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.
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?
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
my dad apparently went here a lot when he was a kid. he was so excited to take me there recently and was absolutely disappointed with how they completely lobotomized the park. he even complained about it, which is the first time I've ever seen him do that. he mentioned it used to be called action park and I was like: "hm... now where do I remember hearing that name from..." after that, I remembered hearing videos of it online and I told him about its bad history and he was like "oh ya I know about that. When me and my friends went here as kids we always came home with big bruises all over our body. but it was just SO much fucking fun!" apparently he didn't know about all of the lawsuits and other more extreme legal matters the park got into though
To be fair though the local ski resort sends more people daily to our er. And ski deaths happen not hard to hit a tree and die or break your neck. I think if they had a waiver they should have been fine but I don't make the laws
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.
"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.
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
"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
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 💀
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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!! ❤️
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'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.
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 went by Kansas City’s Schlitterbahn to go to a NASCAR race and it was right after it happened. I couldn’t help but feel that it looked sketchy even with the protective wiring/rope.
to be fair i went on it hundreds of times before this incident happened, i mean, the slide was one of the most popular slides for like 3 years before it happened so it was more just an unlucky day. i can’t describe how much i miss that water park bro
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
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
My little cousin's knee was dislocated at the local wave pool and moved straight to the side of his knee and as he got up and out of the pool it just moved back into place def the most gross shit I've seen when it comes to breaks or dislocations Aunt wasn't even gone 5 minutes at the store and she already had to run through the store and rush over here luckily it didn't require surgery bc it literally moved back into place somehow without doing anything
The first guy that died wasn't an employee Gene the owner gave a small compensation to the family ($15000) and lied about it being an employee going after hours in the rain when it was actually a patron on a normal day. Action park lore goes so much deeper. Behind the bastards does a great podcast on it.
"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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
@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
Charlie: how the fuck does a park where a kid gets decapitated stay open? Charlie 3 minutes later: that park is pretty fucking awesome idc how dangerous it is open it back up
Iirc a lot of the problem was operator negligence and not just flawed ride design. You had to have a perfect balance of weight and height of your riders on all parts of the craft as it went down the slide. The employee sent the kid down in the wrong position. Granted, it's a pretty bad ride design if you have to do math for every rider that gets on, instead of having actual guaranteed safety. But apparently people would experience turbulence and "fly up" pretty frequently on this particular attraction, that's the whole reason they had a 'net' on the top of the tube to stop riders from hitting the top. The kid caught his head/neck on the net and it decapitated him. I recently saw the aerial news footage that was taken of the ride after it happened. The whole slide of water was just red. You're used to seeing this stuff in horror movies or games or other shock media, but when you realize it's actual human viscera that you're looking at, it kinda puts a pit in your stomach. I live in the city where a tension line on a lift-type ride snapped and cut the legs off of a young girl. She went to the middle school I went to, and had the teacher I had, right before I did. He told us some stories about her, apparently she was pretty chill with it all. The right used to be named Hellavator, it was reopened under the name Super-man's Power of Tower or something similar. Sometimes rides just malfunction.
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 have to say. hearing about the decapitated kid thing, thinking, "lol that sounds like the story from schlitterbahn in my hometown", and then hearing charlie say "oh! schlitterbahn, that's it!" was. quite the experience! edit: to be clear it didn't actually happen in the schlitterbahn from my hometown, although i heard tons of school stories about how it "totally happened in our schlitterbahn on the boogie board!!!!"
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.
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.
Charlie, as someone who used to go to Wild Waters in Silver Springs every other summer, I had a blast at the local water parks. But to each their own I suppose.
The best theme park in Florida is Tampa Bush Garden and you'll never change my mind. The highest and fastest rides and a real safari with wild animals are really worth it. Disneyland always was a goofy place of entertainment for kids and bored parents and Universal is a 5D queue simulator(the rides are quite neat tho).
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.
