except in the case of Action Park

Meaning you might or might not have survived. I bought a t shirt that said "[ survived Black Bear Pass." But that actually was a near thing.....

Mine says “I survived the road to Negril”and if you’ve ever ridden a motorcycle from Montego Bay to Negril you’ll take it literally!

The workers called it 'traction park".

ROTFLABO!!!!! 😂

Their families: _Allow us to introduce ourselves._

@@Michijoy The neighbors who join them: #2 ⬆

Seems a bit accurate 😅

Lawyers: You weren't supposed to say that!!!!

@The One, The Only, The Official Mr. Troll Face omg who hurt u

Pretty sure they made a movie about it with him playing the owner

​@@coltburks5450 you're right. Didn't realize until now it was based off this

Damn 😳😂

Lmao maybe that’s how he got inspired for jackass

Huh. Maybe action park is why I enjoy jackass so much.

Even so, at least it's the 1980s and not the 1880s 😬 Yikes!

You 80’s kids are so special 🫠 90’s all the way

What are you talking about? We were the last generation to have a real childhood. It was great. I wish I could go back.

@@lilyw.719 I wish I could go back, too

Lol

We need more people like him to deliver good times to the world

Bubbl3gum_ Bunny As a person who’s made a ride in rollercoaster tycoon that sends you head first into the ground, yeah

Or Theme Park, when you make the rides too fast and people fall off and die, but people still go to the theme park despite the high death toll. XD

I bout fell out laughing at this comment.

Lmao

🎶”Concrete shoes, cyanide....TARZAN SWING!!”🎶

Damn sorry to hear that I hope you're ok now

Oh I’m sorry about your toe at least your lifeguard had taste😛

LOL

Where were your parents?

Before I ruined the count by liking your comment, the number of likes it had was 113 - which also happens to be the emergency phone number to the ambulance here in Norway. A silly, entirely irrelevant thing, but after watching this particular video, and then your comment stating that the opening of the park was the real disaster, it just made me giggle!!!!!

Who is Lord Farquad?

@@JVCNKIDZ my sugar daddy

Lord farquad is that you

"I'll get a thousand guests killed before I let my company die!"

The Alpine slide was made of concrete, fiberglass and asbestos🤣🤣🤣what’s the worst that could happen😂😂😂

If not, there is no action :)

😂😂😂

Also use actual mountain water that was always 30° colder than the air. It was quite Refreshing!

They got the idea from watching a Roadrunner cartoon.

They got the idea from watching a Roadrunner cartoon.

I just don't understand how ambulances at the entrance wouldn't turn more people away 😕. I mean you were a kid at the time so I see how you might not have thought much of it, but the adults? Why wouldn't they be scared for their kid's safety at a place that needed ambulances on standby and just say, "Nope. We're going somewhere else."

Do as I say,not as I did. Hypocrite.

Those frontal lobes can be real fun killers, can they not.

@@supertuber120 You have to understand what Boomer parents were like. They would literally throw you out of the house in the early morning, and expect not to see you until the streetlights came on. They probably saw the ambulances and assumed they were there 'just in case'. Hell, most of the grown ups there were drunk at the Beer Hall, and were driving the go-karts drunk as Lords.

@@vasiliyshukshin7466 I'm amazed that mine still work, to be honest. I would be horror-struck if my kids ever tried 1/4 of the stunts I pulled off at Class Action Park.

I love how you still say great times 😂😂

"I went. It was dangerous. I almost died. It was awesome."

We lose people every year on rivers and lakes 🤷‍♂️

I went 3 summers is a row. One of the slides was a waterboarding simulation. Such funny and good times getting rekt there

@@jayfender4486 Rivers and lakes are very different from whats supposed to be a controlled and safe experience

😅

I remember my favorite summer there when on the water slide I got my weiner cut off and became possessed by a demon after visiting the haunted house.

@@brianhill7905 To be fair, that was advertised in the brochure with every visit.

😂

@@brianhill7905 you too!!!

One of the first things I did when I got internet was research amusement park ride safety, and show my kids the facts. One of the dumbest things I hear ppl say is "They wouldn't sell it if it wasn't good for you" Don't trust "they" and check things out for yourself.

