Charlie forgot to mention that when the kid was decapitated, his brother was watching from the bottom of the slide and when he went to get help he couldn't be understood because he was screaming so much.
@@tubasil8786 thats better than not telling them and keeping them anxious and afraid, i mean they had to find out eventually, so why not through official means?
After learning about what happened at Schlitterbahn I feel horrible for the poor family especially the older brother who literally saw it happen. Imagine having to go home after that and try and go back to normal life.
The worst part is it was actually the shitty useless safety net that killed him- everyone would have been fine if the net was on the sides or just not there at all. It was literally the only safety feature that ride had that made it deadly.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 I live near were the park is and I was in highschool when it happened it was the big story for weeks on top of the safety net I had heard that the safety buckles for your legs were not sewn down very well and with barley any force you could rip em right off
My mom went on that ride at Schlitterbaum and she said it was terrifying. The reason the kid was decapitated was because he was technically too small (weight) to be on the ride, but since he was the senators son, they let him on, because the senator threatened to sue. That's why all charges were dropped. It was a whole thing and since I live in the area my history teacher made us do a research paper as a back to school current events project. My mom told me that she was put on with some random 11 year old who started flying up at the same place the other kid did, and she instinctively grabbed him and pulled him back down onto the raft, probably saving his life, in hindsight.
@@notlucas6859 no the ride was definitely unsafe. They literally just needed to add more weight to the bottom and a lap belt and it would've been perfectly fine
That is absolutely heartbreaking. Imagine you go to take your 10-year-old out for a fun day at the water park and they die like that. It must have been so hard on the parents to have witnessed that. Just awful.
No it was testing for the slide it was I think the designers kid but it wasn’t for kids he got special treatment it was in Kansas were I live I went there a few times
@@litremyyt1364 the height requirement for the ride is 54 inches/137 centimetres theres no age requirement, literally a simple google search man its not that hard to get the right information, actually the adults that had to test the ride each morning never wanted to do it because it was so unsafe
"Yeah a child was actually decapitated because of how bad the ride was... Here's a picture" I swear I flinched so hard before I realized he meant a picture of the wikipedia article
This video is a year old but to clarify about Schlitterbahn still being open: there were multiple water parks under the schlitterbahn brand. The ones I know of are one in Texas and one in Kansas. The decapitation was in Kansas and that park was closed
It's awesome. Lived next to action park for 28 years now. the place is a blast but used to be seriously dangerous lmfao. Now it's safe and really nice. All the water is fresh water running from the mountain it's on. It's so clean and refreshing compared to man made water tanks. The only thing is the water is CRAZY cold lmao.
Grandmas were built different back then. They survived the Great Depression so sliding down a slightly wet tube at an 80 degree angle is like a cakewalk.
My stepfather worked for the EMT squad that operated on Action Park's grounds. He has WILD stories of everything from people changing their infants' dirty diapers IN THE POOLS to people getting stuck on the rapids rides and ending up with broken limbs or getting concussions while trying to force themselves loose. That place was WILD! They have reopened under a different name, Moutain Creek. It's still really fun but muuuuuch safer :D
Hi there Charlie, I actually went to Schlitterbahn a few times before Covid and I was one of the many people that was excited about that slide. It was a huge story here when that kid was killed and many people here think that the judge was bribed into dropping the charges. The park lost millions and was hurt even more from the massive advertising campaign that they had to drop after the ride was deemed "morally and ethically void". It was also later released that the park had failed to complete multiple safety inspections and that the park had never been actually cleared by inspectors before it was opened. It's a real tragedy and it's awful that it was just swept under the carpet like that. But what’s perhaps even worse is how much of a role the Government had in this story. You see, this park was a great tourist attraction that pulled in millions of dollars that the Government could get ahold of one way or another. So, when this whole catastrophe started, they were terrified that they might lose a huge source of revenue. To keep this from happening the Gov. did horrible things like getting the judge to drop the charges, but they also played a big hand in covering up the event itself. Almost five years later the park would still be as busy as ever, if not for COVID, and they even plan on reopening sometime soon. But the scary part is that it took only about two or three weeks for this story to be swept under the rug by the media. It blew over so fast it’s almost certainly a conspiracy. That’s why I was so confused when I first saw this video, because I had to watch it two or three times before I made the mental connection back to this event. I think that in no small part was due to many media outlets being pressured or bought to not keep running stories or updates on this event. The city wanted to keep it hidden and they did. The park has opened and will open again as if nothing ever happened. My condolences to the families of all those who suffered and I only hope that the places where the media couldn’t be stifled by the local government learn what the precedent for Schlitterbahn’s safety standards is and that they are forcefully made to comply to all safety laws in the future.
Yeah I remember the place I haven’t gone back since then. It honestly kinda freaks me out that park so I don’t even want it go back even though most of the rides were great
@Walker If your poor ass that made 80-150k saw 500k-1mil of cash, you’dprobs take it, or atleast think about it. Capitalism at its finest if you want something to blame.
@Walker My point being that even judges can be bribed because they dont make shit compared to CEO’s, still will never achieve that “millionaire lifestyle” without having another source of income, or 0 bills.
Those wave pools are very popular in europe, I remember going in one in cyprus and the guards there were like top tier, luckily no one died, but the guards would often be on a platform right above the deep end so if someone was in trouble they could switch it off and be there is seconds. American parks are known to hire students with very little to no training so the problem is mainly from lack of experienced lifeguards
Yeah that's the other problem, life guards aren't paid for shit here, most don't need training, but when there is training it's about 2-3 weeks max (which I mean how hard is it to be a life guard), the real problem is life guards being on their phones, it's literally how I almost drowned, the life guard was on her phone and didn't see me fall into the 9ft part at 3, but to be fair, neither did my parents 💀
Same, lost my inflatable donut in the water and I was literally getting pushed down by everyone surrounding me with their big inflatable donuts. saw black and woke up to a lifeguard pumping my chest
The worst detail to the decapitation story is the kid's dad was a state rep who strongly advocated against ride safety laws. (govt interference in private enterprise nanny state blah blah) For some reason after his son died he decided that maybe safety standards were actually a good thing and began to publicly support them
My mom worked at action park when she was a teen, way back in the 80s/90s! She worked a lot of the food stands and drink fountains. They only took cash at the park I believe, so she would literally have to stuff garbage bags full of cash to collect money. A lot of workers actually tried to steal the money from the bags. Sometimes they were just paid with the money bags, too. It was crowded, super busy, and people would literally just throw money at her for drinks. Absolutely insane.
just gonna say, have literally ridden that ride and was there on the day of the decapitation. yes the ride was dangerous, banged my head on a metal bar on it once. gave me a real wallop, but the kid died because he was too small for the ride, the employees told him he couldnt get on the ride, then the representative basically pulled the "do you know who i am" card. kid lifted out of his chair and that same metal bar that banged my head cut his off.
As a former employee at Shitterbahn the one in south padre island (no longer exists) which is where the employee died. I was working when the news broke out about it. I also was the one who would frequently serve the owner that was later sent to prison. The accident itself wasn't a actual decapitation but a medical decapitation. His spine was severed due to hitting a low hanging pipe. I was also working when I saw the owner detained. The one who created the slide (co-owner) did not have licensing, training or know how to make the slide. However, still made it anyways as a way to reclaim fame. It was an entire massive over-sight but considering the park I worked at is closed I'm sure I might be able to talk about this lmao. Btw where the incident took place, it was in Kansas City if i remember correctly. After the incident the co-owner was basically banished to the park in South Padre Island.
@@WyaSlay Oh he was detained and put in prison for a few months before trial. But that wasn't for a long while after, really around 4-6 months. Fun fact he was also banned from getting any liquor drinks from the bars at the park because he had a very bad habit of being publicly intoxicated. Also was known around the city as being a notorious "party" type. Also There was technically two water parks the indoor water park and the outdoor water park. He was pushed out and only allowed to be run the outdoor park, Due to the fact his brother in law owned the hotel and indoor waterpark combo. The indoor waterpark is where the lifeguard if i remember correctly was crushed by the mechanic gate
And people loved soaking the tennis balls in flammable material so they shot fireballs at each other. Also, the boating section was right next to the alcohol, so a lot of patron there were drunk.
The tanks were cheaply built and often shut down and employees would have to go out to get riders out of the tanks. Outside you could put quarters in mini cannons to shoot at people inside. They'd all aim their cannons at the employees and blast them with tennis balls.
"Universal is so much better than Disney" Went to Florida for a holiday a couple of months ago, and I have to say 100% agree. The lines in Universal felt way shorter and overall had better rides
I’ve grown up right by disney and I’ve gone to both. Both are very similar food wise for the most part, although Epoct’s food is very diverse and good. However, if you’re there for experiences and immersion, Disney is better. The entire point of Disney is to make it feel like another world and it does it well no matter where you are. Universal, however, has much better thrill rides and tends to suit older audiences more. Some locations, such as Harry Potter World and the Simpsons area, also do well on immersion. But generally, Universal’s immersion is mostly within only the rides themselves.
Fr especially Volcano Bay. I like how you can reserve your ride with your watch and you can go on other rides while you wait for your reservation. I definitely recommend Universal than Disney. Most of Disney's rides have super long lines for a really bad ride that only lasts 3 minutes. I went to Epcot. I did like it but I don't recommend the cheese pizza in the Italian part of Epcot. Gave me a stomach ache. Magic kingdom was nice too.
@@DoKuShOsTaR Being a Floridian, Universal is worlds better. If we want to be constantly bothered by rude tourists watching a phoned in show, we can go anywhere in our home towns. If we want to relax and have a good time with good food and good shows with actual performers working their asses off for their guests, we can go to Universal.
so true, except if you're in cali. i went to both a few months ago and i have to say, universal there is absolutely TINY and all of the good attractions have 4 hour wait times in the afternoon. if you have the choice, just go to disney in cali. any other place universal is SO much better.
I was actually there during the Schlitterbahn accident I saw the whole thing it was terrible, there was hundreds of cops and ambulance as well as fire trucks there it was so loud with everyone screaming in horror of what they just saw. It is still stuck in my mind till this day. The blood and screaming is engraved in my brain. RIP Caleb
Naw, Action Park was fucking terrifying, they’d have go-carts driving on the highway that split in the middle of the fucking park, and in the boats, it was fucking a mamba infested lake, shit was a fever dream
schlitterban was actually in my area. it was closed permanently. it wasn't in Texas it was in Kansas. I remember seeing the slide multiple times passing by and just going "haha nope". they actually tried to keep the park open RIGHT AFTER THE KIDS BODY WAS REMOVED. they were forced to close and then eventually went out of business
Scary part is, I bet the kid was still conscious for a moment while his head rolled down the ride, since decapitation has been proven to not be perfectly isntantaneous death. Not able to scream, speak, or even breath, watching your body tumble into the water seperately from you. What a terrifying way to die.
