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Water Slide Co-Designer Charged with Murder over Child Decapitated on Ride.
Breitbart ^ | April 3,2018 | by NATE CHURCH

Posted on 04/03/2018 5:46:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk

72-year-old John Schooley has been charged with second-degree murder in the tragic death of a child on the water slide he co-designed. Schooley was arrested at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport on Monday, just after returning from China. In addition to murder, Schooley also faces charges of aggravated battery and aggravated endangerment of a child.

A Kansas grand jury has indicted all three men involved in the incident that resulted in the decapitation of Caleb Schwab, son of Kansas State Representative Scott Schwab. The boy’s raft lost control on the 17-foot slide, and he was killed as he hit an overhead loop at high speed.

Charged along with Schooley are co-owner Jeffrey Henry and the private construction company of the park, Henry & Sons Construction Co. Both have been charged with reckless second-degree murder as well as 17 other felonies related to other incidents on the “Varruckt” slide.

But it was Schooley himself who signed off on the ride, claiming it met all of the required American Society for Testing and Materials standards for use. Even then, he allegedly said that “if we actually knew how to do this, and it could be done that easily, it wouldn’t be that spectacular.”

“Not a single engineer was directly involved in Verruckt’s dynamic engineering or slide path design,” according to the indictments. Those same indictments also claim that Henry rushed production of the slide in order to impress executives involved with a Travel Channel television program.

Thus far, the Schwab family has reached a $20 million settlement with the Schlitterbahn water park and companies associated with the slide’s production.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: amusementparks; localnews; waterslide
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1 posted on 04/03/2018 5:46:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

The prosecutor is a little out of control on this???? Murder

Bye Bye amusement parks...


2 posted on 04/03/2018 5:50:37 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

How horrible.


3 posted on 04/03/2018 5:50:54 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Hojczyk

I love the original Schlitterbahn, but these guys have a price to pay.

The Old Schlitterbahn was the greatest family friendly place ever.


4 posted on 04/03/2018 5:52:40 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Hojczyk

I can see incompetence, but murder? Where’s the malice?


5 posted on 04/03/2018 5:53:24 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Hojczyk

No engineers involved with the design and building of the tallest water ride in the country...

What could go wrong?


6 posted on 04/03/2018 5:55:30 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Hojczyk

So what about the bridge in Florida that pancaked onto cars anyone in trouble for that?


7 posted on 04/03/2018 5:56:09 PM PDT by funfan
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Cedar Point Rocks too!

But no one got killed there.


8 posted on 04/03/2018 5:56:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Hojczyk

So his intent was to take the life of Caleb?


9 posted on 04/03/2018 5:56:21 PM PDT by chris37 (I love my German Shepherd girls!)
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To: funfan

Apparently there were no children of politicians involved there.


10 posted on 04/03/2018 5:57:28 PM PDT by chris37 (I love my German Shepherd girls!)
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To: Hojczyk

“lost control on the 17-foot slide”

Reporters are dumb. This thing is much, much higher than that.


11 posted on 04/03/2018 5:57:51 PM PDT by lacrew
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Did that Kansas prosecutor even go to law school?

Of course if it had been the son of some peasant rather than an elected official, it probably wouldn’t have gone beyond a civil suit for negligence, if that.


12 posted on 04/03/2018 5:58:36 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: chris37

Another example of Just-us justice system..


13 posted on 04/03/2018 6:00:15 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: funfan

Construction company.

Figg group designed a wonderful bridge over Tampa Bay, The “Sky Bridge”

Safe as a puppy till one ahole crashes out looking at their IPhone,
I decided not to move there due to the constriction.


14 posted on 04/03/2018 6:00:44 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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You beat me by a minute! GMTA.


15 posted on 04/03/2018 6:01:39 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Hojczyk
How can these guys who designed this slide be charged with Murder?At most they could be charged with Manslaughter because it was an accidental death.

This should be tried in civil court.Not a criminal court.

Seems that the Prosecutor is placating a politician instead of doing his duty impartially.

16 posted on 04/03/2018 6:01:56 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Hojczyk

Did you even read the article?

Remember also a boy was decapitated on this death trap.


17 posted on 04/03/2018 6:02:49 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: piasa

As far as American law — We are in wonderland, Tonto.

But again if the guy was in China and seriously fouled his design up with consequences this bad, he might well get hanged.


18 posted on 04/03/2018 6:03:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: puppypusher

Rotflmao


19 posted on 04/03/2018 6:03:43 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: LegendHasIt

Of course if it had been the son of some peasant rather than an elected official, it probably wouldn’t have gone beyond a civil suit for negligence, if that.

Ding, ding, ding!


20 posted on 04/03/2018 6:03:54 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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