Poorly Designed Water Slide Decapitates Rider | Last Moments
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"Verrückt (German meaning "crazy" or "insane", listen) was a water slide located at the Schlitterbahn Kansas City water park in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. At a height of 168 feet 7 inches (51.38 m), Verrückt became the world's tallest water slide when it opened on July 10, 2014, and surpassing Kilimanjaro at Aldeia das Águas Park Resort in Brazil. The ride was designed at the park, led by John Schooley with assistance from park co-owner Jeff Henry. It was featured on an episode of Xtreme Waterparks on the Travel Channel in June 2014 shortly before the ride opened. Verrückt permanently closed in 2016 following a fatal incident involving the decapitation of a ten-year-old boy.
Verrückt was originally scheduled to open in June 2013, but difficulties during various stages of construction and testing resulted in several delays. Sandbags loaded into rafts during testing went airborne. The ride's final design made rafts reach a maximum speed of 70 mph (110 km/h). Verrückt was well-received upon opening, winning a Golden Ticket Award from Amusement Today in 2014.
After Caleb Schwab, the 10 year old son of Kansas state legislator Scott Schwab, died on the ride in 2016, amusement park safety laws were updated to require state inspection of all attractions. It was later revealed that at least thirteen other people had suffered non-fatal injuries from hitting the netting above the slide. Criminal charges led to the arrests of several individuals, including Schooley and Henry. The charges were ultimately dismissed with the finding of multiple procedural issues with the case's presentation by the Kansas Attorney General. The incident's aftermath, however, resulted in a rapid decline of Schlitterbahn's reputation and financial standing, leading to the closure of its Kansas City waterpark in September 2018. Verrückt was dismantled two months later."
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@Qxir do you realize you are creating anti-clickbait thumbnails a lot of the times?
Thumbnails so shocking it makes my feet tingle, and delay the onset of watching it.
But it's always a masterpiece when I do finally get over myself and watch it.
"Schlitterbahn" ... very German. We all should be alarmed! ("schlittern" ~= slide, "(Rutsch-)Bahn" in this context = slide, so slide-slide, very suspect!!!)
Thanks for the journalistic work and the video, Qxir:) ... and greetings from Germany ... **g**
The lead designer's baseball-cap at 2:30 has the writing "Verrückt" on it. That means: Insane!!! How creepy.
The most amazing thing about this is that it happened in 2016. This sounds like a story from the 70s when safety was along the lines of "well nobody's died so far so it must be safe".
Sounds like a ride that would have existed at the notorious Action Park in NJ.
Omg I started this assuming it was a story from the 70s
@@douglasw.7864 I legit thought it was related to Action Park too when I clicked on this video, that park's reputation truly proceeds it.
shit don't change much
*action park actually being SAFER*
well, maybe not….
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Insane story, great find. It’s incredibly gruesome, i can’t believe some of these photos are public! Also hard to believe it happened relatively recently. The fact that two men who weren’t even engineers were allowed to build and operate this contraption is lunacy.
I believe the red marks on some of the pictures are rust, not blood. Hard to say, But as you pointed out, i doubt pictures of a bloodied slide would be public.
@osmium7738 I know this comment is old but while the top of the slide might have been due to water rust, there is footage and pics, (even in this video) where it shows the bottom of the slide. The water is red and there was a tarp over the child's body.
I live near here, & all folks HAD to see this slide everyday from the highway. They left the slide up, intact, for easily over a year after this child’s accident.
Everyone thought it was super disrespectful to the family. There was even what looked like blood on it almost the entire time… again visible from the highway. Some said it was rust, but it was HAUNTING either way.😢🕊️🕊️
8:54 "Sadly, it took the death of a 10 year old boy to force them to act"
I have a saying my friend that rings true here; The stop sign at the busy school intersection is always put up, *after* the kid gets hit.
I also have a similar saying, though about safety procedures in operation of aviation and military equipment
-especially follow the safety procedures that seem unreasonable, for they are likely written in blood
@@alperakyuz9702
Either that or they were just written by bureаucrats with too much time on their hands.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
so basically, rules and regulations are written by blood
@@sagnost that’s fucked up..
FAKE PROPAGANDA 10 YEAR OLD NEVER EXISTED
I feel so bad for the other passengers on the ride, as well as the older brother. Couldn't imagine the horror they witnessed
They prob didn't see much as their jaws were dislocated, none the less terrifying but they probably blacked out and or it just happened so fast I don't think they would have seen worst, the spectators are my guess would be more terrified. Gruesome all the way around, just a comment as to what you said.
@@anthonynye1747 I mean, still. Even if they were conscious, it probably was pretty horrifying. I'd assume they were conscious at least prior to both of them becoming injured
@@anthonynye1747 Nah they were probably fully conscious when it all happened and experienced all of it pain and all you would have to ask them personally if they blacked out or not because you don’t have proof that they didn’t experience the whole thing conscious or unconscious really.
@@anthonynye1747 getting your jaw dislocated alone wouldn’t just cause you to black out lol. It wasn’t a car accident they didn’t experience blunt force trama to the head and suffer any sort of concussion besides the jaw. Couldn’t really prove they were unconscious or not.
@@dinodino732 didn't say I had proof bud? You're coming off as a know it all, said I commented not saying I know the facts you know so well apparently
It’s crazy to me that something like this could happen in 2016. Absolutely wild
Kansas sacrifices alot of people
@@sergiomartinjrguevara I'm listening.
Just like Owen Hart the WEE /WWF wrestler
America is not a functioning society, please understand
Give how bad 2016 was, it wasn't that surprising.
The morning before going on a summer vacation around 2014, I remember watching the Travel Channel Extreme special and saw them talk about what a massive feat this waterslide was. But the scene that stuck with me was the rafts lifting off during the test run and the decimated sand bag dummies. I was skeptical. It just annoyed me that they didn’t seem to find a systematic way to solve the whole weight distribution problem, and I, pretty underweight at the time, thought I would be scared to be too light on a ride that would literally kill you if you were. When this death came up in the news years later, I had already guessed at what happened.