Yeah, even if the head of a person is cut pff, they still have some nerve left in them, only enough to blink for a good 15-30 seconds, so yeah, your bet could be correct!
yeah anything short of destruction of the brain leaves you conscious for anywhere from 7-15 seconds, which isnt a long time but its an eternity when you're hopelessly dying
@@nikolairostov3326 for sure, the shock would more than likely get you first. in the event it doesn't though, you're in for a horrifying final few moments
I went to school with Caleb. I never personally knew him but I remember how deeply it impacted his older brother who I had known since like first grade.
I love water parks and stuff like that, but the horror stories behind them give me the chills, it’s insane how often this happens, no wonder why so many people are scared of water slides
The water park he talks about where the kid got decapitated is Schlitterbahn in Kansas City. I know this because I live here. They built what was the tallest water slide in the world called the Verrückt and this 10 year old boy named Caleb Schwab who was the son of the SECRETARY OF STATE OF KANSAS Scott Schwab went down it and got his head cut off. Needless to say the park has lost a lot of money because of it and many lawsuits were made. Practically nobody here goes there anymore and everybody goes to Worlds of fun/Oceans of fun (our other theme/water park). Rest in peice Caleb you were taken to soon.
@@pepsiman3603 9 Edit: Caleb Schwab died in 2016 Schlitterbahn Kansas City closes in 2018 Verrückt demolished in 2018. My apologies for false information You could see that thing for miles it was so tall.
@@dennyrianto6598 he was sitting in the front of the tube that they made u sit on. It holds three people and based on who he was with, he should have been placed in the middle because he was the lightest one of the three. They put him in the front tho and the weight of the two other riders caused him to fly out of the tube when it went up the first hump and the whole slide was encased in fencing so he hit his head on the fencing.
As an engineer, just looking at the design tells me the raft will have too much kinetic energy because of how low the first hump is with respect to how high the starting point is. The raft and/or occupants can become airborne. Engineers they hired came to the same conclusions but the park owners buried the report.
The creators knew nothing about Engineering when they made it, ans aswell, the raft being used, Raft B, was constantly reported to the owner thag it went WAY too fast and was prone to flight. Put a you g, light kid on it, sad shit happens.
yeah i went to schilitterbon once on vacation like 6 years ago. their slides had those rollers on them that your raft would hit for speed and they also had these nets over certain parts of the slide that were held up my curved metal railings. so it seemed pretty dangerous but it was fun lol
About the Verukt incident: the staff of the park fully knew that it was dangerous and submitted reports that the raft the kid was in was prone to going airborne. The raft jumped and the kids head slammed into a pole. The only reason the charges were dropped was because the prosecutors were very unprofessional and used poor, dramatized evidence in an attempt to sway the jury. The judge ruled the prosecutions case as so bad, he dropped the thing entirely
I still have a burn scar on my back from a water slide that had too little water from like 10 years ago. It's kinda ironic to get a burn wound on a water slide.
"The decapitation of a child was the direct result of how bad this ride was designed, here's a picture of it." I full on thought he was gonna show a severed head on vid for a moment.
@UC0Kw1wDuYR3mIJARn1HCUPw Hahaha get it? You brought up something completely off topic hahahahhahahhhaahhhaahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahhhaahahahaahahahahahahaahah
I rode that same slide in Schlitterbahn (or however you spell it) and I was terrified but my family peer pressured me. The tower for the slide would sway back and forth and creak while the rafts went down, the seatbelts were held by nothing more than velcro, and you could easily get an arm torn clean off if you raised your arms up. Horrible.
I nearly died in Dreamworld on the Gold coast Australia. It was on a roller coaster loop, where it would stop on the loop and we would hang for like 10 seconds. I am skinny and my seat wasnt fastned properly AT ALL. My ass slipped through the seat and i had to manually hold my weight up, upside down, so i wouldnt fall 20 meters to my death. Thank god i was a gymnast and was able to do so.
When I was in like 5th grade, I went on a ride at Six Flags (it was like those circular rides that spin in circles faster and faster while also swaying until they go fast enough they are upside-down or capable of flipping) and the teenage attendant didn't bother fastening the pullover bar for me, causing the thing to give out once we started speeding up and jerking around, meaning there was nothing keeping me inside. I had to hold myself in that chair using the freaking tiny iron hooks and was bawling my eyes out and screaming cause it was so fucking scary, dude
my brother had a situation similar to this, seat unfastened mid ride, there was a segment where you were upside down for around 10 seconds, except it was only like 8 meters so he wouldn't have died but maybe would have broken some bones if he didn't pull himself up, he says that he will never go on one of those again
Depending on the day, your mother saved you from almost certain death. Be thankful for your parents, and people who look out for you. Sometimes if they don’t pay attention, it may already be too late.
One of Action Park's first rides was the water slide loop de loop. People were coming out of it with massive cuts and gashes. When the engineers opened it up, they found human teeth lodged in the wall at the top of the loop. _People were smacking their face into the wall and losing teeth in there._ And those teeth would then cut people who went in after.
I honestly don’t know what’s scarier...a real life jaws swimming at me, or mechanical jaws swimming at me and knowing all those gears and plates of steel are gonna chew you up and just holy shit...I think mechanical jaws is scarier.
And on top of that, there's real shark teeth that they decided to fill those robot jaws with, real, serrated shark teeth. Who thought that was a good idea? You might as well have real sharks down there at that point, as they'd probably be less dangerous than the robot sharks.
Definitely mechanical jaws. Sharks don't like the taste of humans anyway, they just mistake us for seals. As long as you dont aggravate them or get up in their space you're fine. Mechanics don't know when to stop
@@eldritchbeinginmycloset9568 or unless they’re really hungry? Besides there’s many different types of sharks. Isnt there one that actually likes to attack people? Was it the bull shark? I remember hearing a story about some navy ship that went down in shark infested waters and pretty much all the survivors were eaten. Unless that’s a plot from some movie I don’t remember. I’m still sleepy.
I remember almost drowning in one one those tidal pools which get deeper as you go in. I was about 10 years old. People say you see your life flash before your eyes when you are about to die. Well I did, it was like a quick speed run of everything I have ever experienced in 4 secs. God bless the man who saw me flapping my arms like a goddamn fish and immediately picked me up in his arms. Because of him I'm alive today and my parents aren't childless.
jesus christ... i mean, i get that there never will be a "100% COMPLETELY SAFE" amusement park especially ones that cater to people who are thrill-seekers. but got damn
see this is the fkng reason i was always skeptical of whatever made the waves i mean ive still been in like a bajillion wave pools, its always a hoot n a holler, but every time im just kinda leerin at the mechanisms like what *r* those n why does it feel like theyre way too close
I loved wave pools but despite being a little thrill seeker that liked to get to the deep end sometimes, I would always get really nervous about seeing the giant grates. It was impossible to see what was behind the black squares but I SWEAR I once saw part of the mechanism moving in it and stopped going so close since. But don't all waterparks have the machinery tucked in a concrete box with metal gratings to cover it? Unless they got sucked in from behind the wavemaker and not the front... or the grates were too big in the gaps. sounds fucking horrific either way.
In Germany, I went to a place with “Rodeln” (sledding) which is similar to one of the rides in this video. My mom was nervous about it because it is basically a half tube made of concrete and a special skate-seat-thing that you can brake to slow down and or stop. If you don’t use the brake at all, you could go as see a speed gage tell you that you would go as fast as 30 km/hr (about 19 mi/hr). There was nothing if you somehow fell off or something dangerous.
I can't imagine how terrible the parents felt after their child died, especially at such a young age, I can't imagine ever having to go through something like that.
Charle: "It was a small local water park" Reality: "It was a 5 acre water park in Kansas City and it was the tallest waterslide on earth" I'm pretty sure the kid weighed less than the minimum required weight, and the worker did not distribute the weight across the raft evenly, the two larger women were in the back and he was in the front, when the raft reached the crest of the hill the front lifted up and he ran into the netting that prevents people from flying off
If I recall correctly, the kid was allowed to breach safety procedures because he was the son of the state representative. They redesigned the slide afterwards, thankfully.
I find it pleasing that Charlie mostly kept quiet when Kevin was discussing the deaths of the parkgoers. No jokes, no funny quips, just an empathetic groan at the worst. He really is a good man.
I remember seeing the news of the kid dying and I can remember thinking “holy shit, that park is ~30 minutes away from us”. It was the first time that little me realized that yes, people near me can die.
Once I was walking away from a dollar store in my city and I was facing a main road with streetcar tracks on it. A streetcar was coming and somebody was too inpatient to wait for it to pass. And tried to beat it across I ended watching somebody get caught under a streetcar and dragged a few feet.
@@Packle. Nahhh man, death is totally a government fearmonger tool to make us totally scared of their weapons maaan. Look, I'm gonna shoot myself right now. I'll report back.
@@radornic2387 we're gathering here today to mourn the passing of some random dude, who died in an attempt of proving that death isn't real, let this be a lesson, this is probably the only time government is right
I can only imagine the terror everyone felt when they saw that decapitated corpse at the end of the slide holy shit I'd most likely be traumatized, just the thought of it unnerves me inside... May that kid rest in peace
His brother was actually at the end of the ride and saw him, he was in shock and was screaming that his brother was dead The dead kid actually ran into 2 girls and I think broke one of the girls jaws or something like that
I almost drowned at Schlitterbahn back in 2018. I was on a spring band trip and the first slide we did was a one-person innertube rapids type of ride with four or five-foot deep water. There was one giant drop at the beginning of the ride and then several, much smaller drops on the rest of the ride. On the first giant drop, my innertube caught serious air because I was only 90 pounds at the time (I'm almost 100% certain my innertube didn't even touch the slide on the way down because of the steepness) and it smacked the water at the bottom of the drop, sending me flying out of my innertube several feet in front of me. This wouldn't have been a problem in most instances, except the workers were not paying a attention and sent me down the slide too soon after my friend in front of me. My head ended up lodged underneath my friend's innertube in front of me. I was unable to get myself out because my friend was facing the other direction, unaware of what was happening beneath her, and my innertube caught up and stacked on top of the rest of my body. I was flailing underwater for roughly a minute before my boyfriend came down the slide behind me, saw what was happening, got out of his own innertube, and then grabbed me out from under my friend's innertube. I was so freaked out that I couldn't continue going down the rest of the ride and my boyfriend and I had to flag down a lifeguard to help get me out. Fuck Schlitterbahn.
@@disposable_income_andy the kid was a senators son and he was too light to ride the ride yet the father threatened to sue if they didn't let him on, so the charges were dropped.
@@rylan2610 the park was neglectful by putting two adults on the back with the kid in front, offsetting the balance. They are still liable, they should've put more weight in the tubes.
I grew up in New Braunfels, where the original Schlitterbahn is, and it was very widely known throughout town that as the park expanded and more parks were built that they stopped caring about safety and responsibility. At some point in the late 00's, we stopped going altogether. The Kansas City decapitation incident happened after I was grown and moved away, so I never heard about it. It's sad to see such a beloved and cherished park succumb to the wiles of greed, and a once family owned business turn into a scummy corporation.
