This is horrifying. Supposed to be a press conference soon with more details. Rumors seem to indicate it happened on the Verrukt, the world's tallest waterslide.
Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED:
They weigh you twice before you get on the ride, once at the bottom and once before you get in the raft just so you don't switch groups or something. I highly doubt the riders were under the weight limit. Either the strap malfunctioned or the kid unstrapped himself.
Kid was probably 70 lbs or so. So need 330 from the two women. [Reply]
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the average body weight for adult women ages 20 and older in the United States is 166.2 pounds.
Originally Posted by srvy:
I dont see myself letting my 10 year old son ride that thing but if I did as a parent I would want to be on board.
Pretty much how I feel.
I read somewhere that his parents were in the park but let him go off alone with his older brother. That's ok, but I wonder if they would have given him authority to ride it in person ? [Reply]
Originally Posted by wazu:
Kid was probably 70 lbs or so. So need 330 from the two women.
I'm pondering the physics. If the kid in front was light and if the woman in the back was large, I wonder if there's a chance of the front end rising up enough to push the kid into the netting. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
As I think about it, I really hope this isn't one of those rides that snaps your picture automatically on the way down. I don't want to see that picture showing up on the Internet at some point.
It does, but it's at the bottom of the first hill where the net isn't present [Reply]
I just caught the end of it, but I believe the news just showed a mid ride picture of an unrelated adult rider who had his harness come undone. [Reply]