Even as an amateur I can see that the safety net is extremely dangerous, it's insane the that it was allowed
Yes, its obvious that some sort of mechanism to prevent the rafts from leaving the slide was required, not a bloody net held up with stiff wire loops. That people are just allowed to build crap like that in the 21st century in a first world country is disgusting too.
@@cbcdesign001 Yeah!! Those metal supports!! Seriously?? No-one building or involved with the design saw a problem with that?? FFS!!
@@mikthe2004 even just the impact of hitting the netting at speed could easily cause spinal injuries... "Let's add some thin steel rods, it's not really deadly yet". 🤔
@@eternity8811 But don't you know safety nets are supposed to be rock hard? How else are they meant to stop you? /s
@@the_Overture shit. For a moment I thought you were serious.
Social isolation really warped my perception of the opinions of others.
I actually heard that the little boy's older brother was waiting at the bottom and saw the whole thing. To me, that's the worst part.
What's strange to think about is that 100 years ago this was just things that happened. People regularly "engineered" and built some DIY fun device that was okay enough 99% of the time but every now and then severely maimed or killed someone. Its encouraging to know how far we have come and a bit frightening to see this window into humanity's past.
I live not far from where the park was. I remember hearing about the poor boy's death and getting chills every time I passed by the park on the highway (you can see the slide from the highway). I remember it taking at least a year for it to be demolished too. All around it was an avoidable tragedy. May he rest in peace.
Yeah, my commute at the time took me right past it every day. It was hard to look at that thing.
I miss this park honestly. I loved their lazy river and never had a problem on any of the slides. This news was huge in this area. (I live in a suburb of KC Mo.) But I never really knew the backstory to all this which is just insane to think they could just let two unqualified people build that thing. Scary!
Right? I was baffled when i realized this story took place in present day.
These are just the kinda things you think we moved past as a nation like, 80 years ago.
They didn't "let" unqualified people build this thing lmao that's a slight deflection of responsibility, they WERE the unqualified people who built this thing.
It doesn't matter who built it. "Unqualified" people can build great things.
Anyone could have seen what a stpid design it was, I don't know why anyone would even have entered that thing honestly. Or why nobody ever checked that thing before opening, especially when knowing it was built by dilletants.
Their lazy river was my favorite. I still miss it, but looking back i realize how many design flaws it had. It was poorly staffed and many times i got awful scrapes and hit my head on the rocks. The huge conveyor belt was crazy.
I went to Schlitterbahn when I was younger and actually went down this slide. But the park wasn't all that great in the first place.
Seeing the ride creators laughing hysterically on the travel channel 7:35 when the raft launched made my blood boil.
I was here with family not far after this event. My family was talking about it and the whole area was blocked off and the area looked barren. Dead grass, construction machines, and other similar thing youd expect at a construction site. It was terrifying knowing someone not that much older than me (back then) was killed so gruesomely there.
seeing the pictures of the bloody slide sends chills down my spine
It does to me to, I wonder if that black speck on the slide at 5:45 is the head.
@@Focus_Fearless no, since it was an internal decapitation, his neck bones pulled apart but his head didn't come off his neck, the skin didn't break.
@@ok0_0 there wouldn't be that much blood if it was internal
The injuries the women behind the boy suffered were from being hit with his severed head.
@@ok0_0if it was internal then how was there that much blood
I'm surprised you didn't mention that the kids father, Rep. Scott Schwab, fought hard against state oversight of the waterpark. He's a big part of the reason the park was so dangerous. He's the face of The Leopards Ate My Face Party.
Well even though he helped cause it he lost his son so it wouldn't be appropriate to put the blame on him
@@matthewblairrains6032 Im lost trying to wrap my head around it being inappropriate. He didn't get beind his constituents safety until it affected him, personally. His loss does nothing to clear him of responsibility, and the part he played is still part of the story.
@@gameboy008 yea
@@gameboy008 I'm inclined to agree, another commenter on this video also noted that he helped pass a law that put a cap on how much could be won for pain & suffering. He filed in texas specifically so it didn't apply to him. His son didn't deserve this, and no one deserves to lose a child, but it's sickening. This could have been someone else's child and I'm sure he wouldn't have been too bothered in that case.
The Leopards Ate My Face Party? Is this a reference and i am out of the loop or something?
"You dont dare trying out the slide? You're just a chicken!"
The slide:
The guys who made this ride clearly didn't play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
I remember watching a video about this ride in 2015
Author of video explained why this thing was unsafe and said that it will kill someone sooner or later
And, surprise, he turned out to be right
The waterslide had a built-in vampire defence system? fancy.
Ah it's just basic netting though, they'd get through that in seconds. Maybe some chain link....laced with garlic
Trial and error testing is what you do on Rollercoaster Tycoon. Amazing it was allowed to be done on a real theme park ride. And it was broadcast for everyone to see on that TV show and no one stopped them.
I remember being driven from the Kansas City airport with my dad when I went to visit him and every time we passed this water park, me and him would get so excited to go. We never could because we were broke and I wasn’t there for long enough, but we finally decided to go and at one time. Right when we were about to this, this accident occurred. It was the same day we had booked tickets for ;;;;
Oh my God I remember my parents talking about this back when it happened and it scared me so much
These two men legitimately were criminally guilty if it had not been for legal mess ups from the prosecution.
Can you imagine? You're 10 years old and you think you're just going on a big water slide with your dad, not knowing they are your final moments in this life. Crazy to think about.
Reminds me of my youth going to Action Park every other weekend in the summer. It was genuinely a blast, until someone got hurt.