I grew up going to schlitterbahn and I remember my mom would never let me go on that ride when it opened. I was really upset with her, but I’m glad I listened to her. When it opened she claimed that someone was going to get killed on it. She was absolutely devastated when she got proven right. Friends and family had connections with the family as well. Rest In peace Caleb🙏.
3:05 “But I mean decapitation of the child was a direct result of how bad that ride was designed... here’s a picture of it.” - Charlie out of context, 2021 (also that’s awful).
@UC0Kw1wDuYR3mIJARn1HCUPw i don't believe God but i practices my religion as a life discipline so i don't become someone who says it's a false hope just because they don't "see" or "feel" Him
@Spatza dont treat your nothing is real and everything is fake religion like its the most right, what are you part of the almighty awesome void cult that is always correct, i beleive in god and i still think that christianity is a bit flawed and also who tf asked
Fun fact my oldest sister went to Schlitterbahn for a field trip and when she got back she had a HUGE fever and terribly sick but after a long while she recovered. We promised never go there again even though I never went. I know it's late but happened Plus recently that Schlitterbahn had been taken down and I'm glad so more people won't have to get hurt during those rides... PS great video!! ❤️
@Joke Reviewer r/whooosh Jesus christ is sometimes used as an expression. Mans wrote an entire essay about religion history and it's people 😂 just to try and win an argument. Get outta here
I'm still shocked that it was Schlitterbahn, I thought it was some random place that would've shut down. Holy shit me and my family went there, we got lucky.
That decapitation incident was really sad, the kid's brother was waiting for him at the end of the slide, I can't even begin to imagine the horror and trauma of seeing your brother's headless body and decapitated head rolling down. Hope the brother is doing ok.
@@mxssi9989 There’s videos on the story all over UA-cam. However, if you’re looking for a video of the actual incident occurring, it probably doesn’t exist. However there is drone footage of the bloody slide from right after it happened.
I went to a big water park for my thirteenth birthday, right before moving away. I had wanted to go to that water park the whole time I had lived in Colorado, but I never could until that day. I remember I was in the wave pool and the waves hit. I was pretty small at the time, still hadn’t hit any growth spurts so I looked more like an 8 year old than I did 13. I got thrown underwater and slammed my head against the ground. I was one of the only people in the pool without an innertube, so every time I tried to get air my head would hit an innertube and I’d be stuck, the waves occasionally pulling me further to the deep end. I was sobbing my eyes out by the time I had gotten out of the water (with no help from the life guards) and I sat with my parents while the friend I had with me did all the fun shit
That wave pool is deadly, I almost drowned there in a similar fashion when I was 14. I too was pretty small, being only 91ish pounds and 4'11. I got caught underneath a very large person in an inner tube midway through the wave cycle. I'm surprised I even survived that.
This reminds me of a time I had at an indoor park. I got pushed underwater in one of those pools and scraped my neck on the rough bottom of the pool as I was swimming back up. It was a pretty big scrape and it just started bleeding everywhere. The park was super fun but those pools are extremely dangerous.
I love how Charlie just gets quiet when all the deaths are explained. Morbidly funny to just hear all these violent and tragic deaths in complete silence, then “that sucks to die surrounded by other people’s piss.”
Honestly so depressing and horrifying that you can go to a place for fun with your children and something so gruesome and heartbreaking can happen. I couldn’t imagine the pain and horror that family went through.
Especially since the senator dad was the one who threatened to sue them if they didn't let his son on the ride, even though he was below the weight limit. Got his kid killed with political dick swinging. That's gotta haunt a person.
Fun fact: My dad wanted to knock bungee jumping off of his bucket list, and not knowing about Action park and living in the area, he thought it was a great idea to bungee jump there, he’s fine but he got a neck injury, which still affects him to this day.
There is a water park near me where there was a water slide that looked very similar to the one at Schitterbahn which was also demolished. As I’m writing this, I remembered my parents telling me about a kid being decapitated but I was too young to understand.
Former Schlitterbahn employee here, Schlitterbahn was recently bought out by some big corporation out of Chicago. It's still open, but the people behind Verrückt don't have any say in the company anymore.
@@germandude5181 I'm aware of that. I just meant the brand is still alive. I do wish MoistCritical explained that part better, though. He makes it sound like the incident happened in Texas
@@TrueUnderDawgGaming Oh, yeah, true true. But they did change ownership internally, so, almost no one that was associated with the "old" Schlitterbahn" is still in any major position within the company.
I used to go to Schlitterbon a lot as a kid. One time I was in the lazy river, the same ones that they don’t have any type of limit for people using it. I got flipped over and fell under the water, couldn’t get up because of the load of people flowing over me. I was a little kid being kicked constantly while underwater. I nearly died that day, only became conscious enough to realize what happened after an hour. And was still in shock because I was a 5 year old screaming underwater, trying to claw my way back up and getting kicked in the face and gut. Overall, 10/10 would go again👍
same thing happened here, but instead of being kicked around, i got caught exactly below a very large float. the people on it didnt know i was there for some reason. that day was also my birthday celebration. imagine if i died on my birthday, would be totally dumb
Yikes, that’s terrifying. something like this happened to my dad 😳 him and my mom went to six flags and went to the wave pool (it was packed with people on floats) and I don’t remember how, but my dad got stuck underwater and couldn’t get up cause of all the people on floats 😳 he eventually got up though
Damn! Imagine being anyone anywhere near the death at Schlitterbahn! The family, the employees, the people on the ride with him, ALL the people at the park, the first responders, I can nearly guarantee that EVERYONE was traumatized at least on some level! That would have been such a heartbreaking and horrifying sight! I hope everyone got help coping with the situation and the loss.
Schlitterbahn was fucking NOTHING compared to the America Sings incident. An 18 year old girl got crushed to death between the rotating and stationary walls for like 20 minutes. They could hear her screams but couldn't stop the ride in time to save her. Imagine the audience members listening to a bunch of animatronics singing, and meanwhile there's a teenage girl dying a fucking Saw-esque death as the mechanical perfomers drown out her screams like a Five Nights at Freddy's game.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 I remember watching a video about that years ago. That shit fucking terrified me- I don’t even know how I found the video since I would’ve been pretty young. Just imagining the strangled screams of someone being crushed (you could probably hear bones and shit cracking too) by the ride you’re currently on is absolutely fucking terrible.
Honestly, most deaths that happen in Disney world are usually the rider's fault. There are several stories of people dying because they stand up during the ride or take off their seat belts. Its relatively safe but there is always a chance for a freak accident like the America Sings accident
I went to schlitterbahn as a kid and my only real memory of it is that on one of the rides (dont remember which, it was one of those slides that have small pools at random intervals) the employees legit were just watching me drown. it wasnt that I couldn't swim but the part that separated the pool from the next slide part would suck you to the bottom, and since I wasnt very tall I could not breathe. some random woman ended up saving me instead of the "lifeguard" type employees but thank you charlie for reminding me of this trauma
I grew up around Schlitterbahn and actually rode Verukt myself. It was actually pretty sad when it closed down, but also extremely surreal. What happened was the attendant didnt get the weight limit correct and it caused the kid to hit his head on the top and it flew off. Crazy. Glad I wasnt there that day
Apparently one of the reasons why the ride flew up and killed him was because one of the other riders lied about their weight too and the scales weren’t working to check I can’t imagine how bad it must feel that your kid died because not only did the people who built the ride cut every corner and be a dumbass, but the grown adult with him didn’t want to admit they were 100lbs heavier than they actually were. Shit like this is always the saddest, because of the location (fun family place) and the reason (pure negligence and lack of brain)
Yeah imagine you're down at the bottom have a great day with your kid waiting for him to come down and that's what you see. That's the shit of nightmares.
People dancing with death is always terrifying, one of my friends almost died working on a pipe just by falling and catching himself while his neck was litterally on the tip of a sharp spike they were using to mark an area of pipe line. Shits scary man and it didn’t even happen to me. He’s fine now but everyone was pretty shook up on the day.
Real shit. Apart from the real possibility of death or injury, he really got his money's worth that day. The problem with most "scary" rides is that you know there is no real threat or harm around you. Only jumpscares.
I think the craziest deaths was of that of 5 kids in River County, Disney World. The water, for some reason, had something called Naegleria Fowleri which is a lethal bacteria that goes through the nose and mouth and proceeds, slowly over the course of weeks EAT YOUR BRAIN. 5 kids had their brains dissolved into mush, until River County was closed down forever. This isn't counting the 2 kids who drowned (although they probably would've died of the brain eating bacteria anyway).
This is definitely an extreme example, but I worked at a pretty big water park one summer. Even with a suffocating amount safety measures we still saw maybe 1 ambulance every 2 weeks, and had 1 serious incident for the summer. Water parks just be dangerous.
It’s mainly due to how poorly equipped Action Park was. For a good idea, nearly the entire staff was undertrained and usually under the influence. It’s a surprise of how there are only six confirmed deaths there considering how awful Action Park’s safety was
I went to Schlitterbon when I was younger and I did not know about that 😰 The time I went wasn't great, there was this inner tube ride I suddenly got a massive headache on (I don't know if I hit my head or what) and it was overall a sucky day The clearest memory I had of that place was feeling miserable in the wave pool by myself and a lifeguard asking if I was okay
@Spatza Oh damn everywhere I go I see you. Still at it my persistent friend? This makes it four channels I've seen you on, while I guarantee your crusade has changed 0 minds I respect the hell out of your conviction.
I actually really enjoyed the Jaws ride back in the day. It was cheesy and slow-paced, but it was well-meaning and like Charlie said a nice break to rest your legs. Then again, one of my favorite Disney rides is the Carousel of Progress, so maybe I’m a bit biased toward slow, sappy, well-meaning rides.
Being in the water with a shark is scary, being in the water with a mechanical machine in the shape of a shark with real shark teeth is panic attack inducing, I'd shit my fucking pants
Right? A shark doesn’t just attack people, but a mechanical shark doesn’t know anything except what it’s made to do, so it would just unbiasedly grind up any poor guy
the water is probably super cold and disgusting, I dont even want to think about falling in like the shark will just fucking grind you up and you will be stuck in all the gears, wires and whatever that control the shark
To make it clear: when you went to Action Park, you knew what you were doing. You KNEW where you were going. My father and all his friends went there all the time.
Even though the Schlitterbahn that this incident occurred at was in Kansas, people assume it happened in Texas because Schlitterbahn was founded in Texas.
Nearly died at Schlitterbahn in Texas when the tube I was in in the river went over an unmarked ledge and knocked me unconscious underwater. You were intended to use a slide to reach the lower level, but it wasn't distinguishably lower at any point prior to about a second before you went over and there were no signs.
