Aerial view of deadly Verrückt water slide being dismantled at Schlitterbahn
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Get a birds-eye view of the cranes and the crews dismantling the Verruckt water slide at Schlitterbahn water park, in Kansas City, Kan., where a 10-year-old boy was killed in 2016. More info: www.kansascity...
I remember watching this on watchmojo years ago when it was under construction. And I remember seeing when they put the nets, I knew someone would easily be injured on the metal archs holding up the net. How could be, a high school drop out, understand this, but the people who designed this waterslide couldnt predict that? Do they not have common sense?
That’s why they currently have 17 felonies charged against them including second degree murder.
@@techpolitics Unfortunately they have all those charges dropped now.
Just days before the deadly incident a young girl who went there for her birthday went airborne and almost ended up paralyzed. Now she has three crushed discs in her spine that is still giving her trouble
@@annetteslife i cant believe I dont remember this happening. That's so wild. You can just tell by the tv show how negligent the creator was.
@@knowbuddy0 yeah they only go after the more tragic events then the less tragic ones. The organizers of the Veruckt waterslide had 13 prior convictions before the boy's death
May none of the parts ever be used for any other waterslide.
People die it is what it is
His blood was still on it 😢
Probably rust
@@CanadianxGirl87 yeah I'm sure there was, I just don't think it'd had been left there after 2 years with investigations and clearing the scene etc.
@@CanadianxGirl87 It would have washed away with the first rains long ago.
That was rust. You could still see the pools of his blood on the slide immediately after the accident though
Is the blood, after the accident the slide remained as a hazmat site, nobody was able to come closer or ride it again, cuz they repaired the damaged net but was imposible to drain all the blood from it, thats the same blood trail from that day.
As proof all of you can see it by your own with this video czcams.com/video/8w8AoMT5Y5k/video.html at 0:19 It shows the same blood trail, we cant see the whole blood path just because the other pieces are removed already
I feel bad for the kid. He was only ten :c
And his brother saw his body.
That’s just terrifying
after such a horrific accident, i wonder how many people won't ever go on a waterslide again
They did a Travel Channel special on the construction of Verruckt, I wonder if they will do one on the demolition.
I remember watching that
I saw the travel channel show a week before this happened. It was eerie
I’ve never been so happy to see a water slide be torn down
I'm glad that they didn't show the poor kids injuries
I remember hearing about this water slide once when it was being built and I was like cool I want to try until I saw one of the testing videos of one of the rafts flying off the slide and nope never mind it’s a death trap
I rode it as a wee little lad, around the same height and weight as the kid who died. Long time ago but scary to think how close of a call I had.
It flayed off cause they was doing a test plus it’s only for 400 pounds
An accident waiting to happen!!!!!!!
What the second hump was for I'll never know! Obviously it would send the raft flying! Basic physics!!! Did the designer not ever watch motocross??
The slide should not have been designed that way. After the big drop it should have had a flat run all the way to the pool!
I know right I mean look at all there other tall slides there all normal and straight into the water
Why do I feel like they watched the movie " Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves" and got the idea from the racecar scene 😑
@@scotthayes5933 or if they really want another hump make the flat section after the big drop more long so the raft loose velocity ... dunno seems so basic
If I were the father of the victim I would have obtained a court order the ride must be demolished via dynamite, so the ignorant ownership of Schlitterbahn could only watch their costly and high-risk investment go down on a smoldering heap!
And what would have accomplished? whether it was demolished one way or another way wouldnt have mattered to them- it was going away either way. no doubt they had liability insurance and other insurance that covered the majority of it all.
20 million
MasterDrew117 if that happened the whole park would get exploded and u would get a criminal offense
Or send the owners down the ride without a net
I used to live in Lawrence, Kansas. Would pass this place on my way home from from Kansas City. You could see Verruckt from the interstate. I thought dang, that is really high.
20 million in settlements, what good is that!? No amount of money will bring the boy back to life!!!!!!
