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 DaFace:
On top of that, "decapitation" is a term that is used pretty loosely in these situations. I can certainly buy that he had a traumatic neck injury causing serious damage, but I seriously doubt that his head came rolling down completely separated from his body. It's hard to do that cleanly with a blade, let alone a blunt object.
If his head got caught in a ring or whatever holds the netting while the raft forced the rest of his body to keep going, I could see it coming completely off. [Reply]
Originally Posted by patteeu:
I don't think getting the blood off was the only reason they stopped the ride.
I was chuckling at that myself. I envisioned some assistant manager surveying the scene and saying, "We really have to clean this blood up before that raft goes back to the top." [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I was chuckling at that myself. I envisioned some assistant manager surveying the scene and saying, "We really have to clean this blood up before that raft goes back to the top."
"It's a water slide! It'll just wash off all by itself." [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
On top of that, "decapitation" is a term that is used pretty loosely in these situations. I can certainly buy that he had a traumatic neck injury causing serious damage, but I seriously doubt that his head came rolling down completely separated from his body. It's hard to do that cleanly with a blade, let alone a blunt object.
I've been wondering too if perhaps his head was still attached but that it was hanging loosely at a severe angle, like bent all the way back or something grisly like that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiTown:
No offense, but I'm going to guess that only about half of this is true.
1. They closed the ride because a person was dead or presumed dead due to the ride. Cleaning up the blood was just part of the aftermath.
2. I seriously doubt the "Pop" was the sound of the head coming off - I don't believe anybody could have actually heard a head popping off with all the other noise in a water park. More likely, there was some sort of sound of a collision between the body and the structure
3. I don't doubt that there were people getting sick because of what they saw. That had to be an awful scene.
I can image there was some sort pop of the neck/spine. Not sure if it would be loud enough to hear. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
Yep, that's certainly likely. People just tend to think of it as a guillotine-style injury.
internal decapitation would not cause the amount of blood visible.
Also, as gruesome as it may sound, while I assumed it was anear decap (think Nicole Simpson) after seeing photos with 2 separate tarps covering likely body parts, I wonder. [Reply]
Schlitterbahn should pony up a lot of money for counselling for the witnesses. Especially the two ladies in the back of the raft. That has got to be a hard thing to handle whether they knew the kid or not. [Reply]
It's an aerial view of the ride with a shit ton of bloody water pooled at the bottom. Couple of yellow tarps that I assume are covering body parts.It's not that NSFW. [Reply]
Originally Posted by allen_kcCard:
Helocopter view of the slide. Pools of blood and two (as in two separate ones) tarps covering what I assume are body and head.
Originally Posted by eDave:
It's an aerial view of the ride with a shit ton of bloody water pooled at the bottom. Couple of yellow tarps that I assume are covering body parts.It's not that NSFW.
ah ok, i was thinking it would be a headless body or something. thanks. [Reply]