Have any of you braved the wave pool at Water World in Denver, Colorado? I always went there during the summer as a child, and looking back on it after seeing all this, I'm thankful that I'm still here. I remember the waves would carry swarms of adults in the inflatable tubes, and they would roll over you or come crashing down when the waves broke. The possibility of getting trapped beneath the masses in the swirling chaos, or being incapacitated and sinking to the bottom where they wouldn't notice you until it's too late.
As a person who has personally been on the schliterban slide, the news that a kid died was crazy, they had weight requirements and didn’t follow them when the incident happened
Last time I went to Disney and Universal was 1999.....went a couple times before that as well. Even as a kid less than 10 years old I remember the Jaws ride being precisely as Charlie explained. A nice boat ride with a bit of water spray from the shark to help cool you off.
Charlie forgot to mention that when the kid was decapitated, his brother was watching from the bottom of the slide and when he went to get help he couldn't be understood because he was screaming so much.
Fuck that's gotta be horrible
The employees also stopped the parents from going near the slide and refused to tell them that their son had died. A random guest had to tell them.
@@asliceofpai I mean what do you say “I’m sorry ma’am your son was just decapitated in front of your brother”
@@tubasil8786 thats better than not telling them and keeping them anxious and afraid, i mean they had to find out eventually, so why not through official means?
@Spatza but don’t let that make you forget that Mr.Krabs sold spongebob’s soul for 62 cents
After learning about what happened at Schlitterbahn I feel horrible for the poor family especially the older brother who literally saw it happen. Imagine having to go home after that and try and go back to normal life.
The worst part is it was actually the shitty useless safety net that killed him- everyone would have been fine if the net was on the sides or just not there at all. It was literally the only safety feature that ride had that made it deadly.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 is this not a good example for irony...?
his own father voted for the water park to not be regulated by the state, which directly led to the unsafe conditions... so his dad killed him
@@stephenscrub2114 thats... not how that works lol
@@NotAGoodUsername360 I live near were the park is and I was in highschool when it happened it was the big story for weeks on top of the safety net I had heard that the safety buckles for your legs were not sewn down very well and with barley any force you could rip em right off
My mom went on that ride at Schlitterbaum and she said it was terrifying. The reason the kid was decapitated was because he was technically too small (weight) to be on the ride, but since he was the senators son, they let him on, because the senator threatened to sue. That's why all charges were dropped. It was a whole thing and since I live in the area my history teacher made us do a research paper as a back to school current events project. My mom told me that she was put on with some random 11 year old who started flying up at the same place the other kid did, and she instinctively grabbed him and pulled him back down onto the raft, probably saving his life, in hindsight.
I really hope this is true because damn your mum just saved a life
Holy shit
whats sad is that its not even the park's fault neither the ride (atleast from reading this story)
Holy fuk
@@notlucas6859 no the ride was definitely unsafe. They literally just needed to add more weight to the bottom and a lap belt and it would've been perfectly fine
I love how Charlie called Schlitterbahn a small local waterpark. My brother in Christ, that's one of the largest parks in the nation.
was ☹️
@@mj-zo4et They're still open lmao
@@kptlt.phillipthomsen5973
I think they meant “was” as in used to be a small park
Saying Schlitterbahn is a large waterpark is like saying Roaring Springs is a large one.
I read that in a texan accent and it was 10x better. Yeehaw my homie.
That is absolutely heartbreaking. Imagine you go to take your 10-year-old out for a fun day at the water park and they die like that. It must have been so hard on the parents to have witnessed that. Just awful.
It’s night as I am watching this and now I just made my day even worse by clicking
@@TamiaTomato it’s night for me too, I feel your fear my dude.
There were people in the same raft with the kid.
No it was testing for the slide it was I think the designers kid but it wasn’t for kids he got special treatment it was in Kansas were I live I went there a few times
@@litremyyt1364 the height requirement for the ride is 54 inches/137 centimetres theres no age requirement, literally a simple google search man its not that hard to get the right information, actually the adults that had to test the ride each morning never wanted to do it because it was so unsafe
"Yeah a child was actually decapitated because of how bad the ride was... Here's a picture"
I swear I flinched so hard before I realized he meant a picture of the wikipedia article
“So here’s a picture” Panik
“Of the Wikipedia article” kalm
“And here’s one of the kid” *Panik*
Yeah me too lol I'm not a huge fan of blood and gore
Does anyone have a picture, just curious, I totally don’t want to bully my classmates with it every now and then
@@lordseafood are you like 10?
@@lordseafood too far, dude.
Schlitterbahn was the one park with the Decapitated kid, Let me tell you, they really covered it up over the years.
If you see the area now it looks abandon and apparently the land is being bought by some company
@@silverbison3511 nope its in Kansas City, Kansas
@@silverbison3511 the one in kck was the only one outside texas, but not anymore
I've never heard of this
@@silverbison3511 I used to live in North Padre Island, and they built a schlitterbahn that was a quarter mile from my house.
This video is a year old but to clarify about Schlitterbahn still being open: there were multiple water parks under the schlitterbahn brand. The ones I know of are one in Texas and one in Kansas. The decapitation was in Kansas and that park was closed
3:40
I went to it after the incident but it’s possible it closed after that
Not the slide
one in texas got bought and now its just named “water park” or something lmaoo
@@ConcreteCarcass they named it beach park and it got a different layout 😭 ive been before new layout ngl i kind of liked it but i almost got lost
My dad grew up around action park, said it was a lot of fun when you didn’t get hurt.
no
no
It's awesome. Lived next to action park for 28 years now. the place is a blast but used to be seriously dangerous lmfao. Now it's safe and really nice. All the water is fresh water running from the mountain it's on. It's so clean and refreshing compared to man made water tanks. The only thing is the water is CRAZY cold lmao.
no
yep, went when I was a kid and had fun, minus the massive uphill walks and how much the rides thrashed you around.
Grandmas were built different back then. They survived the Great Depression so sliding down a slightly wet tube at an 80 degree angle is like a cakewalk.
@@dollpickle wow great observation
@@dollpickle no way! How could you tell?
@@dollpickle You sir, need to read this comment over and over until you finally get the joke.
@@dollpickle Oh great one! Give us your wisdom
@@ddan1998 what did he say
Imagine being 8 years old going to action park for a wet and wild time, but end up just getting flashed on the Tarzan
Lucky bastard
Still a wet and wild time
@@gainsgamingginger2177 Literally
*flashed by tarzan
@@oojclops8694 ikr
My stepfather worked for the EMT squad that operated on Action Park's grounds. He has WILD stories of everything from people changing their infants' dirty diapers IN THE POOLS to people getting stuck on the rapids rides and ending up with broken limbs or getting concussions while trying to force themselves loose. That place was WILD! They have reopened under a different name, Moutain Creek. It's still really fun but muuuuuch safer :D
i used to live at the condos near the park!! :)
Charlie: "one kid died there? Shut it down".
Also charlie: "Only six people died in Action park? Open it back up baby!"
Lmao
The difference is that Action Park was fun!
@Rita - F**UĆК МЕ ! Wtf
He was being sarcastic
@@namesryan50yearsago65 my balls being sarcastic
Hi there Charlie, I actually went to Schlitterbahn a few times before Covid and I was one of the many people that was excited about that slide. It was a huge story here when that kid was killed and many people here think that the judge was bribed into dropping the charges. The park lost millions and was hurt even more from the massive advertising campaign that they had to drop after the ride was deemed "morally and ethically void". It was also later released that the park had failed to complete multiple safety inspections and that the park had never been actually cleared by inspectors before it was opened. It's a real tragedy and it's awful that it was just swept under the carpet like that.
But what’s perhaps even worse is how much of a role the Government had in this story. You see, this park was a great tourist attraction that pulled in millions of dollars that the Government could get ahold of one way or another. So, when this whole catastrophe started, they were terrified that they might lose a huge source of revenue. To keep this from happening the Gov. did horrible things like getting the judge to drop the charges, but they also played a big hand in covering up the event itself. Almost five years later the park would still be as busy as ever, if not for COVID, and they even plan on reopening sometime soon. But the scary part is that it took only about two or three weeks for this story to be swept under the rug by the media. It blew over so fast it’s almost certainly a conspiracy. That’s why I was so confused when I first saw this video, because I had to watch it two or three times before I made the mental connection back to this event. I think that in no small part was due to many media outlets being pressured or bought to not keep running stories or updates on this event.
The city wanted to keep it hidden and they did. The park has opened and will open again as if nothing ever happened. My condolences to the families of all those who suffered and I only hope that the places where the media couldn’t be stifled by the local government learn what the precedent for Schlitterbahn’s safety standards is and that they are forcefully made to comply to all safety laws in the future.
Money
Yeah I remember the place I haven’t gone back since then. It honestly kinda freaks me out that park so I don’t even want it go back even though most of the rides were great
@Dorian Mead just make all water parks about super chill lazy rivers and shit, shlitterbahn’s is the best when compared to ones at other KC waterparks
@Walker If your poor ass that made 80-150k saw 500k-1mil of cash, you’dprobs take it, or atleast think about it. Capitalism at its finest if you want something to blame.
@Walker My point being that even judges can be bribed because they dont make shit compared to CEO’s, still will never achieve that “millionaire lifestyle” without having another source of income, or 0 bills.
"6 people died horrifically."
"YEAHH! LETS GET WET AND WILD!"
I don't wanna seem like a prick but that transition was funny
@@flviir aww :(
@@PearlPredator don't worry it was funny
@@PearlPredator ‘twas very funny
@@PearlPredator comedic genius
Those wave pools are very popular in europe, I remember going in one in cyprus and the guards there were like top tier, luckily no one died, but the guards would often be on a platform right above the deep end so if someone was in trouble they could switch it off and be there is seconds. American parks are known to hire students with very little to no training so the problem is mainly from lack of experienced lifeguards
Yeah that's the other problem, life guards aren't paid for shit here, most don't need training, but when there is training it's about 2-3 weeks max (which I mean how hard is it to be a life guard), the real problem is life guards being on their phones, it's literally how I almost drowned, the life guard was on her phone and didn't see me fall into the 9ft part at 3, but to be fair, neither did my parents 💀
How did you get saved?
I think pretty much all lifeguards here are teenagers which if you think about it is pretty fucked. Putting a bunch of kids in charge of peoples lives
My local parks has teenagers on safer rides and the older lifeguards in the wave pool
“I don’t trust a 19 year old high school dropout named McKenzeigh with an IQ of a chicken sandwich to save my life”
- Twitter user
"Here's a picture of it."
I immediately thought he was just straight up gonna show a picture of the kid's headless body
LMFAO SAME
i was gonna run the fuck away from reality
SAME
same. my heart Beated fast when he said it..
