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I totally disagree with the outcome that the park was at fault and had to cough up 4 million for those who got injured. I admit the death is a tragedy but it was the students who decided to come up with this dumb idea and get themselves injured. In my opinion the park was not at fault.
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The fact that it took over 30 people to break the slide is actually a testament to how safe and well built it was. I’m rarely one to stand up for corporations, but in this case It’s completely ridiculous that people attempted to blame the park.
Agreed! The park should not have been to blame at ALL. Over 30 idiots rushed the guard and piled onto one joint of a structure. They were asking for a catastrophe.
I think it's also outstanding that the company decided to pay the families anyway. They definitely didn't have to, but to me it shows that they care about those affected despite it being their fault.
Reminds me of that one time incident at a mall who didn't heed the warning of elevator's weight limit and how many person should be inside. But alas, they think its not a problem and just press on until suddenly got themselves stuck. Good thing no one's complaining about it but still READ THE WARNING SIGN next time.
What?? They expect that the park should have been adequately prepared for 32 people to rush past, refusing to follow safety guidelines?? If ANYBODY should be suing, it should be the worker who tried to stop them- who is now likely traumatized for life- suing the kids for the cost of psychiatric care!
Hell, there was zero reason for the park to settle. Regardless of the grief of Quimby's family and the trauma of the others, this was entirely selfinflicted. There are safety rules for very good reason. They admitted, they waited until right b4 leaving anyway, coz they KNEW, they would get kicked out of the park for that idiotic stunt. And there is no judge, who would render a verdict against the park for failing to stop 32 ppl being complete idiots, as that would mean, that they expect the park to have enough security personel at every single ride for the purpose of stopping that many ppl deliberately breaking the safety rules. Not only should the park have paid nothing. Yeah, that worker is the real victim here. And they should be glad, the park didnt answer that frivolous lawsuit with a countersuit demanding restitution for the destruction of their ride!! Not being American, I often have difficulty understanding the American mentality of suing every1 over everything. But that 1 is just insane. The nerve of those ppl! There is no excuse, I dont care, how much they are grieving, ofc it is incredibly sad, that Quimby died so young - and so avoidably. But trying to blame others for the deliberate, knowing actions of their lost loved one/themselves is disgusting.
As an engineer, there is no way the park or the design or construction of the slide should be blamed for this tragedy... the report on the slide said that the weight of the 33 students was "over four times the slide's capacity", which means the slide which was designed for one person at a time already had a safety factor of more than 8, which is more than sufficient for a structure like this...
You are correct. I worked in construction for years ( on all different types of structures) although I'm not an engineer ( steel fabrication, painting, and carpentry) There was nothing wrong whatsoever with the structural integrity of that waterslide. They are designed and built to specific standards, specifications, and certification. It was totally safe. There is no way an engineer or builder could have foreseen an event like that occurring, a basically deliberate load bearing failure. Those dumb kids did not understand basic physics. It's just fibreglass after all.
I actually feel most sorry for the lifeguard. They probably were a similar age to the seniors, and there’s only so much you can do when 33 people are deliberately ignoring you. I hope they don’t feel responsible or guilty or that they could have done more. I’m a teacher, and getting 33 kids to stop something they’re excited about, they’ve been planning, that they are implementing in a very short space of time and are probably way hyped up sounds like an absolute nightmare. All the seniors will have heard is “no fun allowed!!” and ignored it entirely.
Interesting you said this, I was a lifeguard here in Ventura Ca for 15 years & started out at local pools, & never did I EVER have more than 2 people at a time ignore my orders, of course I ended up having to get them out both ocean & pool!
This!! I once went on a theater trip in high school to New York City. A group of kids were planning some party outting with alcohol. They got busted and some of them were whining and crying to my teacher while he gave them shit for it but they put his job and perhaps his personal life in jeopardy since parents so commonly hold schools and teachers responsible for their child that misbehaves and doesn’t follow rules. Plus, that teacher really cared about us students and I won’t forget him telling me what a panic attack he about had at the thought those kids almost getting into dangerous trouble when they were out in the city on their own.
@@stephenchristian5739 Yeah that's been my observation as well. This is a really unique situation to have so many people disregarding the instructions of the staff. I've been to waterparks many times, and can't even specifically recall a single time someone went too early. There was one time someone came out of the slide after me sooner that I expected, but still nowhere close to being unsafe. Having 30+ people at once is absolutely bonkers.
The families having the gall to say the slide was too weak after the investigators said it withstood 4 times it’s capacity before it broke is unbelievable
Judging a single-rider waterslide's safety by its ability to hold thirty three people at once is like judging a roof's safety by its ability to withstand being struck by a 200 foot falling pine tree in a hurricane.
No because that at least could happen. This is like judging your roof by the metric of an elephant falling on it. Possible but who would ever imagine that would happen
The parents suing the park is just UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯 Thats why their kids felt entitled not to listen to any security measure 😡😡😡 you cannot give others the responsibility for your kids lack of caution!!!!!
"The parents" is a vague noun in this instance, however, don't you think? if 33 kids fell through the slide as it broke, would it be every single parent of those kids joining in on a lawsuit? I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm simply thinking that it might not have been every single parent. I don't think there was an issue with the design of the waterslide. I think there was an issue with warning people not to do stupid things before they get into the waterslide.
@@Dark_Narratives > issue with warning people this would make sense if it was an elementary or even middle school, because it is high school SENIORS (aka, basically adults) this isn't their fault.
A slide meant to go one at a time could hold a max of 7/8 kids. That is strong enough and no reasonable amount of reinforcement would hold that many kids
@@snicker576 As my dad used to jokingly say, "all that damned theme park equipment should have to withstand a fat people orgy before it gets approved for public use!" 😅
This is why I will NEVER own a business. People f-up, and want you to pay for it. Even though rules and procedures are clearly posted. People don’t take responsibility for themselves anymore
There have been some example of patrons going into unauthorized areas and getting hurt or killed. Also, on log flume rides there have been several examples of people standing up during the ride and then either getting ejected or clipped by part oof the ride environment.
It was definitely the kids own fault, I don’t blame them tho at 17/18 you do dumb shit like this especially when in groups with others. I personally think the school should’ve done something to prevent it since (from what I remember) it was a thing seniors had done before, but I don’t know if there’s actually anything they could’ve done to stop a bunch of teenagers.
@@Papapickles69 bro what? yes they did, they tried to stop them, but one person cant physically force 33 people to move from like 10ft or more away. have some compassion
I completely agree that no one, but the kids, should be held responsible. Yes they were young, but old enough to realize that stupidity comes with consequences
@@braken63 These were 17 and 18 year olds. Some of their decisions/behavior could be attributed to parenting, but 17 is almost a legal adult and 18 is a legal adult. These were students who are old enough to know right from wrong. The lifeguard warned them and the students chose to ignore the safety rules. It’s tragic, but the incident was entirely preventable if they had decided to just follow the rules.
@@braken63 True. Sorry if my comment comes off as harsh. I don't think the parents are responsible for anything but unreasonably blaming the park. I was reading the other comments and apparently, the school usually went to a different water park with a stronger slide made for several people. Even parents that tried to instill the "don't do stupid things" common sense into their kids probably wouldn't have been able to stop this. It was a school tradition and I wouldn't be surprised if peer pressure had some involvement as well. If anything, I'd blame the school more than the parents for not discouraging the tradition.
As a lifeguard myself, I feel so bad for the lifeguard that tried to stop the kids but was understandably unable to stop all 33 of them. Like, they knew what the kids were about to do was dangerous, they tried to stop this tragedy and probably felt guilty they couldn't do more to prevent it.
Exactly, I think it's unreasonable to expect one person to control a mass number of people who all collectively decide to break the rules at once. Obviously every place has a minimum code of conduct that they expect everyone to follow. They can't expect the lifeguard to prevent every stupid thing someone could potentially do like jumping off a tower into the water for example.
I know. I feel so bad for them. Because they tried to stop the kids but there was 33 of them…it would have been impossible to stop all of them. And, they probably figure what’s the big deal? I don’t think even they thought the slide would break. I know I wouldn’t have thought the slide would’ve broken even though it was loaded down with four or five times the amount of weight its supposed to carry.
Being a lifeguard seems like a different job, I mean you are literally guarding a person's life, and sometimes people can be stupid and they don't listen to you, then something like that could happen and the lifeguard would have to live with the fact that they were unable to save someone for the rest of their life. I wouldn't be able to do it.
Kids? they were 17 and 18 years old, old enough to join the army and handle explosives. Lifeguard at waterslides? It was probably a kid himself working minimum wage and what could he have done different? Wrestle 33 people to stop them? Its a tragedy, but you know the chapelle skid "How young is 15 really?" .
The students should have been made to pay the park for causing serious damage to the ride, bad publicity (unfairly so, but still), and temporary closure of the ride (and perhaps the whole park). The one whose original idea it was should go to prison.
@@dinho_machado - *"kids ALWAYS are breaking rules my king."* Yes, thats why parents TEACH them NOT to break the rules. - *"if our kids are in a park, it is a obligation to the park keep them safe."* No, that obligation falls on the parents. On YOU. Aint nobody responsible for your kids other than you. The money you pay to get into the park is so you can use the facilities. Its not a babysitting charge lol I cant stand parents that treat their children more like pets rather than the future of their bloodline. Though that can be seen as an insult to many pet owners that dont treat their pets like mere conversation pieces and ornaments. I myself own a dog, and I can say with 100% certainty that he is better behaved than your kids, as I would never feel the need to preemptively make excuses for future shitty behavior of his. Because 1) he always behaves himself, and 2) even if he did step out of line, I would immediately put a stop to it and take full responsibility. Because thats my job as a pet owner, just as its YOUR job as a parent. Stop putting your responsibilities onto other people.
I'm surprised over 30 students participated in this. In our class if someone proposed this, we would've maybe had 5-6 boys going through with it while the rest just thinks it's stupid
@@zionismisterrorism8716In 90's young people all over the world were smarter so the decade can't be blamed. Those youngsters were exceptionally stupid.
@@alexanderanghel7946cell phones and waterslides exist in both the 90s and today 💀💀💀 also is this really the right comment when this incident was traumatizing for everyone involved
Wild to me how people are treating 17 and 18 year olds like they’re 6, they might not have fully developed brains; however, they’re old enough to know not to ignore the person in charge of their safety telling them what they’re about to do is dangerous.
Yup These dummies were old enough to drive, to drink in multiple countries including mine, to join the army, and, in most cases, to get married Yet people talk like they were in kindergarten The person in charge ain't always in the right, though. Like the tragedy in which a japanese ship sank and multiple students drowned inside it because they obediently followed orders to stay in place, meanwhile the more "rebellious" students escaped to the higher floors of the ship and got rescued thanks to it once help arrived
That’s sadly how a lot of people are now there ignorant and dumb and blinded and need to wake up and open there eyes that the world is different from what most people think and they think the dumb way most of the time like how they don’t like taking responsibility for there own actions and how people are racist and white or Asians can’t do anything about it 😐that’s just 2 examples of how most dumb people are now
It seems like a case of the Asch paradigm, which is basically the idea that if enough people are confident in something, those who disagree chose to go through with the majority decision, even if they can tell something about it isn't right. This likely spread from a few friends who pressured their friends into it, who then went and pressured their friends into it, with more and more people going with the idea as they believed all the others knew were completely confident in their decisions.
It’s not about ‘deserving’ the outcome. It’s about being 100% responsible for their own outcomes. Fining and trying to blame others is not taking accountability
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
@Trump Is The Messiah lol your wording tries to minimalize what they actually did. "How dare they GO DOWN A SLIDE!". They didn't just go down the slide they packed the slide on purpose past it's capacity and didn't listen to the guard. Their actions were premeditated and deliberate and they knew they weren't suppose to be doing it. Also it was the highschool authorities that knew and did nothing, not the park. Legally the park will have to pay out because guests got hurt on their grounds, that does not mean these kids did nothing wrong. So even if you were to say it is the parks fault, to say 100% is a stretch. To say " I swear, you people's brains don't work right" is ironic if this is your take on the incident.
Even without the slide breaking, having a bunch of kids pile onto each other in water is really dangerous. A kid went down a slide too fast behind me and landed on me as I'd finished my turn. It pushed me down and I choked on a lot of water. How could they not have realised this would cause serious injury
A full grown, 200 lb man did that to me when I was 10 on a water slide. He couldn't be bothered to wait, and slid right behind me. When I hit the water, his feet crashed into the back of my head, and I thought my neck was broken for a second. I suppose the giant cracking sound in my neck gave me that impression. Amazingly, I walked away with only a massive headache and sore neck.
All waterslides I've gone to had at least two lifeguards - one at the entrance, one at the exit. They communicated with walkie talkies, they only let someone in after the exit guard confirmed the person was out and away from the exit. Are these not common rules?
One thing not mentioned is that this tradition usually took place at a different water park. At the normal park, the slide they would do this on was built along a hillside, so was never far off the ground and had a higher load capacity. Hence why previous classes were able to get away with it. In this caae though, they went to a different park and the slide is free standing. This makes it much less reenforced, and ultimately failed under the weight. Not super relevant, I know, but still a small fact I thought should be mentioned on why the kids didn't think there would be consequences for it
The real tragedy is the refusal of the families to see that their childrens' poor choice was their own making. The teens should have to take responsibility for their choice, not the park. It's sick to see people take advantage of others by shifting blame.
They never do. There are so protected snowflakes that can't do anything wrong, right? They know the minute they went on that slide that it would be a disaster one way or the other and doing stupid things out of boredom or "we want to get kicked out of the park just for fun".
It’s really sad to me that the park had to pay $4 Million when they did nothing wrong. The audacity of those kids parents to sue the PARK when you raised idiots. 🤦🏽♀️
The parks insurance paid it. That’s why people sue, insurance. If it weren’t for insurance, the park would go out of business and default on paying anything
@@nickkerr5714this makes sense. And even after fault was determined , people still got hurt and died. Maybe compensation to the family of the dead girl is a good thing, and if the water park never existed she still would be alive, maybe that means something. It’s like, they brought a slide into the world that so easily could be exploited like it was. And the consequences for doing so were huge. Maybe they deserve some punishment for that. Perhaps it could be argued that given the high risk, there should have been something that would make it impossible for this to happen. Because as stated in the video , teenagers are stupid. Someone could have looked at this and imagined it could happen, and still let it be open anyway. Humans can be relied on for being stupid. Designers need to understand that. A good design builds a idiot proof condition. We all are idiots , some more then others. Maybe idiots are attracted to water parks. The people who built this thing could also be argued as they are idiots
I agree that it wasn't all the parks fault but they should of had someone at the top regulating who went down the slide and when! Especially if this was a possibility they knew about XxXxX
This story angers me...not only would I not have paid a damn dime to the families, but it is infuriating that the parents had the gall to try and blame the park. Clearly showed where the children got their intelligence and sense of entitlement from.
