The World’s Tallest Water Slide Was a Terrible, Tragic Idea
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2019
- At nearly 169 feet tall, Verrückt was taller than Niagara Falls. Riders flew down the world's tallest water slide at 70 miles per hour, challenging the laws of physics. Then, on August 7, 2016, 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated on the ride. What went wrong to cause such a horrific tragedy? For more information, read this article: www.theatlantic.com/video/ind...
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A kid got his head cut off. This is EXTREMELY inappropriate.
The slide should not have been designed that way. The second hill acted like a ramp sending the rafts airborne. It should have had the big drop, then a straight run out to the splash pool.
as an engineer, it just hurts seeing stuff like this.
engineering codes are written in blood, that's why they are followed.
These people cannot be called engineers, period
Yeah I think they were just craving that attention breaking the world record would get them. Plain idiots
But hey. They said all them "mathematicians" and "engineers" were wrong. Man o man... Science. Physics. I feel like the people who signed off on that death tube Cheese grater should all be in jail.
Yes daddy
A raft,on water,catching air.
Now please calculate that!
Maths are a tool,not to be
placed over common sense.
“No.”
“It’s too scary”
Child potentially saved his own life.
potentially? he did
His parents told him to say no
I swear I read this as soon as he said it. I don't know how this happens so much to me.
@Solitary confirmed Shitzophrenic what are you on about
Marshal Murat - ExACTly what reSPONsible parents SHOULD have done. Not what this poor kid’s folks allowed him to do. The only intelligent person in the damn park that day was an 8 year old CHILD!!
1:41 “That was truly exciting because we really didn’t know if we would survive it or not.”
That statement there says it all.
Bro they knew yet still opened it for other people to risk their lives and say that
That park is huge, I don't understand why they didn't make the slide longer with a less aggressive climb and fall at the end. 15% longer and there would be much less risk of going airborne at the end...
All "less risk" means is that it will just probably take longer for their to be an accident. Your logic is exactly the logic of the designers@@gasstationpeanuts1814
I've never seen metal barriers/nets going over your head on a waterslide. That alone is a red flag 🚩
I have not read the report, did the boat thing go into the air - which from the tests we know did have potential to, and thus impact any retaining supports, or did the supports fail being lower down than expected ? There was a similar happening in south wales, UK, on a (small) roller coaster, which had metal hoops over it carring decorative lights, no-one had checked for corrosion of the mounting bolts, while roller coasters are effectively locked to the track by wheels above and below the track, the two hoops failed and took out a number of persons, its possible again people may have tried to touch the hoops on the decent which make have been a causal factor over time.
Yeah, there's only 1 reason why they would be there...
What are they even for? To prevent you from falling out by killing you?
@@alexanderfrankenberger1118 what do you think? They put nets so if you go flying you hit the nets. you saw how many times the raft flew off the ride in all those tests? Exactly that
@@maddielovelee and if you hit the net you die. Where’s the sense?
The “it’s too scary” kid is the smartest person in this video.
JaviEnding he sounds like cleveland brown
Homeboy is kinda creepy
stephen churns lmaoo
he gets to grow up
Officially lost her American citizenship
This was no freak accident. It was 100% death by negligence.
Incompetence from the creator/ engineer’s that allowed this slide to be made
@@blank_roundz7427 how so?
They were laughing and giggling as the rafts were flying off. They were way too immature to be making a ride like this.
@@BobbyZo43383 Don't blame engineers! Pa Clampett & Jethro mocked those people w/ book learnin' and said the engineers & mathematicians all said it was too dangerous. But they were arrogant & greedy & thought they knew better. It was entirely the fault of the people who designed and built that slide.
Donna Brooks that’s true. I assumed an engineer of some sort must’ve wrote a design for the slide. Can’t just build that thing with no experience and have it stand. I don’t fault the ones who deemed it dangerous and the creators ignored them.
His brother witnessed the entire tragedy, told the manager “your slide killed my brother.” Even shielded his mother from seeing his body. Heartbreaking and devastating. Glad the family got $20 mil at the very least
The slide manufacturers should have listened to the professionals advice, people like this just ignore it and act smart and all, No money can bring back their kid RIP.
Has the family ever released a statement?
Mom saw it. The bother was 8. He couldn't shield her. He ran to her to see if she saw it, to stop her from looking...she had already seen it. The body came down 1st. Head came down after.
@@Raresnce omg 😳 scary & very sad. Nobody should have to go through that kind of thing, why build something if your not gonna make sure everything is correct and not gonna harm anyone.
@@MichaelJohnson-ny6zs why would you assume that some random politician had any role in crafting water park regulation standards? Shame on you
Chilling, I was horrified the whole video. The ride looked incredibly dangerous from the start. If multiple people are telling you it’s a really bad idea to do something why the hell would you go through with it? My heart goes out to the kid’s family. Tragic.
And no one was held accountable. And I hope and pray, in the case where the 14 yr old boy fell from the ICON PARK Freefall ride (Orlando), the negligent parties are held accountable.
"all the mathematicians were wrong" the is the most dangerous sentence ive ever heard.