Kinda disappointed
My dad actually almost drowned in the wave pool in action park back in the day, some man saved him from drowning in that park
Same, lost my inflatable donut in the water and I was literally getting pushed down by everyone surrounding me with their big inflatable donuts. saw black and woke up to a lifeguard pumping my chest
@@bobobsen dude that’s not funny
@@bobobsen that’s not funny in the slightest, this persons dad almost drowned, ur messed up
@@tacosaregood5038 lol
@@tacosaregood5038 lol
The worst detail to the decapitation story is the kid's dad was a state rep who strongly advocated against ride safety laws. (govt interference in private enterprise nanny state blah blah) For some reason after his son died he decided that maybe safety standards were actually a good thing and began to publicly support them
Don’t really see why he would be against them if, wait
@@creepercommande4171 $$$$$
Well well how the turntables
But how tf could you possibly be against safety laws
@@shiannafoxx shit happens
My mom worked at action park when she was a teen, way back in the 80s/90s! She worked a lot of the food stands and drink fountains. They only took cash at the park I believe, so she would literally have to stuff garbage bags full of cash to collect money. A lot of workers actually tried to steal the money from the bags. Sometimes they were just paid with the money bags, too. It was crowded, super busy, and people would literally just throw money at her for drinks. Absolutely insane.
Dude that’s the place to pull off a massive heist as a kids I bet
Yo mama was working like a stripper
“This place is so dangerous omg I’m glad it’s closed”
*tennisball tanks*
“Reopen it”
I agree
I agree
I concur.
I agree
I do have a similar opinion that matches your own
Kid gets decapitated
Charlie: “wanna see a picture of it”
We all do
@@RogerH_CxP this is true
@@RogerH_CxP Yeah
@@RogerH_CxP I don’t, but I do at the same time.
bro when he said that i tabbed out and was finna close it
"The decapitation of the child was a direct result of how bad the ride was designed. Here's a picture of it"
Gave me a heart attack
NAH BC FR I literally thought he was gonna show the dead kid 😟
Your pfp fits so well with the comment lmao
shit, me too. i had gmod opening up so i couldnt see the screen but when i heard him say heres a picture of it i fucking jumped
@@donnieplaysroblos2906 a man of culture I see
just gonna say, have literally ridden that ride and was there on the day of the decapitation. yes the ride was dangerous, banged my head on a metal bar on it once. gave me a real wallop, but the kid died because he was too small for the ride, the employees told him he couldnt get on the ride, then the representative basically pulled the "do you know who i am" card. kid lifted out of his chair and that same metal bar that banged my head cut his off.
As a former employee at Shitterbahn the one in south padre island (no longer exists) which is where the employee died. I was working when the news broke out about it. I also was the one who would frequently serve the owner that was later sent to prison. The accident itself wasn't a actual decapitation but a medical decapitation. His spine was severed due to hitting a low hanging pipe. I was also working when I saw the owner detained. The one who created the slide (co-owner) did not have licensing, training or know how to make the slide. However, still made it anyways as a way to reclaim fame. It was an entire massive over-sight but considering the park I worked at is closed I'm sure I might be able to talk about this lmao. Btw where the incident took place, it was in Kansas City if i remember correctly. After the incident the co-owner was basically banished to the park in South Padre Island.
Isn’t the one at south padre rebranded?
@@cookieslayer7075 yeah,its called beach park at isla blanca
Nope this is cap i know for a fact because the Guy got detained 2 months later Lol
@@WyaSlay Oh he was detained and put in prison for a few months before trial. But that wasn't for a long while after, really around 4-6 months. Fun fact he was also banned from getting any liquor drinks from the bars at the park because he had a very bad habit of being publicly intoxicated. Also was known around the city as being a notorious "party" type. Also There was technically two water parks the indoor water park and the outdoor water park. He was pushed out and only allowed to be run the outdoor park, Due to the fact his brother in law owned the hotel and indoor waterpark combo. The indoor waterpark is where the lifeguard if i remember correctly was crushed by the mechanic gate
really? but if you see pictures of the slide post the accident there is alot of blood so it couldnt have been an internal decapitation
I went to it after it was Action Park but you can still see the skeleton and parts of what it was in the 90s. Crazy times
They just need to fucking close it
I thought you were gonna say that you could still see the skeletons of the dead people lmao
@@noqol7220 lool same bro. but in all seriousness though, fuck the people who ran this park back then
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Thought you were gonna see you can see the skeleton and parts of the victims
Something explained in the documentary "Class Action Park": The tanks themed rides were known to combust. That's my state for ya.
And people loved soaking the tennis balls in flammable material so they shot fireballs at each other.
Also, the boating section was right next to the alcohol, so a lot of patron there were drunk.
GO NJ!! WHOO
The tanks were cheaply built and often shut down and employees would have to go out to get riders out of the tanks. Outside you could put quarters in mini cannons to shoot at people inside. They'd all aim their cannons at the employees and blast them with tennis balls.
Central Jersey represent
Me and my mother watched that a while back I think
*kid gets decapitated*
Parents: seems safe enough
My parents would knowingly send me there
@@princessbanana4625 bro?
@@princessbanana4625 you ok? BLINK IF U NEED HELP
very safe...
@@princessbanana4625 🤣
"Universal is so much better than Disney"
Went to Florida for a holiday a couple of months ago, and I have to say 100% agree.
The lines in Universal felt way shorter and overall had better rides
I’ve grown up right by disney and I’ve gone to both. Both are very similar food wise for the most part, although Epoct’s food is very diverse and good. However, if you’re there for experiences and immersion, Disney is better. The entire point of Disney is to make it feel like another world and it does it well no matter where you are.
Universal, however, has much better thrill rides and tends to suit older audiences more. Some locations, such as Harry Potter World and the Simpsons area, also do well on immersion. But generally, Universal’s immersion is mostly within only the rides themselves.
Fr especially Volcano Bay. I like how you can reserve your ride with your watch and you can go on other rides while you wait for your reservation. I definitely recommend Universal than Disney. Most of Disney's rides have super long lines for a really bad ride that only lasts 3 minutes. I went to Epcot. I did like it but I don't recommend the cheese pizza in the Italian part of Epcot. Gave me a stomach ache. Magic kingdom was nice too.
@@DoKuShOsTaR Being a Floridian, Universal is worlds better. If we want to be constantly bothered by rude tourists watching a phoned in show, we can go anywhere in our home towns. If we want to relax and have a good time with good food and good shows with actual performers working their asses off for their guests, we can go to Universal.
so true, except if you're in cali. i went to both a few months ago and i have to say, universal there is absolutely TINY and all of the good attractions have 4 hour wait times in the afternoon. if you have the choice, just go to disney in cali. any other place universal is SO much better.
I just spent a day at Universal. Absolutely fantastic park.
I was actually there during the Schlitterbahn accident I saw the whole thing it was terrible, there was hundreds of cops and ambulance as well as fire trucks there it was so loud with everyone screaming in horror of what they just saw. It is still stuck in my mind till this day. The blood and screaming is engraved in my brain. RIP Caleb
How does it feel to know the criminal charges were dropped so no one faces consequences for killing the kid.
dude are you okay?
Holy shit bro, I hope you doing alright. That must have been Traumatizing.
@@mrwhoa8990 Dude, kinda insensitive
@@hixel1268 oh shit my bad I'll delete the comment
Naw, Action Park was fucking terrifying, they’d have go-carts driving on the highway that split in the middle of the fucking park, and in the boats, it was fucking a mamba infested lake, shit was a fever dream
That sounds awesome.
Merica
Mamba like black mamba snake?
@@gentlesandladymen yes, though I meant water moccasin
@@jackthetruett lol, as a herpetologist I read tat and went "well, i doubt that" this makes far more sense
Charlie: "a kid got decapitated at Schlitterbahn it should be frickin closed"
Also Charlie: "This looks so fun! Only six deaths? *Re-open* "
Where’s your profile pic from?
@@katiebayliss9887 joe
@@o_ver2.094 joe regan
@Justin batchelar Joe mamma is a very nice lady, id love to see her again
@Justin batchelar u have to say Joe momma or it doesn't work
schlitterban was actually in my area. it was closed permanently. it wasn't in Texas it was in Kansas. I remember seeing the slide multiple times passing by and just going "haha nope". they actually tried to keep the park open RIGHT AFTER THE KIDS BODY WAS REMOVED. they were forced to close and then eventually went out of business
Guy: *literally dies*
Charlie: “that’s just unlucky”
Should have gotten a better gaming chair
RNG wasn’t on his side 😔
Seems like Charlie would be more like Wonka in this chocolate factory
Well I mean he could have prevented it from happening but he just had to go there.
Around 3,500 people are killed in car accidents every day in the UK, I'd say that was just unlucky
Scary part is, I bet the kid was still conscious for a moment while his head rolled down the ride, since decapitation has been proven to not be perfectly isntantaneous death. Not able to scream, speak, or even breath, watching your body tumble into the water seperately from you. What a terrifying way to die.
Yeah, even if the head of a person is cut pff, they still have some nerve left in them, only enough to blink for a good 15-30 seconds, so yeah, your bet could be correct!
@@crazywildegg54 that test is debated.
yeah anything short of destruction of the brain leaves you conscious for anywhere from 7-15 seconds, which isnt a long time but its an eternity when you're hopelessly dying
@@scottnewman522 he would’ve been in extreme shock and probably didn’t experience anything.
@@nikolairostov3326 for sure, the shock would more than likely get you first. in the event it doesn't though, you're in for a horrifying final few moments
I went to school with Caleb. I never personally knew him but I remember how deeply it impacted his older brother who I had known since like first grade.
hopefully everything turned out well for him, thats some potentially life-ruining trauma.
Fr losing a sibling when your young at a water park is deep
@@Xenotypic nothing antidepressants can't cure these days, have you seen the video of the suicidal father after his 2 sons committed suicide?
Wait same!
@@MLGGaAn9sStT3R I’m pro medication and bruh, not the time 😒
I love water parks and stuff like that, but the horror stories behind them give me the chills, it’s insane how often this happens, no wonder why so many people are scared of water slides
The water park he talks about where the kid got decapitated is Schlitterbahn in Kansas City. I know this because I live here. They built what was the tallest water slide in the world called the Verrückt and this 10 year old boy named Caleb Schwab who was the son of the SECRETARY OF STATE OF KANSAS Scott Schwab went down it and got his head cut off. Needless to say the park has lost a lot of money because of it and many lawsuits were made. Practically nobody here goes there anymore and everybody goes to Worlds of fun/Oceans of fun (our other theme/water park). Rest in peice Caleb you were taken to soon.
It’s not even open anymore is it?
@@pepsiman3603 9
Edit: Caleb Schwab died in 2016
Schlitterbahn Kansas City closes in 2018
Verrückt demolished in 2018.
My apologies for false information
You could see that thing for miles it was so tall.
so how did the kid got decapitated?
@@dennyrianto6598 he was sitting in the front of the tube that they made u sit on. It holds three people and based on who he was with, he should have been placed in the middle because he was the lightest one of the three. They put him in the front tho and the weight of the two other riders caused him to fly out of the tube when it went up the first hump and the whole slide was encased in fencing so he hit his head on the fencing.
Crazy to think that I rode on that slide
As an engineer, just looking at the design tells me the raft will have too much kinetic energy because of how low the first hump is with respect to how high the starting point is. The raft and/or occupants can become airborne. Engineers they hired came to the same conclusions but the park owners buried the report.