It could still be there if the hill was not there .and be a normal drop slide. I know they added that to make it more fun but hills really dont need to be parts of slides
People here may have never been on this so let me tell you how it was.
Hell.
(Yes I have been on that before)
Why do you say it was hell? Was it really scary?
I remember me and my husband driving by this when they were building this back in 2013 of oct and we both were like oh hell noo.. and later with all the failed tests they did you would fig they would make it more safer and what not and specially no metal arches holding up the net I'm kinda glad I never went to that water park cuz who knows what other saftey issues there were in that park....
Good riddance. It had no purpose being made anyway
So good to know that what can only be described as a death trap of a water slide is now gone
You can’t change the past but they change the future and they can prevent it from happening again it’s called moving forward.
Once they got the word to bring it down. They should have just leveled the whole damn thing then every single piece gets scrapped and that money goes to the family.
dang, gave me chills when i found out his blood was never removed
You can see some of the stains
@@ILoveQazaqstanthat’s rust. Anything was in the water.
@@malisac3869 thank god
@@malisac3869nein kein rost schau die aktuellen Nachrichten von BBC vor 7 Jahren. es ist tatsächlich Blut..
@@ILoveQazaqstanit is blood...
my question is why would they allow a 10 year old boy on a 168 ft drop waterslide going 70 mph they should of put more restriction rules on this waterpark meaning # no kids
when i have a bad day... its never this bad.
It's probably been converted into a roller coaster and sold to a European theme park.
You couldn’t pay me to get on that thing! Poorly designed and should have never been built! If the second hill was omitted things might be different. Anyone who went down it and lived are fortunate!
Why would they even have needed make a slide this big? What a horrible way for that little boy to die.
I know ,whole thing just makes me sick to my stomach, the utter incompetence and negligence involved is just appalling .That death trap never should've been built and allowed to operate in the first place.And that poor little boy getting decapitated ,how horrific and that his brother witnessed it, that poor family. God bless them and comfort them.RIP little man.
My friend took her two grandsons age 15and 12, plus two of their friends to ride this in 2015. She said they rode it about five times feeling exhilarated. I told her how lucky they were to not have been poor Caleb 😰
You could see the blood from the highway after it happened.
Jeff Henry be out there screaming “I want my Guinness World Record!”
Has Schlitterbahn even gotten much ticket sales ever since this incident?
jhumenik97 it’s closed now
They didn't release attendance numbers for 2018 and have not said whether or not they will even open for 2019. As of January you could not buy tickets or season passes for the park.
Cedar Fair agreed to buy Schlitterbahn's two parks in New Braunfels and Galveston for a price of $261 million. they had the option to buy the Kansas City location, they declined and the park remains standing but not operating.
Water slide that requires belt is just getting too much!
Who looks at this and thinks “safe”.
I think it should be dismantled. it is not just the tallest slide in the world it is the most dangerous to slide to
They never cleaned the slide so calebs blood was stained on the ride at 1:46 u can the the at the edge where the blood began or knows as where his head and headless body started to bleed and slip of the slide
Internal decapitation
Tbh that water park looks boring as shit ! RIP little angel 👼
*a 10 yea old kid died from this ride I don’t know how*
@Xander Shrive no, the combined weight of everyone in his raft wasn’t heavy enough so when they got to the bump the raft lifted
@agoddess00, internal decapitation....
Second degree murder is not what the co owner is guilty of. Maybe involuntary manslaughter but definitely not murder.
Terrible that the boy died but why close the water park? Just tear down verruct.
The park was doing shitty since then, tearing down your main attraction was just death nail for them with the side of legal troubles.
I rode this.
They should have dynamited this monstrosity. It NEVER should have been built. The people who brought it into existence need to be in prison. To set an example for those who put personal profit and thrill-seeking before safety. Even today, with tragedies like the Titan sub, arrogance is STILL taking innocent lives.
Claps!