Hurt or dead and it happened a lot, you lucked out
Never thought I would know someone affected from one of these stories. Forgot about this until I saw the video but I remember the whole situation was very sad. It was made even more tragic because most if not all of the family was there at the park. I’ve seen some comments trying to play off how horrible this was because it didn’t kill a member of a marginalized group and I have to wonder just how miserable your lives must be. It was a totally preventable accident that ended the life of a child, how much more horrific can you get? If you only see race or politics or economic status in this video I feel very confident in saying no one likes you.
The only reason you even know about this story is that a politicians son was killed. Every large amusement park suffers fatalities, at least 17 at Disney parks, at least 6 at Action Park in NJ, etc. etc. etc.
Your either very young, quite stupid, or both. I feel confident in saying that. ;))
Absolutely Right ❗🤨
@@tjwesterson6104 That’s what SHE SAYS people say….but I’d ask her to show us these supposed comments…..but I don’t think they exist and she’s the one pushing race and politics where it doesn’t belong.
Fake News. You are THE FIRST the bring your racism and hate into this topic.
@@heetseeker8017 Uuuuhhh...are you new to human interaction on the internet? Especially these days?
I used to live in New Braunfels (home of Shlitterbhan) few years before the accident I was dating a girl that lived near a Shlitterbahn scrap yard. I’d walk the railroad tracks to her house and pass by the place. The tracks where elevated and I could see over the fence into the yards itself. I remember looking in there and seeing what seemed like enlarged wooden models of a tall water slide. When the accident happened, images of the slide where all over the news and it looked exactly like that those models I seen in that scrap yard.
I guess those where there initial designs for the water slide and scrapped them when they didn’t need them anymore.
When I was a teenager I went on holiday to Egypt, in a hotel that was half hotel half waterpark.
One of the rides was a half-pipe where you would get in a rubber donut and get launched off from one side. It was about 20-25m high with the launch part being higher.
Almost everyone on it shot up above the half-pipe part by about 1/2 of the rubber donut and there was no guard rail or safety net, it seemed pretty sketchy.
Went to check the ride out about half way through the holiday, I'd been up since 6am the two days prior getting my open water SCUBA certification.
Saw that the ride was closed and entirely cordoned off. Along with a few of the other more 'extreme' rides. Staff wouldn't allow anyone near it.
Either someone raised concerns about the safety or someone shot out of the half-pipe and took a 20m+ fall onto the concrete below.
I don't think there was anything in the news here, but there were people from all over in the Hotel, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, the US, so if someone did get injured/killed. I remember one of the staff asked me where I was from and when I said "Ireland" the response was "Ohh Ireland, you like IRA? yeah?!"
Quite the ride to nowhere that story
@@australien6611 Your sister liked it.
@@daviddavidson2357 😂 the ride to nowhere?
I made rides like that on roller-coaster tycoon..never thought someone would do it for real.
Jeff Schooley: A kid died OK….but where is MY GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!?
I had a friend lose a finger on a roller-coaster as a kid. I'm always sketched out by rides, but especially by the janky local and traveling rides.
There seems to be two kinds of tragic accidents, ones where the swiss cheese holes line up, as it were, with exceptional circumstances causing an unthinkable tragedy, and ones where exceptional circumstances somehow delayed the tragedy.
"What if the raft takes off?"
"Well, we'll have this net over the track."
"Right, right... And the heads of the riders are the highest point on the raft?"
"Yep."
"So if it does become airborne, the raft will use their heads to stop?"
"Yep."
"Cool. Let's get to building."
I remember when this happened. Knew a few ppl who knew the victim and some ppl who were at park the day it happened. Was really crazy this was the pride of Kansas city but now is a dark spot we'd rather forget.
I'll make one addition, but I have more. I live in Kansas City, Kansas, USA, and I followed the story as well as the biased local news would allow. If you will notice, the kid was a son of a state representative. The other injured party was also connected politically. It turns out, the day on which the accident occurred was Public Servent Appreciation Day. IOW, political officeholders and families received free access to the park on that day. It was a low-key bribe, really.
Would you stop bringing politics into this! This kid is dead doesnt matter if the dad’s a politician or not at the end of the day HE IS STILL A FATHER!
I’ve been to this particular schlitterbahn back when I was a kid and always avoided the infamous water slide as I was scared of heights but I do recall my older sisters going on it a few times during its lifespan and seeing the whole event that happened we only went there one time after the whole thing went down and they had most of the park shut down with only a few things you could even enter a bit before it closed permanently.
The fact u went back there jeez i wouldnt Touch any Slide of that company
I remember hearing about this in High school, made me think about other water parks that might also cut corners and safety regulations
So I was just talking to my mother about this and learned that a teacher in my town of 400 people was the woman directly behind him. I have no idea why I hadn’t heard that before.
bro built this ride like he was playing Roller Coaster Tycoon
The grandiosity of needing to build this slide and seeing them laugh of the raft flying airborne on that in construction video.... Makes me really worry about their empathy.
They remind me of that sociopath Trevor Jacob who deliberately crashed a plain for views and just had a big smile on his face afterwards knowing full well that his stunt could easily have killed people. Not to mention animals.
I just seen this and I half to say God be with and comfort Caleb family's and friend's though such a heartbreaking experience. Amen...
Despite all the design flaws, it seems that the main issue was them sitting the child in the front and 2 very heavy guests in the back. I worked at a water park where the lighter person was always in the middle of a 3 person ride for weight distribution. Was it operator error for sitting them in the wrong position or was the correct procedure to sit the lightest at the front?
You hit the nail on the head there. To use an aviation metaphor, unfortunately there just weren’t that many layers of Swiss cheese to keep it safe. Put another way, there clearly was bugger all safety margin there and all it took was a miss-load and that was it.
The thing I don’t get is as soon as I saw the netting with hoops, I thought wtf is the game plan there, it’s going to fuck you up if you hit that. And I’m a nobody, how the hell do they not see that too?