That’s what I thought and I know nothing about engineering. I feel like that should just be common sense, the people who designed that must be crazy
The creators knew nothing about Engineering when they made it, ans aswell, the raft being used, Raft B, was constantly reported to the owner thag it went WAY too fast and was prone to flight. Put a you g, light kid on it, sad shit happens.
I don't think you need to understand engineering to know how fucked the ride was.
Holy Dooficoshals!
yeah i went to schilitterbon once on vacation like 6 years ago. their slides had those rollers on them that your raft would hit for speed and they also had these nets over certain parts of the slide that were held up my curved metal railings. so it seemed pretty dangerous but it was fun lol
About the Verukt incident: the staff of the park fully knew that it was dangerous and submitted reports that the raft the kid was in was prone to going airborne. The raft jumped and the kids head slammed into a pole. The only reason the charges were dropped was because the prosecutors were very unprofessional and used poor, dramatized evidence in an attempt to sway the jury. The judge ruled the prosecutions case as so bad, he dropped the thing entirely
The kid's dad was a senator who threatened to sue if the park didn't let the kid ride - another bit to add to that
it is verrückt you non german
I guess in the land of the free, inadequate representation isn't grounds for a mistrial. Hark!
@@WaltuhUlbricht wow thats crazy
„Verrückt“ is German and literally translates to “crazy”
when he said "...kid decapitated- heres a picture of it" i legit thought i was about to see a decapitated childs head and i freaked out
Immediately went to click off the video until I saw it was just the Wikipedia article my heart was in my throat
I still have a burn scar on my back from a water slide that had too little water from like 10 years ago. It's kinda ironic to get a burn wound on a water slide.
@jaydon new I know this may be satire but shitterbomb literally made me wheeze
Its ironic because you can get sunburnt going skiing likewise..
@@dapperpenguin7968 Doesn’t the sun still reflect on the snow so some people wear sunglasses or something to protect their eyes from the same problem?
Shitterbomb
I have one on my elbow from the same thing! I have resented waterslides ever since.
"The decapitation of a child was the direct result of how bad this ride was designed, here's a picture of it."
I full on thought he was gonna show a severed head on vid for a moment.
@Spatza bruh what does this have to do with anything????????????????????
@@swifttt bro he’s commenting that on everyone comment, either a bot or just a straight up weirdo
@UC0Kw1wDuYR3mIJARn1HCUPw Hahaha get it? You brought up something completely off topic hahahahhahahhhaahhhaahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahhhaahahahaahahahahahahaahah
@@destinkane797 what happened?
@@destinkane797 what did they say?
I rode that same slide in Schlitterbahn (or however you spell it) and I was terrified but my family peer pressured me. The tower for the slide would sway back and forth and creak while the rafts went down, the seatbelts were held by nothing more than velcro, and you could easily get an arm torn clean off if you raised your arms up. Horrible.
And I should clarify, the kid got decapitated like 2 weeks after I rode it
That sounds horrible, I'm sorry you were peer pressured.
@@jadenlothes I bet your family felt differently after the incident
And this 2016... I thought, well, maybe some 1980s..but no..
@@katiebayliss9887 quite the opposite, actually, they were just super happy they got to ride it before it got shut down
I nearly died in Dreamworld on the Gold coast Australia. It was on a roller coaster loop, where it would stop on the loop and we would hang for like 10 seconds. I am skinny and my seat wasnt fastned properly AT ALL. My ass slipped through the seat and i had to manually hold my weight up, upside down, so i wouldnt fall 20 meters to my death. Thank god i was a gymnast and was able to do so.
You literally went through the final destination 3 roller coaster
When I was in like 5th grade, I went on a ride at Six Flags (it was like those circular rides that spin in circles faster and faster while also swaying until they go fast enough they are upside-down or capable of flipping) and the teenage attendant didn't bother fastening the pullover bar for me, causing the thing to give out once we started speeding up and jerking around, meaning there was nothing keeping me inside. I had to hold myself in that chair using the freaking tiny iron hooks and was bawling my eyes out and screaming cause it was so fucking scary, dude
Holy jeez that’s terrifying, I’m glad you’re ok
my brother had a situation similar to this, seat unfastened mid ride, there was a segment where you were upside down for around 10 seconds, except it was only like 8 meters so he wouldn't have died but maybe would have broken some bones if he didn't pull himself up, he says that he will never go on one of those again
Did you sue?
I was a kid, when Action Park was in it's prime. My mother refused to take me and my brother there. Damn her and her protective motherly instincts.
Lmao
I also wouldn’t let my children there. I want to protect my children, to not put them in any danger
Depending on the day, your mother saved you from almost certain death. Be thankful for your parents, and people who look out for you. Sometimes if they don’t pay attention, it may already be too late.
My mom had to get stitches one time and we still went back, shit was lit.
some depressed asshole: if she didn't stop us we could have died, MOTHER WHY DIDN'T YOU LET US GO
One of Action Park's first rides was the water slide loop de loop. People were coming out of it with massive cuts and gashes. When the engineers opened it up, they found human teeth lodged in the wall at the top of the loop. _People were smacking their face into the wall and losing teeth in there._ And those teeth would then cut people who went in after.
my mom went on that thing growing up 😭😭
I legit have heard this story ab action park before 😭
What if you werent fast enough and you fell on the wrong side, you would just be stuck
My dad told me about that one he went there for a boy scout trip
that is such a horrifying mental image, i physically cringed
"I wouldn't go but the existence makes me happy" -the area 51 raid
Shit'll be 2 years ago next month.
@@lephantomchickn3676 damn, time flies
@@ayesh4h cant believe that was two years ago
@@ayesh4h no way that was 2 years ago
Lol saw this right after he said this.
a lot of my classmates in elementary school knew the kid who died at schlitterbahn. sometimes we drive past that place and it's so eerie.
I honestly don’t know what’s scarier...a real life jaws swimming at me, or mechanical jaws swimming at me and knowing all those gears and plates of steel are gonna chew you up and just holy shit...I think mechanical jaws is scarier.
And on top of that, there's real shark teeth that they decided to fill those robot jaws with, real, serrated shark teeth. Who thought that was a good idea? You might as well have real sharks down there at that point, as they'd probably be less dangerous than the robot sharks.
Definitely mechanical jaws. Sharks don't like the taste of humans anyway, they just mistake us for seals. As long as you dont aggravate them or get up in their space you're fine. Mechanics don't know when to stop
robot jaws be like: "Awww shit man, sorry mate Imma brb, tryna entertain deez kidz :)"
@@eldritchbeinginmycloset9568 True, sharks very rarely ever kill people.
@@eldritchbeinginmycloset9568 or unless they’re really hungry? Besides there’s many different types of sharks. Isnt there one that actually likes to attack people? Was it the bull shark? I remember hearing a story about some navy ship that went down in shark infested waters and pretty much all the survivors were eaten. Unless that’s a plot from some movie I don’t remember. I’m still sleepy.
I remember almost drowning in one one those tidal pools which get deeper as you go in. I was about 10 years old. People say you see your life flash before your eyes when you are about to die. Well I did, it was like a quick speed run of everything I have ever experienced in 4 secs. God bless the man who saw me flapping my arms like a goddamn fish and immediately picked me up in his arms. Because of him I'm alive today and my parents aren't childless.
fish don't have arms.
fish don't have arms.
arms don’t have fish
Did the first two of you in this thread ever go to school?
@@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah my arms have fish
Not only did someone get decapitated, someone also got sucked into the wave maker and a maintenance worker got his head crushed by a pipe
Oop...
OOP.. 😬🤪🤪🤠
jesus christ... i mean, i get that there never will be a "100% COMPLETELY SAFE" amusement park especially ones that cater to people who are thrill-seekers. but got damn
see this is the fkng reason i was always skeptical of whatever made the waves
i mean ive still been in like a bajillion wave pools, its always a hoot n a holler, but every time im just kinda leerin at the mechanisms like
what *r* those n why does it feel like theyre way too close
I loved wave pools but despite being a little thrill seeker that liked to get to the deep end sometimes, I would always get really nervous about seeing the giant grates. It was impossible to see what was behind the black squares but I SWEAR I once saw part of the mechanism moving in it and stopped going so close since. But don't all waterparks have the machinery tucked in a concrete box with metal gratings to cover it? Unless they got sucked in from behind the wavemaker and not the front... or the grates were too big in the gaps. sounds fucking horrific either way.
In Germany, I went to a place with “Rodeln” (sledding) which is similar to one of the rides in this video. My mom was nervous about it because it is basically a half tube made of concrete and a special skate-seat-thing that you can brake to slow down and or stop. If you don’t use the brake at all, you could go as see a speed gage tell you that you would go as fast as 30 km/hr (about 19 mi/hr). There was nothing if you somehow fell off or something dangerous.
I can't imagine how terrible the parents felt after their child died, especially at such a young age, I can't imagine ever having to go through something like that.
Pretty cool
@@jackrobinson9339 Not sure what thats supposed to mean but if it's a joke not sure it landed very well.
I'm serious, I would love to see that
@@jackrobinson9339 you'd love to see a 10 year old child get decapitated in front of a crowd of people including their mother and father?
@@tootymcfart1620 yes I would
Charle: "It was a small local water park"
Reality: "It was a 5 acre water park in Kansas City and it was the tallest waterslide on earth"
I'm pretty sure the kid weighed less than the minimum required weight, and the worker did not distribute the weight across the raft evenly, the two larger women were in the back and he was in the front, when the raft reached the crest of the hill the front lifted up and he ran into the netting that prevents people from flying off
Actually I used to live In Kansas and have been to schlitterbon and it actually is a pretty small park
If I recall correctly, the kid was allowed to breach safety procedures because he was the son of the state representative. They redesigned the slide afterwards, thankfully.
@@theMissouriCheeseCave that’s good but dang that’s tragic
The ride was still poorly designed and why use metal nets those have the potential to decapitate
@@theMissouriCheeseCave no the workers were just bad and loaded the slide to light with the lid on. They took the slide down and closed the park
I find it pleasing that Charlie mostly kept quiet when Kevin was discussing the deaths of the parkgoers. No jokes, no funny quips, just an empathetic groan at the worst. He really is a good man.
that should be the bare minimum tbh, some people have no respect whatsoever.
That doesn't make you a good man. That makes you a fucking human being.
@@movedaccount465 nah I agree with Eugene on this one, even if he has a questionable name
It's sad that this isn't the bare minimum nowadays.
hello fellow trash panda
7:30
That man is a fucking MENACE to theme parks...as a regular viewer of Defunctland, even a photograph sends shivers down my spine....
I remember seeing the news of the kid dying and I can remember thinking “holy shit, that park is ~30 minutes away from us”. It was the first time that little me realized that yes, people near me can die.