The weight of people varies, the weather varies, the water varies, the wind varies, the riders can lift the vehicle. The biggest problem with design is you have to account for the worst possible scenario. I am not saying it happened here but what if someone lifts someone up.
I wanted to know what he thinks they were wrong about.
"the mathmaticians being wrong" is nightmare fuel arrogance, but those bastards knew the slide was dangerous.
Because it's not like Caleb getting decapitated was the first injury. People regularly suffered: concussions, broken toes, herniated spinal discs, broken jaws on that death trap and the park covered it all up.
@@jackmiddleton2080 I don't know who is wrong and who is right but the fact is any uneducated person also can say that at that peak where it's going launch boat should have better protection than net that was an awful choice a net at that speed bad idea👎
@@luckyjc11 Yeah should have made it like a clear plastic tube for that part.
You don't need to be an engineer to see that this design was horribly stupid.
It's not immediately obvious, actually.
googlewolly that angle of it at 4:20 makes it seem pretty obvious
@@KaneDeath4 No - it doesn't, actually. It's not immediately obvious. If it was, people wouldn't have gone on the ride.
To be honest they could have done without the middle hump and just had a long ground level lane that was just fast. Would have had the same novelty
And people thinking it's safe just because it had a net over top just shows you how dumb and over trusting people can be. Yes, it might save you from flying off the side to be injured or worse but there are any number of things that can go wrong from there.
Whoever edited this did an amazing job. They really know how to place the clips at the right time to evoke the right emotions. Seeing the ad for the park right after hearing about the boy made me so angry! I don't know how the designers and owners of the park can live with themselves.
Or why they are NOT IN JAIL
Or how parents can take their children to the park anymore.
I live here and will never go and support that place. Disgusting and could have been avoided. They left the dang thing up for so long too (not used, probably had to for the court case), wanted to vomit everytime I drove by. So horrible and such a broken system we have.
I'm just here for the info
Excellent story telling in this mini documentary. So many foreshadowing interview clips I couldn’t help my jaw from hitting the floor several times
“You gonna go down that water slide?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“It’s too scary.” The smartest child in Kansas said.
“Are you gonna go on that water slide?”
“No.” Smartest kid in Kansas right there.
That kid’s name? Albert Einstein.
That’s the same thing I said when my parents wanted to go.
His voice tho
My nephew once was trying to ride tall and steep water slide in Florida, but he had enough guts to say no in the last moment. Slides should generate fun, not fear.
You said it. I thought exactly the same thing what that boy said he wouldn't go on it.
"I wanna be the first to hit the bar, to buy a drink and I wanna be the first to meet a pretty girl. I wanna be the first at everything."
Congratulations! You were the first to decapitate a poor young child on a deathtrap of a water slide.
I still think they should've been convicted of at least murder 2
Sven MohaMad what does him being a rabbi have to do with anything
Another grown man who never mentally developed or matured into a responsible adult. His toys just became larger and more dangerous. He should be in prison.
Sven MohaMad, ah there it is. Random anti semitism.
That boy was the first to hit the bar sadly, not him
Absolutely brutal, the kid who answered, ‘it’s too scary’ I admire, the simplicity of that response for some reason touched my heart
Wisdom in simplicity
He sounded just like Cleveland from Family Guy and The Cleveland Shiow! But at least he was smart enough to not go down the slide!
The little boy who said "no, it's too scary," to ride that ride will live until he is 99 I promise you that
Shout out to the one black kid in Kansas that had sense to just say no
@YouMake MeReal he was scared cause it didnt look safe
For whatever reason, I'm glad he said no.
Sometimes fear is a sign of good instincts that something is dangerous or something is wrong
@YouMake MeReal and why do you think he was scared huh? It totally looks unsafe
@@gardensofthegods Truth. A lot of people will freeze in the face of oncoming danger. You'd have thought that gene would have been filtered out of the pool by now.
the dude was like “we asked many engineers and mathematicians who said it was impossible but look at us” nah dude they were right you should have listened to them
It's like you physically can, but you shouldn't
I was already horrified by the fact that the people designing the slide weren't engineers
LMAO my thoughts exactly
Abbas Haidari ikr
It could have been made proper, restraints to keep riders held in, or a pod like design.
I imagine the advice they received from the experts/engineers/doers of physics/"mathematicians"/etc went something along the lines of "this is a horrible idea" or "this incline is too steep" or "that second little hill has gotta go" or "hitting a metal poll whilst flying through the air at 60+ mph is going to cause death"
The Designers and Owners: Damn that Yappin Noisea, We Know What we are Gad Dang Doing Right Cleatus, yeah We Are Home Schoolled.
The Ego of the owner wanted the biggest slide and its Guinness record. So he went through experts and engineers until he found his yaysayers.
I remember driving on the highway next to this park, for years after you could still see the blood stained on the side of the slide. Took them years to tear it down
Same!!!
Jesus. Why wouldn't they just remove it out of respect for the family? It's not like they need it for DNA purposes or anything.
@@Vnov93 because it's expensive to clean
You sure it was blood? Not rust or some other form of corrosion?