My grandpa did maintenance and saftey at Disney Land in California for 20 years and one time some dummy thought it would be cool to block the saftey bar on Space Mountain...guess he never thought about hoe those lights that look like stars are staying there in mid air...he stood up and a beam took his head clean off, my grandpa and some other guys had to go down to the bottom later and recover it. Alot of crazy stuff happens at Disney.

@@whatabouttheearth Some peoples stupidity amazes me. There's rules and guidelines for a reason, and I hope your grandpa was okay after that

Space mountain was such an awesome ride......... And now i know those *stars* are actual light beam hanging 😬

@@whatabouttheearth as took his head clean of you mean as he got his head chopped off

@@whatabouttheearth or you mean another way because i dont get ir

Ive been there. For me it was the "sun life center" in Wales 94. I guess in some way we are all veterans of terror.

You guys have cheated death. No wonder it's been going after other amusement park victims!!

Oh man, I relate to this!! Has happened a few times. Sadistic family members I swear.

What water park was it?

Oh god, this reminds me of when I was 9 and choking on an ice lolly. I must have been turning blue, but my friends were just laughing at me. I literally wanted to die just so they would feel the guilt that they didn't help me. Gives me the chills just thinking about it

Dude!! What a memory! Wish i was there pal, I would have shredded a slide lol

@@nustde00 I skated into my 50's. Until I nearby folded my knee backwards in our local bowl. First time skating ever really hurt me.

The good ol days😄😄😄

😳😳😳😬😬😬what the hell. Pure insanity.

Same here. I was a 70s child / 80s teen. Surviving childhood then, did deserve a badge. Like being allowed to play at the local park, unattended, at age five. (yes, five) Being allowed to cross the street by myself, at age five. (yes, five) Explains why I cut my left hand open climbing a fence, requiring eight stitches to fix. Also explains why I was struck by a car crossing that same street. In hindsight, my parents were really stupid. My five year old, certainly won't be crossing streets, or playing in a park alone. Then, there was riding our bikes, all over our area of the city, or walking to the mall to hang out, by age eight. Stuff you can't let your kids do anymore. At least these days, most people are aware of all the danger of living in most societies. Good luck out there kids. You'll need it.

I was shocked also. I was expecting a much higher number.

Same.

They think that a lot more died, but it was covered up because the park could lie and say they were an employee, there's a great documentary about it on HBO, "Class Action Park". One guy that died from being thrown off the Alpine Slide, he had formerly worked there , so they didn't claim his death as a customer dying.

@@CatgirLinKC The Documentary on HBO literally states 4 people died and how they died. Sorry, but you dont "cover-up" deaths at a public park, I swear to G** people dont think before they type.

@@dezznutz3743 ok, I see a pattern of defending Action Park's death rate in other posts, so I am wondering if you are an investor or the son of the former owner? In any matter, in reference to your condescending comment above, Wikipedia page, look under "Fatalities" tab... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park Quote: July 8, 1980: A 19-year-old man was riding the Alpine Slide when his car jumped the track and his head struck a rock, killing him. Gene Mulvihill told reporters that the man was an employee because if he was an employee then he wouldn't have to report his death to the state. The man worked at the park as a ski lift operator the prior season; he never worked at Action Park. -- end quote .... so, because he worked at the ski lift for Mr Mulvihill the previous season, they fudged their reporting to the state and said he had been an employee.

The park got the nickname "Class Action Park."

🤣

He owned the insurance company it's headquarters was over seas don't know why that was left out and Vernon made him buy ambulances and pay the volunteers who were stationed there on the weekends

@Winahh Taylahh no it’s legit I’ve been there before lmao honestly a pretty fun park tho

@@alex26361 hell it was probably a blast if you didn't get injured your driving a cart at 50 mph and big wave pools sounds awesome, but dangerous

*rite

@@eustab.anas-mann9510 For all intensive porpoises, it means the same thing. Dont be such a Pre-Madonna. Enjoy you meal and Bone-Apple Tea.

​@@ilikemitchhedberg😂

@@ilikemitchhedberg - 🥂🤣🤣🤣

It’s disgusting there’s no danger allowed today in anything. It’s why you can be basically certain nothing you can do at these amusement parks will be any fun.

Thousands of people could be suffering from breathing in this asbestos. This takes years to show

Water, metal grate, and exposed wires, is much scarier.

