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Long-Anticipated World's Tallest Water Slide Is Now Open for Business (Video)
Mashable ^ | 7-9-2014 | JESSICA PLAUTZ

Posted on 07/10/2014 12:41:04 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Before park visitors go down the slide, they'll have to go up: 264 stairs to a platform higher than the Statue of Liberty and Niagara Falls.

Before even being allowed to climb the stairs, visitors must step onto a scale to ensure the combined weight of the two or three people who will be on a single raft does not exceed 550 pounds. After passing that, a park worker reads a two-page list that is part warning and part disclaimer.

One of the warnings listed is the possibility of death.

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To: TheConservator

The horse is crazy? LOL


21 posted on 07/10/2014 1:46:18 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah, baby! I’m in.


22 posted on 07/10/2014 1:53:55 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: wagglebee

A 12-year old boy died this afternoon when the craft went airborn. It isn’t in the news yet but rumors of decapitation are all over the place. I don’t think this park will survive the lawsuit.


23 posted on 08/07/2016 7:58:00 PM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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