Jaws one of my favorite rides. I still remember the last time I got to ride it, not fully realizing it was getting removed to get the Diagon Alley stuff there. If I had fully known, I'd have pushed to ride it a few more times. The last time we rode was in 2012 and had brought the grandparents with us. Gramps was fully on board cause he loves rides and such but Gram was being weird, she refused to do any rides or shows, no matter how mild, including It's a Small World. Thing was she enjoys rides too, just not the thrill ones. This caused a brewing argument since we'd paid to have her there all the Disney and Universal parks and such but she wasn't doing anything except sitting by the strollers. The rest of us were annoyed (not me) she had taken the trip to do nothing but sit and sweat. I defused what was about to be a shouting match by convincing her to do one ride and she could sit all the rest out, no complaints from either side. She agreed. Yes, it was Jaws. She hates Jaws. I somehow talked her into it. Funniest part was she enjoyed the ride and no more arguments....... about her not doing anything xD. But I was sad to see it go along with Back to the Future, both I had rode since I was 4. Still amazed ET is there and it's dull as dishwater but the two better rides went to Defunctland. I do got bad news as MIB in Orlando has taken a dive, they basically have multiple broken guns per ride now so you just sit there and do nothing if you're unlucky.
As a Texan who grew up going to schlitterbahn, this is the first time hearing about this. I used to go all the time from 2007 - 2010. This is pretty sad.
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
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
This is literally the sickest park I've ever seen and I live within 2 hours of 3 major amusement parks. I'd go there and use my own judgement if a ride was safe or not. About Schlitterbahn though. That's so crazy. I feel so bad for his family. We've had a few deaths at the parks around my area, but it had to do with people climbing out of their seats on the massive Ferris wheel, etc. I was once stuck on a rollercoaster that couldn't stop due to rain. It was called the Hercules. It was such an old wooden rollercoaster and painful. People legit broke their backs from being tossed around so much. So, it was pretty terrifying when the brakes tried to kick in, but didn't. It was the loudest slam you can imagine and we had to go around a few times until they got it stopped close to the loading area and we were able to get out and walk down the side. I'd honestly rather that then have it be stuck at the very top though.
I almost drowned at a sea world when I was like 8. I ducked underwater and got trapped beneath a layer of these huge foam alligators. I somehow came up with the idea to stop myself from moving and waited for them to pass and surfaced again. No one even noticed and just looked at me like an annoyance when I burst out coughing and crying
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.
i almost died at a local water park, splash kingdom. the water at the top of the slide went too fast, so it had me going fast enough that i almost got flung over the edge, which would have been a 70ft drop onto concrete. i haven't ridden a waterslide since
@@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.
The Jaws ride looks better than any other disaster ride I've been on. The worst one was Twister the Ride. Earthquake was also terrible. You're in a fake subway when an earthquake happens and things fall around you, water gushes down from burst pipes, and the subway car shakes. I'm from NY and the actual subway is a rougher ride.
I remember the Jaws ride and that is the ride that was and is responsible for my fear of being in a boat by any sort of underwater gas pipes or machinery. I remember at Lake Lanier in Georgia my dad would start taking the boat close to one of the dams were there were warning buoys and I start freaking out thinking we hit some underwater pipe or something. He wouldn't do it purposely it was actually a strangely good place to fish at the time but still to this day anything pertaining to underwater pipes and machinery freaks me out.
I almost got dragged into the decapitation ride when I was younger because the entrance was right next to the wave pool in the water. When I learned why the park was closed down I physically froze. Also just in case anyone was wondering it was the schlitterban in Kansas that got shut down (saying this because Penguinz0 seemed confused).
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.
I had a blast at Action Park, I was helping a college friend get his car when we stopped there on the way back. The Tarzan swing pool was chilling in that morning.
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
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 went to Universal studios in Orlando on a band trip once! Pretty damn cool! The jurassic park raft ride was so cool! You travel on a raft, go up a incline, and at the end a trex is there amd it looks as if hes about to eat you, but then you go down really fast on a big steep hill you didnt realize was coming up! Super cool! They also had those spitter raptors! The harry potter area is amazing and there was so much cool stuff! 😁👍🏻 ive also been to six flags and dollywood, all through band trips!