The fact that they were using sandbags instead of, you know, actual crash test dummies to simulate human riders in the early tests should have been enough to raise red flags.
Adam Ohm exactly, and all they seemed to do was trial and error.
Yeh, mass distribution of sandbags completely different to a human. Everything about this was wrong, the aims of the ride, the design process, the lack of understanding of the need for extremely rigorous training, a failure from start to finish. But I guess the guys who put this thing up are laughing all the way to the bank. Horrible.
Adam Ohm on a smaller version no less
Crash test dummies are used for impact testing. There was no need to use them on this unless they were measuring impact damage on the body.
Amusement parks and waterparks use sandbags/water dummys because they are trying to calculate weight on the attraction.
Not defending them, but crash test dummies would serve no purpose on this.
Parks always use sandbags for testing
Whoever edited this made it a thousand times more horrifying
Yeah, because a child being decapitated by an amusement park ride is not actually that horrifying, right?
@@leisti he didnt say it wasnt horrifying, he just said the editing of the video made it *more* horrifying.
I grew up near this waterpark, and used to go there a lot before it was shut down. It was a pretty nice waterpark, though a few of the rides looked a bit iffy. I was staying at a nearby hotel with a youthgroup the day after this happened. There was still blood on the slide, and when we were standing on the balcony, we saw the news helicopter fly overhead. This was the main story in local newspapers for a while after it happened.
I disagree
Teemu Leisti Miks suomalaiset on aina näin suolasia ja triggeröityy tubes... aina saa hävetä.
Warning flags if a ride has a metal fence above it..first thing I noticed was that, IF the thing got airborne, their heads was the first thing that hits the netting. Such an insane oversight.
And it sadly wasn't even the netting that caused his death 🤦🏾
The editing of this piece gives me chills every time I watch it. Not to mention the brilliant and absolutely terrifying sound design that not only amplifies the horrific tragedy of these events, but highlights just how negligent and willingly ignorant the people who made this ride were. Rest in Peace, Caleb....
A wise person once said
“No, it’s too scary”
A Wolf With Anxiety I love your username
AGREED
Muted_Woodlands thanks :)
@El Luech I literally looked at the line and said, "white people, SMH"!!!🤷🏾♀️
Life is scary in one way,shape or form.
"They've all been completely wrong. Every bit of advice we've been given from the brightest brains and the smartest engineers, mathematicians, just have not been correct."
If that's not a red flag, I don't know what is
Tobin Jacob not even a red flag. It’s a big fat STOP. NO.
It's a stop sign
Also, what are the chances that sketchy seeming owner of a wildly unregulated Kansas water park really hired the “brightest brains and the smartest engineers” ?? 😂😂😂😂
Or they were correct.. And they didn't like what was said
It's never a failure until you stop trying
“….she has not cleared any of our children…”. Mom instincts right there. 👍🏾
I went down this slide - absolutely one of the most adrenaline inducing things I’ve ever experienced, it basically felt like several seconds of pure g force as you’re falling straight down. There were a lot of signs on the way up the stairs, the last one I could recall read that “You’re now higher than the Statue of Liberty”. I was able to go on the ride because they were looking for people of specific weights to group together, and would let people cut the line if they fit the weight they needed. Absolutely horrifying tragedy, rest in peace to the boy who passed. Completely terrifying. Very weird and eerie feeling to have ever been on it. The straps themselves were basically Velcro, and did not feel as secure as you’d hope.
yeah, the 2 women who were on the raft are partly responsible for his death because they lied about their weight when being grouped with the boys
I was wondering if the boy was not wearing seat belt or if front of raft just flew up up that high. It’s shocking that knowing there was risk of people becoming airborne that it wouldn’t have secure safety straps.
That little black kid knows what’s good he had common sense
u deadass right
Right
i actually clapped after he said he wasnt going.
That’s why we black people always survive horror movies
Janay Clarke We actually die first because of the directors
If you have to wear a seatbelt to ride it that is not a waterslide anymore
Red Clay it’s still a water slide bud
@@lactoast477 They didnt mean it literally, they're saying it in the sense that if it's so dangerous that seatbelts have to be worn, it's a monster or an endangerment, not just a water slide
Splatoon 2 News! it’s still a slide in water bud
Zach Reynolds ok bud
@@lactoast477 listen here you little s-
The fact that i almost went in the slide when i was 7 because my step dad pressured me to and somehow still get called a chicken for not doing it. My grandma was the only one who was against it and most likely saved my life. so terrifying to think that could have been me.
Send this video to your dad and tell him that you obviously have a stronger survival instinct than he does and the stupid will wipe themselves out (and no I'm not calling this boy stupid, it's just a decent dig at your dad) ;)
I feel horrible for that family. As a father I can't even imagine something like that happening to one of my children. Such a horrible tragedy.
I know what you mean....and to think it happened when you were taking that child to have one of the best days of his/her life. I cannot even imagine the guilt I would feel.
