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Action Park's 2,700-foot-long (820 m) alpine slide descended the mountain beneath one of the ski area's chairlifts, which provided guests access to the top of the slide. Riders sat on small sleds that had only a brake control stick, and rode down the slide in long chutes built into the slope. The ride, and more specifically the sleds, became notorious for causing injuries. The stick that was supposed to control the sled's speed in practice offered just two options on the infrequently maintained vehicles: extremely slow, and a speed described by one former employee as "death awaits". The chutes the sleds travelled in were made of concrete, fiberglass, and asbestos, which led to serious abrasions on riders who took even mild falls. The tendency of guests to ride in bathing suits made the problem worse. The path underneath the chairlift resulted in verbal harassment and spitting from passengers going up for their turn.

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The Super Go Karts allowed guests to drive around a small loop track at a speed of about 20 miles per hour (32 km/h), controlled by the governor devices on the karts. However, park employees knew how to circumvent the governors by wedging tennis balls into them, and they were known to do so for guests. As a result, an otherwise standard small-engine kart ride became an opportunity to play bumper cars at 50 mph (80 km/h), and many injuries resulted from head-on collisions. Also, the kart's engines were poorly maintained and some riders were overcome by gasoline fumes as they drove.

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The first patron death occurred here in 1982; another visitor drowned in this common water-park attraction five years later. It was, however, the number of people the lifeguards saved from a similar fate that made this the only Waterworld attraction to gain its own nickname, "The Grave Pool". It was 100 feet (30 m) wide by 250 feet (76 m) long and could hold 500 to 1,000 people. Waves were generated for 20 minutes at a time with 10-minute intervals between them, and could reach as much as 40 inches (1.0 m) in height. It was not always obvious that pool depth increased as one got closer to the far end, and there were patrons who only remembered or realized that they could not swim when they were in over their heads and the waves were going full blast. Even those who could swim sometimes exhausted themselves, causing patrons to crowd the side ladders as the waves began, leading to many accidents. Twelve lifeguards were on duty at all times, and on high-traffic weekends they were known to rescue as many as 30 people, compared to the one or two the average lifeguard might make in a typical season at a pool or lake. Mountain Creek continues to operate this attraction as the "High Tide Wavepool" but made the pool much shallower.

Bronze Fonz posted:

I'm gonna try the wave pool.

Oh look, here comes the waves, get ready! haha

Wait, I forgot I don't know how to swim.

chitoryu12 posted:

I feel like we've gone too long without talking about Action Park, the most infamously dangerous water park in America. Multiple deaths, underage and undertrained employees, experimental ride designs made by unqualified engineers (including a looping water slide that didn't have an access hatch if you got stuck at the bottom until someone did), and insurance fraud to keep it all going. Still regarded by that generation from New Jersey as a place of wonder and beauty.

TVs Ian posted:

I grew up on Long Island, but only went there once for a church group trip (we had Adventureland instead, a low-budget but much safer amusement park).

I must have ridden the Alpine Slide like, five times among the other rides there. And I only saw one guy who flew off his sled and scraped the skin off both forearms. I also remember a tube ride where you'd go down a slide, into a little pool like six times, and the way the pools were designed you'd kind of get stuck in a loop. I had to get off my tube for a moment and get it back by the slide to continue, and I only found out later that somebody died doing that when their foot hit a frayed wire underwater.

null_pointer posted:

Oh, poo poo, guys. The bonehead state workes are trying to do the exact same thing with the buoys in front of the waterfall outside my house.

When they showed up, they had a kayak in the back of their pickup, so I thought the were going to do the smart thing and tow the string of buoys across the pond, well away from the waterfall, but nope! The kayaks are staying nice and dry in the pickup and two chuckleheads just walked a long-rear end line across the bridge and then up the river, just like they did last time.

I'm not sure if they learned their lesson from last time, or if it's gonna be a repeat. Now taking bets. I'll take pics in case anything happens.

Kanine posted:

:mica shop legends:

ive got more if anyone is curious

coke posted:

it’s like that time someone got internally burnt after putting cement up their butt.

null_pointer posted:

I mean ... I guess this is better than just having some dude holding the string? Maybe?

chitoryu12 posted:

I feel like we've gone too long without talking about Action Park, the most infamously dangerous water park in America. Multiple deaths, underage and undertrained employees, experimental ride designs made by unqualified engineers (including a looping water slide that didn't have an access hatch if you got stuck at the bottom until someone did), and insurance fraud to keep it all going. Still regarded by that generation from New Jersey as a place of wonder and beauty.