Someone was saying that they did this regularly at another park where the slide was partially built into a hill so it was supported and that this was the first time the kids did it on this slide and that some money was payed out because at the top it was already set up to be so disorganized the staff didn't even know who was going down which slide, so apparently they had a terrible crowd control set up in the first place, so the company just settled on that.
I was just saying the same thing. I'm angered that they were paid for being stupid. No lesson was learned, just monetary gain. I agree with another commenter that the park should have countersued for the destruction of property.
I don't think that the park should have paid out anything for those young adults (well, maybe one million for the young lady who died - and ONLY her family). They're no longer babies nor kids; they're young adults about to graduate, then move on to living as a legal adult by law. But at this point in their lives, they've got to understand and know that every single choice and decision will have consequences - good ones or bad. It also sounds like Napa Valley could be middle and upper class families living there. If so, I'm sure they seriously _do_ expect everyone and everything to always accommodate _them._ The parents feel entitled, so they spoiled and raised their kids to also feel entitled ("it's ok if we break the rules; *_who is going to say anything to us!!")_* While I do sincerely hope they all made full recoveries, I also hope that they learned something about what *can* happen from the choices we all make now that they've effed around and found out.
I was a teenager myself when this happened. I remember it well. They were the class above me. Even then I thought it was a load of crap that the parents were suing the water park. Even as a teen, a year YOUNGER than them, I could plainly see that the water park was not responsible for this accident in ANY way. I’m so sick of 18 year olds, legal ADULTS, treated like they’re 4 & having no accountability for their own dumb actions. Are they still young? Yes. Are their brains developed fully? No. Does that mean that they didn’t know better? No. They KNEW it was against the rules. Logic would dictate that if it was a SAFE thing to do, then the water park would NOT be throwing them out for doing it. They already proved they knew they’d be expelled from the park by planning it at the end of their day. I’m sure they even got a lecture each year about the dangers of doing such a stunt, since the senior classes of the past had been kicked out of the park for such. It indeed was tragic that one of the teens lost their lives, but at the same time the water park should not be out 4 million dollars due to the teenagers’ own reckless behavior. I mean what did they expect the water park to do, shut down any & all rides that the teens might try this on? They’d have to shut down almost the entire park! Were they blaming the water park for even allowing the school to come back as a group? Should they have banned them instead? I didn’t understand the logic these parents & the court used as a teen myself when this happened, & I still don’t understand it now as an adult. IMO the park should not have paid a dime & that school should have been permanently banned.
@@inter_estingexactly- which is why it feels weird that this comment emphasized that they're LEGAL ADULTS. like i'm not excusing it because it was stupid, but at 18 you're not mentally an adult so it's no surprise that they did something this stupid. but at the same time, i'm 16 and me and my group of 15-20 year old friends would literally never do this. i have no idea what the hell they were thinking.
None of those kids should have seen a cent from anyone. This was entirely their fault from the start to the finish and honestly, them getting literally rewarded for breaking the rules is only going to cause them to continue that kind of behavior. They didn't *deserve* injury or death, of course, but it was most certainly 100% the fault of the kids. Period.
Simple numbers game: it was probably cheaper to pay than to fight it in court. And if they lost the court battle, they would end up paying even more. What I’m surprised about is why the park allowed schools to keep bringing kids after the incident. If I managed the park I would outright ban any kind of graduating class trip. Especially since they made a tradition to break the rules and get kicked out of the park.
@@Rayden440 - If anything, the park inviting the schools would have been an argument the parents made. In other words, the parks knew that kids were prone to doing this, that it could result in serious injury or death, but they took no measures to prevent that behavior.
Park most likely paid to avoid being taken to court even if they knew they’d win the case it’s probably cheaper to settle 4m than have to go to court pay court fees hire lawyers investigators etc 😢
the park still should have found a way to stop them although they were cautioned not to do it and it is still tragicly their fault and the park shouldnt have to pay.
@@thediamondkneeplate6981 lol have it your way and we'd have warning signs telling people how often to breathe, or they might stop breathing and sue you for having no sign lol. Darwin awards IMO
How about we realize that our kids were irresponsible and negligent, accept that fact, and realize we don't deserve money for that. It's a tragedy, but basically they are teaching them to blame others for their mistakes, instead of owning up to them. 17 and 18 is plenty old enough to know that wasn't a safe or smart thing to do.
I feel this story in particular is a good example that no matter who's fault it was, relatives are going to sue whoever was involved for financial gains.
@@esteemedmortal5917 What healthcare? Quimby died and therefore didn't need two million dollars. Her family was just money grubbers leaping at the chance to play the ghetto lottery.
That was senior cut day at my school in Castro Valley and I had a bunch of friends witness the whole thing. They said that lifeguards were screaming at the kids to stop going down the slide and were trying to get the kids to stop going down at the top. They said it was numerous lifeguards and that guards from other areas were rushing over to help before the slide even broke, like they knew how dangerous the kids were being. My friends told me it was like the staff was trying everything they could to get those kids to stop before the accident happened. They also said how terrible it was seeing all those kids, their own age, falling from the broken slide. I couldn’t go that day because my attendance was already so crappy. I’m glad I was one of the few that stayed back.
So you’re admitting that you would have gone with them to engage in this stupidity had your attendance been on track? Nice way to admit how stupid you are.
The fact that the parents sued the park and school authorities over the stupidity of their children really shows the kind of parents they were. I don't care how old you are, when there are warning and danger signs, you either follow them or risk your lives, this park shouldn't have to pay one cent
I graduated high school in '86. If I had pulled a stunt like this with my classmates and gotten injured, my parents would have been FURIOUS... With me. I would have been in a world of trouble(after they knew I was okay). It's unfortunate that we can't seem to hold people accountable for their own actions anymore.
Definitely the kind of parents that would raise kids to deliberately break rules and engage in dangerous activities. Because they're special snowflakes and consequences aren't real.
Not the park’s fault. The slide was meant for one person, not 33. The kids were old enough to know right from wrong. They didn’t listen to the lifeguards. Some bad decisions can’t be undone. RIP Quimby.❤
@trumpisthemessiah7017they did everything they could to stop it. They were young adults and refused to listen to explicit intrusions not to do what they were about to do and they carried through with it like idiots.
@trumpisthemessiah7017except this slide had only been there for a year so…no this had not been done every year unless students before hand had been doing this on a ghost slide?
If the slide is meant for one person at a time, you don't let 33 people onto it together. Especially when you know that something like this can happen, because it's happened before. It wouldn't even take it being done deliberately; someone could panic or something and clog up everyone behind them. The point is that "everybody behind them" shouldn't be enough weight to collapse the structure's already generous safety margins. That's why the park is blamed.
I feel horrible for the family of the young lady who died, and for those seriously hurt, but this was not the park's fault at all. Just teenagers, who thought they were invincible (admit it, we all felt that way), being young and dumb.
I didn't, in fact I always stood back when people did dumb stuff, and inevitably got hurt some times :/ Just depends how much of a telling off you thought youd get back home lol
We're less noticeable to the ruckus types because we don't get into trouble, but there are many kids and teenagers with sense. You got the ones who would try to stop others from being stupid or disrespectful, and others who are less polite and mock the situation. But possibly most of us were so checked out of shenanigans we didn't even know know what was going on, and then mock ourselves for it. Our youthful naivety was geared in a different direction. You might think of us as the boring or square kids.
Ages 13 - 22 are the years some young people do dumb things. There are always some mature kids and some rather immature kids, but all are still mentally developing until at least 25.
This is one of the few tragedies where I am actually a little mad at the victim's families for suing. The students did this to themselves. If anything, the school should have done something to stop the tradition before it ended a life. There's no way they didn't know the seniors would try it again that year, given the track record.
Indeed, what was the Park supposed to do? Have an army of security guards armed with tazers to stop a mob of teenagers from rushing the slide? If you break the rules at a park where risks are involved, then you have to bear the responsibility for it.
As my driving instructor put it, that anyone survives being seventeen is a miracle. I'm not surprised they did this, the brain is far from fully developed at this age. The lifeguards did what they could, and I'm sure the teachers did too. If the parents should sue anyone at all, it ought to be each other.
You're entirely right. Fining the park for the students' insane behavior is terrible. This was in fact a crime by the students, I'm sorry to tell their parents and survivors.
@@dap777754 Yeah, it was a win-win for the parents, there was absolutely no way on Earth they would ever have won the lawsuit but the park's owners knew that if they tried to fight the lawsuit they would be called monsters for dragging these "poor, innocent children" through the courts. So the park immediately offered to settle out of court. Cases like this are a dream for ambulance-chasing lawyers who know full well that even an entity not at fault will offer to settle before the media tears them apart and ruins their reputation. The real enemy here (other than the disgusting vulture parents) is the media, if we had a responsible media that never tried to stir up controversy at every opportunity then this water park could have entered that court and defended themselves fairly. Instead they chose the lesser of two outcomes - lose tens of millions as the media portrays them as uncaring monsters and drives their customers away, or lose a few million and keep their reputation in tact. One more reason to hate tabloid journalism and sensationalist media.
@@dap777754 This is typically done because trials last quite some time and it would have put their names in the headlines over and over for a death. The amount they lost on the settlement is nothing compared what they would lose from the publicity. This is well known.
Unbelievable that these parents saw an opportunity to capitalize on their kids’ mistakes/death. Nothing fires up my anger more than seeing people not take responsibility for their actions or be completely blind to their child’s faults. The fact that they went straight to lawsuits and took no responsibility makes me have ZERO sympathy for the situation. At that point you’re on your own and deserve what you get.
Look, I don't want to sound cold or downright heartless, but it's really hard not to. These kids knew what they were doing and knew that it was completely wrong and against the rules. But they did it anyway. The girl who died in the accident should have thought about it. She should have known that it could bring serious consequences and not agree to participate with what those idiots were planning to do. They played with the fire, and they got burned. They got what was coming to them. 17 or not, I don't feel bad at all for the survivors and how they said that the incident scarred them for life. It serves them right for their stupidity.
Yeah, the park never shouldve settled. There is no way, that frivolous lawsuit wouldnt have been thrown out of court. Those students (I refuse to call them kids, they were old enough or almost old enough to friggin vote!) knowingly and deliberately broke the safety rules, that are there to protect them. They planned it for hours, waiting until the end of the day to do their stunt, coz they KNEW, they would get kicked out for it. Very easy to prove malicious intent on their part. They should be forced to own up to their actions, not get a friggin payday for it!
@@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 they didn't win. The park paid out that's not necessarily a win. It would have cost more to go through the actual courts etc and they would claim back fees from the family which they prob thiught would be immoral
I remember this story! Years later at my school they talked about this story as a cautionary tale to the older students who went on yearly school trips to the water park to obey the safety rules
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
@Bearded Jagger They did have measures in place. The morons ramrodded their way through the employee that was trying to stop them. The people that died are SOLELY to blame. I'd go a step further, and say that the ones that survived should be billed for the damage they caused the park.
I don’t understand why they paid a penny either 🤯 It’s a horrible accident but come on, it was totally their fault. They were old enough to know better ffs
@@michellerene951 it happened with a guy who went down a water slide and in a freak accident his spine just gave out and his neck broke. He was paralyzed from the waist down, but when he sued the park successfully argued that the slide was safe and it was his body that was not in good condition. It’s still open and there have been no other injuries on that water slide.
Why? It was covered by insurance and a trial, even if they are blameless, would've kept the story and especially the girl's death in the news and tarnished their reputation far worse than the amount they paid. The families would have used the media to bash the parks reputation and pass blame off the quilty students responsible.
@@ramsfan515 And that attitude, u should there, is exactly, why such frivolous lawsuits continue to happen. I could understand, if it was due to some action on behalf of the park, negliegence with maintenance or whatever. But this was 1000% the fault of the students. They knowingly broke the safety rules, waiting until just b4 leaving anyway, coz they KNEW, they would get kicked out for their stunt. If anything, the park shouldve countersued for damages for the destruction of their ride, it would be entirely their right, tho yes, that wouldnt look great. But no matter, how much the families would use the media to bash the park, noone with 2 functioning brain cells, including high school students like these, would ever see this as anything other than deliberate actions on the part of the students, stupid but deliberate, for which Quimby paid the ultimate price. And frankly, the other students need to own up to the consequences of their actions, not get a payday for willfully breaking the safety rules, that are there to protect them. Actions have consequences. And they were old enough to know better, indeed they DID know better, thats why they waited till late to do it!
@@dfuher968 But the parks alternative is to have this girl's death associated with their name in the News cycle for years as the trial drags on. Even if they win in court the park still loses overall. Some battles aren't worth the cost.
My mom grew up in Napa and she went to the same school and knew a lot of the people who fell, she told me this story and I'm surprised I found it again on UA-cam.
Same! I was very surprised to see it on you tube as well. There was an English elective teacher named Ms. V. who told our class about it but I had already heard about it from my own parents, too. I also went to Napa High School, graduated in 2014. I thought it was kind of odd they used a picture of the remodeled stadium for this video instead of whatever it looked like back in the 90s. My class was the first Freshmen class to use the new stadium, back in 2010. Anyway Ms. V. said Quimby was such a sweet girl, and she cried while telling us this story. I'd never seen her cry before. By the way, I saw that Alyndras last name was Franco, do you know if there is any relation to Babara Franco? Barbara Franco was a principle at Napa Highschool back when I went there, I was wondering if maybe that girl was her daughter or something.
I can’t believe that they blamed the water park. That really shows that parents will blame anyone but their own precious angels that could do nothing wrong. I feel so bad for the lifeguard that was unable to stop the teens, they must have been blamed so much.
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
@Trump Is The Messiah except the part at 1:40 where they say that it was the first time the school went to that water park The park had literary no way to know these kids were going to do it, they made the slide with adequate safety precautions with 8x max weight threshold of standard operating capacity. Trying to put the blame on the attendant at the top of the water slide who was probably some 18-20 year old part time kid working a summer job for being unable to stop 30+ people charging past him is absurd
Even if it withstood 33 people, what did they think would happen when all 33 people would slide down at once? That could arguably have caused just as much injury. They could have flown off or crushed eachother in the tubing. It's extremely tragic, but if they had "succeeded" in their "plan", someone still could've died either way.