Once I was walking away from a dollar store in my city and I was facing a main road with streetcar tracks on it. A streetcar was coming and somebody was too inpatient to wait for it to pass. And tried to beat it across I ended watching somebody get caught under a streetcar and dragged a few feet.
@jaydon new I get this is a joke but if it wasnt I would sure as hell have something to say about that lol.
@@Packle. Nahhh man, death is totally a government fearmonger tool to make us totally scared of their weapons maaan. Look, I'm gonna shoot myself right now. I'll report back.
@@radornic2387 we're gathering here today to mourn the passing of some random dude, who died in an attempt of proving that death isn't real, let this be a lesson, this is probably the only time government is right
@jaydon new that’s the most stupidest thing I’ve ever heard but believe what ya wanna I guess
I can only imagine the terror everyone felt when they saw that decapitated corpse at the end of the slide holy shit
I'd most likely be traumatized, just the thought of it unnerves me inside... May that kid rest in peace
His brother was actually at the end of the ride and saw him, he was in shock and was screaming that his brother was dead
The dead kid actually ran into 2 girls and I think broke one of the girls jaws or something like that
@@gayvagina7353 holy shit, that makes it all the more terrifying
@@weirdnessfades i know right
He rested in pieces
@@haka-katyt7439 that's brutal
I almost drowned at Schlitterbahn back in 2018. I was on a spring band trip and the first slide we did was a one-person innertube rapids type of ride with four or five-foot deep water. There was one giant drop at the beginning of the ride and then several, much smaller drops on the rest of the ride. On the first giant drop, my innertube caught serious air because I was only 90 pounds at the time (I'm almost 100% certain my innertube didn't even touch the slide on the way down because of the steepness) and it smacked the water at the bottom of the drop, sending me flying out of my innertube several feet in front of me. This wouldn't have been a problem in most instances, except the workers were not paying a attention and sent me down the slide too soon after my friend in front of me. My head ended up lodged underneath my friend's innertube in front of me. I was unable to get myself out because my friend was facing the other direction, unaware of what was happening beneath her, and my innertube caught up and stacked on top of the rest of my body. I was flailing underwater for roughly a minute before my boyfriend came down the slide behind me, saw what was happening, got out of his own innertube, and then grabbed me out from under my friend's innertube. I was so freaked out that I couldn't continue going down the rest of the ride and my boyfriend and I had to flag down a lifeguard to help get me out. Fuck Schlitterbahn.
how the fuck do we live in a country where a kid can get literally decapitated and the park suffers little to no financial repercussions
@@disposable_income_andy the kid was a senators son and he was too light to ride the ride yet the father threatened to sue if they didn't let him on, so the charges were dropped.
@@rylan2610 the park was neglectful by putting two adults on the back with the kid in front, offsetting the balance. They are still liable, they should've put more weight in the tubes.
Sounds like you were almost decapitated. Only difference to the ride was, they removed the thing that chops of small peoples' heads.
Small world, I had a choir-band trip to Schlitterbahn around the same time.
I grew up in New Braunfels, where the original Schlitterbahn is, and it was very widely known throughout town that as the park expanded and more parks were built that they stopped caring about safety and responsibility. At some point in the late 00's, we stopped going altogether. The Kansas City decapitation incident happened after I was grown and moved away, so I never heard about it. It's sad to see such a beloved and cherished park succumb to the wiles of greed, and a once family owned business turn into a scummy corporation.
I grew up going to schlitterbahn and I remember my mom would never let me go on that ride when it opened. I was really upset with her, but I’m glad I listened to her. When it opened she claimed that someone was going to get killed on it. She was absolutely devastated when she got proven right. Friends and family had connections with the family as well. Rest In peace Caleb🙏.
I remember wanting to go there specifically for that slide because it was known as the tallest waterslide. I'm very glad I didn't
You are so lucky to have a mother like that
If she was the type of mother that didn't care what you'd do you would have been dead by now holy shit
3:05 “But I mean decapitation of the child was a direct result of how bad that ride was designed... here’s a picture of it.” - Charlie out of context, 2021 (also that’s awful).
😂. Jesus Christ. Out of context shit is so dangerous
@Spatza bro wtf
@Spatza ?????????????????????????????????????????????? tf
i mean i dont believe in gods but what does that have to do with anything here
@UC0Kw1wDuYR3mIJARn1HCUPw i don't believe God but i practices my religion as a life discipline so i don't become someone who says it's a false hope just because they don't "see" or "feel" Him
@@swifttt oh wait lmao it's the attention seeking dude that burn quran and bible in Minecraft because dude's too pussy to do it irl
Action Park owners: Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make
@Spatza i cant find who asked
@Spatza yo bro some people have different beliefs than you its apart of the world the earth doesn’t revolve around you
@Spatza is that a copypasta?
@Spatza dont treat your nothing is real and everything is fake religion like its the most right, what are you part of the almighty awesome void cult that is always correct, i beleive in god and i still think that christianity is a bit flawed and also
who tf asked
@Spatza the fuck does that have to do with anything
Fun fact my oldest sister went to Schlitterbahn for a field trip and when she got back she had a HUGE fever and terribly sick but after a long while she recovered. We promised never go there again even though I never went. I know it's late but happened
Plus recently that Schlitterbahn had been taken down and I'm glad so more people won't have to get hurt during those rides... PS great video!! ❤️
"It's like something I'd make in rollercoaster tycoon"
Ah yes, all the death traps Charlie always makes when playing that game
@Joke Reviewer r/whooosh
Jesus christ is sometimes used as an expression.
Mans wrote an entire essay about religion history and it's people 😂 just to try and win an argument. Get outta here
Every time I watch any video, I see your comment
@Joke Reviewer nvm cba to deal with this
@Joke Reviewer ??
@Joke Reviewer imma be honest with you chief, you as a person are just a big yikes from me
“How do you keep a waterpark open when one of your attendees gets decapitated?”
Boy, this joke better have a good punchline.
Idk I might laugh my head off if its great
get a head of the competition
You put the Halloween decorations up early and say it's staged
no but it had a terrific headline
I'm still shocked that it was Schlitterbahn, I thought it was some random place that would've shut down. Holy shit me and my family went there, we got lucky.
That decapitation incident was really sad, the kid's brother was waiting for him at the end of the slide, I can't even begin to imagine the horror and trauma of seeing your brother's headless body and decapitated head rolling down. Hope the brother is doing ok.
where can i find the video👀
@@mxssi9989 There’s videos on the story all over UA-cam. However, if you’re looking for a video of the actual incident occurring, it probably doesn’t exist. However there is drone footage of the bloody slide from right after it happened.
@@mxssi9989 I really hope you don’t mean you want to watch a child die..
@@KingOfGaymes that's 100% what they wanted to see
@@sonymicronin that is actually sickening if they wanted to see that video.
I went to a big water park for my thirteenth birthday, right before moving away. I had wanted to go to that water park the whole time I had lived in Colorado, but I never could until that day.
I remember I was in the wave pool and the waves hit. I was pretty small at the time, still hadn’t hit any growth spurts so I looked more like an 8 year old than I did 13. I got thrown underwater and slammed my head against the ground. I was one of the only people in the pool without an innertube, so every time I tried to get air my head would hit an innertube and I’d be stuck, the waves occasionally pulling me further to the deep end. I was sobbing my eyes out by the time I had gotten out of the water (with no help from the life guards) and I sat with my parents while the friend I had with me did all the fun shit
That wave pool is deadly, I almost drowned there in a similar fashion when I was 14. I too was pretty small, being only 91ish pounds and 4'11. I got caught underneath a very large person in an inner tube midway through the wave cycle. I'm surprised I even survived that.
This reminds me of a time I had at an indoor park. I got pushed underwater in one of those pools and scraped my neck on the rough bottom of the pool as I was swimming back up. It was a pretty big scrape and it just started bleeding everywhere. The park was super fun but those pools are extremely dangerous.
Hello fellow Water World Wave Pool Survivors! I just commented about this and decided to browse the comments! Glad we made it! 🤣👍
Waterworld? Shit was always sketchy, everybody has innertubes and if you get trapped under it’s almost impossible to get back up
I love how Charlie just gets quiet when all the deaths are explained. Morbidly funny to just hear all these violent and tragic deaths in complete silence, then “that sucks to die surrounded by other people’s piss.”
Honestly so depressing and horrifying that you can go to a place for fun with your children and something so gruesome and heartbreaking can happen. I couldn’t imagine the pain and horror that family went through.
everyone who died was a result of natural selection.
@@aasche04 poor bait
Especially since the senator dad was the one who threatened to sue them if they didn't let his son on the ride, even though he was below the weight limit. Got his kid killed with political dick swinging. That's gotta haunt a person.
It was the dads fault.. based off an OP who lives near the park.. that's the reason why the charges were dropped
Fun fact: My dad wanted to knock bungee jumping off of his bucket list, and not knowing about Action park and living in the area, he thought it was a great idea to bungee jump there, he’s fine but he got a neck injury, which still affects him to this day.
Same my dad had a neck injury from bungee jumping at action park
hes dead, but hes alright
I’m so sorry for y’all’s Dads! I hope something can be done to help them with the pain
thats not fun
How does ur affect him?
There is a water park near me where there was a water slide that looked very similar to the one at Schitterbahn which was also demolished. As I’m writing this, I remembered my parents telling me about a kid being decapitated but I was too young to understand.
Former Schlitterbahn employee here, Schlitterbahn was recently bought out by some big corporation out of Chicago. It's still open, but the people behind Verrückt don't have any say in the company anymore.
Cedar Fair, right?
Hell yeah, Schlitterbahn is still open!
If Disney World gets to stay open after a gator-munching session, then so can Schlitterbahn!
Well, the Schlitterbahn park where the fatal incident occured was closed in 2018, only the Texas parks are still open
@@germandude5181 I'm aware of that. I just meant the brand is still alive. I do wish MoistCritical explained that part better, though. He makes it sound like the incident happened in Texas
@@TrueUnderDawgGaming Oh, yeah, true true. But they did change ownership internally, so, almost no one that was associated with the "old" Schlitterbahn" is still in any major position within the company.
@@germandude5181 That's okay as long as I still get to splish-splash
@@TrueUnderDawgGaming Okay, true true. And it's even German-named splish-splash, so I have to approve!
I used to go to Schlitterbon a lot as a kid. One time I was in the lazy river, the same ones that they don’t have any type of limit for people using it. I got flipped over and fell under the water, couldn’t get up because of the load of people flowing over me. I was a little kid being kicked constantly while underwater. I nearly died that day, only became conscious enough to realize what happened after an hour. And was still in shock because I was a 5 year old screaming underwater, trying to claw my way back up and getting kicked in the face and gut. Overall, 10/10 would go again👍
same thing happened here, but instead of being kicked around, i got caught exactly below a very large float. the people on it didnt know i was there for some reason. that day was also my birthday celebration. imagine if i died on my birthday, would be totally dumb
@@shitmaster628 I got stuck under a ton of people after the tidal wave in the wave pool at typhoon lagoon
My gosh, I’m surprised the entire company didn’t get shut down
Hey that happened to me once or twice too!! (At 23 I’m still only 5ft tall so I’ve just always been too small for crowds)
Yikes, that’s terrifying. something like this happened to my dad 😳 him and my mom went to six flags and went to the wave pool (it was packed with people on floats) and I don’t remember how, but my dad got stuck underwater and couldn’t get up cause of all the people on floats 😳 he eventually got up though
Damn! Imagine being anyone anywhere near the death at Schlitterbahn! The family, the employees, the people on the ride with him, ALL the people at the park, the first responders, I can nearly guarantee that EVERYONE was traumatized at least on some level! That would have been such a heartbreaking and horrifying sight! I hope everyone got help coping with the situation and the loss.