Kid: literally killed
The park: Uhhhh, thoughts and prayers
@wolfbitch82 that they're sorry it happened and pay the family
I actually don't think that anyone was killed on this water slide. Think about it: liberals exist. If liberals exist, you cannot deny that liberals are going to a)lie b)lie about this c)cover this up by lying about it. Liberals are trying to kill you! WAKE UP!@!!! RUN!!!!! RUN FOR YOU LIFE FROM THE LIBERALS!!!!!
millions of people: killed by guns
NRA: uhhh thoughts and prayers???
I miss my dead cat. We get it you took a couple philosophy classes at your local community college
Ok but what do you expect them to do, bring the kid back to life? Yeah, they should have never built that death trap in the first place, but once someone is dead, there's only so much a PR person can do, and those things are apologize and announce the closure of the ride.
Imagine having to drive home without your child. Absolutely sad.
Goodness
Imagine the younger brother how he felt afterwards, the whole situation is so tragic :(
Well they surely stayed up all night at the hospital but yeah
They handled every second of this badly.
@@tewstronge9173 Idk if a hospital is in any way needed after a decapitation..
The dad brought flowers to a water park after what happened and still let his kids go back too. My heart goes out to the kids.
I worked for a company who designed and built rides for amusement parks and carnivals. After about a month I never rode another ride at either place. It’s shocking and terrifying what goes on.
What goes on?
That reminds me, my uncle works for a company that sells bullshit.
Its shocking and terrifying what people make up for internet points
Whoever edited and put this together knows how to make people uncomfortable and scared
For real, like the black metal even. Squares don't usually know about that on mainstream news. Poor kid.
ikr :/
Right I'm second guessing rollercoasters and shit.
Whoever edited this knows how to point out the absolute idiocy of the ride's designers.
Aware*
"I want to be the first guy to get a drink at the bar..."
I think we found the problem here.
Yep, along with the equally ominous _all the Engineers and Mathematicians were WRONG_ Lawdy... shame on the State of Kansas.
ICallsEmLikeISeesEm did he stand up or what?
ICallsEmLikeISeesEm why was it only him that got decapitated and none of the taller adults?
@@Charlotte-vj2pg probably because he was the lightest because he was only 10
I feel so bad for the boy he was probably really exited not knowing it was his last moments :( R.I.P
I remember when the slide was first open and they had like a set amount of rides they ran every day on a first come first reserve basis. The last time I went to the park before the accident I recall getting there too late in the day to reserve a ride and feeling bummed out about it. Ever since then I've considered myself lucky I missed out. RIP Caleb.
pro tip: when all the engineers and mathematicians are wrong, just ask the little black kid, he knows whatsup
They weren't wrong. They were just not giving them the okay that the slide is safe. The designers were saying they were wrong to keep their version of the slide.
This is one cliche where the movies do get it right.
The engineers and mathematicians were right, the dumbass hillbillies just really wanted their slide to work so they said they were wrong. It’s like a child trying to deny that 2 + 2 equals four despite the teacher telling them it’s four. These retards just wanted to be right so bad..
I don't see how you watched that and determined that the engineers were the ones in the wrong.
The independent analysts specifically declared it unsafe.
Lmao
he cared more about getting a world record than the safety of whoever got on the water slide
Cocky
He just wanted the fame
And it cost an innocent child who died tragically. Sad
You do know the guy did not force people to ride it, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Moortje Arkhorn this is one of the dumbest comments I have ever red
This is insane. It was not engineered...it was guesswork. This is not a tough problem. The factors are the flow and consistency of flow of water in the channel, the inflation of the raft (its shape vs the shape of the channel), the defomation of the raft due to weight loading, the weight in the raft, the distribution of weight in the raft, the cross-sectional area of individuals above the raft, effects of wind, and energy loss on the top of rise. There is a sweet spot which has a left hand side where there is too little energy to make it over the rise and a right hand side where there is so much energy that the raft becomes critically airborne. The easiest way to increase safety was to significantly reduce the height of the rise and then add two more rises to dissipate the energy. Here's the real issue. The higher the slide the higher the rise has to be to dissipate the energy...otherwise you enter the exit at a lethal speed. But the area of land devoted to the slide was limited. So, this "engineered" wonder became a launching ramp...there were too many solutions to the factors above that led to the failure of the ride. This is a simple problem of multidimensional vector analysis... any mechanical engineering graduate from MIT could whip this out in 1 day. So, who did they hire.?
Yeah the incline had to have been far less than what it was before the drop.
Having problems keeping enough speed that it can't go over the hill?
On a ride that has massive variable weight and fluctuating amounts of water pushing it?
While flying can and will kill the occupants?
The only thing what could have helped here was a rail that keeps the raft in the same vertical position.
Along with some seatbelts.
I know a log flume that has just that.
It has wheels in the side of the "slide" that makes it impossible to go airborne.
I know it would basically become a wet rollercoaster.
Which at these speeds and inclines would be fine.
@@MrDwarfpitcher you mention log flumes. They are a great design principle...make the system be the vast majority of the mass so the thing the system operates on is small by comparison. In a traditional flume, the mass of the riders is small by comparison to the vehicle and the volume of water required to keep just the vehicle in motion. In that way, the variation in the masses of riders represents such a small deviation to the operation of the system that it is easy to design the necessary safety margin to keep the system from failing...that is, stopping or catastrophic destruction.