The park did nothing wrong, the teenagers made a deadly decision and that’s on them, and if it’s true that a school staff member heard of their plan, their fault as well. RIP Quimby💔, I feel empathy for the students that were injured, and it’s terrible that it happened.🙁
Honestly if not for the last Girl paying the ultimate price. This was a fantastic lesson to learn about not letting groups of your peer’s talk you into stupid and dangerous stunts. Most all safety regulations are written in blood… no need spill your own to trace back over them again.
Horrible preventable tragedy. If my daughter had done this and caused her own death or injury, I'd be ashamed if I sued the water park. I hope those 33 young adults never ever forget what they did.
@@uditisinha305 33 students fell when the slide collapsed. One was killed. 32 others fell but were not killed. I guess the one doesn't apply to my statement. So on a technicality, maybe you're right. Lol But I'm not changing my comment because it was 33. (I'd post my sources but I never left the Google results page because at least 3 sites stated "33" in just the introductions listed. So, my source is the Google results page for Banzai Pipeline Slide Collapse.)
It would have cost the park a lot both financially and reputatinally ( ? I donno looks like a word) it probably helps the parents to sue and blame someone other than their kids
This is pissing me off so much. The park having to pay for the students stupidity, this is ridiculous. I don't feel sympathy for any of those students. People seemingly only learn when things go horribly wrong, and even then they try to act innocent. Disgusting.
It’s funny because when ever it’s the parks fault they can’t sue but when it’s not there fault like this case they have to it’s stupid asf it was the teens fault not the parks I feel bad for the part
I will never understand teenagers doing beyond stupid things like this. I'm so sick of hearing "we were all stupid teenagers at some point. teens do stupid things" this isn't just stupid. this is blatant regard for any type of safety. the fact the parents had the audacity to sue the school and park blows my mind. blows my mind even more that the park actually PAID the parents. the park should have sued the parents for their stupid kid's bullshit breaking their waterslide. play stupid games, win stupid prizes. this is why some schools don't even do fieldtrips anymore, especially to amusement parks.
I agree with you 💯💯💯! The park was completely innocent. They had nothing to do with what happened. The kids were to blame. Such an easily preventable tragedy. Thank you for your hard work ♥️🙏🏻
Peer pressure is wild. Because something tells me she who perished would have NEVER gotten on that slide if she was "someone you could go to for advice." I feel like she knew better; hence why she was the last one. But who am I to say.
Even the smartest and most responsible of teenagers have gotten caught up in peer pressure situations that ended up having dire consequences for them. No teenager is completely immune from the power of peer pressure.
This is what happens in all instances of such negligent behaviour, people who do not want to be a part of it but get swept into it by peers are the ones that are harmed more.
Not only were they forced to repair the slide, they had to close the park down for the investigation and I'm sure many workers lost their wages. It really upsets me the park ever had to pay or they had the gull to even think to sue.
The deceased girl's family owns a large construction company that does some massive projects. When you drive through areas around Napa and Santa Rosa, you see big equipment and water tanks with Ghilotti on them.
I feel more bad for the park than I do those kids. They did something stupid and paid for it. It's kinda similar to people that drink until they get drunk then decide driving is a good idea and drive into a wall or a tree and die. The only difference is they never thought about the fact that the slide *would break underneath the weight*. Like yea it sucks they got hurt but they have ZERO room to complain, whine, or bitch and neither did those parents. At least, not to the park. The school, yes as *they knew about the tradition and looked the other way*.
So you exonerate the park authorities who also knew about the tradition. I'm guessing you're one of those uneducated bumpkins who blame schools for all their failures in life.
Very tragic story, however totally preventable ! You said it perfectly, while it may have been their fault they didn’t deserve that outcome. We’ve all done some stupid shit in our lives that could’ve landed us in some very bad situations! I know I have ♥️
This is true. I've lost a lot of friends to drag racing in my small town - they get high on weed and drive down rural roads, and they get into bad accidents. Teens think they're invincible. We were all like that once, and it's easy as adults to mock it now, but we often forget that teens' brains are still in development and the rebellious stage can make ordinary smart people do dumb things. The peer pressure of wanting to join a group also contributes. None of these poor people, neither the kids nor the lifeguard nor the staff nor the paramedics on the scene, deserved this. Bad things just sometimes happen.
@@DisasterthonTrueHorror You could be worse off - I drank three glasses of straight blue curaçao as a teenager and threw up everywhere on Canada Day... all because my parents told me not to. Kids are weird. 😅
I would agree except their reaction was to take zero responsibility and instead to demand lawsuit money. That’s where my sympathy takes a turn. These parents have taught their kids to blame others for their mistakes.
It infuriates me that the families sued when the park was not to blame. I was young and stupid once and I could see me and my friends doing something stupid like this. I wouldn’t have wanted my family to sue the park.
It’s always someone else’s fault when the consequences show up. Also on a sliding scale: the worse the consequences, the lesser the fault of the faulty. The kids didn’t “deserve” the trauma, but they deserve the blame! (if that makes sense)
@Trump Is The Messiah "park did nothing to stop" is a weak excuse. It was the teens' fault and no one else's. Also, not stated in the vid but the tradition usually took place at a different water park. The slide they would do this on was built along a hillside, and so it was never far off the ground and had a higher load capacity. Hence why previous classes were able to get away with it.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami Honestly I don't blame the kids. I blame the school and the adults looking after the trip. They knew this tradition was going to happen but they did nothing to stop it. I cannot really blame the kids. Their brain is still developing and other classes had done this same thing before and nobody got hurt. Of course a teenager is going to think nothing is going to happen to them too. The school and the adults who had a chance to stop this before it happened though I have no excuses for.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami I think that's one of the reasons the graduates didn't think the slide would just break. This also isn't the first danger that comes to my mind with pile ups. I mean over 30 people in a slide is dangerous enough. Sliding into each other can cause serious injuries. Actually everybody has some blame in this scenario. The Teenagers for going against safety rules, the teachers for still making trips to water parks without making sure their students wouldn't do such dangerous things and the waterpark for building a slide that wouldn't withstand a clog up, which is something I have seen and heard of people doing before just not to this degree. But none of them thought of this outcome, which is why it is called an accident and not one single person can be held responsible.
I remember when this happened, or rather, the outcome at water parks afterward. My parent’s used to be school teachers that chaperoned their classes at end of year class vacations the schools had, and the stark contrast of people taking the lifeguards more seriously/taking the life guards sides in the case of people trying to bum rush the water slides after this incident. I remember one time a group of high schoolers from the field trip (different class from who my parents were chaperoning) tried to pull this same stunt at a different water world, and oh my god was the park not playing around! There were 3 life guards on duty, and when they tried shouting for the kids to slow down on running up the stairs and seeing what they were planning on doing, one of the kids was literally drug off the water slide and the rest were kicked and banned from the park. Park security was on them as soon as the life guards radioed it in. They also shut that water slide down for the rest of the day. I remember being in line waiting to go down the water slide when the kids decided to launch their plan, and I remember the chaos and sheer anger on the life guard’s faces as everyone in line kept referencing this incident while the kids whined about being banned. It’s a tragedy that was very preventable but sad nonetheless, and at least it had positive societal reaction of “Hey maybe it’s a good idea to listen to safety warnings and heed regulations?”
I made a lot of stupid and dangerous decisions as a high schooler. I’m lucky something like this never happened to me. A steep and expensive lesson for these kids. But it’s not the park’s fault.
As an old person who is surprised that every single person in the senior class went along with this, I'm glad to know I'm not alone & that ppl who agree w/ me are all over the range of ages. What were their teachers teaching them if not to think about the decisions they made? The park shouldn't have had to pay a dime imho. Smdh
If anything, the parents and people responsible should’ve been responsible for every cent of the damages and loss of revenue for the park. They can roll on out to the side walk in their wheel chair to beg for the money to pay it as far as I care. I lost every ounce of sympathy once these assholes took things to court and started playing the victim.
@@zgrif That is a bit harsh. Sure sueing the company was a low brow move but come on man these are kids and I doubt they were the ones who brought it to court. Blame the families for that not the victims (and yes I do consider them victims here).
@Trump Is The Messiah No one else knew it was dangerous to pile 33 people on 1 person fibreglass slide? I guess we found another Napa High School graduate. And the gal to call other people low IQ, LOL
My entire senior class was like this. Every senior class that came before mine always had a senior skip day and a senior party. Not mine. My boyfriend poked fun at us, saying we were all a bunch of wallflowers, and then planned a private "senior party" for me and some of our closest friends. I was the only person there from my class, but there were 4-5 kids who'd graduated two years earlier, 1-2 who'd graduated the year before and a couple that were a few years younger than me. We camped out on my boyfriend's parents' farm, had a big bonfire and cooked fish in it that one of the guys in the group had caught at the lake earlier that day. That was in 2003, is still one of my fondest memories and my boyfriend and I are still together, 25 years this September. There were no hard drugs or binge drinking, maybe a 12 pack of beer and some weed, but we were all safe and just having a good time- nothing that could get anyone killed.
We can't blame her even if it was stupid to do it she was a good person and she just followed the rest of the group , at 17 ,18 you just want to have fun and quimby was the last who falled , she was an angel and of course she knew it was a bad idea but when all of your friends want you to follow them just to have fun the last Day im pretty sure a lot of People would have did the same . May she rest in peace i love her so much❤
The footage you show at 5:03 is tragic yet amazing. I've followed this story off and on during the years and never saw that. Really shows how bad this was. Can't believe only one person died.
I work in a city right next to Concord and I even recall seeing signs for Hurricane Harbor as I’ve driven through the area. This sounds horrific but clearly the park should not be held responsible. 33 students shouldn’t be using the same slide no matter how safe it is.
@@whatabouttheearth Having grown up in that “posh” area you speak of, I can understand where you’re coming from. But the actions of these students at this particular school do not reflect the youth in every school district. There are smart people and dull people everywhere and it seems the dull people “won” that day.
I agree with you. The park was not to blame at all. These kids were all enough to know better. While I don’t think the parents should have sued the park, I think parents who are grieving or seeing their child in pain, aren’t always thinking clearly either. It’s honesty amazing that only one kid died given how far they all fell.
I agree completely. It's not the park's or ride designer's fault at all, but the students. The parents wanted to blame someone in their grief and blamed the park as they couldn't/wouldn't blame their own kids.
Yeah, sure, why have their kids learn the lesson, that actions have consequences, and they have to own up to them, when they can instead learn their (friggin adult) kids, that no matter how stupidly u behave, no matter how willfully u broke the rules, no matter how much it was ur actions, ur entire fault, that this happened, u can just sue and a payday. I dont care, how much they were grieving, or how traumatised the other students are (I refuse to call 17 and 18y olds kids, theyre old enough to drive), this was disgusting behavior, both with the original deliberate plan, that caused their trauma and the death of their fellow student, and especially the lawsuit blaming the park for their own actions. There was no shortages of sign, staff etc telling them NOT to do it and trying to stop them, they deliberately planned to do it anyway, planned how to plow past the staff. If anything, when they had the absolute gall to sue the park, the park shouldve responded with a countersuit for damages to their ride and the trauma of their staff!
Someone who lived nearby said the school used to go to a different park where the big slide was on a hill. So the weight of the kids was supported by the hill. This was a new park with a free-standing slide, and it was the first time they had gone there. The kids did this stunt every year. Nothing had ever gone wrong. No one realized the difference in the slides. Edit: someone who worked there said the park installed safety features to prevent more than one person getting on the slide at once after the incident. Because they could have done it before (didn’t know they needed to) and prevented this incident, they settled with the families.
With the way that the slide opening is even if there were extra life guards at the top how are you supposed to stop a bunch of 17 year olds who are pushing their way even if you did have a light or some other indicator. How is that to actually stop them from just pushing their way in
I can find no evidence that the slide had to be changed and the Quimby family were Idi0ts who thought that a slide should hold 33 people. They were money hungry.
It would still never be the parks fault. The safety rules are there for good reasons. The students knowingly and willfully planned all day to break those rules, then forcefully plowed past the staff, trying to stop them. There is no way, this frivolous lawsuit would even make it to trial, when it was the admitted actions of the students, who 100% caused this. They should own up to their actions and face the consequences of them, not get a friggin payday bytrying to blame others for the consequences of their own willful actions. They were 17 and 18, not kids! No wonder, Americans are always suing everyone for everything, when the lesson is, that u can always sue and get paid, even when it is 1000% ur own fault. I feel very sorry for Quimby's family, and I would be very sorry for the trauma of the survivors, if they had learned from it, but when the lesson is to hurry to get a payday? F... them!
The park shouldn't have been made to pay a dime, this was caused by the kids and the kids only. They took it upon themselves to disobey the rules and the person in charge of the slide, everything that they suffered through was brought on by themselves and no one else. Why should the park be made to pay for the students stupidity?
@@somehaloguy9372 They shouldnt have settled, there is no way, that frivolous lawsuit would ever make it to trial. Its as frivolous a lawsuit, as if I deliberately walked behind ur car, as u backed out of parking, forcing u by my actions to hit me, with dozens of witnesses around and video showing it was my willful actions, that caused my injuries, yet me suing u for the damage and my trauma, and u paying up. No judge would ever go for it.
It’s bad for those who lost family and/or are forever damaged. However, this wasn’t “an accident”. It was foolish. They should absolutely not be compensated. They CHOSE to do something stupid and learned fast they aren’t invincible. Kids that stupidly speed and kill - don’t get compensation. Yes, I feel for them. It is tragic; but no one should’ve got a single red cent. Our culture gets dumber by the day, and it’s beyond tragic
Wow! I almost choked on my breakfast. It's amazing how bad decisions and poorly thought out plans means it's the park's fault. It's so sad that people don't take responsibility. Totally disgusting behavior. SMH.
i'm always hesitant to watch your videos because i'd like to enjoy theme parks without being unreasonably terrified, but i always end up being somewhat comforted by the fact that a lot of this stuff is completely preventable.
Same with me, I don't like watching theme park accidents because I love theme parks, but at the same time some of these are basically teaching me what to do (check restraints, follow instructions, follow instinct) but the ones that were purely accidental are the ones that terrify me
Good job. Well made and honest content. It's refreshing to see a youtuber who is not spineless and would have blamed the park. Fortunately, you have done the research and told the inconvenient truth. I respect that and feel bad for the "victims but facts are facts. Thank you for truthfully telling the story. Cheers from Canada
the worst part is that this still happens, at our local pool a small 7 year old boy got crushed between 2 heavy set boys who were clogging the slides, the boy was not part of the clogging plan but because the boy in front of him was quite big and the boy that came after was quite big the small boy got crushed. All children who have at least once tried to clog the slides at a pool or at a waterpark should be shown this video to see what can happen if you don't keep to the rules.