Sugar, spice, and everything nice. Most dangerous combination ever. That stuff will ruin you.

Geez what a bunch of wimps. Granted a steep concrete slide doesn’t sound all that fun to me for the apparent risk involved, but what’s the panic about the materials? Concrete? Ever seen a sidewalk? Wouldn’t want to faceplant on one, but does that make it “scary?” Fiberglass? Ooh, how scary. Guess your tentpoles, fishing rods and ladders are just ticking timebombs right? Oh, and the big one: asbestos! That one is such a lethal deathtrap that we used it for tons of stuff for over a hundred years at least. Wouldn’t you think something so scarily lethal would have made people notice how dangerous it was a bit quicker? “Hey George, ever notice how everybody with transite siding on their house dies a year after moving in?” “Uh, no, can’t say that I have...” I don’t know the statistics, but I’m pretty sure this stuff doesn’t kill or even cause cancer in some huge percentage of people around it. You have to work around it in a job where it’s floating around in the air for years to have any reasonable chance of being harmed by it. The people who demolished the concrete slides might have needed to worry, but just rolling over it in the open air when it was set in concrete probably presented miniscule risk compared to the risk of crashing your cart somehow.... In other words yeah, the activity looks fairly risky, but whether the slide was made out of wood or clay or concrete with no asbestos wouldn’t make it any less scary to someone who can evaluate risk rationally.

@@phthartic in all fairness asbestos when it's whole and complete is harmless, it's it's you crush or damage it that is the problem

A very loveable shit show

This park sounds like its awesomeness far outweighed its horror.

I don't think the narrator understands how cool this place was, thousands and thousand of people must have visited, with what sounds like a very, very small amount of deaths.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂✌⚡

@@DavidB-rx3km That wasn't the point. The thing that ended AP was the lawsuits. Cost a lot to hire lawyers for that sort of thing. Then the insurance rates must have grown incredibly high after the lawsuits. Then maintenance, employees and the owners are of course, going to leave with their millions. Most people just look at business, especially one that big, as entertainment and what they want. That's how the rich stay rich. Business, business, money, money. Do we really know how many lawsuits AP had to fight. We are on the outside looking in.

Jesus that’s terrifying

You probably recall incorrectly. Nothing online says there were a "couple" of deaths from their bungee jump. Sure injuries aren't well documented but the actual fatalities at the park are. Everything i have read says 6 people died in the park during its operation. The 6 mentioned in the video. I do find it hilarious that the jump was called (and presumably sponsored by) the Snapple Snap-Up Whipper Snapper Ride.

@@terrencej-smith5522 maybe I do. I do remember the park being shut down at least twice due to deaths. This was before the internet (at least I didn’t have it at that time) and cell phones. So I received the info from word of mouth. The park was extremely unsafe, however I remember having a blast!

Zero deaths on the bungee rides. Worst injury was a broken ankle which occurred when a jumper slid off the airbag while being lowered and landed with one foot sideways. Thrilling ride, but one of the safest at Action Park.

And right here is a prime example of survivor bias

@@jalapeno1119 wdym?

@@jalapeno1119 Yes. It’s a survivor bias. It’s their comment and how they felt. Despite seeing people getting taken off a mountain on a stretcher. They thought it was still fun. That’s their opinion.

It seems to have been very popular - so obviously many people loved it.

We always used seatbelts in the 80s, or at least I did! I was a safety conscious kid. : ) I wouldn't have gone on most of these rides. haha

That's what that documentary on HBO Max is for.

They still do that have you seen the life guards 120 pounds wet no muscle about 5ft 6 how the fuck is he going to save a 300 pound man from drowning.

Stoned kids dishing out alcohol. I like this place even more!

Yep were crazy an not local employees Vernon had very little weed or any drugs back then they started bussing in staff from Newark an that caused major problems with staffing an any type of good employees

That sounds like an awesome place to work!

Yeah, the 80s were awesome in most ways. We just did stuff without mommy having to put a helmet on us or coddle us.

Im pretty sure a water slide with a complete rollar coaster type of loop is crazy! You would shoot up into it feet first and head down, thats nuts

Ya some carts had a loose strap they would hook over your neck and one arm just so you wouldn't fly out I guess.