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.
Schlitterbahn I’d still extremely popular in Texas. They have a couple of locations in Galveston and New Braunfels, both of which I used to go to all the time as a kid. I can tell you that the amount of injuries and deaths at their locations had no effect on how well business went.
Near my home in Australia we have an insanely cool water park with some pretty feral rides, but even on first glance you can tell they are so well engineered and secured. We would go on school trips and you had to do swimming proficiency tests to get a wristband to go on some of the rides. All of the lifeguards were well trained and everything supervised. It's sad that in other parts of the world having adrenaline pumping fun at a water park can jeopardise your life. You shouldn't have to pay to have life threatening fun, seeing this stuff makes me feel privileged to live where I do. Water safety is taken so seriously in Australia (probably because we are surrounded by it), stay safe folks.
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
*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 🤣
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
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.
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
"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
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 apparently went here a lot when he was a kid. he was so excited to take me there recently and was absolutely disappointed with how they completely lobotomized the park. he even complained about it, which is the first time I've ever seen him do that.
he mentioned it used to be called action park and I was like: "hm... now where do I remember hearing that name from..."
after that, I remembered hearing videos of it online and I told him about its bad history and he was like "oh ya I know about that. When me and my friends went here as kids we always came home with big bruises all over our body. but it was just SO much fucking fun!"
apparently he didn't know about all of the lawsuits and other more extreme legal matters the park got into though
Your dad sounds chadlike
i like your dad
Let's be honest pre-suit action park sounds REALLY fun
To be fair though the local ski resort sends more people daily to our er. And ski deaths happen not hard to hit a tree and die or break your neck. I think if they had a waiver they should have been fine but I don't make the laws
my dad does the exact same thing he said he’d always be bruised and stuff going home 😭
"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.
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
"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.
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
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
"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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
"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
“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
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
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?
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.
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 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
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.
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
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
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 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
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
"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.
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
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: "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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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!! ❤️
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.
“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.
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
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 went by Kansas City’s Schlitterbahn to go to a NASCAR race and it was right after it happened. I couldn’t help but feel that it looked sketchy even with the protective wiring/rope.
to be fair i went on it hundreds of times before this incident happened, i mean, the slide was one of the most popular slides for like 3 years before it happened so it was more just an unlucky day. i can’t describe how much i miss that water park bro
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
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
My little cousin's knee was dislocated at the local wave pool and moved straight to the side of his knee and as he got up and out of the pool it just moved back into place def the most gross shit I've seen when it comes to breaks or dislocations
Aunt wasn't even gone 5 minutes at the store and she already had to run through the store and rush over here luckily it didn't require surgery bc it literally moved back into place somehow without doing anything
My uncle has "fixed" dislocated shoulders and shit. My mom says it was painful.
The first guy that died wasn't an employee Gene the owner gave a small compensation to the family ($15000) and lied about it being an employee going after hours in the rain when it was actually a patron on a normal day. Action park lore goes so much deeper. Behind the bastards does a great podcast on it.
"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?
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
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.
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....
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
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 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.
"I wouldn't go, but it's existence makes me happy"
-owner of action park
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 love your neighbor as you love yourself. As I won’t respond in a vulgar way I would just like to be notified of this, who tf asked?
Charlie: how the fuck does a park where a kid gets decapitated stay open?
Charlie 3 minutes later: that park is pretty fucking awesome idc how dangerous it is open it back up
different park jeez
Those are different parks you're talking about
Different theme parks
Different parks ma dude, the park where the kid gets decapitated is from Schlitterbahn, the other one is Action Park.
Iirc a lot of the problem was operator negligence and not just flawed ride design. You had to have a perfect balance of weight and height of your riders on all parts of the craft as it went down the slide. The employee sent the kid down in the wrong position. Granted, it's a pretty bad ride design if you have to do math for every rider that gets on, instead of having actual guaranteed safety. But apparently people would experience turbulence and "fly up" pretty frequently on this particular attraction, that's the whole reason they had a 'net' on the top of the tube to stop riders from hitting the top. The kid caught his head/neck on the net and it decapitated him.