@@Deadsea_1993 for as far as I know he lived but was pretty badly injured, he had to be carried out on a stretcher to an ambulance but I don't know anything beyond that point because it was never on the news or anything
It's incredible how people get themselves in situations like these and then others are blamed or have to bear the consequences for them in the long run.
I never heard of this incident before, thanks for covering it here. I think that the kids intended no harm, they just thought their stunt would be funny. A lot of practical jokes misfire, but I agree that the water park should not have had to pay any compensation, even to the family of the girl who died.
Exactly my thoughts, I don’t understand why people are calling the kids stupid or idiots, they were trying to something funny and it backfired, cuz who hasn’t done anything stupid and hasn’t had it backfired I understand that it was the kids fault but I feel like the comments had no empathy nor respect for the kids
As sad and tragic it is, it was still the teenagers fault that their friend died, and all because they wanted to do something they considered to be fun or funny without even thinking twice about what could happen. A lot of teenagers think they know what they are doing when they actually have no damn idea. But i do agree that the teens didn't deserve the outcome, this is something that sadly has been haunting them for so long till this day and it's so sad 😢
I really do love how empathetic you are. Some youtubers sound fake and scripted but you sound like you actually care. Second video I've seen of yours and I love everything about your channel so far, your voice, your opinions, your content, the way it's edited, everything. Well done, great work.
When I was a kid going down a slide like this in the mid 90's, I saw several older kids climbing on top of the slide above me as I slid down. I knew how high up we were and I was horrified. When climbing the stairs up the slide I remember imagining someone falling and hitting the wooden supports on the way down. When I reached the bottom I was expecting an emergency situation because I believed one of them was surely going to fall. No one got hurt, but I was profoundly bothered by what I saw that day for a very long time. It was all I could think about watching this. It pains me to know something worse than what I imagined that day actually happened.
This is my hometown. How am I just now coming across this video? Those waterslides were basically some of the earliest skyscrapers I ever knew. In my memory, there was a vague sort of "lower Manhattan on 9/12" feeling from being able to see that broken slide from blocks away. Burned in my memory, cant believe that was so long ago
I worked at Wet N Wild in Vegas for a few summers and there were accidents but overall it was pretty safe. When I was a really small child in the late 80s and early 90s you would get these bootleg waterparks opening up overnight with long, wide, fast, and twisty concrete water slides. They were a ton of fun for me at the time but my old man broke 3 ribs on one and I remember they would actually RENT SAFETEY HELMETS for an extra $5 along with the chewed up colored mats (the mat color dictated when your time was up) The slides were super wide but we still managed to clog them up as a group. It really was a blast but the people with open head wounds and broken legs/arms was not
Teenagers are indestructible until life teaches them otherwise. The best parents in the world somehow can't teach this; kids have to experience it to understand. We survived the lesson, but everyone reading this knows someone who didn't.
Yes, I had 1 class mate, who always went over the lines, repeatedly. He made it to 25, then got himself killed driving 3 times the speed limit on a narrow hilly road surrounded by huge trees. He wasnt wearing a seatbelt either, they had to get him down from hanging over a treebranch using the laddertruck. We all knew, he would end up like this one way or another, it was a question of time, coz he never learned from the consequences of his actions. We were just grateful, that he hadnt gotten others killed with him, as is too often the case. But his family didnt sue anybody. They didnt try to profit from the irresponsibility and the willful breaking of rules/laws of their son. How are these teenagers, these young adults (they were 17 and 18 ffs, old enough and almost old enough to vote, old enough to drive), to learn from the consequences of their actions, when the lesson is, that they can willfully break all rules and then get paid for it.
@@idontknow409 That is such a foolish comment. I agree with Kristian. I didn't think I was indestructible as a teen, and it certainly wasn't "traumatizing" to have that awareness. That knowledge just helped me make wiser decisions. These lessons should be taught to children at an early age. That's why you teach kids to look both ways when crossing the street, don't touch a hot stove, don't jump from high heights, don't go off with strangers, etc. It's not like you're screaming at the kid "don't do this or you'll die!!" in a traumatizing manner. You're teaching your child how to make smart decisions to reduce their risks of being harmed. Plus, some kids are introduced to death by the loss of a loved one or a pet. So they aren't delusional regarding their own mortality. All teens aren't clueless idiots who never consider the consequences of their actions. Being a senior in high school is old enough to have considered your own mortality and the fact that doing something really stupid can lead to injury or death. Hell, 18 year olds have fought in wars. These people were young adults, not toddlers.
@Kindred When people are forced to confront their own mortality while very young, unfortunately its via some trauma. Perhaps by the death of somebody close, a terrible injury or long illness, etc. People don't usually come to terms with this until adulthood; growing up with this knowledge for some kids is, like I said, traumatizing. If you went through any of this very young and didn't come out the other side with some trauma, Hey good for you, but not everyone is so lucky. The best, most caring parents in the world can tell you fire is hot, not to touch, but it's all theoretical until you put your hand to the flame. That's how each one of us learned. You and I were able to survive the lesson, so please stop passing judgment on those who did not. I write all this in case you are a regular person whose heart is in the right place, but missed the point. If you're just a troll with nothing better to do, How To Be a Decent Human lessons are over, leave me alone.
I agree, the park shouldn’t have paid anything. This is one massive “eff around and find out” moment. Parents asking for payout are mind-blowing. I’m sorry for their losses, but the park did nothing wrong to them. If anything, they should pay the park for the property damage. I do agree that the school should be held accountable if this was a supervised school trip.
I literally grew up in Concord California and basically at this water park where this happened! It was a horrific accident, and was talked about for years and years and years after that. My graduating class was extremely cautious when we went there. No more shenanigans after that. R.I.P. to Quimby and all those injured and scared on that terrifying day…..💔 P.S. I believe today the park that was formerly called Waterworld, is now known as six Flags Harbor Kingdom.
Dude, Southern California owns de la salle, when was the last time they beat mater dei or St. John bosco. Hell they needa watch out for serra San Mateo as they have emerged as of late. Folsom too
I had a season pass to Waterworld back then and my son and I went there 3-4 times a week. I worked at the Tosco Refinery and decided to see what all of the activity was at Waterworld that afternoon. There were a lot of sirens and emergency vehicles headed that way. It shook me as I watched the news as we went down that chute many times. It wasn't just the weight of 33 teens but the water flow they backed up added a terrible amount of weight to the joints on the fiberglass sections.
This was definitely not the parks fault It in fact is very sad But there were rules & signs And they ignored it Only video you’ve shown that I feel could’ve been prevented by the victims
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
First off, Happy New year! Thank you for telling this story and always being straight to the point. I feel for both the waterpark staff and the people there who had to witness this horrible act. A slide only meaning to hold one person was packed with 4 x its own weight. What did they think was going to happen? Even the idea itself to clog a waterpark slide was so stupid and irresponsible. I feel that the park had to pay anything. The parents and kids are the only ones responsible and no one else. There is a difference between stupid ideas and dangerous ideas as a teenager, but this was both. I truly hope the workers trying to stop them can heal, because one or two staff members cannot stop 33 grown 17 year olds trying to rush passed them adequately.
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I totally disagree with the outcome that the park was at fault and had to cough up 4 million for those who got injured. I admit the death is a tragedy but it was the students who decided to come up with this dumb idea and get themselves injured. In my opinion the park was not at fault.
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Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
Romans 6.23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
that guy at the beginning is peak white guy anchorman intro
The fact that it took over 30 people to break the slide is actually a testament to how safe and well built it was. I’m rarely one to stand up for corporations, but in this case It’s completely ridiculous that people attempted to blame the park.
Agreed! The park should not have been to blame at ALL. Over 30 idiots rushed the guard and piled onto one joint of a structure. They were asking for a catastrophe.
I think it's also outstanding that the company decided to pay the families anyway. They definitely didn't have to, but to me it shows that they care about those affected despite it being their fault.
Reminds me of that one time incident at a mall who didn't heed the warning of elevator's weight limit and how many person should be inside. But alas, they think its not a problem and just press on until suddenly got themselves stuck. Good thing no one's complaining about it but still READ THE WARNING SIGN next time.
@ThatOneWeirdGal probably cheaper than going to trial.
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What?? They expect that the park should have been adequately prepared for 32 people to rush past, refusing to follow safety guidelines?? If ANYBODY should be suing, it should be the worker who tried to stop them- who is now likely traumatized for life- suing the kids for the cost of psychiatric care!
right!!! slides typically have a weight limit around 300lbs. 32-33 teenagers weigh far far more than 300lbs.
@Cee Dub619cameraman i bet the lawsuit wouldn’t have been successful had this gone to trial. the park settled. they weren’t ordered to pay
A g r e e d !!
But that makes too much sense we're not a nation of Common Sense where nation of feelings remember🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Hell, there was zero reason for the park to settle. Regardless of the grief of Quimby's family and the trauma of the others, this was entirely selfinflicted. There are safety rules for very good reason. They admitted, they waited until right b4 leaving anyway, coz they KNEW, they would get kicked out of the park for that idiotic stunt. And there is no judge, who would render a verdict against the park for failing to stop 32 ppl being complete idiots, as that would mean, that they expect the park to have enough security personel at every single ride for the purpose of stopping that many ppl deliberately breaking the safety rules.
Not only should the park have paid nothing. Yeah, that worker is the real victim here. And they should be glad, the park didnt answer that frivolous lawsuit with a countersuit demanding restitution for the destruction of their ride!!
Not being American, I often have difficulty understanding the American mentality of suing every1 over everything. But that 1 is just insane. The nerve of those ppl! There is no excuse, I dont care, how much they are grieving, ofc it is incredibly sad, that Quimby died so young - and so avoidably. But trying to blame others for the deliberate, knowing actions of their lost loved one/themselves is disgusting.
As an engineer, there is no way the park or the design or construction of the slide should be blamed for this tragedy... the report on the slide said that the weight of the 33 students was "over four times the slide's capacity", which means the slide which was designed for one person at a time already had a safety factor of more than 8, which is more than sufficient for a structure like this...
You are correct. I worked in construction for years ( on all different types of structures) although I'm not an engineer ( steel fabrication, painting, and carpentry)
There was nothing wrong whatsoever with the structural integrity of that waterslide. They are designed and built to specific standards, specifications, and certification. It was totally safe. There is no way an engineer or builder could have foreseen an event like that occurring, a basically deliberate load bearing failure. Those dumb kids did not understand basic physics. It's just fibreglass after all.
Republican answer. The park was responsible for not doing anything to stop the incident.
@@pasques wth ? This has nothing to do with the matter. As he said the safety factor was over 8 it's the childrens fault
@Joseph Fernando - Piano This is exactly what I was trying to put into words. Thank you for explaining that major detail in such a way, legend.
@@pasques Republicans would get as much money as possible and concoct a reasonable lie. Liberals would actually believe that kind of bullshit.
I actually feel most sorry for the lifeguard. They probably were a similar age to the seniors, and there’s only so much you can do when 33 people are deliberately ignoring you. I hope they don’t feel responsible or guilty or that they could have done more. I’m a teacher, and getting 33 kids to stop something they’re excited about, they’ve been planning, that they are implementing in a very short space of time and are probably way hyped up sounds like an absolute nightmare. All the seniors will have heard is “no fun allowed!!” and ignored it entirely.
True, it was almost impossible to stop
Interesting you said this, I was a lifeguard here in Ventura Ca for 15 years & started out at local pools, & never did I EVER have more than 2 people at a time ignore my orders, of course I ended up having to get them out both ocean & pool!
This!! I once went on a theater trip in high school to New York City. A group of kids were planning some party outting with alcohol. They got busted and some of them were whining and crying to my teacher while he gave them shit for it but they put his job and perhaps his personal life in jeopardy since parents so commonly hold schools and teachers responsible for their child that misbehaves and doesn’t follow rules. Plus, that teacher really cared about us students and I won’t forget him telling me what a panic attack he about had at the thought those kids almost getting into dangerous trouble when they were out in the city on their own.
@@stephenchristian5739 Yeah that's been my observation as well. This is a really unique situation to have so many people disregarding the instructions of the staff. I've been to waterparks many times, and can't even specifically recall a single time someone went too early. There was one time someone came out of the slide after me sooner that I expected, but still nowhere close to being unsafe. Having 30+ people at once is absolutely bonkers.
The families having the gall to say the slide was too weak after the investigators said it withstood 4 times it’s capacity before it broke is unbelievable
They would be pressing lack of supervisor on the slide that would prevent 33 dum-dums going into the slide while 0 are going out of it.
@@Steir12*How would 1 person stop 33 people?*
I’d imagine it would be hard to admit it was your child’s fault why they got injured, and in that one case, died.
For real! The ones that should have been sued were the parents.
@@randomgamingness7953how is that hard, kids get themselves in danger all the time
Judging a single-rider waterslide's safety by its ability to hold thirty three people at once is like judging a roof's safety by its ability to withstand being struck by a 200 foot falling pine tree in a hurricane.
No because that at least could happen. This is like judging your roof by the metric of an elephant falling on it. Possible but who would ever imagine that would happen
More like a roof being hit by an asteroid the size of a Prius.
@@uisceprestonI came to comment “or like an above ground pool on an apartment roof” but I realized your asteroid ☄️ was better
Then why it is there in the first place.. in such a crowded place.. And what about the security?
Its more like juding a roof's safety by its ability to hold thirty three people at once.
The parents suing the park is just UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯
Thats why their kids felt entitled not to listen to any security measure 😡😡😡 you cannot give others the responsibility for your kids lack of caution!!!!!
it's california.....
"The parents" is a vague noun in this instance, however, don't you think? if 33 kids fell through the slide as it broke, would it be every single parent of those kids joining in on a lawsuit? I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm simply thinking that it might not have been every single parent. I don't think there was an issue with the design of the waterslide. I think there was an issue with warning people not to do stupid things before they get into the waterslide.
@@Dark_Narratives > issue with warning people
this would make sense if it was an elementary or even middle school, because it is high school SENIORS (aka, basically adults) this isn't their fault.
The disaster is the real life equivalent of "play stupid game win stupid prizes"
its america, everyone sues there..weird society.
It’s sad and tragic, but it wasn’t the park’s fault. Safety rules are in place for a reason.
Agreed!!!
