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World Tallest Water Slide looks fucking terrifying.

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Loved the water slide kinda like this one in Waterworld houston... would totally do this.

Also people would always gather around these slides because women always lose their tops on them.
 
XiaNaphryz said:
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What is this GIF from?
 
Spring-Loaded said:
I'd rather go on the slide in the OP 10 times than this one once. i hope that isn't real
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It is... and that slide fucked some people up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park

The one ride that has come to symbolize Action Park and its extreme thrillseeking was almost never used.
In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time, and indeed the park already had several. But for this one they decided to build, at the end, a complete vertical loop of the kind more commonly associated with roller coasters.[13] Employees have reported they were offered hundred-dollar bills to test it. Tom Fergus, "one of the idiots", said "$100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory."[12]
It was opened for one month in summer 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time.[2] One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it opened had been dismembered.[2] A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be built at the bottom of the slope to allow for future extractions.[2]
The ride supposedly reopened a few more times over the years. In summer 1995 it opened for several days before a few more injuries forced another shutdown.
Those who rode it have said that more safety measures were taken than was otherwise common at the park. Riders were weighed and hosed down with cold water, required to remove jewelry, and then carefully instructed in how they had to position their bodies to complete the ride.[14]
For the remainder of the park's existence, it remained visible near the entrance of Waterworld. It was dismantled shortly after the park closed and has never been rebuilt.
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I only saw that first picture at first and was like NOOOOOOOOOOPE.

But those others make it seem not nearly as bad. Then I google it and find out it's 17 stories tall.

The answer is still nope.
 
Nope. Just...nope.

Fuck that, I want to live.

Yes, I know it won't actually kill you if used properly, but I don't care. That thing looks like cold, sparkling death.
 
I've went on one that was just a single person one that was probably a bit less high than that one but was still pretty high and steep.

First time I went on it, I thought I would die, but it all worked out in the end.
 
terrene said:
You can be most assured that someone will. It is just a matter of time before someone goes down the slide in a slightly asymmetrical way that sends them over the edge, or two people go at once, or someone freaks the fuck out/passes out and crumples up in a weird way, sending them over the side, breaking their neck, or blocking the slide for the next person.

They should have made this an enclosed slide out of clear plastic or at least put way, way higher sides on it. It might not be soon, but someone *will die* if that that stays how it is.
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The initial drop looks to be the same design they have for Sky Screamer at West Edmonton Mall, though Sky Screamer is only two thirds the height as this one. Nobody has died since it opened 27 years ago.
 
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