Here, the mass of the system is skewed heavily towards the riders. With ages between 12 to 60 allowed, you have variations of mass that are three fold...anything from 80 pounds to 250 pounds. With a fix amount of water flowing, there is no way to easily design a safe ride other than a single drop slide. Even that could be lethal.
As I said, any solid student of physics or mechanical engineering in their junior or senior year would see the disaster coming and be able to design something far better.
This was a travesty and a tragedy born of ignorance.
I'd say it was a horrible accident waiting to happen, rather than a freak accident. Especially seeing the tests carried out, and the fact that the builder seemed determined to have his record breaking slide, regardless of contrary advice.
When I turned 10, my parents got tickets for that ride but had to canceled because it rained, I was so mad at them.
After this, I’m not so mad after that
you're an idiot for basically getting mad at rain
@@tps64 don't randomly call people idiots please
@@tps64 Dude, he was 10.
@@doonuml well, as a 10 year old he should have understood that the rain would make it impossible to go to the waterpark. very undeveloped emotional intelligence, and probably still like that now.
Dang calm down tom
So they designed this using trial and error and not mathematical calculation?
Lead pipe babies attempting to build a waterslide
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It's 'murica. Maths and physics have no saying here
With things like this and Donald Trump, the great myth of the 'greatest nation on earth' gets exposed more and more, everyday.
@@hesingshesobs Oh wow... you found a way to link Trump to something that has nothing to do with him while insulting him... how original, creative, and counter culture of you. That's something I have never seen or heard before except for everywhere...
I remember visiting this water park while this slide was in construction and being excited for it to open. I was also around this kid’s age. It’s horrible that this happened, and crazy to think it could have been avoided by just removing that fatal hump in the slide.
Not even just the hump the thing was dangerous from the beginning the whole bud was fucked up but they didnt listen IT SHOULDN'T have been passed but yk kansas laws
This mini documentary is a phenomenal bit of storytelling. Perfect combination of maddening Travel Show clips, foreshadowing interviews, and the fade to siren when the accident happens is downright chilling.
I expected something bad but when they said decapitated my jaw dropped
yeah, people try to downplay it and say "internal decapitation" but they flat out said he was decapitated on the news, and not to mention that guy in the video saying his mom saw the women who were on the ride with him covered in blood.
@@joanna7350 people usly dont see the bigest problem. I have a friend who hit a man on motorway 130km/h . He is avoiding cars ( not even step in ) , he is on pills ( so he doesnt go completly crazy) and that happened 12years ago. Those 2 behind the kid are in big trouble ( mentaly ) , thats a hardcore experience.
Supposedly his little brother was waiting for him and witnessed nearly the entire thing. There was one report that said the injuries suffered to the other passengers here's face was caused by the severed head striking her.
This was one of the saddest, most shocking stories in a long time.
Is this supposed to be a joke? Decapitated so your jaw dropped?😂😂
Shadow Playz you seriously have something wrong with you if you don’t find it messed up that a kid was literally decapitated while he was just trying to have fun with his family at a water park
The sad thing is that they had professionals engineers and mathematicians telling them that shit was dangerous but they were too full of themselves to think that they (PROFESSIONALS) might have been right
One of the traits of a good leader is to believe in FACTS. It's good to be intuitive in decision making but not at the expense of facts. I've learned that from Dell's biography
well, the slide itself was working, but the structure was not inspected properly, there was maybe a weakness somewhere and then....well we know what happened. I just think they were stupid to not make a stronger structure and make more inspections
@@lajeandom what happened to mathematicians and engineers in your story
full of themselves? more like greedy. it's all about money, profit.
@@brownwallet942 bro just watch the video, they say that the structure broke, we even see it...people saying the slide was wrong blablabla are wrong. The structure broke, because they made a cheap structure and didnt do the inspections they should have done.
I feel so sorry for the kid that lost his life, and his family. And I also feel for those who were there and had to witness such a horrific end.
And his poor brother who was waiting for him at the bottom my god……💔💔
4:27 that kid's got a good sense of self preservation I like him
I figured somebody would die, but I wasn't emotionally ready for the word "decapitation"...
Yeah that was, just.... I don't have the words
@@chuchip9633 Brutal
im not at the end of the video yet
You confirm my suspicions
As soon as I saw them putting that netting on the top of the slide, i knew it would get ugly. How stupid can they be.
Like a horror movie. Not that their suffering was greatest, but imagine how shocked the people on the raft would have been? And the overheads of the slide filled with blood, my God. Just horrifying.
Those guard rails? The dumbest “safety” measure ever. Its practically a cheese grate.
Yep
yes..G-force would allow it to separate your head from your torsal
I am with you, tall sides yes a metal head catcher not so much
irvandy yah, seeing that there made me cringe about hitting that and grinding against it
"Right guys we need protection in case folks fly away-choices are metal mesh cheese grater wire or toughened perspex".