I feel it bro, but the park should also have made the slide far stronger in my opinion. It looks flimsy as hell
A slide meant to go one at a time could hold a max of 7/8 kids. That is strong enough and no reasonable amount of reinforcement would hold that many kids
@@snicker576 As my dad used to jokingly say, "all that damned theme park equipment should have to withstand a fat people orgy before it gets approved for public use!" 😅
This is why I will NEVER own a business. People f-up, and want you to pay for it. Even though rules and procedures are clearly posted. People don’t take responsibility for themselves anymore
This is the first park accident I've heard of where negligence of the park employees wasn't a factor at all.
Must not have seen a lot of park accident videos then.
There have been some example of patrons going into unauthorized areas and getting hurt or killed. Also, on log flume rides there have been several examples of people standing up during the ride and then either getting ejected or clipped by part oof the ride environment.
NO trial should've ever been set, yet they were STILL sued! 😂 Yt privilege at it's most pale. 👋🏾😅
It was definitely the kids own fault, I don’t blame them tho at 17/18 you do dumb shit like this especially when in groups with others. I personally think the school should’ve done something to prevent it since (from what I remember) it was a thing seniors had done before, but I don’t know if there’s actually anything they could’ve done to stop a bunch of teenagers.
@@Xaviinn And yet the parents won their undeserved lawsuit.
The lifeguard who was ignored was the one who I feel very sorry for.
Sorta
@@Papapickles69 bro what? yes they did, they tried to stop them, but one person cant physically force 33 people to move from like 10ft or more away. have some compassion
@@Papapickles69 they definitely did their job. They can't stop 33 teenagers from doing what they want.
Right?
I can't believe they caused a 33 person pile up and they still got paid... Sad that the girl died, but no way was that the park's fault.
I completely agree that no one, but the kids, should be held responsible. Yes they were young, but old enough to realize that stupidity comes with consequences
How about the people who raised them?
@@braken63 These were 17 and 18 year olds. Some of their decisions/behavior could be attributed to parenting, but 17 is almost a legal adult and 18 is a legal adult. These were students who are old enough to know right from wrong. The lifeguard warned them and the students chose to ignore the safety rules. It’s tragic, but the incident was entirely preventable if they had decided to just follow the rules.
@@Wick_n_Embers never said the teens shouldn't be held accountable
@@braken63 True. Sorry if my comment comes off as harsh. I don't think the parents are responsible for anything but unreasonably blaming the park. I was reading the other comments and apparently, the school usually went to a different water park with a stronger slide made for several people. Even parents that tried to instill the "don't do stupid things" common sense into their kids probably wouldn't have been able to stop this. It was a school tradition and I wouldn't be surprised if peer pressure had some involvement as well. If anything, I'd blame the school more than the parents for not discouraging the tradition.
@@Wick_n_Embers overall a horrible situation,i myself am deadly scared of any kind of amusement park
It's like suing Ford for manufacturing an "unsafe car" while ignoring that the driver was going 130 mph when they crashed.
As a lifeguard myself, I feel so bad for the lifeguard that tried to stop the kids but was understandably unable to stop all 33 of them. Like, they knew what the kids were about to do was dangerous, they tried to stop this tragedy and probably felt guilty they couldn't do more to prevent it.
Exactly, I think it's unreasonable to expect one person to control a mass number of people who all collectively decide to break the rules at once. Obviously every place has a minimum code of conduct that they expect everyone to follow. They can't expect the lifeguard to prevent every stupid thing someone could potentially do like jumping off a tower into the water for example.
yea same its hard enough to control 5 kids but 30+ teenagers? smh
I know. I feel so bad for them. Because they tried to stop the kids but there was 33 of them…it would have been impossible to stop all of them. And, they probably figure what’s the big deal? I don’t think even they thought the slide would break. I know I wouldn’t have thought the slide would’ve broken even though it was loaded down with four or five times the amount of weight its supposed to carry.
Being a lifeguard seems like a different job, I mean you are literally guarding a person's life, and sometimes people can be stupid and they don't listen to you, then something like that could happen and the lifeguard would have to live with the fact that they were unable to save someone for the rest of their life. I wouldn't be able to do it.
Kids? they were 17 and 18 years old, old enough to join the army and handle explosives.
Lifeguard at waterslides? It was probably a kid himself working minimum wage and what could he have done different? Wrestle 33 people to stop them?
Its a tragedy, but you know the chapelle skid "How young is 15 really?" .
The parents sue the park, for their children breaking every rule. The park paid these people? Absolutely ridiculous.
The students should have been made to pay the park for causing serious damage to the ride, bad publicity (unfairly so, but still), and temporary closure of the ride (and perhaps the whole park). The one whose original idea it was should go to prison.
Very few parents like to admit they gave birth to assholes 😂
kids ALWAYS are breaking rules my king. if our kids are in a park, it is a obligation to the park keep them safe.
@@dinho_machadoJust as it is the obligation of a train company to compensate when someone jumps in front of a train. I love your logic.
@@dinho_machado
- *"kids ALWAYS are breaking rules my king."*
Yes, thats why parents TEACH them NOT to break the rules.
- *"if our kids are in a park, it is a obligation to the park keep them safe."*
No, that obligation falls on the parents. On YOU. Aint nobody responsible for your kids other than you. The money you pay to get into the park is so you can use the facilities. Its not a babysitting charge lol I cant stand parents that treat their children more like pets rather than the future of their bloodline. Though that can be seen as an insult to many pet owners that dont treat their pets like mere conversation pieces and ornaments. I myself own a dog, and I can say with 100% certainty that he is better behaved than your kids, as I would never feel the need to preemptively make excuses for future shitty behavior of his. Because 1) he always behaves himself, and 2) even if he did step out of line, I would immediately put a stop to it and take full responsibility. Because thats my job as a pet owner, just as its YOUR job as a parent. Stop putting your responsibilities onto other people.
I'm surprised over 30 students participated in this. In our class if someone proposed this, we would've maybe had 5-6 boys going through with it while the rest just thinks it's stupid
It was the 90s.
Yup the 90s were great. No cell phones. Just living life in the moment.
@@zionismisterrorism8716In 90's young people all over the world were smarter so the decade can't be blamed. Those youngsters were exceptionally stupid.
@@alexanderanghel7946cell phones and waterslides exist in both the 90s and today 💀💀💀 also is this really the right comment when this incident was traumatizing for everyone involved
@@alexanderanghel7946dying in the moment too
Wild to me how people are treating 17 and 18 year olds like they’re 6, they might not have fully developed brains; however, they’re old enough to know not to ignore the person in charge of their safety telling them what they’re about to do is dangerous.
Yup
These dummies were old enough to drive, to drink in multiple countries including mine, to join the army, and, in most cases, to get married
Yet people talk like they were in kindergarten
The person in charge ain't always in the right, though. Like the tragedy in which a japanese ship sank and multiple students drowned inside it because they obediently followed orders to stay in place, meanwhile the more "rebellious" students escaped to the higher floors of the ship and got rescued thanks to it once help arrived
Exactly. 17-18 year olds are literally old enough to drive a car.
Yeah I was downright paranoid about safety at that age. I probably care less now im older.
100000%.
Let’s ignore every rule and warning sign and then blame others when there are consequences
Sums up today's society pal
@@aldorfc220 this happens in 1997 . In every era there's always people that like to blame others for their own misfortune
@ALDO RFC Lol today’s society? Humans have been like this since we’ve been humans.
That’s sadly how a lot of people are now there ignorant and dumb and blinded and need to wake up and open there eyes that the world is different from what most people think and they think the dumb way most of the time like how they don’t like taking responsibility for there own actions and how people are racist and white or Asians can’t do anything about it 😐that’s just 2 examples of how most dumb people are now
@@skittlemilks1614 yeah but it's worse now and will continue to get even worse.
Bk then imagine social media was about jezo
It shocks me that not one of them thought this is a bad idea
I thought the same thing.
Most kids are pretty stupid. That includes teenagers.
Maybe some of them did, but peer pressure?? Not sure, it would be a stupid thing to get talked into doing
It seems like a case of the Asch paradigm, which is basically the idea that if enough people are confident in something, those who disagree chose to go through with the majority decision, even if they can tell something about it isn't right. This likely spread from a few friends who pressured their friends into it, who then went and pressured their friends into it, with more and more people going with the idea as they believed all the others knew were completely confident in their decisions.
@@D7STOPIAN It's like the K-vid jabs today but on a worldwide scale... Majority gets it ? Let's get it. Good thing I did not follow the hive mind...
It’s not about ‘deserving’ the outcome. It’s about being 100% responsible for their own outcomes. Fining and trying to blame others is not taking accountability
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
@Trump Is The Messiah lol your wording tries to minimalize what they actually did. "How dare they GO DOWN A SLIDE!". They didn't just go down the slide they packed the slide on purpose past it's capacity and didn't listen to the guard.
Their actions were premeditated and deliberate and they knew they weren't suppose to be doing it. Also it was the highschool authorities that knew and did nothing, not the park. Legally the park will have to pay out because guests got hurt on their grounds, that does not mean these kids did nothing wrong. So even if you were to say it is the parks fault, to say 100% is a stretch. To say " I swear, you people's brains don't work right" is ironic if this is your take on the incident.
@trumpisthemessiah7017 it's common sense not to shove 33 people down a slide meant for 1 person jfc
@@liverloulook at the pfp, they dont know what common sense is.
@trumpisthemessiah7017Clearly you didn’t watch the video. This park had never had that done here before.
Even without the slide breaking, having a bunch of kids pile onto each other in water is really dangerous. A kid went down a slide too fast behind me and landed on me as I'd finished my turn. It pushed me down and I choked on a lot of water. How could they not have realised this would cause serious injury
The disaster is the real life equivalent of "play stupid game win stupid prizes"
A full grown, 200 lb man did that to me when I was 10 on a water slide. He couldn't be bothered to wait, and slid right behind me.
When I hit the water, his feet crashed into the back of my head, and I thought my neck was broken for a second.
I suppose the giant cracking sound in my neck gave me that impression.
Amazingly, I walked away with only a massive headache and sore neck.
@@We_Are_Borg_478 Wow what an impatient dumass
All waterslides I've gone to had at least two lifeguards - one at the entrance, one at the exit. They communicated with walkie talkies, they only let someone in after the exit guard confirmed the person was out and away from the exit. Are these not common rules?
@@paran315they bumrushed the slide. One person wasn’t going to stop them.
One thing not mentioned is that this tradition usually took place at a different water park. At the normal park, the slide they would do this on was built along a hillside, so was never far off the ground and had a higher load capacity. Hence why previous classes were able to get away with it.
In this caae though, they went to a different park and the slide is free standing. This makes it much less reenforced, and ultimately failed under the weight.
Not super relevant, I know, but still a small fact I thought should be mentioned on why the kids didn't think there would be consequences for it
Thank you for adding this, It gives a little bit more insight to this tragedy
That fact should have made them more wary about this kind of stunt, not less.
I wondered why he said this was a tradition, but there had never been problems before. It would have been helpful for him to include this information.
Sounds like a cheap plastic issue. Also, no one there to enforce rules?? Adults get cops. But everyone wants to blame the kids at a PARK.
@@alwaysyouramanda they did enforce it. The children just didn’t listen
The real tragedy is the refusal of the families to see that their childrens' poor choice was their own making. The teens should have to take responsibility for their choice, not the park. It's sick to see people take advantage of others by shifting blame.
the families are the ones to blame they think their little angels are always right
families wanted the $$$$ of course they wouldn't blame their own children
I doubt half of the families even gave a fuck about their kids and just saw the perfect chance to make money.
Yea the kids should’ve been the ones to pay honestly, pay the park for damages for making them look bad and and unsafe
They never do. There are so protected snowflakes that can't do anything wrong, right? They know the minute they went on that slide that it would be a disaster one way or the other and doing stupid things out of boredom or "we want to get kicked out of the park just for fun".
It’s really sad to me that the park had to pay $4 Million when they did nothing wrong. The audacity of those kids parents to sue the PARK when you raised idiots. 🤦🏽♀️
The parks insurance paid it. That’s why people sue, insurance. If it weren’t for insurance, the park would go out of business and default on paying anything
@@nickkerr5714this makes sense. And even after fault was determined , people still got hurt and died. Maybe compensation to the family of the dead girl is a good thing, and if the water park never existed she still would be alive, maybe that means something. It’s like, they brought a slide into the world that so easily could be exploited like it was. And the consequences for doing so were huge. Maybe they deserve some punishment for that. Perhaps it could be argued that given the high risk, there should have been something that would make it impossible for this to happen. Because as stated in the video , teenagers are stupid. Someone could have looked at this and imagined it could happen, and still let it be open anyway. Humans can be relied on for being stupid. Designers need to understand that. A good design builds a idiot proof condition. We all are idiots , some more then others. Maybe idiots are attracted to water parks. The people who built this thing could also be argued as they are idiots
I agree that it wasn't all the parks fault but they should of had someone at the top regulating who went down the slide and when! Especially if this was a possibility they knew about XxXxX
Personal responsibility for one's own actions is a hard sell. Unfortunately. It's always someone else's fault.
@@kirstiebriggs3068I’m sure they did have someone up there but one person can’t hold back 30 people. This is not the park’s fault.
3:47 "As soon as I felt myself staring to fall, my brain shut off". I think it shut off considerably sooner than that.
My thoughts exactly. I was just about to make this exact comment.
LMAO REAL 😭😭
😂 😂
omg
Lmaoooooo 😂😂😂 yooo
This story angers me...not only would I not have paid a damn dime to the families, but it is infuriating that the parents had the gall to try and blame the park. Clearly showed where the children got their intelligence and sense of entitlement from.
Someone was saying that they did this regularly at another park where the slide was partially built into a hill so it was supported and that this was the first time the kids did it on this slide and that some money was payed out because at the top it was already set up to be so disorganized the staff didn't even know who was going down which slide, so apparently they had a terrible crowd control set up in the first place, so the company just settled on that.
I was just saying the same thing. I'm angered that they were paid for being stupid. No lesson was learned, just monetary gain. I agree with another commenter that the park should have countersued for the destruction of property.
Likely from a wealthy district with extremely high powered lawyers available
Well said
I don't think that the park should have paid out anything for those young adults (well, maybe one million for the young lady who died - and ONLY her family). They're no longer babies nor kids; they're young adults about to graduate, then move on to living as a legal adult by law. But at this point in their lives, they've got to understand and know that every single choice and decision will have consequences - good ones or bad.
