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Nzoner's Game Room>Child dies at Schlitterbahn in KCK
tk13 03:29 PM 08-07-2016
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.

Boy, 12, killed in accident at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan., police say. https://t.co/Msn6QJO1ZS pic.twitter.com/gse0gZvIC6

— Alex Johnson (@MAlexJohnson) August 7, 2016


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CaliforniaChief 04:13 PM 08-07-2016
Terrible tragedy. Heartbreaking.
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OnTheWarpath15 04:13 PM 08-07-2016
Originally Posted by Chiefspants:
The pictures on twitter are NSFL.
Not seeing anything, other than pics from distance of what appears to be blood near the top of the slide.

NSFL = Not Safe for Life?
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Deberg_1990 04:14 PM 08-07-2016
Originally Posted by Al Bundy:
It is a velcro harness, I have ridden the thing 4 times. I loved the ride. Sad for the kid and his family.
All i see is a safety net around the top of the whole slide. How did he get decapitated?
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alpha_omega 04:15 PM 08-07-2016
RIP young man.
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Simply Red 04:18 PM 08-07-2016
Sad to read.
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Chiefspants 04:19 PM 08-07-2016
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
The only ones I saw had blood on the slide.
Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58:
Not seeing anything, other than pics from distance of what appears to be blood near the top of the slide.

NSFL = Not Safe for Life?
LATE EDIT: Nothing's confirmed. Tweet I saw was an up close picture of what looked like blood on the slide from a firefighter (not even sure if he's local) and he ended up taking it down. There are still a few grainy shots out there but people are disputing that its blood, saying the stain has been there for a while. There's all kinds of conflicting reports about what happened so I won't speculate until we get more clarification.
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C3HIEF3S 04:20 PM 08-07-2016
Had so much ahead of him and he gets robbed because of a supposed fun day at a water park. Not fair. RIP.
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Al Bundy 04:22 PM 08-07-2016
Originally Posted by Deberg_1990:
All i see is a safety net around the top of the whole slide. How did he get decapitated?
It's hard to say.
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MTG#10 04:24 PM 08-07-2016
Originally Posted by C3HIEF3S:
Had so much ahead of him and he gets robbed because of a supposed fun day at a water park. Not fair. RIP.
Dude. Too soon.
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OnTheWarpath15 04:24 PM 08-07-2016
Originally Posted by Deberg_1990:
All i see is a safety net around the top of the whole slide. How did he get decapitated?
If the safety harness failed and the raft caught air, I'm guessing he caught one of the poles holding up the netting.
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jspchief 04:26 PM 08-07-2016
Heard a girl also lost an eye
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listopencil 04:28 PM 08-07-2016
There is a video of a run of the ride taken from the POV of a rear facing camera at the feet of the rider. Late in the video, at around the 38 or 39 second mark, there appears to be the beginning of a cage/netting structure that covers a segment of the slide. That's the only point in the ride that I see where a rider could be going fast enough that getting air might lead to a decapitation, and I would imagine that the recirculating pump could bring enough bodily fluid back to the beginning of the ride that there might be a visible red mark of some kind.
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Donger 04:34 PM 08-07-2016
The hump in the middle of that thing gave me the willies since the first time I saw it.

What a horrible accident. Thoughts for the family, and the boy.

I see that you are supposed to be at least 14 to ride that thing, too.
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mikeyis4dcats. 04:34 PM 08-07-2016
Originally Posted by Deberg_1990:
All i see is a safety net around the top of the whole slide. How did he get decapitated?
There are support hoops the whole way, but only netting on the vertical and hill portion
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alpha_omega 04:35 PM 08-07-2016
Anybody ridden this thing?
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