0:27 it looks like a coaster
Dorito,I did read about it.It is a terrible thing.
Praise be!!!
Is this slide gonna be scraped?
It was. Ride is now completely gone and the park should be following before too long.
RIP
HEADS WILL ROLL
went to this park once and never went back. nothing to do except a few slides and a pool. oceans of fun is superior plus you get admission to worlds of fun too with a ticket and they actually care about safety not just making crazy rides
😥😥rip
I'm gonna miss this ride. They should never have let that kid on. He was too small.
joei If they let him on at his size...they also allowed many others on that size.
So many things went wrong it’s hard to tell which one led to this tragic incident.
@@lunalovegood1205Don't you think they would have done an investigation to know the cause?
I agree, the ride was supposed to be 16 and up, the public pushed for kids to ride it
@@lunalovegood1205
The ride demanded that the operators loaded each raft with its rider's weights summing in a particular weight range (not enough weight could cause the raft to settle at the bottom, too much, and the raft could be lifted off of the path.
The last ride was boarded with two obese women in the rear and Caleb up front.
With the women in the rear, the raft reached the summit of the ride at great speed.
When the raft summited, Caleb was pushed into the wire mesh canopy.
Have one ? If it was not a govt son would we be doing this. Because money talks and Bull shit walks. Money has power. Sry for loss let the little rip.
Most theme park fatalities generally result in decommissioning of a ride, but keep waving that pitchfork, please.
Shut that power trap of yours and show respect for the family. Negativity like yours is the evil of this world!
Problem is why did the father let's his son ride The Verrückt if he's so damn small the guy should've realised this and warned his boy to stay away from that ride cause rides like this are meant for adults to ride on not the kids .
Such kind of rides should be dismantled
Such rides should never have been built in the first place. Most companies of mega rides do daily rigorous testing and other safety checks prior to opening the park. But these douchebags wanted to do this so they could go on a television show.
Bey stp net! prest! Bet
I can't believe they demolished the coolest waterslide ever just because a park employee allowed that kid to ride when he should have known that the kid was to small to ride, that slide was on my bucket list and never got to ride it just because an employee caused that kid's death.
thrillseekerman01 aw man what a bummer. Hey at least there are other water slides to check out. Definitely don’t need to come all the way to Kansas for that experience 😆
The water slide never received a state safety inspection. No way in hell would i go on that. Plus the owner was a ignorant high school drop out, think about that for a min.
Buy it, set it up, call it the Death Ride, charge $100 per ride, I bet the loony's will travel from all over the world to ride it.
Like 20 people, including employees, got injured while riding/testing it
Didn't you watch any of the other videos on this park? Other people were getting injured prior to this accident! Just days before the accident a young girl who went there to celebrate her birthday went on that ride and went airborne and was almost paralyzed. Think about that. Engineers and ride operators let 10 year old on rollercoaster. Plus when these douchebags tested the ride with crash test dummies they couldn't not even keep the car on the tracks. A former employee who was interviewed said he refused to go on or near the ride all of the time he was working there. If you have to have a waiver read to you before going down then that says something right there.
T0 those who claim they did NO testing? Watch the video of the ride being built. After they had issues with the dummies flying off, they went back and rebuilt the track to make it better. It's NOT the owners fault that the ride operators let a small child on the ride.