@@v-town1980 I mean, putting a helmet on when you’re going 50mph seems less like coddling and more like good sense. Just like a motorcycle, if I saw someone going at those speeds in an open air vehicle I’d assume they’re just tempting fate.

I think the point of this video is that many people didn’t survive!

Right! I lived in Jersey in the 00's and all the pictures were reminding me of this waterpark I went to as a kid. When he said Mountain Creek I gasped. I guess I can tell people I have a scar from Action Park since I scraped my arm on a nail and wouldn't stop picking at the scab.

If enough of the employees survived testing the ride would be allowed.

@@That_Awesome_Guy1 It's like the park was built by Jeff Bezos.

And I'm glad that it does.

Hi, Jack!

Sounds like the Covid vaccines.

So glad Disneyland was never managed like that.

@@luisferr2001 Disney is worse. Much worse. You have no idea

@@skychieftain Are you sure about that?

@@kittykittybangbang9367 yes

Thats what they ment with trial and error

So a 16 year old employee saved your life and your calling him or her out for being too young or high?

@@boataxe4605 Just b/c one of them managed to do their job, doesn't mean the intoxication of underage employees wasn't a problem. I nearly died in the wave pool twice. Others died there. Yeah, I'd say that intoxication was part of the problem.

We're also talking about the 70s and 80s. Doesn't take head injuries to explain memories being kinda 'soft focus'.

My bet is that not a lot of people got injured proportionally wise. Just a few every week or day most people wouldnt notice. And I guess the danger made the things a little bit more enjoyable and memorable... if everything went right that is.

@@travian821 Yeah, that is most likely the reason why. I was just making a joke before.

@@travian821 I mean, enough folks were getting injured it got the nicknames “Traction Park” and “Class Action Park”, so I imagine it wasn’t a small proportion. It was well known it was risky; one can only imagine how much more we’d know if this was happening in now in the social media age.

I drowned once or twice at the water park. And I'm fine

Come with meeeee, and you will beeeee, in a world of OSHA violations...

Blame it on my stupidity for not knowing but how do you do that with your text ?

@@thatmotivatedchristianorop6749 zalgo

@@22I22 thanks for telling me the meaning

This comment is seriously underrated

Cherish it, man. These are the memories you'll tell your grand kids, one day.

@@gedofgont1006 Yups that is very true!

@@gedofgont1006ah yes the lovely stories of trauma spilling to grand kids

Yeah I expected the guy that owned it to look like Cave Johnson.

🎵Come on down to Nuka World and see it for yourself, a vacation that refreshes, a trip you won't forget, a park with every minimum safety standards met🎵

You should check out Class Action Park, a full length documentary about this park. It's on HBO.

Yeah that's capitalism for you

@@upland77 You clearly need to take econ classes. You don't understand the concept of capitalism vs. public safety regulations.

I see what you did there. If they were in charge, it would have been much worse, lol.

Ya this has Charlie work written all over it

Literally laughed out loud

half way though I was thinking that this sounds like something created by Frank Reynolds

@@mytxmygun6300 particularly the rides

The book is great. It has a lot of details - highly recommended.

Just ordered it ...thanks for the recommendation. Reading the preview pages, it sounds very interesting. A book worth sharing I'm sure😊

Name of the book please?

​​@@mph1ish it is called action park by Andy mulvihill

@@Taylorwintz Thank you.

Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. Do I win?

Beyoncé, Kelly and Michelle 😅

@@marysunrise7575 don't lie you know Michelle and Concrete have the same personality 😭😭😭

@@cherubcherub1698 oh my god you did not just

Those should be names for an eyeshadow palette tbh.

This is a resonatingly funny comment.

Lmaooo

Underrated comment. This comment section is full of wee nuggets of gold!

“Let the games begin”

Good luck everyone!

Guess you have brain damage.

Ah yes, asbestos poisoning, concussions, broken bones and drownings arouses the sweetest nostalgia, doesn’t it.

Busch beer garden.oarnge countys poor bastard of Disney land. Think the Griswold familys second hand choice after a long adventure trek from suburban Chicagoland to fucking southern California.

Heck the beer was cheap.and I being a kid wasn't even carded by the "security " guard.

He probably just wasn't going fast enough.