*13 other people suffer hospitalizations *Never examined by any vetted safety organization *Literally resolved the issue of the raft flying off the track by putting a line of metal guillotines over it *Actively covered up accident reports *Built by a bunch of people with absolutely zero engineering education or experience *Not even a publicly suggested age or weight limit despite knowledge of frequent derailments with perfectly equal weight distribution
"Yeah nah you see the main problem was the order the guys on the raft sat in, trust me I worked at a water park once"
It was most likely that the kid of a state rep was, for one reason or another, given leeway in his ability to choose a seat. Most kids would want to be up front, but some families have more sway when their kid asks the ride operator to bend the rules.
@@TheBHNetwork but it is, one of the main flaws and the reason this accident happened in the first place
@@BlueRGuy But there are many variables that contribute to predictable running of such a ride and weight distribution is just one factor.
It wasn't simply the weight distribution that caused this accident - it was a combination of factors coming together that may have had a different outcome on a subsequent run.
To design this ride safely, you would need to take account of all relevant factors (eg weight distribution, wind, variations in water speed and volume, etc) and determine worst-case scenarios. Then establish appropriate features to protect the riders if something out of the ordinary occurs (eg seat belts, head protection etc).
I remember when this happened, even though I live in another State. Thank you for this video. I never knew what and why it happened, and the aftermath. Now I do. Thanks.
1:08 glad qxir did his research. It's annoying the number of people in the US that don't know that they are two different cities with Kansas City, Kansas being the smaller of the two. Even former President Trump messed it up and he probably has at least one person spellchecking his tweets.
I remember going here when visiting a cousin. I'm 6'5" and though the ride seemed dope, I gave it a pass because of my height. Plenty of rides where my head comes too close to crossbeams and whatnot so I just skip instead of tempting the fates. It's a shame a kid died there but that was a while after my visit. That's why the 'safety first' motto is bullshit it's more often than more as Mike Rowe says "safety third".
Safety somewhere in the top 5
I'm not here because of the Titan sub at all but hearing upon the design and build of this thing, i cant help but correlate.
This reminds me of that time at Dreamworld Australia when 4 people went through a virtual meat mincer at the Thunder River Rapids. Unlucky.
god imagine the horror of being the other two passengers...
..though i have a feeling that the many waiting in the queue line had an even more traumatic experience as they watched events in full from the sidelines.
absolutely awful.
Also breaking your jaw/face too
Unconscious & disoriented
for the most part...
I've heard that the aftermath of
nightmares was their worst
ordeal as what was seen
later became unblocked.
Kansas: I want the park!
Missouri: No I want the park!
Schlitterbahn: Kansas asked first, Missouri.
Missouri: *grumbling*
Schlitterbahn: Okay engineers you have 5 weeks!
Kansas: What?!
Missouri: Hah you can have that nonsense.
They could've fixed this issue with 2 tricks. Either make a slow skid pad right b4 the second hump. or installed the rafts on rails.
Or, you know, shrink the hump that’s responsible for launching people into the air. It’s not going to take away the record and it reduces the chance of the rafts hitting the nets.
@@1ManRandom out of all the options shrinking the hump is the most expensive.
@@limbeboy7 least expensive option is not hiring looney tunes designers
It's so funny that the court determined they weren't qualified to design a water slide. like, aren't you guys the ones who GAVE them permission to NOT EVEN BE INSPECTED BY THE STATE?? seems like you put a lot of faith in these people you're now claiming are not even proper engineers 😭
As a fond lover of roller coaster games, I find this familiar and unsurprising.
If the guy runs off trial and error and purposefully hid safety violations that should be enough to get charged with murder
Hey man I can't remember if I requested this yet but I think the Humboldt Broncos bus crash would fit really well into this last moments series. There's practically nothing but news reports about it on UA-cam
Shocked this didn’t happen at Action Park. Damn near died there.
7:15
This is why the 'Legal System' is a joke.
I remember this; my condolences to the family and friends❤. A *true* lifeguard will stand up for what is right; any and all of them should have walked off their job and told Real Authorities about this slide. I am skeptic of slides that have a high angle to them. I remember as a teenager that my swimming suit went up my buttocks so far that not only was it embarrassing to pull it out in public (the bathrooms were at the entrance, this slide was near the back) but also gave me a burn on my backside and cheeks. Did that park do anything, NOPE! It was ran by immature adults (young college kids that haven't seen life yet). Choose wisely when going to a water park of all sorts; if something doesn't feel right about it just pass it up. 🤓
As someone who lifeguarded for over a decade, I can tell you the higher ups will completely dismiss your concerns. They want their money and their reputation and if you fuss too much about it they just replace you with someone who doesn't know any better. So I feel a bit sorry for the lifeguards who had probably been threatened with the loss of their jobs and advised on what to report when there were incidents regarding this ride. The pay was probably terrible too which would not attract responsible employees. I imagine there had to be a lifeguard at the top putting people in the rafts. If I saw a boy that size try to get on that ride idc how disappointed he was, I'd send him back down the stairs. I have no clue what they were thinking putting young kids on this thing.
@@embramorgan6720 I get what you are saying. Higher Ups have "greed" in their hearts and nothing more. I do remember sending kids back down. . Boy did I get yelled at by parents until a manager who knew what I was talking about jumped in the situation. . . I even had a parent yell at me and told me to turn around while they were "trying"to talk to me while I was on stand doing my job. Funny part was that there was a sign in BOLD PRINT to NOT DISTURB THE LIFEGUARD. . They thought I was getting after their whinny child when it was the kids in front of her (the boys were busy trying to drown one another. .go figure). But yeah . .. in today's world. . .I would be hated because I would sincerely stick to the rules just so the happy people could come back the next day and enjoy.
