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Lawmaker's Young Son Dies on 'World's Largest' Water Slide
ABC News ^ | August 8, 2016

Posted on 08/08/2016 11:19:01 AM PDT by Wolfie

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To: Wolfie

I wonder if he tried to stand up or something and hit his head?


61 posted on 08/08/2016 12:25:28 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: lacrew

OMG. So, why report the death in such a mysterious fashion? As if it could be unrelated to the ride.

Outrageous.


62 posted on 08/08/2016 12:26:09 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
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To: lacrew

Only a few weeks ago there was an accident on a water ride. Some guy (adult) went over the edge and broke both his arms.


63 posted on 08/08/2016 12:26:10 PM PDT by mware
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To: Wolfie

A year or so ago, The science channel (if I recall correctly) did a special on the design and construction of this water slide. They had lots of design challenges and initial testing proved that the “rafts” tended to go airborne at the top of the initial drop and the top of the second drop. They modified the angles of approach and put nets over the areas. Sounds like maybe something like an airborne raft may have recurred. Perhaps it was too light weight with a 10 year old in it. So sad.


64 posted on 08/08/2016 12:29:29 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long .as it's mandatory.)
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To: Wolfie

A year or so ago, The science channel (if I recall correctly) did a special on the design and construction of this water slide. They had lots of design challenges and initial testing proved that the “rafts” tended to go airborne at the top of the initial drop and the top of the second drop. They modified the angles of approach and put nets over the areas. Sounds like maybe something like an airborne raft may have recurred. Perhaps it was too light weight with a 10 year old in it. So sad.


65 posted on 08/08/2016 12:29:34 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long .as it's mandatory.)
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To: Ciexyz

Most of that stuff really isn’t tempting fate. Most of it is safer than crossing the street, but sometimes your number is just up, you’ll make just the wrong bounced in just the wrong way bumping just the wrong body part and there you go.


66 posted on 08/08/2016 12:33:45 PM PDT by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: Wolfie

Sad but I would never allow my 10 year old on something like this.


67 posted on 08/08/2016 12:37:44 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (TRUMP 2016)
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To: RitaOK
So, why report the death in such a mysterious fashion?

Another report I saw early this morning said decapitation.

68 posted on 08/08/2016 12:39:28 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Oh, dear God. This is soooo sad. I think these slides are ridiculous.


69 posted on 08/08/2016 12:40:56 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (TRUMP 2016)
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To: T-Bird45

God forbid. Speechless.


70 posted on 08/08/2016 12:48:57 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
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To: lacrew

I’m no expert, but it seems to me that more weight in the raft would increase its speed down the slide, which would increase the likelihood of it going airborne over the second hump. Having people go airborne in a vehicle (the raft) that’s not attached to the slide, and not belted into it, seems problematic from a safety point of view to me. Amusement park / water park rides are supposed to give the sensation of doing something dangerous without any real danger involved.


71 posted on 08/08/2016 12:50:35 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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Amusement park / water park rides are supposed to give the sensation of doing something dangerous without any real danger involved.

Sort of like posting on the internet. ;)

72 posted on 08/08/2016 12:51:55 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Afterguard

Thanks for the information. It is much more coherent than the public remarks made by the authorities.

They had it sounding as a mystery why he died and that they were investigating. I took it that possibly it was even unrelated to the ride.

I would say the scene spoke for itself, if the little boy was decapitated or fell.


73 posted on 08/08/2016 12:53:19 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
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To: Afterguard

I hadn’t really considered aerodynamics. While a heavier raft would tend to be faster (I figure), a lighter raft would be more prone, once it lifted off the surface of the slide, to being lifted by the force of the air underneath it.


74 posted on 08/08/2016 12:54:34 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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Look at that ride. It was a disaster waiting to happen.

I always love it when someone looks at a pic for 5 seconds and suddenly knows more than the engineers who designed something.

75 posted on 08/08/2016 1:01:32 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

I always love it when someone looks at a pic for 5 seconds and suddenly knows more than the engineers who designed something.

You are right.When I am at the airport I look at these huge airplanes and tell myself: “There is no way these can fly”... but they do.


76 posted on 08/08/2016 1:04:09 PM PDT by ToxicMich ((If you are reading this, you are wasting your time. There is nothing here...))
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To: -YYZ-

The raft clears the second hump, with both momentum and the assistance of water jets. For this reason, a lighter raft is actually more at risk to fly off the ‘hump’.

The heavy rafts just don’t make it up the hump sometimes, and they settle in the low point in the middle. For this reason, there is a short gap in the safety netting, around one raft length, at the low point, for extraction.

People are belted into the raft...with lousy Velcro straps.

There was an unsubstantiated rumor on Reddit, that a woman in the raft damaged her jaw. If true, this would indicate the entire raft lifted up...and that out of the 3 people needed to achieve 400 lb, one was a small kid and another was a woman, meaning the raft was probably right at the minimum.


77 posted on 08/08/2016 1:11:44 PM PDT by lacrew
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There’s some sort of curved piping holding the netting up. Don’t know if that’s the case further down the ride, but coming up & out of your seat, and being garrotted by the support pipe...oh no.


78 posted on 08/08/2016 1:12:54 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Wolfie

What a horribly sad tragedy. 10 years old! So sad.


79 posted on 08/08/2016 1:34:36 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“the engineers who designed something” designed a ride on which a 10-year old died. News reports said it reaches speeds of 65MPH, and alterations had to be made to prevent cars from going airborne. Personally, knowing all that, and just looking at the thing, I wouldn’t get on that ride.


80 posted on 08/08/2016 1:35:26 PM PDT by grania
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