumps. I repeatedly went airborne falling on my back and scraped my skin at the very end where the slide became rough to slow down the mats.
This is terrifying
Wonderland?
I've had a similar experience with those types especially the ones with fucking closed curved slides. The waterpark we have here has 2 versions; 1 that's just a straight slide and another that has closed tubes with 3 curves before going down the straight slide. I accidentally turned over on my back last minute before exiting the tube and next thing i knew my skin, back and sides were hurting like hell😣😫
@@massihw.7146 it was SeaWorld Aquatica
@@williamjames7293 goddamn. The slide I was on was a lot like the second one you mentioned. It was at the last turn in the enclosure that I flipped over onto my back. Once I reached the opening, shit hit the fan lmao
When I was about 14, I went down a waterslide and smashed my elbow into one of the rivets holding the sections together. I don't know what getting shot feels like but I assume it feels something like that, the pain was so much I went blind for about 10 minutes. Even now, 15 years later, if I put too much pressure on that elbow it feels like electricity going through my arm and I lose all grip. It definitely caused some nerve damage.
I think the electricity thing is pretty normal for everyone, so don't worry
@@roberthajovsky2064 Even just leaning on your elbow? I'm pretty sure you aren't supposed to lose grip in your hand by leaning on your elbow haha
@@Nyrax18 there's an exact spot just above elbow you can hit (even lightly) and it feels horrible, but I guess its something completely different from what you're experiencing.
@@Nyrax18 no you do. If you lean on your elbow and put most or all your body weight on it for some time(doesn't even have to be a long duration) then it does happen hehe.
sounds like you hit you funny bone. hard
0:36 Eyyy I see that Hybrid Theory vinyl in the background there, fire album 🔥🔥🔥🔥
ive never understood the "safety" cages, they always seem way too small, like theyre designed to specifically hit people in the head, then put them back on the slide so their head can get hit again later
Charlie is half may age so funny to hear him say he's old lol. I remember when I was a kid all slides were made of sheet steel and yes the did burn the shit out of you. We had a 4 storied tall metal tube that you would climb a ladder in to the top and that had 3 metal slides. I can't tell you how many kids destroyed them selfs on it. That thing broke more legs the police in Russia. Not to mention we had tanbark and everytime you went to the playground you can home full of splinters
Only the strong survived recess in your day
What is half may age?
@@zorth42 maybe it's a typo for 'half my age"
@@kellisuzuki8889 He knows he's just being a grammar nazi to be quirky.
@@zorth42 Come on dude really? If you couldn't tell what that was supposed to say that's just sad.
Dude so accurate I hate water parks. Mainly that time between slides where you're soaking wet, no towel and walking up a windy staircase. Not for me
HAHAHA SAME BRO, INSECURE THE WALK OF SHAME WITH NO FRIENDS.
I was like 8 bro with family, so don't diss me that hard for it.
I actually do like most waterslides I go on, but I still remeber there being this one slide when I was a kid that was one of the ones where you're on your back, and the last time i went on it, i literally felt my head bounce against the walls of the slide painfully to the point where I had a headache after
YES! I have the exact same option about water slids. I can feel every single place where the slide parts were assembled.
As someone who just started working at Schlitterbahn (Different park from the decapitation one) I can say they literally only have 1 or 2 body slides that adults can ride anymore because of that incident. Other than that it's just tube slides/ rivers. I would 100% recommend their newer facilities not just because I work there, but because they're actually fun nowadays
2 comments below yours talks about the same place lmao
You referring to the Kansas City Schlitterbahn park as “The Decapitation One” has me rolling.
Hell naw
@@McKeelix that's how everybody at work refers to it 😂 The New Braunfels one is waaaay better
As someone who also hates waterparks I feel a sense of community now. Its like the people who throw them together spend as little time as possible being creative. Show me 1 water ride that isnt part of a real amusement park that makes you excited.
Those water slides that are about as steep as a kids slide in a play area but you go down them headfirst on a foam carpet with handles. Perfectly safe without the carpet and plenty of water
i live near a ymca, they have a water slide in a kids section and its fun, plently of water on the actual slide so my back doesnt burn or anything
The legoland California water park has some fun slides. I didn’t go on all of them and this was a few years ago so it might’ve changed, but they had a big one where you could ride with friends on a tube down a slide. I liked the open slides too. Will never ride a slide that drops you straight down with your arms crossed in coffin position.
West Edmonton mall in Canada has some fun ones too. Not the pink loop one though, that shit looks dangerous af. They also have a zip line that goes over the pool.
I will say this every time it is mentioned. My family and I went to Schlitterbahn in Kansas City the week before that accident happened and even rode Verrukt. It's crazy but when we were standing in line waiting, we kept noticing their disregard for safety measures when it came to weight and weight distribution. Which sadly ended up killing the kid. There were two big guys in the front and the small kid in the back, which lifted the back of the raft up and into the rope net on the top.
