ShortBusDriver
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- Dec 18, 2019
There's actually a show about the building of this ride that aired on The Travel Channel called Xtreme Waterparks.The slide was designed like a ski jump, it regularly got air and the only "safety feature" keeping it from flying entirely off the side of the slide was a catch fence designed very similarly to what is used in circle track racing where that design has also decapitated people. It was inevitable that someone was going to die on that slide and frankly it's good that the kid was a Senator's son because that meant sorely needed new safety regulations got fast tracked.
Anyway in testing with a few hundred pounds in sandbag weight this tended to happen. They actually redesigned it a bit before the final ride was open to the public.