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02GF74 - 24/6/08 at 08:26 AM



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Former employee Tom Fergus says the bottom of the pool was eventually painted white to make it easier to spot any bodies on the bottom.


[Edited on 24/6/08 by 02GF74]

Mr Whippy - 24/6/08 at 08:40 AM







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iscmatt - 24/6/08 at 10:01 AM

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Originally posted by Mr Whippy






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I cant believe thats real!? What if for whatever reason you didnt pick up enough speed to get your weight up and over!!!

haha crazy

02GF74 - 24/6/08 at 10:08 AM

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Originally posted by iscmatt
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy






[Edited on 24/6/08 by Mr Whippy]



I cant believe thats real!? What if for whatever reason you didnt pick up enough speed to get your weight up and over!!!

haha crazy


it is all explained in the article.

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The one ride that has come to symbolize Action Park and its extreme thrill-seeking was, paradoxically, almost never used.

In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time, and indeed the park already had several. But for this one they decided to build, at the end, a complete vertical loop of the kind more commonly associated with roller coasters. Employees have reported they were offered hundred-dollar bills to test it. "It didn't buy enough booze to drown out the memory", said Fergus.

It was opened for one month in summer 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time. One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it was opened had been dismembered. A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be built there to allow for future extrications.

iscmatt - 24/6/08 at 10:10 AM

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Originally posted by iscmatt
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy






[Edited on 24/6/08 by Mr Whippy]



I cant believe thats real!? What if for whatever reason you didnt pick up enough speed to get your weight up and over!!!

haha crazy



Ah!! now i see

Wiki quote about the slide:

It was opened for one month in summer 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time.[13] One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it was opened had been dismembered.[13] A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be built there to allow for future extrications.[13]

iscmatt - 24/6/08 at 10:12 AM

02GF74, i wrote before i read it - schollboy by me

Interesting place though!!

mad4x4 - 24/6/08 at 11:24 AM

Surely that would work - or not work like a U Bend in a toilet - Don't think I'd try that