"I don't think it's very respectful to keep referring to Jason as 'the dummy', Mr. Mulvihill. He was just looking for that cash incentive." "You're right. I'm sorry. But we still need to try something else. Find me another dummy."

Khaki I like your pfp c:

Action Park: Hey how many times did the dummy make it this time? Ride mechanic: 4 Action Park: close enough

Kinda like the fiery fist o'pain!🤣

They're both Hell on Earth

👍👍👍😂😂😂

I think my school had radon in the cafeteria...

​@@TugIronChief They still have some in New England, all look exactly the same as the one in this video. I've been on a few. Almost every time I have gone, someone flips over coming out of a turn or crashes into someone in front of them, or the like. Happened to me once lol, came out of a turn too quick and flew off the track. Got some nice friction burn sliding down the edge of the track before I fell off and had to chase my cart down the track. According to the GPS tracking, some of us were hitting speeds of 20+ MPH down the track at the fast points. Not sure how accurate, but I believe it.

Funnily enough my old primary school was torn down and rebuilt due to copious amounts of asbestos used in its construction.

Hahaha greatness

🤣🤣🤣

But then again it would be too much effort

This comment is evergreen, but not blocking.

😂

My brother in law is a ride safety and maintenance engineer for one of the UK's biggest theme parks that has old wooden roller coasters they physically walk each day to do a visual inspection of the tracks before sending an empty train around. The rule is whoever checks and signs off the rides as safe has to be first on them which is fair shout. Just before opening the gates you can see just two guys hurtling around on roller-coasters but because they've ridden it literally hundreds of times they look like they could be drinking coffee and reading a newspaper. Just "Meh" but at least you know they're pretty sure those rides are safe.

@Heidi Thomas I think it was the users responsibility for the most part but to get electrified or get an unexpected high speed modified car is unexceptable! Everything I know of the car is from the video so I might be wrong.

Mann.Co Approved

I worked for an amusement park that used to have the same policy

D-Class personel on the SCP Foundation be like:

It was exactly that, and we had more fun than you could imagine, and EVERYBODY knew it was dangerous.

It was incredibly fun due to the risk

Ahhh the temptation calling... never mind mother's logic....whoosh away we go ..

well said...i agree 100%

Water World just north of Denver 🤘

Yeah, who cares if a few kids die and hundreds are injured badly. At least it was on some hills in the shade right? #IDIOT

"Just don't get hurt, dumb-ass" - Action Park safety marshal, probably.

@@skylined5534 says Red from That 70's Show lol

@@skylined5534 omg haha 😂😂

"Safety?........HaHaHAhA!!!....Hey, Vinnie, dis guy here is askin 'bout safety?......I got ya safety right here.....Keep the line movin" This is New Jersey we are talkin about, LOL.

This is honestly based, I would love to go therw

You mean " *GRAVE* A safety standard", maybe?!!!

I heard that loud and clear too. Blimey! People reminisce about this park like “We were veterans who served in combat together” 😂

"A few"? 😲

Wishes it never closed? It did because people died dummy!

Underrated comment

💀💀

😂😂😂😂😂💀

Shut up and take my money

Ironically he made a movie where he was the drunk and irresponsible owner of a water park based on action park

Yup, this is probably the worst video on the channel. Besides that important fact this video leaves A LOT of facts out.

Not only that but they put the brewery right next to the go-kart ride. When it was after hours the employees would take the cards for a joyride down the highway. Good times. 😊

That sounds like a good time though

@@Spankmepink well thank God we have you the professional know it all to help us out! We are so lucky you're here

Sounds like the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Stay in the area where the waves crest DO NOT GO OUT DEEP My advice

Neat idea for an indie game

LMFOOOAOA

Dang. The lazy river is always a good choice IMO.

Along with those war wounds everyone watched those kids .. felt bad.. and talked about it with friends on our way to the Tarzan Jump and the huge toilet bowl that they installed.

@@L8dyAriel I distinctly remember watching people go on the Tarzan swing and expecting to see someone die.

@Darlene Her When someone goes to an amusement park, they are expecting to have fun, not wind up in the hospital.

so not only are people getting hurt, they're risking nasty infections by staying at the park. we all know waterparks are disgusting. glad you're okay

I feel this so fucking much

At least nobody was literally deleting the ride while you were on it though.