It also sounds like Napa Valley could be middle and upper class families living there. If so, I'm sure they seriously _do_ expect everyone and everything to always accommodate _them._ The parents feel entitled, so they spoiled and raised their kids to also feel entitled ("it's ok if we break the rules; *_who is going to say anything to us!!")_*
While I do sincerely hope they all made full recoveries, I also hope that they learned something about what *can* happen from the choices we all make now that they've effed around and found out.
I was a teenager myself when this happened. I remember it well. They were the class above me. Even then I thought it was a load of crap that the parents were suing the water park. Even as a teen, a year YOUNGER than them, I could plainly see that the water park was not responsible for this accident in ANY way. I’m so sick of 18 year olds, legal ADULTS, treated like they’re 4 & having no accountability for their own dumb actions. Are they still young? Yes. Are their brains developed fully? No. Does that mean that they didn’t know better? No. They KNEW it was against the rules. Logic would dictate that if it was a SAFE thing to do, then the water park would NOT be throwing them out for doing it. They already proved they knew they’d be expelled from the park by planning it at the end of their day. I’m sure they even got a lecture each year about the dangers of doing such a stunt, since the senior classes of the past had been kicked out of the park for such. It indeed was tragic that one of the teens lost their lives, but at the same time the water park should not be out 4 million dollars due to the teenagers’ own reckless behavior. I mean what did they expect the water park to do, shut down any & all rides that the teens might try this on? They’d have to shut down almost the entire park! Were they blaming the water park for even allowing the school to come back as a group? Should they have banned them instead? I didn’t understand the logic these parents & the court used as a teen myself when this happened, & I still don’t understand it now as an adult. IMO the park should not have paid a dime & that school should have been permanently banned.
that was a wall of text but i think the teen brain is not developed is a bit of pop science.
@@badgerattoadhall It's true, kid. You're brain doesn't fully develop until your 25 years old.
I went to that water park a while ago, and a bunch of high school seniors were there(I don’t know what high school tho)
@@inter_estingexactly- which is why it feels weird that this comment emphasized that they're LEGAL ADULTS. like i'm not excusing it because it was stupid, but at 18 you're not mentally an adult so it's no surprise that they did something this stupid. but at the same time, i'm 16 and me and my group of 15-20 year old friends would literally never do this. i have no idea what the hell they were thinking.
You would've saved yourself the time and trouble of typing all of that, just by simply saying that nothing can be expected from californians...
None of those kids should have seen a cent from anyone. This was entirely their fault from the start to the finish and honestly, them getting literally rewarded for breaking the rules is only going to cause them to continue that kind of behavior.
They didn't *deserve* injury or death, of course, but it was most certainly 100% the fault of the kids. Period.
They should have paid the park for the damages they caused to the slide and the park's reputation... lol Sad that the girl died though...
@trumpisthemessiah7017, senior high school students.
They should have known better by now.
agreed
Teenagers r always gona be dumb
The school let it continue and encouraged it. It's the school's fault. Not the park's, not the kids'.
Incredibly confused how the parents could possibly think they can sue the slide, and even more confused by the fact the park actually paid?
Simple numbers game: it was probably cheaper to pay than to fight it in court. And if they lost the court battle, they would end up paying even more.
What I’m surprised about is why the park allowed schools to keep bringing kids after the incident. If I managed the park I would outright ban any kind of graduating class trip. Especially since they made a tradition to break the rules and get kicked out of the park.
Probably advised by lawyers they'd get a pay out if they sued the park. Kind of messed to use your dead kid as a cash cow.
@@Rayden440 - If anything, the park inviting the schools would have been an argument the parents made. In other words, the parks knew that kids were prone to doing this, that it could result in serious injury or death, but they took no measures to prevent that behavior.
Park most likely paid to avoid being taken to court even if they knew they’d win the case it’s probably cheaper to settle 4m than have to go to court pay court fees hire lawyers investigators etc 😢
It doesn't hurt to try, I'm sure they were all saddled with huge medical bills
Yeah the students are to blame. You nailed it. Park should have not paid a dime
the park still should have found a way to stop them although they were cautioned not to do it and it is still tragicly their fault and the park shouldnt have to pay.
@@thediamondkneeplate6981 lol have it your way and we'd have warning signs telling people how often to breathe, or they might stop breathing and sue you for having no sign lol. Darwin awards IMO
The families said it wasn't strong enough? XD I dont think any slide is strong enough for 30 spoiled brats
@@drkarats6147 Literally this. Funny how people are still trying to find excuses to make them look innocent
If anything, the students should've compensated the park for destroying their slide.
How about we realize that our kids were irresponsible and negligent, accept that fact, and realize we don't deserve money for that. It's a tragedy, but basically they are teaching them to blame others for their mistakes, instead of owning up to them. 17 and 18 is plenty old enough to know that wasn't a safe or smart thing to do.
Greedy parents!
Agreed
Literally this
18 is legal adult in Australia.
The school should have shut it down.
I feel this story in particular is a good example that no matter who's fault it was, relatives are going to sue whoever was involved for financial gains.
It's not really financial IMO. It's our hardwired evolutionary desire for vengeance taking over and blinding them to the truth.
Sometimes suing is the only way to avoid being financially devastated. Remember, healthcare is very costly here.
2:40 not so. Unfortunately money is the only thing to use to compensate families’ life long pain and suffering.
@@beautifulblackbeauty8641 pain and suffering brought on by their own offspring stupidity not by the park!
@@esteemedmortal5917 What healthcare? Quimby died and therefore didn't need two million dollars. Her family was just money grubbers leaping at the chance to play the ghetto lottery.
That was senior cut day at my school in Castro Valley and I had a bunch of friends witness the whole thing. They said that lifeguards were screaming at the kids to stop going down the slide and were trying to get the kids to stop going down at the top. They said it was numerous lifeguards and that guards from other areas were rushing over to help before the slide even broke, like they knew how dangerous the kids were being. My friends told me it was like the staff was trying everything they could to get those kids to stop before the accident happened. They also said how terrible it was seeing all those kids, their own age, falling from the broken slide. I couldn’t go that day because my attendance was already so crappy. I’m glad I was one of the few that stayed back.
So you’re admitting that you would have gone with them to engage in this stupidity had your attendance been on track? Nice way to admit how stupid you are.
The fact that the parents sued the park and school authorities over the stupidity of their children really shows the kind of parents they were. I don't care how old you are, when there are warning and danger signs, you either follow them or risk your lives, this park shouldn't have to pay one cent
"this park shouldn't have to pay one cent"
Agreed. The park should've sued for destruction of property.
I graduated high school in '86. If I had pulled a stunt like this with my classmates and gotten injured, my parents would have been FURIOUS... With me. I would have been in a world of trouble(after they knew I was okay). It's unfortunate that we can't seem to hold people accountable for their own actions anymore.
Definitely the kind of parents that would raise kids to deliberately break rules and engage in dangerous activities. Because they're special snowflakes and consequences aren't real.
@@JB-bm1to Yes, and it's only getting worse with every successive generation. I'm ready for the madness to STOP!
The disaster is the real life equivalent of "play stupid game win stupid prizes"
Not the park’s fault. The slide was meant for one person, not 33. The kids were old enough to know right from wrong. They didn’t listen to the lifeguards. Some bad decisions can’t be undone. RIP Quimby.❤
@trumpisthemessiah7017it's the first time they did it at that park
Tradition my ass
@trumpisthemessiah7017they did everything they could to stop it. They were young adults and refused to listen to explicit intrusions not to do what they were about to do and they carried through with it like idiots.
@trumpisthemessiah7017everyone knew it was meant for one person.
@trumpisthemessiah7017except this slide had only been there for a year so…no this had not been done every year unless students before hand had been doing this on a ghost slide?
If the slide is meant for one person at a time, you don't let 33 people onto it together. Especially when you know that something like this can happen, because it's happened before. It wouldn't even take it being done deliberately; someone could panic or something and clog up everyone behind them. The point is that "everybody behind them" shouldn't be enough weight to collapse the structure's already generous safety margins. That's why the park is blamed.
I feel horrible for the family of the young lady who died, and for those seriously hurt, but this was not the park's fault at all. Just teenagers, who thought they were invincible (admit it, we all felt that way), being young and dumb.
I didn't, in fact I always stood back when people did dumb stuff, and inevitably got hurt some times :/ Just depends how much of a telling off you thought youd get back home lol
We're less noticeable to the ruckus types because we don't get into trouble, but there are many kids and teenagers with sense. You got the ones who would try to stop others from being stupid or disrespectful, and others who are less polite and mock the situation. But possibly most of us were so checked out of shenanigans we didn't even know know what was going on, and then mock ourselves for it. Our youthful naivety was geared in a different direction. You might think of us as the boring or square kids.
agreed
Maybe when i was 13. Not 17 or 18 like the people from the video
Ages 13 - 22 are the years some young people do dumb things. There are always some mature kids and some rather immature kids, but all are still mentally developing until at least 25.
This is one of the few tragedies where I am actually a little mad at the victim's families for suing. The students did this to themselves. If anything, the school should have done something to stop the tradition before it ended a life. There's no way they didn't know the seniors would try it again that year, given the track record.
Indeed, what was the Park supposed to do? Have an army of security guards armed with tazers to stop a mob of teenagers from rushing the slide? If you break the rules at a park where risks are involved, then you have to bear the responsibility for it.
I'm a teacher and my first thought was what were the teachers doing not keeping an eye on this large of a group 😮
As my driving instructor put it, that anyone survives being seventeen is a miracle. I'm not surprised they did this, the brain is far from fully developed at this age. The lifeguards did what they could, and I'm sure the teachers did too. If the parents should sue anyone at all, it ought to be each other.
You're entirely right. Fining the park for the students' insane behavior is terrible. This was in fact a crime by the students, I'm sorry to tell their parents and survivors.
From what I heard here, it was not a fine. It was an out-of-court settlement paid in order to avoid going to trial.
@@dap777754 Thanks.
@@dap777754 Yeah, it was a win-win for the parents, there was absolutely no way on Earth they would ever have won the lawsuit but the park's owners knew that if they tried to fight the lawsuit they would be called monsters for dragging these "poor, innocent children" through the courts. So the park immediately offered to settle out of court. Cases like this are a dream for ambulance-chasing lawyers who know full well that even an entity not at fault will offer to settle before the media tears them apart and ruins their reputation.
The real enemy here (other than the disgusting vulture parents) is the media, if we had a responsible media that never tried to stir up controversy at every opportunity then this water park could have entered that court and defended themselves fairly. Instead they chose the lesser of two outcomes - lose tens of millions as the media portrays them as uncaring monsters and drives their customers away, or lose a few million and keep their reputation in tact.
One more reason to hate tabloid journalism and sensationalist media.
The parents are lunatics
@@dap777754 This is typically done because trials last quite some time and it would have put their names in the headlines over and over for a death.
The amount they lost on the settlement is nothing compared what they would lose from the publicity. This is well known.
Unbelievable that these parents saw an opportunity to capitalize on their kids’ mistakes/death. Nothing fires up my anger more than seeing people not take responsibility for their actions or be completely blind to their child’s faults. The fact that they went straight to lawsuits and took no responsibility makes me have ZERO sympathy for the situation. At that point you’re on your own and deserve what you get.
Look, I don't want to sound cold or downright heartless, but it's really hard not to. These kids knew what they were doing and knew that it was completely wrong and against the rules. But they did it anyway. The girl who died in the accident should have thought about it. She should have known that it could bring serious consequences and not agree to participate with what those idiots were planning to do. They played with the fire, and they got burned. They got what was coming to them. 17 or not, I don't feel bad at all for the survivors and how they said that the incident scarred them for life. It serves them right for their stupidity.
not only that but they also won
Yeah, the park never shouldve settled. There is no way, that frivolous lawsuit wouldnt have been thrown out of court. Those students (I refuse to call them kids, they were old enough or almost old enough to friggin vote!) knowingly and deliberately broke the safety rules, that are there to protect them. They planned it for hours, waiting until the end of the day to do their stunt, coz they KNEW, they would get kicked out for it. Very easy to prove malicious intent on their part.
They should be forced to own up to their actions, not get a friggin payday for it!
Agreed. It's disgusting and people have no shame.
@@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 they didn't win. The park paid out that's not necessarily a win. It would have cost more to go through the actual courts etc and they would claim back fees from the family which they prob thiught would be immoral
I remember this story! Years later at my school they talked about this story as a cautionary tale to the older students who went on yearly school trips to the water park to obey the safety rules
Stories like this should be made more public. Reminders that those rules aren't there for party-pooping but for legitimate reasons.
As well as some records are not worth trying to break if it means putting yourself and others in danger and breaking safety rules.
In this era!? All you’d achieve is a label of being a victim blamer.
All it would teach is that you can get a windfall by breaking the rules and screaming negligence :/
One of those rare cases where the victims really are to blame.
The only victim in this story is the water park. They got screwed over.
Facts!!!
not " rare" at all
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
@Bearded Jagger They did have measures in place. The morons ramrodded their way through the employee that was trying to stop them. The people that died are SOLELY to blame. I'd go a step further, and say that the ones that survived should be billed for the damage they caused the park.
I don’t understand why they paid a penny either 🤯 It’s a horrible accident but come on, it was totally their fault. They were old enough to know better ffs
Exactly! I would love to hear just one story where the lawsuit gets thrown out due to stupidity. Too many having to pay for someone else's negligence.
@@michellerene951 it happened with a guy who went down a water slide and in a freak accident his spine just gave out and his neck broke. He was paralyzed from the waist down, but when he sued the park successfully argued that the slide was safe and it was his body that was not in good condition. It’s still open and there have been no other injuries on that water slide.
Why? It was covered by insurance and a trial, even if they are blameless, would've kept the story and especially the girl's death in the news and tarnished their reputation far worse than the amount they paid. The families would have used the media to bash the parks reputation and pass blame off the quilty students responsible.
@@ramsfan515 And that attitude, u should there, is exactly, why such frivolous lawsuits continue to happen. I could understand, if it was due to some action on behalf of the park, negliegence with maintenance or whatever. But this was 1000% the fault of the students. They knowingly broke the safety rules, waiting until just b4 leaving anyway, coz they KNEW, they would get kicked out for their stunt. If anything, the park shouldve countersued for damages for the destruction of their ride, it would be entirely their right, tho yes, that wouldnt look great. But no matter, how much the families would use the media to bash the park, noone with 2 functioning brain cells, including high school students like these, would ever see this as anything other than deliberate actions on the part of the students, stupid but deliberate, for which Quimby paid the ultimate price. And frankly, the other students need to own up to the consequences of their actions, not get a payday for willfully breaking the safety rules, that are there to protect them.