The state rep whose child head was decapitated had voted for cap of $300,000 on compensation families could receive after a death of a child in his state. Then after his child died his legal team found a loophole that meant they got $20 million.
I revisit this story sometimes only to turn it off after a few minutes. I get chills each time. I have a ten year old almost nephew (s/o's little cousin) who means the world to me. I can't imagine this story without thinking of him and it brings me to tears every time.
To quote Jurassic Park: “You were so busy thinking that “you could” that you never stopped to think if “you should.”
Damn!! Too bad he missed that quote
pokemonmanic3595 that wasn’t originally from jurassic park i don’t think
He was paraphrasing Ian Malcolm.
*BUT THEY COULDN'T EITHER*
Very wise words!
Okay who’s idea was it to put a METAL fence over the slide going around 50 mph?
The madman who invented it
Looked like hockey net material
Overhead foam our inflatable barriers would have served better...The engineers where incompetent.
A bracket or Roll cage over the boat .
70 miles an hour actually
There is something so bitter about this story - a family that simply wanted a fun day with their children that ended with a gruesome death. It's heartbreaking.
If they wanted to put a net over the ride in case somebody got ejected, why not make it out of plastic instead of metal like a goddamn CHEESE GRATER?
"The mathematicians were all wrong"
He regretted that for the rest of his life
So stupid of this guy. The annoying part is that the only engineering thing factored into this was the strength of the structure. Nothing about the physics was factored into it. They literally had a consultant who told them someone will die on this and they decided to not take the guy's advice. There's so much shit that went wrong with this
Josh Purdy source of consultant telling them someone would die?
@@queenpurple8433 In the beginning, the man clearly said
Someone Else no one said anything about a consultant telling them someone would die.
Someone Else what josh was saying basically isn’t proven in this video so I was asking for proof
"my wife has given me permission to ride down the slide, but she has not cleared any of our children. I don't know what that means."
Jesus, talk about a premonition.
The dad is expendable, you know
@@teslashark Mostly because she can't stop her husband to do what he wants, he is an adult
@@Wobmiar If he's fully adult he'd see it's not worth risking!
throwaway: "For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned" Matthew 12 v37
It means exactly what it looks like it means. Happy marriage, buddy.
4:26. The smartest person in town.
Calling this a “freak accident” is a bit disrespectful to the victim, doncha’ think? I mean, these people knew just how dangerous this slide was *months* and months before it opened. This accident was bound to happen. The fact that the owner of this park was planning to continue to continue to build “bigger water slides”, even after knowing how many issues the first one had, shows just how narcissistic this guy was. He needed to be stopped, and I’m glad he was. I’m just devastated that it had to be at the cost of a child’s life. If anyone had to pay with their life, it should have been his, not some innocent kid.
*Raft Flies off water slide* "We were happy with what we saw" I'm sorry what I-
Sarah that’s what I thought
Gave'em warm n fuzzies on the inside
Lori Hanks ... I can’t even imagine being that kids parents, or whoever was on the ride sitting behind him. Really just anyone in the park who actually saw it. That had to be some fucked up, life scarring shit to see. Like if someone flew up & broke their neck on that cage & died that be really tragic & messed up, but full decapitation is just gnarly. I can’t even imagine .
Some people like to die for fun
Sarah Exactly!
The guy who designed it looks like he would be a drunk in a bar everyday
No doubt. How did they estimate the varying weights of the riders on each raft? Just a few pounds can greatly change its momentum. Should have never happened. Poor kid. R.I.P.
"every bit of advice weve been given have just not been correct." maybe all those test runs where the raft went flying might have been a clue. Oh we have a metal cage over top of the slide, nothing can go wrong.
@@tps64 I'm surprised that it took 2 years for something to go wrong on the Verrückt. The ride looked sketchy from the start.
@@thema1998 i looked it up, there were 13 injuries in the first year.
@@tps64 I didn't know that! 😅
The little guy who said it was too scary is a very smart kid.
I have to say, what an idiotic design, you don't need to be an engineer to be able to see that this thing was a disaster waiting to happen. I feel for all those affected by this tragic accident.
'My wife says I can ride it but not our kids,don't know what it means'
It means she has life insurance on u
Hah it means she likes them better😂jk
It means he's an adult he can do what he wants the kids are still young so she has a say in what they do as their parent
It means she's looking for that 💰💰💰
She could see the future
.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
4:26 is the smartest person in the entire video.
It says a lot tbh.
BMAH ‼️ I was going to write the exact same thing. 👍
And hes what 10!🤣
He's like "you effing white people are insane, get me out of Kansas"
reandruzzi 🤣😂🤣
"Kansas has a national reputation for providing minimal state oversight at amusement parks." No state inspections. No required reports. This is the result. The park's owner is a criminal and Kansas let him get by with negligent homicide. God be with that poor young man's family.
Caleb's own father being a representative and politician probably signed off on park laws that were lax and negligent
He only started to support stricter regulations after Caleb was murdered
@@regaliaretailfashionmerch4314 I was thinking the same thing when I read this comment. Like, his father was one of the people that probably signed off on those lax and negligent laws. Not saying he deserved losing his son this way, but lawmakers only ever seem to act when something horrible happens first.