I am so glad Schlitterbahn no longer owned, but seeing how many injuries plus a death occurred from that ride, the entire companies should have lost everything and the people who designed it and allowed it to be opened should be behind bars for opening a hazardous ride that resulted in so many injuries
how do u end a trio of injuries with the least severe and make it sound like its the worst lol
kid got his head chopped off, another lady broke her jaw, and sadly the other one
required stitches. 5:35
The prosecutions were about power, not justice. The reality is that the state authorities had enabled this because local Kansas politicians wanted the attraction and they changed the laws to allow for it. It is a classic example of a post-facto prosecution and the abuse of power.
The water rides at 6flags in New Jersey are horrible, and DANGEROUS. I got hurt on one of them.
I was at this park the week before this accident happened. Seeing it on the news was kinda crazy. A park accident killing a kid is always gonna be bad, but killing the son of a state representative means you have *no* escape.
Edit: I've been getting a lot of replies from people who seem to think that I think this was a worse tragedy because it was the son of a politician or something. To be more clear it is a massive tragedy that a kid was killed, but if you killed the son of someone who can do something about it, they're almost certainly going to do something about it and now they have personal reasons why.
SOMEONE GETTING GOT
calling it an accident is being pretty fucking nice. this was waterslide roulette.
The slide was fun well it lasted
@@The_Wack no it wasn't
Wow. An entire week before. It’s almost like, you were there, but 7, 24 hour periods before. You added so much depth and wisdom to this entire event by being there a week prior. Thanks for sharing your unique perspective on this tragic event. Really cleared up some things.
It's incredible to me that people were getting injured on the ride before the death, and the park owners STILL kept it operating.
It says a lot about their greed.
@@angiev1840 See: Action Park
It probably shouldn't seem that incredible, this is corporate greed and limited (almost nonexistent) oversight. Stories like this are exactly why regulations exist. Unfortunately, history is full of companies hiding health and safety risks on a much larger scale than an unsafe waterslide.
When this video started, I fully expected it to be from the 70s or 80s. Not from just a few years ago. Mad.
Like twitch's foam pit
I feel like anyone with even a basic understanding of physics should understand this thing was basically a death machine. With how much variance there will be in the weight and weight distributions of the passengers on the ride, there was basically no way to ensure no one would either slide too slow to make it over the hump, or overshoot and go flying.
For this thing to be made safe, there would need to be a solid roof that the raft could keep sliding along after lift-off, and the raft would need to be made in such a way that the passengers' heads would not scrape against the roof.
You can't just make a big ramp and expect everyone to slide down it with the same speed. Factors like wind, passenger weight and weight distribution will make the raft go faster or slower. It should have been solved by simply not having a hump that acts like a huge ramp that people can end up jumping off when their speed is too high. I have been on water slides that are like ski jumps, and the distance people go on those often vary by several meters.
which water parks have thing similar to ski jumps? Would love to see those
They could have used the air speed ratio of the African swallow!
@@lucas29476 I have personally tired one in a waterpark called 'Therme Erding' in Germany, but I have seen more. I just remember the one in Therme Erding because I actually tried it.
Look, nevermind physics. You don't have to understand any of that. All you need to do is see two very simple things with your eyes:
- There's a net over the track to stop rafts flying off.
- The highest point on the raft will be people's heads.
That alone should make anyone go "wtf".
@@tlh5677 or European swallow
I was celebrating my birthday at this park a few days before this happened. Me and my buddies debated on riding this thing but I pussied out and I’m glad I did.
Followed your instincts. Smart dude.
Chicken!
112 people believe this bs story as of the time am reading this comment
@@NorthWestPvPlolrektnoob this person watches you through your window when youre asleep, that's how they know youre lying
@@NorthWestPvPlolrektnoob Oh wow, you're so cool! You don't believe anybody!
"self" inspection is an oxymoron. Real inspection requires perspective and independence.
“We have conducted a thorough investigation, on ourselves, and have found no wrongdoing.” Good day sir!
@@lukewalker3905 Where is that quote from?
@@justafurrywithinternet317 Every corporation ever.
Definitely a huge conflict of interest
Inspection doesnt have to be from an outside group. Unbias results of an inspection though are more likely from an outside entity
This aggravated me, I worked at this very park the year the ride was open. When I brought up my concerns about the ride being viable to kill someone I was FIRED.
I would have sued them
Had they listened to you…. You should testify against them
Maybe you can sue now.
There's an inherent trust from the public to engineering projects; similar to trusting your doctor to know what they're doing. Rushing and a DIY thrill-seeking attraction, and then ignoring the few safety features it had is negligence of the highest degree, and it is baffling to me that the man was not imprisioned.
Yeah I’m struggling to see why? But then again any crimes that requires you to have a certain amount of money to commit to be treated like no big deal.
In college we had an entire module about ethics, clearly these assholes never attended it.
Never mind they never even went to college nor had any technical expertise.
Basically every law and even every stop light is put there through dead bodies. They usually wait til 2 people have died at an intersection before doing a study to see if it needs a stop light.
@@XShadowWolf1926 he explained why they weren’t imprisoned. They presented inadmissible evidence to the court. The court cannot property determine who is at fault when people bring evidence that can’t be used. That is why some murders get off or a slap on the wrist. You have to provide eligible evidence to the courts that prove the person on trial did the crime “without a doubt”. Doubt arises when your foundation isn’t solid.
You can actually check your doctor out, before you go to them....
Qxir videos are great because he takes accidents with usually not many fatalities, but the accidents with actual horror.
As the quote goes, "The death of 10 people is a tragedy, the death of 10,000 is a statistic"
(Edit: Kurt Tucholsky probably)
90 likes in 1 hour lol
Mmm, no, not at all. There's a few channels that cover accidents, tragedies, events and alike.
Covering it doesn't make the cover good.
Good cover makes good cover.
@@archygrey9093 stop quoting Stalin
@@RS_Mogli no
I remember hearing about this the day it happened in school, as the park is relatively nearby. It was one of the only things that shocked me as a kid.