Murderer!

What The Haefman said. Makes me want to steal my son’s Switch tonight.

@@user-pt1cz4ot1e Do it. :p

I mean

Omg!!! Too funny! I'm waiting for that Liability waiver for Restaurants after Covid 😂😂

@@lisalee2885 I'm waiting for you to get a job instead of living if mommy and daddy's money.

@@ryanstinson6740 LOL! Ryan you are too funny 😂 I'm 56 and have lived on my own since 19. For the record my parents are deceased 😥 P.S. I have worked all through covid 👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸

Or grow some balls.

Fun police... Ride at your own risk, I say.

No, really, I didn't know anything about the risks when I went when I was 12 and 16 years old. There was no internet, or smartphones or anything. There were tv commercials and I begged my mom to go ever since I was 7. I don't think most people knew about the risks. We assumed if the government let something take place or be sold, then it had to be safe. Had to make many assumptions pre-internet. There was just no way to know except by word of mouth. It was the innocence and ignorance of the time.

I'm actually starting to think brain damage from head injuries somehow became hereditary! Your deadpan comment did make me laugh 😂

Nope. It's the schools.

Still can't get over the carts going 50mph ! Wtf

Suddenly it all makes so much sense. Wonder if the "Jersey Slide" maneuver has its roots in action park as well.

It's genetic.

From what...?

@@mb2001 i’m pretty sure it’s from tiktok

Lmfaoooo

pulls out the that's terrible, that's hilarious spongebob meme lmfao

“....Her eyeballs were plucked out. Her eyebrows were then waxed.” Lmao

Haha. Funny not funny. Sadly its prob true.

Lol good comment! Would have been great without that last explanation sentence. Just leave it with "vaguely remember" or it's "all a blur" and its friggin hilarious haha

🤣

​@@mhzprayer Huh? You are wrong. The last sentence is what makes it funny.

Sorry, but I friggin lolled at the last sentence. Gold.

lmfaoo 😂😂

KidZ: YeeeeEEEEaaaaAAAAHHHHHH!!! 🤣

Super go karts: Tokyo drift

Kachow

My uncle told me the staff used to drive them on the road 😂

😂😂😂😂

Ok maybe U.S. Congress

Taking down Monkey Bars in childrens playgrounds, cause parents are too afraid kids will hurt themselves. Back then, what didn't kill you, made you stronger.

@@markusbrauns4274 AND the monkey bars were right on the macadam!!! I remember a kid falling off and getting stitches.......

As a member of the older generation you refer to, I would say that you could not be more correct. Not gonna lie.... stuff like that was fun! (until your head gets bashed in or you drown). Shame that isn't even a choice anymore.... More often than not surviving a risk does more for you than avoiding it altogether. Never went to that particular park, to be honest. The news often had a story about an accident there, and very rarely about any other park. There is a reason it was known as "Traction Park."

@@karylkline6442 A lot of us got hurt on them. It taught us a valuable life lesson don't grab metal bars in 90 degree heat lol.

@@jokerz7936How about those sliding boards that were metal? They were hot too! One of the schools I went to had a macadam playground but the climbing equipment, swings, and slides were on the grass. The macadam had the dodgeball circle, basketball courts, 4-square plot, and a kickball area. My first elementary school was where the boy fell off the monkey bars. Oh, and the other one, the track was out in the field. That was a small school with one classroom per grade until 5th snd 6th. We found a praying mantis neat out in the field at recess, it was pretty cool. One thing that would NEVER happen today, our 6th grade teachers took us spelunking. Whoever wanted to go and had parental permission. We loaded up into 2 cars, in old clothes, and went down ropes, through tight spaces, on the belly in puddles between "rooms". It was actually scary when there are bats, and you have no idea where the exit is. I don't know if people even still go there. They likely do, but they are not and never were, to my knowledge, marked or monitored, so if you go it is at your own risk. I loved the 70s

So far it is more like 2021😱

Disney isnt much better🤫

Word

Wow. Just WOW.

“Excuse me Mr Mulvihill, why is the dummy screaming?” “THIS RIDE IS CLOSED!” …for the afternoon.