The slide was plagued with issues From the beginning. This was a perfect storm kind of accident that absolutely was caused in part by negligence of the park owners. From the very beginning engineers said the design wasnt safe. Originally, the slide was to sit one of the texas parks but was refused by the state for safety reasons. They moved the design to the kansas park because the state had self regulation laws, meaning the park was in control of the maintenance and inspections...the state didn't have a foot in the process the same way Texas did. From the jump, the owner wasnt interested in making an adventurous thrill ride that was terrifying yet safe, he wanted to break a world record and be featured on the Travel Channel, something Schillterbahn had done previously in 2008 for their one Dragon slide. Multiple times he was told by engineers this design wasn't safe, he ignored them. Even 2-3 days before the press opening they were still tweaking things because rafts were going airborne and launching sad bags around, and the night prior to official opening, the park made the decision to drop the age minimum of 14, making it available to all park guests who met the proper height limit. The weight limit was only for rafts as a whole not individuals. For the nearly two years it was open internal documents given to the court showed that tons of injuries had taken place. Rafts were consistently going airborne with the second hill and there were literally pages of injuries including one of a young girl close to Calebs age who had 3 disks crushed in her back from an accident similar to the one that killed Caleb. A few weeks prior to Calebs accident the breaking system for the slide had failed. Evidence showed they internally repaired it and let the slide remain open. Pictures and employee testimony show that break pads that had existed prior to the fix had been removed but not replaced and that employees had been mentioning additional issues to management that were never addressed. Internal documents also show that multiple times a season guests would report the failure of the Velcro harnesses that were never replaced. A father whose daughter had gone down the slide a mere hours prior to Caleb reported to staff that day that her Velcro harnesses was faulty...the ride operated as usual with no stoppage. Employees also recounted under oath how daily maintenance was simply sending a raft of employees down the slide and more documentation showed that in the 2 years it operated the park never brought in an outisde inspections agency to ensure safety, even though they did this with other slides. This negligence paired with the faulty loading of Calebs raft led to the accident. Had they been properly maintenceing the ride, included age limits, or even built it without that secondary hill like it should have been... This accident wouldnt have occurred. It was negligent to build this slide in this way in the first place and then they continued to be negligent in its maintenance. It was a failure by all parties in the park that lead to Calebs death. All of this is public record and much of it is what lead to the Schwab families large settlement. The only reason the criminal charges were dropped was because of a legal loophole regarding submitting the travel channel footage as evidence.
@Nancy Farkas; they should have hired a company to review the design and simulate the ride. This is what is usually done with Roller Coaster rides. Given that Texas and Kansas do not require any kind of certification, they just did the ride by trial and error. To their defense, they did hire a company to review the ride's safety. That company warned there was a serious risk of lift off on the the hump for a certain given weight range. They ignored the warning.
You cannot engineer such a contraption by trial and error. There was not even any kind of certifying authority review required prior to opening the ride to the public.
In my world, the design has to be approved by a third party company, and the final certification is also subject to review by an independent certifying body.
These guys did it all by themselves. No review, no verification.
@@p6x2 Not true. There was a height and weight restriction on the ride. The parents ignored it and apparently so did the lifeguards.
Imma miss it😭
I wanted to ride verrucht!
Aww too bad
Should have left it up
Agreed, the gp are acting like this is some medival torture device even though it’s a water slide, it’s the families fault for making the kid go on it
It’s not the family’s fault...but I would never let my 10 year old on a ride like that.
@@coloradorocky1298 the kid wasn’t even old enough to ride it but the family let him
@@doritosauce6632 he was old enough. The reason the raft lifted was the combined weight total wasn’t heavy enough
No a kid died on it. Most rides if someone dies it is taken down.
Aww i loved this slide
This same slide killed a child….
The slide should be rebuilt and reopened. It isnt the ride's fault that the kid died, its the kids fault for ignoring the proper safety procedures that you have to take on waterslides like this. I'm sorry if this seems like i'm speaking ill of the dead, but its true.
Jackpat or whoever you are,keep your sick opinions to yourself! How can it be the kid's fault? The owners do not care about lives and his parents are irresponsible.They should have said NO.It is a faulty,bad ride.Idiot.
@@amandamorgan2802 how about you actually listen to the news and not some idiots on Facebook
You act like the operators were trying to stop the kid, no they let him on and others like him on.
That's not even the point, the whole ride was a death trap, shouldn't have been airborne in the first place, an upstop system or if it was just a single drop would have been better. If a waterslide needs metal grates above you, that should tell you that it's not just unsafe, it's your death warrant.