5:00 cheese grater slide
Charlie's rant at the beginning sparked a childhood memory of mine. So there's this lil waterpark I love that had 2 of this slides, one with a closed top and one with an open top. Being a child I didn't wanna go in the dark closed one but I got around to it and it became my favorite one.
One year I slide down the closed one a couple times and felt a raised part that would scrap me whenever I went down. Thought nothing of it. A week later the slides were closed because a kid went down the closed one and his arm got scratched open by that one part. They closed down the slides for the year and the next summer we had brand new slides.
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One of the many major reasons as to why I am absolutely hooked on to Charlie's contents is his amazing skill of being able to utilize the right words at the right time. That really allows him to describe his sentence in a more meaningful manner and as for the viewers it helps them to easily grasp and understand the subject perfectly! 👍
This comment sums up the formula better then the conclusion to the mummy trilogy
this has got be a bot, no human could type this shit out
lol maybe you’re just a little dull.
@@jimmycarburator2012 wow 😐
I have a story from my home-town around 2015 at our local swimming pool. The pool was usually very packed with all different ages: kids teens, adults. My friends and I used to love to go there during the summer as kids. At the pool there was a water slide (there was only one) that had you walking up about 50-60 feet leading to a twist and turn U-shaped water slide. It was always super fun for me and my friends to have competitions on this slide to see who could go the fastest down. And, this slide went fast, like too fast. I was always really anxious when going down too fast because at times you would find yourself hitting a sharp turn going wayyy too fast and half of your body would be out of the slide. One day when my friends and I were there, we were waiting in line to go down the slide. A dad and his daughter (around 3-4 years old) were ahead of us in line and were preparing to go down together. The lifeguard gave them the thumbs up and they headed down. We couldn't really see them too well once they reached about a 1/3 down the slide but we had a good view of them going down at first and they started at a very fast pace. About halfway down the slide theres a turn that usually was the one I was timid about since it was so sharp and the speed that you could gain was insane. But, when they got to the turn the dad lost control of his daughter, and she ended up completely soaring away from the slide and falling close to 20-30 feet into the ground. Ambulances rushed to the pool and the whole place was in terror as to what just happened. Luckily though, the little girl was okay, but broke her arm and had a major concussion as a result. Just shows that water park slides or any slides for that matter are no joke lmao.
So the girl wasn't okay, she was very badly injured.
I usually enjoy waterslides, but I still remember going to a waterslide in a waterpark here in my country, and I swear I felt like the water was dragging me up once the waterslide ended, I had to hold on so tight to the railing. Cant say I really like waterparks either
I think you can add those down hill carts to the list of dangerous attractions. You know the ones that has you ascend a steep hill like on a rollercoaster and, at the top, you plunge down a steel slide with no steering, no protective guardrails around the track. All you have is a handbrake and your own sense of self preservation as you descend at speed. And all the while, you're worried about the bloke behind you catching up as you are too afraid to go even faster to widen the gap. Why yes, I am speaking from experience.
Didn’t action park have something like this? And a bunch of people got fucked up on it?
Yeah alpine slides can be pretty sketchy. Especially after seeing that video of the guy who just absolutely raged and broke that woman’s back on purpose.
They can be fun but also a good way to cut yourself open if you fall
i went on those recently, it bumped quite a bit around the turns and stuff, but i never used the handbrake and it was still pretty chill
@@Gob. it wasnt even a woman it was a child, dude raged because her family slowed to see the view so naturally she slowed down when he decided to break her back and called her a bitch
I once did a waterslide that was open top, and it went down in this wavey pattern. Not even joking I almost flew out and over the side of it at about what felt like 20-30ft in the air and died. It was my first experience with a waterslide and somehow it didn't make me scared of them... but I don't trust slides that one anymore x)
I was at a waterpark in Cyprus and I watched some poor guy (looked like a kid) crack his skull open after catching some air on one of those slides. Blood everywhere
Same
Not gonna lie as a kid I always worried about that. I was a small kid so I wasn’t worried about it happening to me, but I saw a lot of average sized and heavy set adults almost go off the edge a few times. Those slides always bothered me in that regard
you died?
Damn you died? How are you writing a comment
Charlie: “the ten year old kid hit his neck on the safety net decapitating him it’s an absolutely horrifying thing to read”Charlie’s face the whole time:😐😐😐😐
I love Charlie's ability to tie the Verukt horror story to this micro dry verukt death slide
can’t forget the fact that the possibility of escaping the seemingly endless amounts of water showering you face to grab a minuscule amount of breath is rarer than Charlie making a bad upload
You can do it bot!
@@shannonfiggins2228 shut up
The slides I hate the most are metal slides. One time I went on a metal slide during summer and it was scorching hot and impossible to slide down. Idk why places still use them.
Dont read my name,,,z..
Penguinz0 more like reptile infinite. Alex the movie is better.
Wow 3 bots…
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@@dontreadprofilephoto1728 yep, hard pass.
Bruh that’s just as bad as wearing a piping hot seatbelt while the weather is 100 degrees. The metal part of the belt gets all boiling hot
Btw I make entertaining content just like charile Ong no cap ( I’m not a bot)