I recently saw the aerial news footage that was taken of the ride after it happened. The whole slide of water was just red. You're used to seeing this stuff in horror movies or games or other shock media, but when you realize it's actual human viscera that you're looking at, it kinda puts a pit in your stomach. I live in the city where a tension line on a lift-type ride snapped and cut the legs off of a young girl. She went to the middle school I went to, and had the teacher I had, right before I did. He told us some stories about her, apparently she was pretty chill with it all. The right used to be named Hellavator, it was reopened under the name Super-man's Power of Tower or something similar. Sometimes rides just malfunction.
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 have to say. hearing about the decapitated kid thing, thinking, "lol that sounds like the story from schlitterbahn in my hometown", and then hearing charlie say "oh! schlitterbahn, that's it!" was. quite the experience!
edit: to be clear it didn't actually happen in the schlitterbahn from my hometown, although i heard tons of school stories about how it "totally happened in our schlitterbahn on the boogie board!!!!"
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.
@@jacksonmailen1147 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
@@jacksonmailen1147 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
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.
Charlie, as someone who used to go to Wild Waters in Silver Springs every other summer, I had a blast at the local water parks. But to each their own I suppose.
The best theme park in Florida is Tampa Bush Garden and you'll never change my mind. The highest and fastest rides and a real safari with wild animals are really worth it. Disneyland always was a goofy place of entertainment for kids and bored parents and Universal is a 5D queue simulator(the rides are quite neat tho).
"Schwab died before reaching the bottom."
Yeah, that'll happen when you get decapitated.
the one child died quickly. for the others, their death was metaphorical, slow, n agonizing.
so...
how r the rides tho
Wow, these bots really suck. Not a great combo of emojis there
@@kydatyvegrybatokeanvisoko2420 is that a coffin?
@@pegres5339 yup
i hate that i laughed at this
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
Jaws one of my favorite rides. I still remember the last time I got to ride it, not fully realizing it was getting removed to get the Diagon Alley stuff there. If I had fully known, I'd have pushed to ride it a few more times. The last time we rode was in 2012 and had brought the grandparents with us. Gramps was fully on board cause he loves rides and such but Gram was being weird, she refused to do any rides or shows, no matter how mild, including It's a Small World. Thing was she enjoys rides too, just not the thrill ones. This caused a brewing argument since we'd paid to have her there all the Disney and Universal parks and such but she wasn't doing anything except sitting by the strollers. The rest of us were annoyed (not me) she had taken the trip to do nothing but sit and sweat. I defused what was about to be a shouting match by convincing her to do one ride and she could sit all the rest out, no complaints from either side. She agreed. Yes, it was Jaws. She hates Jaws. I somehow talked her into it. Funniest part was she enjoyed the ride and no more arguments....... about her not doing anything xD. But I was sad to see it go along with Back to the Future, both I had rode since I was 4. Still amazed ET is there and it's dull as dishwater but the two better rides went to Defunctland. I do got bad news as MIB in Orlando has taken a dive, they basically have multiple broken guns per ride now so you just sit there and do nothing if you're unlucky.
As a Texan who grew up going to schlitterbahn, this is the first time hearing about this.
I used to go all the time from 2007 - 2010.
This is pretty sad.
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
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
This is literally the sickest park I've ever seen and I live within 2 hours of 3 major amusement parks. I'd go there and use my own judgement if a ride was safe or not. About Schlitterbahn though. That's so crazy. I feel so bad for his family. We've had a few deaths at the parks around my area, but it had to do with people climbing out of their seats on the massive Ferris wheel, etc. I was once stuck on a rollercoaster that couldn't stop due to rain. It was called the Hercules. It was such an old wooden rollercoaster and painful. People legit broke their backs from being tossed around so much. So, it was pretty terrifying when the brakes tried to kick in, but didn't. It was the loudest slam you can imagine and we had to go around a few times until they got it stopped close to the loading area and we were able to get out and walk down the side. I'd honestly rather that then have it be stuck at the very top though.