That net was such a stupid addition. I’d rather fall from a big height and maybe survive than be decapitated and get my face shaved off
And this is why the lazy river is my favorite ride at water parks
About that... wasn't there another gruesome accident at a lazy river? A family was ground up by the conveyor belts as they drowned underwater.
True lazy rivers dont have conveyors you enter a big old innertube and small jet streams create a current if I remember correctly that was more of a wild water rapids type ride which acts like a roller coaster but good point
ed san it wasn’t water rapids it was a slow scenic ride
@@jante234 wow its strange they had conveyors
ed san it was on water so they need something to keep the vehicle moving the way it needs to be
Reporter: “Are you gonna ride this waterslide?”
Kid: *robot voice* no
Reporter: “Why not?”
Kid: “It’s too scary”
Best desicion he ever made
Lmao
Funky D yes his voice was cool
Funky D 4:27
Sounds like a young Cleveland brown
Why a mesh net? Why not basically half slide and half plastic clear tube? If I do go airborne I’ll smack the top of the tube but at least not get snagged on the net and supports.
The pain that family felt that day is unimaginable. This would destroy me.
Not to be that guy but I could tell from the first 30 seconds of the video that the netting was a terrible idea. If the design of the slide doesn’t keep you attached to the slide, they expect a net to save you when you are flying head first into it at terminal velocity? I immediately thought that’s a great way to get your face shredded off... how on God’s green earth could anyone have allowed this to pass 🤦🏻♂️
Right? But I believe it said laws there when it comes to rides are lax
@@MrSurfsagger Laws, what laws?
"You said you did the tests, right? Good enough for me."
my exact same thought. You're going 70 mph and the metal netting isn't and there's nothing between you and the netting. Just plain utter stupidity, neglect and ignorance. The ride itself is dangerous, yes, but the safety measures to make it 100x less hazardous to you as a rider would've been so easy and simple.. i.e. proper straps not some flimsy velcro and a rubber-encoated metal roll cage would've saved this boy's life and saved many other injuries. The added weight would've also helped keep the vehicle planted
Essentially, they just figured out the minimum weight needed to keep the raft from lifting off and called it good. Because Caleb and his brother were so light, they couldn't ride down together. They had to stand aside and wait at the top until two heavier people without a third rider were available. Caleb's brother went, and then Caleb got to go with the two women eventually. They almost made the minimum weight, but not quite. Investigators said they almost certainly would have made it regardless if the employee had made the lightest rider, Caleb, ride in the center instead of in the front like the safety guidelines required. But it is pretty ridiculous to expect a minimum wage summer park employee with no expertise in physics to be the only thing standing between an exciting ride and death and dismemberment. Caleb was the one who got killed, but before him there were multiple serious injuries and the park just didn't care as long as it still made them money and brought people in.
I was thinking the whole time that there should be a mechanism that actually keeps the raft ATTACHED to the slide until it reaches the lake at the bottom. You would think the engineers of the ride would have thought that too after that raft flew off of the slide for the hundredth time.
Those poor women who were riding with that boy. Can you imagine the horror? The PTSD they have to go through now.
@DiamondLife83 tf
Why so mean
Boston Towny4life The victims older brother who at the time was around 12, was right next to him aswell. i couldn’t imagine the horror
DiamondLife83 dude wtf. Do you even have ptsd? It’s hard to deal with it every single day of your life. Trying to forget what happened to you in your past. Just watching someone get decapitated is just horrible. Sometimes bad ptsd can make someone kill them self’s to just forget.
Blood is mostly water and it's WATER park
why would you bring your kids to a water park that killed a kid 3 days prior?
THe disrespect keeping the park open after a tragedy.
If you find yourself saying that all the experts are wrong...you’re probably wrong
"Math! Ha! Phhhhffft!!" - Kansas
... as evidenced by the current White House occupant.
*cough cough* flat earthers *cough* climate deniers *cough* anti-vaxxers *cough cough*
H S I was going to say the same thing.
He was saying that the advice each of those area experts was proven wrong upon testing. This is called the scientific method.
I’ve seen fucked up things on the internet - but something about seeing the blood on that slide made me absolutely nauseous.
And the fact that people still kept riding that thing.. WITH THEIR CHILDREN. That whole park needs to be burnt down. The owners don't give a shit about kids dying, they just want money
It was worse in person. They shut the ride down and the blood sat there.
@@tibo6749 No, they shut the ride down. It was a haz mat site. There was a blood trail. They tried to drain it but it they didn't get it all. They removed the netting that had chunks of head on it. Sorry so gross.
Look, the dad was a politician. They got in for free. The dad voted for lax regulation policies. If this had been a normal kid, no one would have cared.
@@kcunlimitedeats the video shows people still visiting the park and going on rides, though of course the media often portrays things differently and it's better to trust someone who has been there. Honestly I can't believe people would even go anywhere near that park after what happened. Normal kid or not, this is disturbing
I can't imagine what those people behind him have gone through. Literally a horror scene
"At the end of the day, we all have something special to hold onto" - Yeah, our HEADS !!! 😵🤕😢
Everyone hates regulations and codes until they're needed.
