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 Valiant:
So more than likely the child was in the front or the back, the size of the women made the other side float and the child hit the metal netting rod going full speed, decapitating him.
Sucks all around. The park is at fault for not properly seating them if this is the case.
No, I think they were properly seated. You want to seat heaviest in the back, although that was quite a weight discrepancy between front and back.
The park is still most likely at fault. I think it's just a badly engineered ride. There shouldn't have ever been a second hill after that initial big drop. That combined with some of the safety measures designed to slow the raft didn't work properly. Then he died from the safety netting put in place to keep people inside the slide. A lot of freak variables combined led to tragedy. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ghak99:
Anyone who's ever seen a fat chick in the back of a canoe knows exactly how this one play out. He could have stood on the nose like DicCaprio on the Titanic and not kept it from lifting on that second hill.
...they basically recreated the exact scenario they used in the testing video to cause the raft to go airborne on the second hill with sand bags in the back of the raft.
That's my theory. It wasn't the weight, it was the distribution. The light kid in the front couldn't bring the nose down. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
That's my theory. It wasn't the weight, it was the distribution. The light kid in the front couldn't bring the nose down.
Pretty much. They should have gone : 197, 73 , 297. Instead of 73, 197, 275 [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
That's my theory. It wasn't the weight, it was the distribution. The light kid in the front couldn't bring the nose down.
If I was a 10 year old kid and had those 2 farm animals strapped in behind me I would be praying to whatever God would listen to take me [Reply]