I asked my dad about action park a few years back, and he just told me to “drop it” still weird to this day.
Chances are he had a bad experience with action park and just doesn't want to talk about it.
Damn lol I asked my parents not too long ago and they said they loved it and hardly knew about it being unsafe 😂
at that point did you start beatboxing the illest shit he had ever heard right there on the spot.?
@@bearforest4960 that was great
How’s being a devils fan lol
The Schlitterbahn incident was pretty shocking until you realize how many people have died at Disney world
Schlitterbahn was fucking NOTHING compared to the America Sings incident. An 18 year old girl got crushed to death between the rotating and stationary walls for like 20 minutes. They could hear her screams but couldn't stop the ride in time to save her. Imagine the audience members listening to a bunch of animatronics singing, and meanwhile there's a teenage girl dying a fucking Saw-esque death as the mechanical perfomers drown out her screams like a Five Nights at Freddy's game.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 man, theme and amusement parks are scary
@@NotAGoodUsername360 I remember watching a video about that years ago. That shit fucking terrified me- I don’t even know how I found the video since I would’ve been pretty young. Just imagining the strangled screams of someone being crushed (you could probably hear bones and shit cracking too) by the ride you’re currently on is absolutely fucking terrible.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 uh - huh... thanks for giving me fear to going back in a while
Honestly, most deaths that happen in Disney world are usually the rider's fault. There are several stories of people dying because they stand up during the ride or take off their seat belts. Its relatively safe but there is always a chance for a freak accident like the America Sings accident
I went to schlitterbahn as a kid and my only real memory of it is that on one of the rides (dont remember which, it was one of those slides that have small pools at random intervals) the employees legit were just watching me drown. it wasnt that I couldn't swim but the part that separated the pool from the next slide part would suck you to the bottom, and since I wasnt very tall I could not breathe. some random woman ended up saving me instead of the "lifeguard" type employees but thank you charlie for reminding me of this trauma
Damn
Jfc
Think about this... you were so close to being another victim, but by the power of white shirt jesus you were saved and delivered to him.
Vera how do you feel about that park closing forever
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I grew up around Schlitterbahn and actually rode Verukt myself. It was actually pretty sad when it closed down, but also extremely surreal. What happened was the attendant didnt get the weight limit correct and it caused the kid to hit his head on the top and it flew off. Crazy. Glad I wasnt there that day
i don’t think i could ever recover if my child died the way that kid did on that tall waterslide. my heart goes out to that family
You never really get over a close family member’s death let alone a death like that one.
Apparently one of the reasons why the ride flew up and killed him was because one of the other riders lied about their weight too and the scales weren’t working to check I can’t imagine how bad it must feel that your kid died because not only did the people who built the ride cut every corner and be a dumbass, but the grown adult with him didn’t want to admit they were 100lbs heavier than they actually were.
Shit like this is always the saddest, because of the location (fun family place) and the reason (pure negligence and lack of brain)
@@BruhBruh-ue2hz agreed
Yeah imagine you're down at the bottom have a great day with your kid waiting for him to come down and that's what you see. That's the shit of nightmares.
People dancing with death is always terrifying, one of my friends almost died working on a pipe just by falling and catching himself while his neck was litterally on the tip of a sharp spike they were using to mark an area of pipe line. Shits scary man and it didn’t even happen to me. He’s fine now but everyone was pretty shook up on the day.
The guy who fell into the "shark tank" was the only one to get the authentic Jaws experience.
Real shit. Apart from the real possibility of death or injury, he really got his money's worth that day. The problem with most "scary" rides is that you know there is no real threat or harm around you. Only jumpscares.
@@genericytprofile852 and a life threatening experience, how is that exciting? I don’t know how people think like this but I’m not judging.
@@reionyxxx because we all wish for death
@@reionyxxx Comedy
@@Crimson_Screwball3446 ohh yeah
why do most of these deaths just sound like something that could literally happen anywhere at any water park
Because they can
I think the craziest deaths was of that of 5 kids in River County, Disney World. The water, for some reason, had something called Naegleria Fowleri which is a lethal bacteria that goes through the nose and mouth and proceeds, slowly over the course of weeks EAT YOUR BRAIN.
5 kids had their brains dissolved into mush, until River County was closed down forever. This isn't counting the 2 kids who drowned (although they probably would've died of the brain eating bacteria anyway).
@@belgebelgravia100 Naegleria Fowleri is found in freshwater, maybe the water wasn't cleaned enough.
This is definitely an extreme example, but I worked at a pretty big water park one summer. Even with a suffocating amount safety measures we still saw maybe 1 ambulance every 2 weeks, and had 1 serious incident for the summer.
Water parks just be dangerous.
It’s mainly due to how poorly equipped Action Park was. For a good idea, nearly the entire staff was undertrained and usually under the influence. It’s a surprise of how there are only six confirmed deaths there considering how awful Action Park’s safety was
I went to Schlitterbon when I was younger and I did not know about that 😰
The time I went wasn't great, there was this inner tube ride I suddenly got a massive headache on (I don't know if I hit my head or what) and it was overall a sucky day
The clearest memory I had of that place was feeling miserable in the wave pool by myself and a lifeguard asking if I was okay
How did I find you here omg
IMAGINE BUYING A TEE-SHIRT THAT SAYS "I SURVIVED CLASS-ACTION PARK!" AND THEN LITERALLY DROWNING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@phantasmixx exposed111!!!1!
As a Texan, Schlitterbahn is the only thing keeping us going.
That and burritos 🌯
As a Texan, you are wrong
I second that.
and when yall aint wanna go anymore yall ask for a final ride?
Live 15 minutes away from it, never been
Charlie's inner Florida Man is slowly warming up to the park despite the extreme unsafe conditions
@Spatza Oh damn everywhere I go I see you. Still at it my persistent friend? This makes it four channels I've seen you on, while I guarantee your crusade has changed 0 minds I respect the hell out of your conviction.
@@zelgiusthebrave1401 Batman agrees.
I actually really enjoyed the Jaws ride back in the day. It was cheesy and slow-paced, but it was well-meaning and like Charlie said a nice break to rest your legs. Then again, one of my favorite Disney rides is the Carousel of Progress, so maybe I’m a bit biased toward slow, sappy, well-meaning rides.
Being in the water with a shark is scary, being in the water with a mechanical machine in the shape of a shark with real shark teeth is panic attack inducing, I'd shit my fucking pants
Yeah fuck that, I don't even like thinking about it. Had no idea how big of a phobia it was for me until just now.
Right? A shark doesn’t just attack people, but a mechanical shark doesn’t know anything except what it’s made to do, so it would just unbiasedly grind up any poor guy
the water is probably super cold and disgusting, I dont even want to think about falling in like the shark will just fucking grind you up and you will be stuck in all the gears, wires and whatever that control the shark
To make it clear: when you went to Action Park, you knew what you were doing. You KNEW where you were going. My father and all his friends went there all the time.
For?
@@DeletedUser-k3f for risk probably
Not really I probably know
They were pervs?
@@DeletedUser-k3f That and most likely a suicide mission
Even though the Schlitterbahn that this incident occurred at was in Kansas, people assume it happened in Texas because Schlitterbahn was founded in Texas.
The ones we have in Texas are really high quality, especially in new Braunfels (where I live and schlitterbahn started)
@@justiceofbook it’s a lot higher quality
@@justiceofbook yeah that really confused me because I've always heard Schlitterbahn was a decent waterpark
I rode the vurrukt, I wish I got decapitated
Austin has a great schlitterbahn
Nearly died at Schlitterbahn in Texas when the tube I was in in the river went over an unmarked ledge and knocked me unconscious underwater. You were intended to use a slide to reach the lower level, but it wasn't distinguishably lower at any point prior to about a second before you went over and there were no signs.
Charlie: yeah there's a small local water park where someone got decapitated
The water park: schlitterbahn
Yep.. I actually really wanted to ride the slide before that kid got decapitated. Glad I didn't
It's the most fun :)
Pretty messed up because the kid did everything right. The ride just wasn't safe
@SIL3NT_CR33PA_69 good to know I wasn't missing out on anything
It was really boring
Imagine how many near death experiences people experienced at Action Park. Especially since 90% of the workers were undertrained, drunk teenagers lol
B O O P
B O O P
My dad still has scars from the concrete slide at Action Park.
@@micahkuiken6844 never saw the concrete slide open when I went there
What happened to Angelina tho?
Ah shiz nit action park, this place was nuts
Here before this gets popular
Vertified UA-camr with only one like? What is this madness.
@@ohyeayeainyourmouth6044 oh shut up
yeah
@@ohyeayeainyourmouth6044 you linked a video to maximillian what else do you expect me to say
Have any of you braved the wave pool at Water World in Denver, Colorado? I always went there during the summer as a child, and looking back on it after seeing all this, I'm thankful that I'm still here. I remember the waves would carry swarms of adults in the inflatable tubes, and they would roll over you or come crashing down when the waves broke. The possibility of getting trapped beneath the masses in the swirling chaos, or being incapacitated and sinking to the bottom where they wouldn't notice you until it's too late.
Saw many people get resuscitated at waterworld when I was young
As a person who has personally been on the schliterban slide, the news that a kid died was crazy, they had weight requirements and didn’t follow them when the incident happened
It was the one in Kansas, not Texas :/
@J Reese that’s a slide at that waterpark slow brain
@J Reese ua-cam.com/video/8xEAD7p3Qac/v-deo.html
@J Reese your call of duty reference is waisted here child.
@J Reese "help me my brain small"
Only Charlie can react to a 17 minute video and a 13 minute video and make it 15 minutes
Actually he finished it in 10 minutes!
9 actually
@@GE-qe7vk 7 actually
The opposite of Hasan
including pausing the video
Casually “is this the one where the kid got decapitated?”
@Spatza If you don't believe then you're saying Charlie is fake? If so why the fuck are you watching this video if he isn't real??
It is batman
@@Thetoxicpeaceful1 This guy is definitely a bot
@Gice Rum The bible disagrees
I would like it but it's at 420
Last time I went to Disney and Universal was 1999.....went a couple times before that as well. Even as a kid less than 10 years old I remember the Jaws ride being precisely as Charlie explained. A nice boat ride with a bit of water spray from the shark to help cool you off.