Actions have consequences. And they were old enough to know better, indeed they DID know better, thats why they waited till late to do it!
@@dfuher968 But the parks alternative is to have this girl's death associated with their name in the News cycle for years as the trial drags on. Even if they win in court the park still loses overall. Some battles aren't worth the cost.
My mom grew up in Napa and she went to the same school and knew a lot of the people who fell, she told me this story and I'm surprised I found it again on UA-cam.
Same! I was very surprised to see it on you tube as well. There was an English elective teacher named Ms. V. who told our class about it but I had already heard about it from my own parents, too. I also went to Napa High School, graduated in 2014. I thought it was kind of odd they used a picture of the remodeled stadium for this video instead of whatever it looked like back in the 90s. My class was the first Freshmen class to use the new stadium, back in 2010. Anyway Ms. V. said Quimby was such a sweet girl, and she cried while telling us this story. I'd never seen her cry before. By the way, I saw that Alyndras last name was Franco, do you know if there is any relation to Babara Franco? Barbara Franco was a principle at Napa Highschool back when I went there, I was wondering if maybe that girl was her daughter or something.
@@Eph5wife4life i feel so bad for quimby 😢
I can’t believe that they blamed the water park. That really shows that parents will blame anyone but their own precious angels that could do nothing wrong. I feel so bad for the lifeguard that was unable to stop the teens, they must have been blamed so much.
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
@Trump Is The Messiah except the part at 1:40 where they say that it was the first time the school went to that water park
The park had literary no way to know these kids were going to do it, they made the slide with adequate safety precautions with 8x max weight threshold of standard operating capacity. Trying to put the blame on the attendant at the top of the water slide who was probably some 18-20 year old part time kid working a summer job for being unable to stop 30+ people charging past him is absurd
Welcome to America, where everything is someone else's fault.
@@zyrrhos🤡🧢🤥
@@shayla106 $4 million in settlements were paid to affected families. Why don't you look into the case before emoji-ing.
Even if it withstood 33 people, what did they think would happen when all 33 people would slide down at once? That could arguably have caused just as much injury. They could have flown off or crushed eachother in the tubing. It's extremely tragic, but if they had "succeeded" in their "plan", someone still could've died either way.
that's what i thought !!
Wow, Napa High School must be very proud of their graduates. Geniuses!
Heard all 32 of them got accepted to Harvard.
@@alec57 😂🤣 I wouldn't doubt it.
@@alec57 not Harvard 🤦🏿♂️ it was Yale.
god damn napa...
@@suhtangwong yale is still a top school. that's wild to me
The park did nothing wrong, the teenagers made a deadly decision and that’s on them, and if it’s true that a school staff member heard of their plan, their fault as well. RIP Quimby💔, I feel empathy for the students that were injured, and it’s terrible that it happened.🙁
Honestly if not for the last Girl paying the ultimate price. This was a fantastic lesson to learn about not letting groups of your peer’s talk you into stupid and dangerous stunts. Most all safety regulations are written in blood… no need spill your own to trace back over them again.
Not to mention a brilliant lesson in basic physics. And these guys were all 18 year old graduates? Stunning!
Horrible preventable tragedy.
If my daughter had done this and caused her own death or injury, I'd be ashamed if I sued the water park. I hope those 33 young adults never ever forget what they did.
Some people have no shame. People just see dollar signs.
32*
@@uditisinha305 33 students fell when the slide collapsed. One was killed. 32 others fell but were not killed. I guess the one doesn't apply to my statement. So on a technicality, maybe you're right. Lol But I'm not changing my comment because it was 33. (I'd post my sources but I never left the Google results page because at least 3 sites stated "33" in just the introductions listed. So, my source is the Google results page for Banzai Pipeline Slide Collapse.)
It would have cost the park a lot both financially and reputatinally ( ? I donno looks like a word) it probably helps the parents to sue and blame someone other than their kids
and they also spent their money on beer im sure
This is pissing me off so much. The park having to pay for the students stupidity, this is ridiculous. I don't feel sympathy for any of those students. People seemingly only learn when things go horribly wrong, and even then they try to act innocent. Disgusting.
A fellow Brutally Honest person!
Dang.
And once they hey their payouts. Imagine having the nerve to sue when your kid was at fault. I would hang my head in shame.
It’s funny because when ever it’s the parks fault they can’t sue but when it’s not there fault like this case they have to it’s stupid asf it was the teens fault not the parks I feel bad for the part
When they were crying for help after the fall, they should have left them there to die.
I will never understand teenagers doing beyond stupid things like this. I'm so sick of hearing "we were all stupid teenagers at some point. teens do stupid things" this isn't just stupid. this is blatant regard for any type of safety.
the fact the parents had the audacity to sue the school and park blows my mind. blows my mind even more that the park actually PAID the parents. the park should have sued the parents for their stupid kid's bullshit breaking their waterslide.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
this is why some schools don't even do fieldtrips anymore, especially to amusement parks.
I agree with you 💯💯💯! The park was completely innocent. They had nothing to do with what happened. The kids were to blame. Such an easily preventable tragedy. Thank you for your hard work ♥️🙏🏻
IKR? My belief is they made the settlement to avoid a possible public relations nightmare.
@@jeremyriley1238 Exactly how I see it, too
for once i'm in defense of the park lmao, fck them kids
Peer pressure is wild. Because something tells me she who perished would have NEVER gotten on that slide if she was "someone you could go to for advice." I feel like she knew better; hence why she was the last one. But who am I to say.
Even the smartest and most responsible of teenagers have gotten caught up in peer pressure situations that ended up having dire consequences for them. No teenager is completely immune from the power of peer pressure.
@trumpisthemessiah7017 guess you didn't experience peer pressure huh?
This is what happens in all instances of such negligent behaviour, people who do not want to be a part of it but get swept into it by peers are the ones that are harmed more.
@trumpisthemessiah7017 Well you know what they say, tradition is just peer pressure that comes from older people.
Distasteful comment👎.
Parents suing the park....the park should of sued the parents for their kids destroying the slide.
Not only were they forced to repair the slide, they had to close the park down for the investigation and I'm sure many workers lost their wages. It really upsets me the park ever had to pay or they had the gull to even think to sue.
My thoughts exactly.
The deceased girl's family owns a large construction company that does some massive projects. When you drive through areas around Napa and Santa Rosa, you see big equipment and water tanks with Ghilotti on them.
5:03
That footage is just bone-chilling.
How fast it is, the way the broken piece hangs on, this is horrifying.
i had to pause the video that was horrifying
do you know if that was the actual footage or just some AI stuff? Either way, my goodness!
@@thejenesisb5444LMFAO!!!! That was clearly a cartoon recreation. Are you blind 😂
@@plaguedoctor5657claymation if anything is what it looks like to me
@@plaguedoctor5657 looked real to me.
I feel more bad for the park than I do those kids. They did something stupid and paid for it. It's kinda similar to people that drink until they get drunk then decide driving is a good idea and drive into a wall or a tree and die. The only difference is they never thought about the fact that the slide *would break underneath the weight*. Like yea it sucks they got hurt but they have ZERO room to complain, whine, or bitch and neither did those parents. At least, not to the park. The school, yes as *they knew about the tradition and looked the other way*.
Another commenter pointed out that the usual water park had its slide built into a hill, not freestanding 3-stories tall.
So you exonerate the park authorities who also knew about the tradition. I'm guessing you're one of those uneducated bumpkins who blame schools for all their failures in life.
Very tragic story, however totally preventable ! You said it perfectly, while it may have been their fault they didn’t deserve that outcome. We’ve all done some stupid shit in our lives that could’ve landed us in some very bad situations! I know I have ♥️
This is true. I've lost a lot of friends to drag racing in my small town - they get high on weed and drive down rural roads, and they get into bad accidents. Teens think they're invincible. We were all like that once, and it's easy as adults to mock it now, but we often forget that teens' brains are still in development and the rebellious stage can make ordinary smart people do dumb things. The peer pressure of wanting to join a group also contributes. None of these poor people, neither the kids nor the lifeguard nor the staff nor the paramedics on the scene, deserved this. Bad things just sometimes happen.
@@JarethTheGoblinKingForever so true, I’m in my 20s and look back at some of the shit I did like, what an idiot
@@DisasterthonTrueHorror You could be worse off - I drank three glasses of straight blue curaçao as a teenager and threw up everywhere on Canada Day... all because my parents told me not to. Kids are weird. 😅
I done some dumb crap before so I know how it feels
I would agree except their reaction was to take zero responsibility and instead to demand lawsuit money. That’s where my sympathy takes a turn. These parents have taught their kids to blame others for their mistakes.
It infuriates me that the families sued when the park was not to blame. I was young and stupid once and I could see me and my friends doing something stupid like this. I wouldn’t have wanted my family to sue the park.
It’s always someone else’s fault when the consequences show up. Also on a sliding scale: the worse the consequences, the lesser the fault of the faulty. The kids didn’t “deserve” the trauma, but they deserve the blame! (if that makes sense)
@Trump Is The Messiah "park did nothing to stop" is a weak excuse. It was the teens' fault and no one else's. Also, not stated in the vid but the tradition usually took place at a different water park. The slide they would do this on was built along a hillside, and so it was never far off the ground and had a higher load capacity. Hence why previous classes were able to get away with it.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami Honestly I don't blame the kids. I blame the school and the adults looking after the trip. They knew this tradition was going to happen but they did nothing to stop it. I cannot really blame the kids. Their brain is still developing and other classes had done this same thing before and nobody got hurt. Of course a teenager is going to think nothing is going to happen to them too. The school and the adults who had a chance to stop this before it happened though I have no excuses for.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami I think that's one of the reasons the graduates didn't think the slide would just break. This also isn't the first danger that comes to my mind with pile ups. I mean over 30 people in a slide is dangerous enough. Sliding into each other can cause serious injuries. Actually everybody has some blame in this scenario. The Teenagers for going against safety rules, the teachers for still making trips to water parks without making sure their students wouldn't do such dangerous things and the waterpark for building a slide that wouldn't withstand a clog up, which is something I have seen and heard of people doing before just not to this degree. But none of them thought of this outcome, which is why it is called an accident and not one single person can be held responsible.
@trumpisthemessiah7017 the lifeguard even told them no. this is a shitty excuse for stupidity
@trumpisthemessiah7017if anything the school should have taken it seriously
I agree it was tragically the students' fault. So sad
I remember when this happened, or rather, the outcome at water parks afterward. My parent’s used to be school teachers that chaperoned their classes at end of year class vacations the schools had, and the stark contrast of people taking the lifeguards more seriously/taking the life guards sides in the case of people trying to bum rush the water slides after this incident. I remember one time a group of high schoolers from the field trip (different class from who my parents were chaperoning) tried to pull this same stunt at a different water world, and oh my god was the park not playing around! There were 3 life guards on duty, and when they tried shouting for the kids to slow down on running up the stairs and seeing what they were planning on doing, one of the kids was literally drug off the water slide and the rest were kicked and banned from the park. Park security was on them as soon as the life guards radioed it in. They also shut that water slide down for the rest of the day. I remember being in line waiting to go down the water slide when the kids decided to launch their plan, and I remember the chaos and sheer anger on the life guard’s faces as everyone in line kept referencing this incident while the kids whined about being banned. It’s a tragedy that was very preventable but sad nonetheless, and at least it had positive societal reaction of “Hey maybe it’s a good idea to listen to safety warnings and heed regulations?”
Blaming the park or the engineers because the slide wouldn’t support 30 people is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard
I made a lot of stupid and dangerous decisions as a high schooler. I’m lucky something like this never happened to me. A steep and expensive lesson for these kids.
But it’s not the park’s fault.
Those idiots got rewarded $4 mil
As an old person who is surprised that every single person in the senior class went along with this, I'm glad to know I'm not alone & that ppl who agree w/ me are all over the range of ages. What were their teachers teaching them if not to think about the decisions they made? The park shouldn't have had to pay a dime imho. Smdh
If anything, the parents and people responsible should’ve been responsible for every cent of the damages and loss of revenue for the park. They can roll on out to the side walk in their wheel chair to beg for the money to pay it as far as I care. I lost every ounce of sympathy once these assholes took things to court and started playing the victim.
@@zgrif That is a bit harsh. Sure sueing the company was a low brow move but come on man these are kids and I doubt they were the ones who brought it to court. Blame the families for that not the victims (and yes I do consider them victims here).
@Trump Is The Messiah No one else knew it was dangerous to pile 33 people on 1 person fibreglass slide? I guess we found another Napa High School graduate. And the gal to call other people low IQ, LOL
Teachers? you mean parents?
This is why I was called an old lady my entire school life. I’m not playing dangerous games with anyone and never have.
That's called wisdom.
Same, I was even bullied for being too mature
@@jessicaknight6214 I wasn’t bullied.
My entire senior class was like this. Every senior class that came before mine always had a senior skip day and a senior party. Not mine. My boyfriend poked fun at us, saying we were all a bunch of wallflowers, and then planned a private "senior party" for me and some of our closest friends. I was the only person there from my class, but there were 4-5 kids who'd graduated two years earlier, 1-2 who'd graduated the year before and a couple that were a few years younger than me. We camped out on my boyfriend's parents' farm, had a big bonfire and cooked fish in it that one of the guys in the group had caught at the lake earlier that day. That was in 2003, is still one of my fondest memories and my boyfriend and I are still together, 25 years this September. There were no hard drugs or binge drinking, maybe a 12 pack of beer and some weed, but we were all safe and just having a good time- nothing that could get anyone killed.
Your classmates didn’t realize they were just stating how long you’ll live in comparison. 😅
I wouldn’t go to her for advice, she made the worst judgement call ever.
We can't blame her even if it was stupid to do it she was a good person and she just followed the rest of the group , at 17 ,18 you just want to have fun and quimby was the last who falled , she was an angel and of course she knew it was a bad idea but when all of your friends want you to follow them just to have fun the last Day im pretty sure a lot of People would have did the same . May she rest in peace i love her so much❤
The footage you show at 5:03 is tragic yet amazing. I've followed this story off and on during the years and never saw that. Really shows how bad this was. Can't believe only one person died.
Absolutely terrifying
It's Cgi not real footage
Its not real footage grandma, calm dowm
@@cybear7461 Still, it's horrible to know that this is exactly what happened
I can’t believe how stupid they were
I work in a city right next to Concord and I even recall seeing signs for Hurricane Harbor as I’ve driven through the area. This sounds horrific but clearly the park should not be held responsible. 33 students shouldn’t be using the same slide no matter how safe it is.