This is only a tiny fraction of what was wrong with it.

chitoryu12 posted:

I feel like we've gone too long without talking about Action Park, the most infamously dangerous water park in America. Multiple deaths, underage and undertrained employees, experimental ride designs made by unqualified engineers (including a looping water slide that didn't have an access hatch if you got stuck at the bottom until someone did), and insurance fraud to keep it all going. Still regarded by that generation from New Jersey as a place of wonder and beauty.




This is only a tiny fraction of what was wrong with it.

LifeSunDeath posted:

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A US farmer says he had "no other choice" but to cut off his own mangled leg with a pocket knife after it became trapped in farm machinery.

Nebraskan man Kurt Kaser, 63, was unloading corn last month when he accidentally stepped on the opening of his grain auger and his leg was sucked inside.

He said he had removed part of the safety screen covering the hopper to make it fit under a bin after the ground on his farm had frozen in the winter.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Boss is paid a dollar, I'm paid a dime,
That's why I drop massive bowel-nuking steaming turboshit loads that have personally destroyed three turlets and made 4 workers and an accounts payable clerk cry on the companies dime.

chitoryu12 posted:

I feel like we've gone too long without talking about Action Park, the most infamously dangerous water park in America. Multiple deaths, underage and undertrained employees, experimental ride designs made by unqualified engineers (including a looping water slide that didn't have an access hatch if you got stuck at the bottom until someone did), and insurance fraud to keep it all going. Still regarded by that generation from New Jersey as a place of wonder and beauty.

This is only a tiny fraction of what was wrong with it.

Fancy_Breakfast posted:

I'm literally allowed sleep on the job. Got 3 hours this morning.
After I washed my car and did my laundry with employers equipment of course.
Public service EMS life.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Boss is paid a dollar, I'm paid a dime,
That's why I drop massive bowel-nuking steaming turboshit loads that have personally destroyed three turlets and made 4 workers and an accounts payable clerk cry on the companies dime.

Platystemon posted:

Which plane was it that was assembled to a minimum possible flying condition at one facility and flown a short distance to another for major rework and finishing?

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As many as 250 airplanes arrived each day. An estimated 10,000 to 11,000 warplanes were flown to Walnut Ridge in 1945 and 1946 for storage , sale, or scrapping. At least 65 of the military’s 118 Consolidated B-32 "Dominator" heavy bombers were flown to Walnut Ridge, many straight from the assembly line in Fort Worth. Also, large quantities of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters were stored there awaiting the smelter; many of these were stored vertically to save space.

uvar posted:

Happened a few weeks ago but I don't recall it coming up


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-16/nebraska-farmer-amputates-own-leg-with-a-pocket-knife/11118088

starkebn posted:

https://i.imgur.com/HzaXCqY.mp4

Crews responded to the Devon Tower in downtown Oklahoma City at around 7:45 a.m. local time.

The Oklahoma City Fire department was able to secure the basket as of 8:25 a.m., and the two window washers were safe by 8:49 a.m.

starkebn posted:

https://i.imgur.com/HzaXCqY.mp4

Crews responded to the Devon Tower in downtown Oklahoma City at around 7:45 a.m. local time.

The Oklahoma City Fire department was able to secure the basket as of 8:25 a.m., and the two window washers were safe by 8:49 a.m.

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

OH MY loving GOD

Iron Chef Ramen posted:

It was doing that for over 30 minutes? gently caress

starkebn posted:

https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-school-closed-enriched-uranium-discovered-radiation-cancer-1424704

No poo poo posted:

OHIO SCHOOL CLOSED AFTER ENRICHED URANIUM DISCOVERED INSIDE: ‘WE AREN'T PREPARED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS’

starkebn posted:

https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-school-closed-enriched-uranium-discovered-radiation-cancer-1424704

Newsweek posted:

The site is now subject to an environmental cleanup under the supervision of the Department of Energy. Department officials told WLWT, “Routine air samples in the area of DOE Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon revealed trace amounts of two radiological isotopes that were more than one thousand to ten thousand times below the established threshold of public health concern. DOE treats all detections seriously—even those that are at such low levels.”

Nude posted:

I need more accidents.