I almost drowned at a sea world when I was like 8. I ducked underwater and got trapped beneath a layer of these huge foam alligators. I somehow came up with the idea to stop myself from moving and waited for them to pass and surfaced again. No one even noticed and just looked at me like an annoyance when I burst out coughing and crying
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
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 JAWS RIDE WAS A MASTERPIECE AND NEEDS TO COME BACK
i almost died at a local water park, splash kingdom. the water at the top of the slide went too fast, so it had me going fast enough that i almost got flung over the edge, which would have been a 70ft drop onto concrete. i haven't ridden a waterslide since
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 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
what's up checkmark
Thought you were gonna see you can see the skeleton and parts of the victims
The Jaws ride looks better than any other disaster ride I've been on. The worst one was Twister the Ride. Earthquake was also terrible. You're in a fake subway when an earthquake happens and things fall around you, water gushes down from burst pipes, and the subway car shakes. I'm from NY and the actual subway is a rougher ride.
I remember the Jaws ride and that is the ride that was and is responsible for my fear of being in a boat by any sort of underwater gas pipes or machinery. I remember at Lake Lanier in Georgia my dad would start taking the boat close to one of the dams were there were warning buoys and I start freaking out thinking we hit some underwater pipe or something. He wouldn't do it purposely it was actually a strangely good place to fish at the time but still to this day anything pertaining to underwater pipes and machinery freaks me out.
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
"How can a kid get decapitated and the park stay open?" Dude don't underestimate the power of capitalism in Texas.
Jreg ancapistan irl 😳😳
The park was in Kansas, that's where it had happened. I went the week before it happened.
The kid that had died on that slide was in one of my cousins baseball team.
It wasn't in Texas though
@@bruhmomentiii8474 never said it was, it happened in my home state.
Was wondering if/when you’d cover this topic! It’s perfect for you
I almost got dragged into the decapitation ride when I was younger because the entrance was right next to the wave pool in the water. When I learned why the park was closed down I physically froze. Also just in case anyone was wondering it was the schlitterban in Kansas that got shut down (saying this because Penguinz0 seemed confused).
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
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
I had a blast at Action Park, I was helping a college friend get his car when we stopped there on the way back. The Tarzan swing pool was chilling in that morning.
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
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.
It’s a strange but pleasant surprise seeing Charlie watch one of my favorite channels out of nowhere
I went to Universal studios in Orlando on a band trip once! Pretty damn cool! The jurassic park raft ride was so cool! You travel on a raft, go up a incline, and at the end a trex is there amd it looks as if hes about to eat you, but then you go down really fast on a big steep hill you didnt realize was coming up! Super cool! They also had those spitter raptors! The harry potter area is amazing and there was so much cool stuff! 😁👍🏻 ive also been to six flags and dollywood, all through band trips!
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
@@Xenotypal 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 😒
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
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@@ohyeayeainyourmouth6044 you linked a video to maximillian what else do you expect me to say
Schlitterbahn I’d still extremely popular in Texas. They have a couple of locations in Galveston and New Braunfels, both of which I used to go to all the time as a kid. I can tell you that the amount of injuries and deaths at their locations had no effect on how well business went.
Near my home in Australia we have an insanely cool water park with some pretty feral rides, but even on first glance you can tell they are so well engineered and secured. We would go on school trips and you had to do swimming proficiency tests to get a wristband to go on some of the rides. All of the lifeguards were well trained and everything supervised. It's sad that in other parts of the world having adrenaline pumping fun at a water park can jeopardise your life. You shouldn't have to pay to have life threatening fun, seeing this stuff makes me feel privileged to live where I do. Water safety is taken so seriously in Australia (probably because we are surrounded by it), stay safe folks.
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