@@Affected207 bro he was a kid
@@Affected207 who cares
@@Affected207 you're the softie
@@Affected207 ok tough guy
@@Affected207 imagine calling someone insecure because they were shocked by a child being decapitated
I can't believe this needs to be said, but self-inspections, *especially* in an environment where the priority is profit, NEVER WORK.
@@louisvandermerwe8080 never underestimate greed
@@louisvandermerwe8080 Dude, do me a favor: go binge some Fascinating Horror videos, especially ones concerning theme parks and building fires and etc., and get back to me with just how often they finish with something along the lines of "these tragic events could have easily been avoided had management obeyed safety regulations or addressed the issues when concerns were first raised, but instead they decided to cut corners to save on money, at the cost of numerous innocent lives"
"It's when you throw stupidity into the mix where things go wrong" Hey dumbass, the whole point of those kinds of requirements are to account for human stupidity and greed and shit, *before* people end up getting killed
@@louisvandermerwe8080 it literally took the death of a child for them to stop cutting corners on safety for profit. Do you think they'd have spent the extra money on safety features if a child hadn't been decapitated? Considering the numerous reports of people getting hurt on the ride, I doubt it. This was short-sighted greed, plain and simple
Correct me if I am wrong...but doesn't that mousy park do self inspections as part of the self governing plan it had with florida?
Sure it was!! Ask Texas power companies, oh wait….
Seriously, just seeing the "safety" netting... What were they thinking?!!? What did they think would happen if one of the rafts went airborne? Obviously, people would hit the netting and possibly the netting supports. Likely at high speed. Much smart.
Verrückt 'Safety' Netting 2024
More like the “execute you so you can’t sue us” netting
Looks like their goal was to cover safety regulations instead of actually making the ride safe.
but, but....its a "safety net" so its safe to use. -one of those idiots who designed it, probably.
@@Gizziiusa it was a perfectly working safety net. Worked like a good mosquito net it kept safety out.
I froze when I realized that the photo at 5:43 was the bottom of the slide filled with blood after the kid had gotten decapitated. I can’t imagine going through that, being in the same raft the people behind him probably got totally splattered with his blood and won’t ever be able to live normally again. Such a gruesome way to die poor boy.
Went back to that timestamp and looked and you're right, it does look like blood. How horrible! Rest in peace, Caleb. 😞
@@GLING17not just that. Those two yellow tarps are covering him. One for the body. The other for the head.
@@GrumpyKayYou do know that decapitation doesn't necessarily mean the head is ripped off the body, right?
@Cardiakk Yes that's called and internal decapitation. What's your point? There is no disputing that he was decapitated. The 'head totally coming off the body' kind of decapitated.
@@Cardiakk actually it is the very definition of decapitation
A further tragic part of the story is that the boy's brother was waiting for him at the bottom of the ride and saw his lifeless body laying there after the accident. Reportedly, he screamed at the staff "You killed my brother!" Imagine having to live with that image in your mind the rest of your life...
Source: crack pipe
Video evidence of fake..
@@poguri27are you saying crack pipes are not a reliable source ?
weird part is the head was never recovered
@@jotrutch that's not true
Why would you even say that
I Googled this and you're just lying
If I remember correctly, his decapitated body (and severed head) stopped at the bottom in front of his older brother, who'd gone down first and was waiting at the pool at the bottom for him. The boy then ran to a worker screaming that the ride just killed his brother, then ran to find his mum.
EDIT: We worked out I mixed with a different horrific decapitation of a child accident
Thats exactly what I thought, and I bet if it had happened to anyone but him they would've swept it under the rug
Soccer time yeey
@@There.Is.Only.Now. not funny
@@zoefioretta8806 You can't. You literally cannot sweep a death on a water slide under the rug, even with all the money and power in the world. The media will report on it and there is nothing anyone other than a dictator can do to stop it. Even if mainstream media is paid to ignore it, people will find out through word of mouth and independent media organizations that cannot be bribed.
@@There.Is.Only.Now. do not
I have to say this definitely is a terrifying and unpredicted way to die. I could only imagine what was going on in the riders' minds when this accident happened
I'm guessing that they were happy that their minds were still attached to their bodies.
It was a really fun ride but on the bump going up, we'd catch some air time really coming close to the netting. I remember putting my head down in instinct since i hate seeing heights when going down roller-coasters.
If I was on that ride, I would've expected a decapitation, and when you expect something that ends up happening, it's not as shocking.
The two women were likely horribly scarred, but I think Caleb would have been killed too quickly for him to properly register. I can only hope so.
@@princessofthecape2078 what a disgusting thing to say. A 10 year old boy that just wanted to have a fun day out did not deserve to die. Theres an inherent trust that the engineers made the rides safe, theres no way this child should have any blame put on him
They went so far as to cover it up and to have life guards deny what happened...
That's sickening.
Should have sent them down the same ride ....
they covered up the earlier incident where they hit the net but didn't die, not this one that decapitated the little boy.
Faced zero repercussions for it too
That's what companies do
@@_Aemse it's still not good at all. Definitely shows a lack of concern about any visitors
A month before his death I was at the same park with my mom and her friend. I would have been 9 and I weighed the same as him. I had a horrible gut feeling about the ride and opted out on riding it instead staying in the lazy river. Seeing just a month later what could've been me was horrific and an experience I will never forget.
You had amazing intuition even back then 😮
Nice imagination
@@Bomp.. yes people from kansas aren't real
You almost opted out of life 😂 you'd been happier dead this world sucks
ever seen Final Destination?
I used to drive by the park everyday after the accident living in Kansas City. Seeing the empty park and slide sitting there ominously, abandoned. Everything about it was just so eerie.
Ngl I used to drive by and brag about how the slide was the “tallest in the world”.
I assumed if Guinness was giving it a record someone would have made sure it wasn’t a death trap before letting people on it. The lesson? Never assume.
I was surprised at how long it remained standing after it was shut down.
I went to the water park the weekend after this accident happened. The part of the park whith the world's tallest slide was blocked off but most of the rest of the park was open.