Come on, if it weren't for regulations this wouldn't have happened to begin with.
@@somebodysomewhere2114 I don't think that was his point. What he's saying is generally true unfortunately, despite them being there for people's safety. Then when something happens, people see that consequence and then realize, oh shit. Ok. These regulations could've avoided this. Woops!
Christopher Carey exactly if we didn’t have regulations 6 year olds would still be working in coal mines
@@billybob042665 yeah they were. Saw pictures of it from pre ww1 this year actually
Nah. Still hate em. We should have the right to crash test dummy whatever we want to. If shit happens and we lose a head that's our prerogative.
This is why fear is a necessary instinct.
Don’t be ashamed the next time you don’t wanna ride a water slide.
Thanks for this
Fuck it imma die lit
Yes
BUT rollercoasters are safe
This man speaks the truth! I shouldn't be alive having experienced Action Park as a kid. Geronimo had nets and everything, they weighed each person if you were too light you'd fly right off. The complete loop enclosed waterslide was closed though because earlier in the week someone got stuck at the top. Should of been selling shirts that said :
"I survived traction park!"
the fear is part of our evolution, a very important part from the result of natural selection
i remember going to this water park with a buddy like 8 years ago, and he looked up at the ride and said "OH FUCK NOOOO I AIN'T GOING ON THAT SHIT", still remembering Caleb RIP
"Every piece of [expert] advise we have is wrong"
Says the man who will soon decapitate a 10 year old boy.
Anti intellectualism KILLS
“No it’s too scary.” That kid is a true survivor, don’t give in to peer pressure, it may just save your life
Yep, trust your gut instinct everyone, in every walk of life. We have it for a reason :)
Someone has life insurance on their kids
Tom H smoking makes you look trashy. NOT COOL! It also makes your fingers, clothes, nails, skin, teeth, and surroundings stinky and yellow. Very gross and unappealing🤮
Tom H No my nerves are fine and smoking would make my nerves bad. And you should start caring about your health and self appearance and hygiene
Tom H You sound like you’re part of NAMBLA. Weirdo
Hmm...hundreds of adults and families lined-up to celebrate its opening.
Nobody listened to the one little black boy
...he was a True prophet
I was thinking the same thing about the little brother. Only person with sense.
the way he said it is what creeps me out, he’s deadpan and staring at the ground.
The black kid was actually afraid of the racists in line, and not the slide itself
Joseph Trutch really?
the jesus of our generation
If a water slide has you wearing a seatbelt it’s probably not even a water slide
The fact anyone would take their kid there after this makes me sick. Especially 3 days after it happened. I hate that they showed us the bloody water. It’s still heartbreaking now.
Wow a “safety” net. That’s like putting a fruit wrapped in plastic in a blender in order to protect it.
Youl get your rent when you fix this damned door ! Not rlly the right metaphor, his head was decapitated BY the (metal) net, not the actually slide
Yeah I was thinking that, like, what the heck were they thinking the net would do? The people aren't on a body slide they have a heavy raft underneath them while they're sitting, they'll hit head first with the full inertia of the raft beneath them. If you ask me they should make that second hill lower and shallower or just not have a second hill at all
@@mio9682 It's like putting razor blades on a ceiling fan because they are less likely to knock you out
@@Me-wk7dz I was thinking that if they did not have a second hill then it would be completely fine of a slide..
Imagine getting your head stuck on it🤢! It would look like something out of Final Destination.
Dont go on a ride if it has the following
A.) The math doesn't add up
B.) Shares the same name of a Nazi Zombies map
C.) All of the above
D.) A kid can tell if it's too dangerous
E.) The builders look like characters from "King of the Hill"
F) the park has the word shitter in its name
G if the safety thing Is made out of metal fence
H) it’s obvious that thing is dangerous
Senity you know what you’re talking about
Kid: "It's too scary"
me: "Smart kid"
This was really well put together. Superb job.
Seeing the blood on the water slide was horrific
Yeah I was surprised to see that to be honest, that shit should be reserved for LiveLeak.
KumaBean Unfortunately, these things happen. Keeping people from seeing it doesn’t make it less real, just makes people more dumb. Censorship is wrong.
Could you imagine being there and actually seeing it? I bet his parents were watching ugh omfg🤢😭
Time stap please
@@gabrielajames4703 5:53
all of that blood...
God I knew what would happen, but my stomach dropped when I saw the blood mixed with the water on the slide
So much... And the wife didn't care after all. Should have been serious when she told the kids no
dammit wife
Me too omg. My heart literally froze in terror when I saw the blood. Too gruesome and graphic... And the worst part was that it was a little child... It's too fucked up...
Ikr
Same here. I saw it on the news at the time, and I had to turn off the TV, throw up, and just cry it out for half an hour. I felt so many things in that moment, it was unbearable.
i've heard so many stories of people getting decapitated, legs sliced off by wires, etc at all these sketchy rides