This is why I stayed in San Francisco and Oakland where no random deaths occur and steered clear of those more posh quaint north East Bay towns.
@@whatabouttheearth Having grown up in that “posh” area you speak of, I can understand where you’re coming from. But the actions of these students at this particular school do not reflect the youth in every school district. There are smart people and dull people everywhere and it seems the dull people “won” that day.
A classic example of actions having consequences.
yep, the consequence was...................................: "make a bad decision and become rich"
The law of life . Do stupid stuff , win stupid prizes
This is infuriating, honestly. A complete lack of common sense and then greed afterward. It’s clear this shouldn’t have been done.
I agree with you. The park was not to blame at all. These kids were all enough to know better. While I don’t think the parents should have sued the park, I think parents who are grieving or seeing their child in pain, aren’t always thinking clearly either. It’s honesty amazing that only one kid died given how far they all fell.
theres a difference between not thinking clearly and becoming rich from ur own dumb kids decisions
I agree completely. It's not the park's or ride designer's fault at all, but the students. The parents wanted to blame someone in their grief and blamed the park as they couldn't/wouldn't blame their own kids.
Well, I'm sure the 4 million eased their grief quite a bit.
Yeah, sure, why have their kids learn the lesson, that actions have consequences, and they have to own up to them, when they can instead learn their (friggin adult) kids, that no matter how stupidly u behave, no matter how willfully u broke the rules, no matter how much it was ur actions, ur entire fault, that this happened, u can just sue and a payday.
I dont care, how much they were grieving, or how traumatised the other students are (I refuse to call 17 and 18y olds kids, theyre old enough to drive), this was disgusting behavior, both with the original deliberate plan, that caused their trauma and the death of their fellow student, and especially the lawsuit blaming the park for their own actions. There was no shortages of sign, staff etc telling them NOT to do it and trying to stop them, they deliberately planned to do it anyway, planned how to plow past the staff. If anything, when they had the absolute gall to sue the park, the park shouldve responded with a countersuit for damages to their ride and the trauma of their staff!
Someone who lived nearby said the school used to go to a different park where the big slide was on a hill. So the weight of the kids was supported by the hill. This was a new park with a free-standing slide, and it was the first time they had gone there. The kids did this stunt every year. Nothing had ever gone wrong. No one realized the difference in the slides.
Edit: someone who worked there said the park installed safety features to prevent more than one person getting on the slide at once after the incident. Because they could have done it before (didn’t know they needed to) and prevented this incident, they settled with the families.
With the way that the slide opening is even if there were extra life guards at the top how are you supposed to stop a bunch of 17 year olds who are pushing their way even if you did have a light or some other indicator. How is that to actually stop them from just pushing their way in
I heard that they pushed past the staff at the top which would otherwise stop too many going in. As you usually see with slides.
I can find no evidence that the slide had to be changed and the Quimby family were Idi0ts who thought that a slide should hold 33 people. They were money hungry.
“No one realized the difference in the slides” THUS the stupidity of the students
It would still never be the parks fault. The safety rules are there for good reasons. The students knowingly and willfully planned all day to break those rules, then forcefully plowed past the staff, trying to stop them.
There is no way, this frivolous lawsuit would even make it to trial, when it was the admitted actions of the students, who 100% caused this. They should own up to their actions and face the consequences of them, not get a friggin payday bytrying to blame others for the consequences of their own willful actions. They were 17 and 18, not kids!
No wonder, Americans are always suing everyone for everything, when the lesson is, that u can always sue and get paid, even when it is 1000% ur own fault. I feel very sorry for Quimby's family, and I would be very sorry for the trauma of the survivors, if they had learned from it, but when the lesson is to hurry to get a payday? F... them!
The reason I like your channel so much is that you give your opinion on the rulings and your writing is incredible.
I really feel for the lifeguard here. He tried to stop them but wasn't able to.
Even the waterslide clogging stunt sounds like my worst nightmare. Who would put themselves through that
The park shouldn't have been made to pay a dime, this was caused by the kids and the kids only. They took it upon themselves to disobey the rules and the person in charge of the slide, everything that they suffered through was brought on by themselves and no one else. Why should the park be made to pay for the students stupidity?
Hell, the students should’ve been made to pay for the repairs to the slide even.
They weren't made to pay anything, they did it so they wouldn't have to go to trial
@@somehaloguy9372 They shouldnt have settled, there is no way, that frivolous lawsuit would ever make it to trial. Its as frivolous a lawsuit, as if I deliberately walked behind ur car, as u backed out of parking, forcing u by my actions to hit me, with dozens of witnesses around and video showing it was my willful actions, that caused my injuries, yet me suing u for the damage and my trauma, and u paying up. No judge would ever go for it.
maybe they paid bc they genuinely felt bad about what happened??? Jesus fucking christ you people have no humanity
The park should have sued the parents for damages, loss of income from the damage and damage to their reputation for safety.
It’s bad for those who lost family and/or are forever damaged. However, this wasn’t “an accident”. It was foolish. They should absolutely not be compensated. They CHOSE to do something stupid and learned fast they aren’t invincible. Kids that stupidly speed and kill - don’t get compensation. Yes, I feel for them. It is tragic; but no one should’ve got a single red cent. Our culture gets dumber by the day, and it’s beyond tragic
Wow! I almost choked on my breakfast. It's amazing how bad decisions and poorly thought out plans means it's the park's fault. It's so sad that people don't take responsibility. Totally disgusting behavior. SMH.
i'm always hesitant to watch your videos because i'd like to enjoy theme parks without being unreasonably terrified, but i always end up being somewhat comforted by the fact that a lot of this stuff is completely preventable.
Same with me, I don't like watching theme park accidents because I love theme parks, but at the same time some of these are basically teaching me what to do (check restraints, follow instructions, follow instinct) but the ones that were purely accidental are the ones that terrify me
Good job. Well made and honest content. It's refreshing to see a youtuber who is not spineless and would have blamed the park.
Fortunately, you have done the research and told the inconvenient truth.
I respect that and feel bad for the "victims but facts are facts.
Thank you for truthfully telling the story.
Cheers from Canada
the worst part is that this still happens, at our local pool a small 7 year old boy got crushed between 2 heavy set boys who were clogging the slides, the boy was not part of the clogging plan but because the boy in front of him was quite big and the boy that came after was quite big the small boy got crushed. All children who have at least once tried to clog the slides at a pool or at a waterpark should be shown this video to see what can happen if you don't keep to the rules.
Was the boy ok afterwards ?
@@Deadsea_1993 for as far as I know he lived but was pretty badly injured, he had to be carried out on a stretcher to an ambulance but I don't know anything beyond that point because it was never on the news or anything
It's incredible how people get themselves in situations like these and then others are blamed or have to bear the consequences for them in the long run.
I never heard of this incident before, thanks for covering it here. I think that the kids intended no harm, they just thought their stunt would be funny. A lot of practical jokes misfire, but I agree that the water park should not have had to pay any compensation, even to the family of the girl who died.
Exactly my thoughts, I don’t understand why people are calling the kids stupid or idiots, they were trying to something funny and it backfired, cuz who hasn’t done anything stupid and hasn’t had it backfired
I understand that it was the kids fault but I feel like the comments had no empathy nor respect for the kids
My jaw actually dropped when I saw you had video footage of the slide breaking. That happened so fast, it was unbelievable.
As sad and tragic it is, it was still the teenagers fault that their friend died, and all because they wanted to do something they considered to be fun or funny without even thinking twice about what could happen. A lot of teenagers think they know what they are doing when they actually have no damn idea. But i do agree that the teens didn't deserve the outcome, this is something that sadly has been haunting them for so long till this day and it's so sad 😢
I’ll bet they drilled into their own kids that stupidity kills too since they’d all be in their early-mid 40s now.
I really do love how empathetic you are. Some youtubers sound fake and scripted but you sound like you actually care. Second video I've seen of yours and I love everything about your channel so far, your voice, your opinions, your content, the way it's edited, everything. Well done, great work.
Have you been told today, they are the ones that stuffed up, go get a life.
When I was a kid going down a slide like this in the mid 90's, I saw several older kids climbing on top of the slide above me as I slid down. I knew how high up we were and I was horrified. When climbing the stairs up the slide I remember imagining someone falling and hitting the wooden supports on the way down. When I reached the bottom I was expecting an emergency situation because I believed one of them was surely going to fall. No one got hurt, but I was profoundly bothered by what I saw that day for a very long time. It was all I could think about watching this. It pains me to know something worse than what I imagined that day actually happened.
This is my hometown. How am I just now coming across this video? Those waterslides were basically some of the earliest skyscrapers I ever knew. In my memory, there was a vague sort of "lower Manhattan on 9/12" feeling from being able to see that broken slide from blocks away. Burned in my memory, cant believe that was so long ago
I worked at Wet N Wild in Vegas for a few summers and there were accidents but overall it was pretty safe. When I was a really small child in the late 80s and early 90s you would get these bootleg waterparks opening up overnight with long, wide, fast, and twisty concrete water slides.
They were a ton of fun for me at the time but my old man broke 3 ribs on one and I remember they would actually RENT SAFETEY HELMETS for an extra $5 along with the chewed up colored mats (the mat color dictated when your time was up)
The slides were super wide but we still managed to clog them up as a group. It really was a blast but the people with open head wounds and broken legs/arms was not
Teenagers are indestructible until life teaches them otherwise. The best parents in the world somehow can't teach this; kids have to experience it to understand. We survived the lesson, but everyone reading this knows someone who didn't.
Yes, I had 1 class mate, who always went over the lines, repeatedly. He made it to 25, then got himself killed driving 3 times the speed limit on a narrow hilly road surrounded by huge trees. He wasnt wearing a seatbelt either, they had to get him down from hanging over a treebranch using the laddertruck. We all knew, he would end up like this one way or another, it was a question of time, coz he never learned from the consequences of his actions. We were just grateful, that he hadnt gotten others killed with him, as is too often the case.
But his family didnt sue anybody. They didnt try to profit from the irresponsibility and the willful breaking of rules/laws of their son.
How are these teenagers, these young adults (they were 17 and 18 ffs, old enough and almost old enough to vote, old enough to drive), to learn from the consequences of their actions, when the lesson is, that they can willfully break all rules and then get paid for it.
Not all of us grew up thinking we were indestructible.
@Kristian Vandehei I am sorry you learned that lesson so young. Growing up fully realizing your own mortality must be very traumatizing.
@@idontknow409 That is such a foolish comment. I agree with Kristian. I didn't think I was indestructible as a teen, and it certainly wasn't "traumatizing" to have that awareness. That knowledge just helped me make wiser decisions. These lessons should be taught to children at an early age. That's why you teach kids to look both ways when crossing the street, don't touch a hot stove, don't jump from high heights, don't go off with strangers, etc. It's not like you're screaming at the kid "don't do this or you'll die!!" in a traumatizing manner. You're teaching your child how to make smart decisions to reduce their risks of being harmed. Plus, some kids are introduced to death by the loss of a loved one or a pet. So they aren't delusional regarding their own mortality. All teens aren't clueless idiots who never consider the consequences of their actions. Being a senior in high school is old enough to have considered your own mortality and the fact that doing something really stupid can lead to injury or death. Hell, 18 year olds have fought in wars. These people were young adults, not toddlers.
@Kindred When people are forced to confront their own mortality while very young, unfortunately its via some trauma. Perhaps by the death of somebody close, a terrible injury or long illness, etc. People don't usually come to terms with this until adulthood; growing up with this knowledge for some kids is, like I said, traumatizing. If you went through any of this very young and didn't come out the other side with some trauma, Hey good for you, but not everyone is so lucky.
The best, most caring parents in the world can tell you fire is hot, not to touch, but it's all theoretical until you put your hand to the flame. That's how each one of us learned. You and I were able to survive the lesson, so please stop passing judgment on those who did not.
I write all this in case you are a regular person whose heart is in the right place, but missed the point. If you're just a troll with nothing better to do, How To Be a Decent Human lessons are over, leave me alone.
I agree, the park was not at fault.
I agree, the park shouldn’t have paid anything. This is one massive “eff around and find out” moment. Parents asking for payout are mind-blowing. I’m sorry for their losses, but the park did nothing wrong to them. If anything, they should pay the park for the property damage. I do agree that the school should be held accountable if this was a supervised school trip.
I literally grew up in Concord California and basically at this water park where this happened! It was a horrific accident, and was talked about for years and years and years after that. My graduating class was extremely cautious when we went there. No more shenanigans after that.
R.I.P. to Quimby and all those injured and scared on that terrifying day…..💔
P.S. I believe today the park that was formerly called Waterworld, is now known as six Flags Harbor Kingdom.
Dude, Southern California owns de la salle, when was the last time they beat mater dei or St. John bosco. Hell they needa watch out for serra San Mateo as they have emerged as of late. Folsom too
@@huejaynus6873 that’s crazy. No one asked tho.
@@gracemckennon1845 oh thats crazy. no one asked for your opinion. stay in your lane
@@gracemckennon1845 u mad casue norcal cant keep up wit socal? lmaoooo. socal > norcal in everything
I had a season pass to Waterworld back then and my son and I went there 3-4 times a week. I worked at the Tosco Refinery and decided to see what all of the activity was at Waterworld that afternoon. There were a lot of sirens and emergency vehicles headed that way. It shook me as I watched the news as we went down that chute many times. It wasn't just the weight of 33 teens but the water flow they backed up added a terrible amount of weight to the joints on the fiberglass sections.
This was definitely not the parks fault
It in fact is very sad
But there were rules & signs
And they ignored it
Only video you’ve shown that I feel could’ve been prevented by the victims
The park holds some responsibility in that they didn't have the measures in place to prevent that many people from occupying the platform and going down the slide at such short intervals.
First off, Happy New year! Thank you for telling this story and always being straight to the point. I feel for both the waterpark staff and the people there who had to witness this horrible act. A slide only meaning to hold one person was packed with 4 x its own weight. What did they think was going to happen? Even the idea itself to clog a waterpark slide was so stupid and irresponsible. I feel that the park had to pay anything. The parents and kids are the only ones responsible and no one else. There is a difference between stupid ideas and dangerous ideas as a teenager, but this was both.
I truly hope the workers trying to stop them can heal, because one or two staff members cannot stop 33 grown 17 year olds trying to rush passed them adequately.
This must be a big reason why lifeguards confirm that the previous person has exited the slide before letting the next one on.