Did you went in the park after it was abonnded?
Now they are planning to make a sports facilities and a Camping world
One sick thing I remember from this was that some people blamed the two women who rode the ride with the boy. They said they were too light or too heavy, or that they had lied about their weight and that killed the boy.
A lot of people just didn't want to admit that this park was to blame.
I went on this death trap two days before this happened. There is a large scale that the workers weigh your party on before you’re allowed to ride. Park is completely to blame.
Nobody said they were too light. It's a fact the boy died because he was not in the middle of the two land whales.
@@bigneiltoo Yo land whales hahahaha what the 😂🤣
Let me help a bit. It was recommended what age restrictions to set, the park removed all age restrictions. Enough said.
So uh, was the decapitation of the male child not sick then?
its horrifying to imagine having to go down the rest of the ride, covered in blood, the beheaded body still in the seat infront of you. you know he wont survive. his head is gone. thats some seriously traumatic crap right there
Yeah that and the women had their own broken bones to worry about. They were all thrown and the boy lost his head being in the lead.
With the speed, and the pain, they probably didn't really realize what happened until they reach the water
His body came out of the raft and came down behind them, and the ride is 17 sec long. The women had their eyes closed and didnt even see what parts of caleb hit them in their face. They only saw theu were covered in blood when they got to the bottom. That still sucks go, because you have to get somewhere to rinse it off and answer questions along the way.
@@Pixiuchu not everyone is like you tho
@@thureintun1687 I mean most people are, or at least most normal people. We see blood, we think of danger. That's why we get scared instead of disgusted about seeing real blood in front of us.
My brother rode this ride not too long before this happened and told me about how unsafe it felt. It’s so crazy to think that something so awful happened so close to us.
I know someone who broke their wrist on this ride
The fact that they didn't add an incredibly simple rail system the minute the first test raft flew off the second ramp is absolutely insane. Such a simple design change would've prevented so much misery
Through my long and illustrious career as a ride designer in Rollercoaster Tycoon, I could have told them beforehand that this ride would never work.
I mean, it worked, just, umm, not exactly the way it should in real life.
In reality you’re probably more qualified than they were
However, put a solid ceiling over it and it works 100% fine. Even if they have enough speed to have flown several metres.
Beware of bald men in sharp suits and red ties.
*me, also a veteran Rollercoaster Tycoon ride designer* I see absolutely nothing wrong, here.
Might want to do a video on action park. That entire thing was a hazard. Even got a "gravepool" because people kept drowning
Ah yes, the fabled Class Action aka Traction Park. More like Doctor Kevorkian's Suicide Fun Time Land.
Would be interesting
@@cocacola4blood365 goddamn that kevorkian line gave me a good laugh
You mean by gravepool a pool covered in cement?
he should, except focus on the canonball loop. a waterside with a loop like a roller coaster. People would routinely get cut on teeth than had fallen out and gotten stuck up there.
I actually worked for the company for two summers and the owners were definitely sketchy. Turns out they ended up being big time drug dealers down here and the family ended up going to jail for a while. The park was put under new management my last summer there but things really didn’t seem like they changed
So it was a drug laundering operation?
Did they end up selling all their other parks too? I know he mentions that at the end of the video but was that all they had? I guess my question is: is Jeff Henry out of the water park business now?
Really? I worked at THE original Schlitterbahn Waterpark in New Braunfels, Texas, for two years before the Henry family sold to Cedar Fair. I didn't hear anything about drug deals or nothing but I did hear that this incident was practically the reason they sold out. Rumor even had it when Cedar Fair was buying the parks that the Henry family tried giving them Kansas Park for free but Cedar Fair turned it down because of the parks history.
You got a source on them getting arrested because I can't find anything?
@jack leballs FDT!
I will never forget the day I heard about Caleb's passing. I was at work, my coworker had taken the day off for her to visit Six Flags in St. Louis with her kids, and that day is when Caleb died, I was listening to the news at lunch and all I could think about was my coworker, even tho they were at Six Flags and not at Schlitterbahn, it was all too close to home. I was horrified to hear that it was a decapitation. I tried telling my friends and family about how crazy it was for this to happen, and everyone was just like, "Oh well, you know, sometimes accidents happen." I felt like no one was understanding the huge amount of negligence that was at play. No family should lose their loved ones while relaxing in an amusement park, it's just not right.
Calling this an "accident" is like calling a fatal drunk driving hit-and-run a "fender bender". There was that one engineer tried to warn people. Multiple serious injuries were further warnings that everyone also ignored. And the ultimate twist is that the child victim's father was the politician instrumental in dismantling regulations and oversight so that literal amateurs would build the slide and open it as quickly as possible. This was all totally preventable.
@@marcussantiago Interesting, I didn't know Caleb's father had anything to do with dismantling safety regulations, what a terrible consequence he suffered. And, yeah, you're preaching to the choir about this being called an "accident," hence my entire original post...
Agreed. Negligence is not excusable.
@@marcussantiago True
I'll never go on an extreme waterslide again, say for a toilet bowl one, but even then, maybe not.
Oh man I grew up here! It sucked because this was like the one thing we had that was cool aside from worlds of fun, but the park was always sketchy so I guess something was bound to happen. Unfortunate though.
Edit: after finishing the video I have some info. There is a lot of blame on the operators (lifeguards), who often ignored safety protocals even the park put into place. Also basically everyone in the KC area knew something bad was gonna happen there but nobody could really do anything until it was too late.
There's Oceans of Fun and Great Wolf Lodge.
There's Renaissance Fair and Snow Creek for none water parks.
@@NextNate03 oceans of fun is part of world's now, but gwl and snow creek are totally fair. Never went to Renaissance tho.
The lazy river was poorly gaurded as there were periods of time when no lifeguards were available in a long long time. It really was a fun park but i knew deep down that something was bound to happen.