Seems legit

😳

Also apparently people getting bad head bruises from that loop so they added foam to it. People started getting weird cuts and lacerations on their heads instead and when they looked at the foam again it had several teeth imbedded in it.

Yeah I feel like that drop needed to be a tad bit steeper for that to ever work 💀 let alone the fact the top of the slide would be completely dry unless a hose was ran through the entire slide

Hmm I never thought about that. There's a movie about this place with Johnny knoxville

It'd be like getting flushed down the toilet

Well most water slides propel you using moving water so the probably had water at a fairly high speed to push them through

Centrifugal force would (should) keep you and the water going around the outside of the loop. However, as stated in this video, if someone wasn't going fast enough they'd stall out at the top and then drop down against the inside wall of the loop, causing injury. Or worse, they'd have just enough momentum to get over the top of the loop and then drop down the downward part of the loop.

i’m curious have you ever been to it??

I wonder if the abandoned place is still there if it is it’d be creepy as hell

@@rc9145 As in the video, it wasn't abandoned. Purchased, made safe, reopened. Still operating today as Mountain Creek Waterpark.

I was just there last week! It's currently a skii resort and waterpark. It's nothing like how it was, which is a bit of a shame since i'd love to explore the abandoned ruins of this place, but none are left.

@@Yawyna124 that would be quite unsettling for me if I will go there now. Knowing about the tragedy... 😐

Love the username!

People got stuck so often that they eventually added a hatch get people out.

@@TheMedicatedArtist how the fuck did they save them before that lol And how many people got stuck before they added it Did they use a rope or something hahaha

They didn't mention the teeth that would get embedded in the slide from people smashing their faces and how people who slid down after would get lacerated by the teeth.

I feel suffocated at the thought. Shudder.

You are a true hero. I can only imagine this scary moment.

Hero!!

This is what terrifies me about those “lazy rivers” at some parks, where my kids are concerned. At the junctions of different paths, it would get backed up with everyone on tubes pushing to get through & fool kids swimming underwater below. I wouldn’t let my girls, though 13-14, do that & they just looked at me like I was crazy. There was nowhere to come up, I told them; they had to wait until we were past the crush. I was nervous for other people’s kids doing this, too.

@@KristenRowenPliske yes their are some unseen dangers at those parks. Parents need to watch over their kids. It was the right desicion to make.

I've never been to action park but I have a similar story. I was swimming with some family friends and they have twin girls, and at the time the girls were still fairly young (elementary age, probably kindergarten/1st grade). We were at a deep swimming hole at a river and there was a large area up top where all the adults were, where they couldn't see the kids from (already awfully irresponsible). I noticed one of the girls was in the deeper area and barely keeping her head above water and I just got this awful feeling in my gut that she would drown if I didn't go get her (thankfully I'm a strong swimmer). Sure enough, I swam over to her and she immediately tried to climb on top of me. I could feel how tired and yet panicked she was and as soon as I went under from her weight, I knew she was in trouble. I got my head above water and grabbed her with one arm, keeping her head level with mine and started shouting for someone to help me get her out of the water. Nobody either heard me or responded, so I swam over to a much shallower area where she could sit down and catch her breath (there was rocks by the edge that were only barely submerged). The scariest part is that as soon as she caught her breath, she went back to going down the river "slide" into the deep end and I kept an eye on her the entire time, terrified that she was going to go under. She barely knew how to dog paddle, let alone actually swim. I was infuriated at her parents and terrified for her safety, and to this day even just thinking about it fills me with adrenaline. I'm so glad I went with them, because god knows what would have happened if I'd declined that day. I doubt she still remembers it but I will never forget that day. Even now, at any area where people are swimming, I keep an eye on everyone else, especially any youngsters without flotation aids. I've never had to save anyone else yet, but I'm constantly on high alert just in case.

Holy crap I forgot about the circle!!!! Only had to go to the station once for a busted lip and remember them putting something on that burned like hell.

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Oy vey

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Damn really?

Is this for real? Were they water moccasins?

@@lizard3755 I don't think they were venomous but heard tales of guests getting bitten.

how many thousands, went thru those gates over 20 years, only 6 dead. A miracle.

Almost millions

That's what the owner said in his defense

Pfff six people dead that’s nothing -Action park literally

And how many thousands injured? There are bigger parks that have been open longer and have no deaths so