Always blame the lowest paid or lowest rank employee. American way.
"Also basically everyone in the KC area knew something bad was gonna happen there but nobody could really do anything until it was too late."
I'll point out the obvious:
If it looks dangerous, and you think it's dangerous, don't go on it.
Granted, to some, that's the appeal, but those metal hoops with the netting over them, were always an accident waiting to happen.
Stupidity, greed, and lies...and the criminal charges were dropped. Unbelievable! And those evil clowns laughing while a test raft went flying. What psychos!
His Dad is our Secretary of State currently in kansas. Had he not sued for the details of how horrible this slide really was we may not have ever known. This is a tragedy but also criminal imo. They knew it was dangerous and did nothing.
While I feel incredibly sorry for him and his family, as no parent should ever outlive their child, there still exists a sick irony in this situation in that he was a state representative who presumably was involved in the passing of the bill that allowed the park to self-inspect in the first place. I hope that I'm wrong (in that he voted the other way) and that this father doesn't have to live with that kind of guilt, but one thing that I do know is that a lot of pockets were probably lined to push that shit through. But that's the US for you - if individuals need help, well fuck them; but a large company with lots of money needs help and legislators and tax men will beat their door down to be first in line. Make no mistake - we're as corrupt as they come.
@@tryingtotryistrying honestly there are an awful lot of people here who are just as disillusioned with the US government as with anyone else. The problem is that we're kinda trapped in it, if we want to live here. Our government is set up to favor a two-party system, yes there are other political parties that exist, but everyone basically knows that they're just there to represent a "good effort" at the democratic process, ie representing all voices, but they don't have any real shot at power or making changes. The real power lies in the two main parties, Democrat and Republican, and both are as rotten and corrupt as the other. The country just swings between the two - one of them fucks up stuff for a while, people get unhappy and elect the other, who fucks stuff up for a while, and the process repeats. And one of the key things that keeps people distracted from what's really going on, like the world's biggest and worst magician, is pointing the finger at other countries like Afghanistan or Iraq or Iran or Russia or China or North Korea, and saying "no they're the bad guys!".... It's all bullshit, man. I'd be surprised if the US had another 50-100 years left in it, operating like it does.
I'm not saying there aren't some real benefits to living here, there definitely are...but the people who sit here and say that we've got more freedom than anyone else, more of a voice than anyone else - they're just fooling themselves, or they're rich. Money is the only thing that really talks here, just like anywhere else in the world.
@@tryingtotryistrying oh dont worry, alot of us call the US an oligarchy
@@pizzlerot2730 you are absolutely correct.
makes me sick, someones son died due to the negluate
Oh wait...a business being allowed to "self regulate" resulted in disaster and death??? Waaaaah? I mean this has got to be like a freak one-off accident. I can't think of any instances of this happening.
Turns out a truly free market results in decapitations, who knew?
Self regulation usually works for large scale amusement companies in the U.S. (Disney, Cedar Fair, etc.) since they have a LOT to use, but unfortunately smaller companies are able to take more risks and generally get away with it. Also, to my knowledge water slides are usually more dangerous than roller coasters, which makes sense. There’s too many factors at play. I will happily ride any rollercoaster, but I’m a little bit more cautious about slides. It’s really awful how people can get away with this stuff.
I mean look at the old saying
"Regulation is always written with blood"
@@Del_S that's the funny thing. You need regulations in order to keep the markets free from monopolies.
@@bonda_racing3579 so true
I went to this park about a year before the decapitation and left with a bleeding back! I was admittedly too small to ride, and fell too far into the inter tube before hitting speed bumps and tearing up my back. They had never worried about the people riding’s size…
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Wow. Hope you're ok
Yeah, what Jay Cool Guy 15 said.
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I can’t understand how the morons that built this ride didn’t end up in prison with all the accidents that happened before the death as proof they were negligent! I’m sorry you were injured
This is the reason why certified engineers and safety inspectors exist. This is the reason why you should listen to them when they point out problems.
Lmao @ you trusting the "safety" of the government.
Pathetic.
@@justtime6736 You mean as opposed to trusting the "safety" proposed by the 2 idiots that ultimately got this kid killed? Foolish rhetoric, at best.
@@justtime6736 It's always the non-government inspectors who get people killed.
Tell that to Stockton Rush.
Oh wait, you can't. He's dead.
@@justtime6736
"duh duh muh gubermint"
Yeah, the free market will determine what's safe. After multiple people are seriously injured and a 10 year old is killed, they'll just shut down the ride.
Freedom!
Driving past the still standing slide after the tragedy always made chills go down my spine. I’m glad it’s gone now
So it wasn’t just me, that thing just felt creepy after the incident, especially while they were tearing it down
You should have broken in to get a ride in before they tore the evil killer waterslide down. This could be a fun horror movie now that I think of it.
Didn't they leave the blood on it?
@@singlecell2498 that’s what people say around here. I don’t remember seeing blood but I don’t doubt it
@@sunkist1309 disgusting situation really innit
I was there that day. And the truth is.... there was an insane amount blood when this happened. And then it took a little while for the body to slide down... it was brutal seeing that.
Omg!
holy shit
Oh my god! I'm sure you and all the others who were there will never forget this. How awful!
In the video above you can see the blood stains on the ride at 5:35.
this must be traumatizing, I can't and don't want to imagine what it was like
Me and my son rode this ride the year before this happened, the safety restraints were not velcro, I remember them being the same material as seat belts that they tied in a knot at your waist. The sheer steep vertical drop was MUCH more than I anticipated, I was thankful that we made it through okay without injury...
Another part this story is his brother witnessed it & the body ended up in the pool of water below. So awful & sad. I remember when this hit the news.
Oh hey, a fellow K G 👋 I was just scrolling through comments and had to do a double take lol
@@hi_bored_im_dad lol
I remember seeing the bottom of the slide had red water. It was very horrifying to see.