Water Slide Death | Women in Raft With Victim Speak Out
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2016
- Hannah Barnes and Matraca Baetz both suffered facial injuries during the accident that killed Caleb Schwab, 10, at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas.
This water slide doesn't even look remotely safe it literally looks cheap as shit
On the internet, everyone has a PhD in waterslides.
dumpy I mean, if honestly doesn't look safe just by looking at it. It doesn't take a degree to see it wouldn't take much at all for that to lift up ya know?
dumpy well ya pretty much said it for me, all have the ability to make it unsafe but just the steep drop itself makes it look questionable, like you'd pop up quite a bit and you'd to airborne.... It's not really a debate or an argument, just by looking at it you can tell you're risking something by going down it.
Renee Cavanagh I feels ya.
Had the weight been distributed correctly on the raft it wouldn't have gone airborne
If scales "weren't" working, ride should not have been in operation.
@Anne Liesveld Welcome to the world of Libertarian government.... Why regulate anything??? .... Oh right... Decapitations
Anne Liesveld learn how to spell
A LOT more than just the scale was broken at the park. It was wildly unsafe.
No ride should exist where a weigh-in determines how lethal it will be.
Alexandria Lukes - you’re right, there is SOME difference between the two, but how about instead of banning rides like this, there just be a gigantic sign with “warning: may result in actual death. Ride at your own risk”
I agree completely.
@@e-rock-e.3440 because they shouldn't exist period, a child lost his life because of this one!!
All rides are designed considering height and weight, don’t be so ignorant.
@@e-rock-e.3440 I dont think that's legal first of all, saying that its possible that there ride isnt safe enough to ensure you wont die, and also that will attract not much business if people actually died from it, so they wouldn't put that sign up...
I thought from the title that the people from the raft would actually say something. Instead, just a couple sentences from an attorney. I need to click bait more.....
Oh my gosh, urmaker :D
urmaker These women were struck by the head and shoulders of this boy, after those parts of his body were severed from his torso, BUT you are complaining about clickbait! These women can’t talk because of the broken jaw one sustained and the facial and head injuries sustained by the other. They are communicating by writing. So stop your bitching about clickbait!
I know one of the woman had her jaw broken by his decapitated head.... so I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that they're traumatized. (I'm not disagreeing about the click-bait lol, I got fooled too, I'm just guessing why we haven't heard from them really since this happened). Plus the fact they were set up kid, kid, adult, adult (INSANE, RIGHT?!) in the raft.... they may not want them to speak out freely until all the proceedings are over because the way they were set up was blatantly against protocol and a HUGE reason he died. So, even given how dangerous it was and all that, the way they were sat in the raft GREATLY contributed to Caleb's death and therefore I'd imagine the two women are still witnesses and all that.
Why titled the video in such a manner? Women speaks out, implied they were interviewed. Why not women attorney or spokesperson says.......plus these women felt guilty. Were they weigh before the ride, or did they just accept these two women’s answers for granted. Tragic case all round.
I'm sure they have paid well to keep quiet. they will have nightmares forever
I have been a licensed professional mechanical engineer consultant (P.E.) in California for over 20 years now and profession engineer for over 30 years. As soon as I saw the cross-support bows holding up the netting above the water slide, I thought it was an bad accident waiting to happen. The netting was obviously there to contain things from flying off the slide. Yet the holes in the netting are so large that someone could get an arm, leg or head caught in the holes. Additionally, the support bows are positioned perpendicular to the direction of travel, and the raft can travel at 70 mph in the fastest portions of the slide. Those cross-bows, likely made of fiberglass (or similar stiffness material) could easily cause blunt-force trauma if hit by any body part. And if it hits at the neck, below the chin, could certainly kill a person at high speed and also decapitate a person in the process. Really a bad, bad design.
If an engineer/designer was going to put some sort of containment structure above that slide then it would have to be some sort of a slick, solid (no holes or gaps), likely transparent surface. Any support structures would have to be completely outside the containment structure so that a person could not hit any of the supports. Any sort of support structure exposed to the rider would have to be slick and run parallel to the direction of travel of the raft. This was a really poorly designed and poorly tested structure. The designers responsible for this should never work on this sort of ride ever again. They just did not use good common sense, much less engineering sense and safety sense when they came up with this design. They just had no idea of all the variables that they were dealing with. This design, where the raft was not physically connected to the slide, perhaps even begs for some wind tunnel testing of a scale model to understand how stable or unstable the raft is as it slides down the waterslide. I've put my P.E. stamp on a few designs for mobile rock climbing walls and amusement rides. After seeing this water slide structure in operation, there is just no way that I would have approved the design as-is. It looks like a "death machine" to me, and that is what it has turned out to be.
Ed Schultheis, P.E.
It's worse than you think.
Kansas's Libertarian government had de-regulated to the point that there was no requirement at all for a Professional Engineer to be involved with this disastrous design. One of the park owners, with no engineering knowledge, designed it himself.
The restraints were velcro, and often failed. There was no uplift-restraint mechanism whatsoever, such as raft outriggers extending beneath an outer rail.
The state charged the park owners with homicide, but couldn't make the charges stick, because no Kansas law required it be designed to meet common-sense standards, such as having uplift-restraints.
This is complete failure of the state's government to ensure public safety, i.e. protect the public from unscrupulous park owners.
J S Shortreed, PE, SE
@@jsshortreed9190 the fact that this type of de-regulation of everything is what a percentage of the country actually wants in spite of the degrees of risk is absolutely terrifying.
I can’t imagine having that kind of desire or logic unless I’m either living a complete bubble or someone with zero capacity for conscience.
When a nations motto is "Home of the free, land of the brave", that means you can do whatever you like as long as you are prepared to risk injury or death. Crazy!
The moment I saw those metal hoops holding the mesh, I knew it would one day result in decapitation. This is criminal negligence.
@@Fionnlagh66 as long as you’re willing to risk injury or death to yourself and/or anyone else with zero distinction or obtaining of consent, apparently. Sad.
@@jsshortreed9190 Free-dumb, like the anti-vaxxers/maskers.
Caleb was allowed to sit at the front of the raft, where he should have been told to sit in between the two heavier women. This uneven weight distribution contributed to the raft going airborne.
Exactly! Smh
@@aqueenfromqueenzcarmeljones I mean, it wasn't just the distribution of weight that caused the problems, many other riders experienced injuries and close calls before this, including numerous reports of the straps coming undone, other people hitting the netting, experiencing slipped discs and spinal injuries, and one man injuring his face pretty badly. So I think the hate is deserved here. This wasn't a fluke or one-off incident. As one lifeguard said himself, it was only a matter of time before someone died on that ride.
he was thrown from the raft and hit a metal bar supporting the safety netting
When I rode it the rule was that the lightest person must sit in front. Not sure how they came up with that rule though.
Over 500 pounds on a flimsy, cheap raft. Putting the smallest person in the front. Yea, that would totally end well. This poor child didn't have to die, all the adults had to do was use common sense.
Exactly it could’ve been prevented and poor kaleb would be alive if it wasn’t for those idiots
No way a woman that weighs 275 look like 170. Like that's the point where you have to say something as a ride director when it comes to a persons life.
It's the park's responsibility to have a scale on rides where weight will make a significant safety difference. Both of our local water parks have them atop the multi-person rides. Using them is not optional. It shouldn't be up to the lifeguards to guess a person's weight. Lord knows I couldn't do it.
maybe the raft popped from too much weight?
1besieged All the hate on the ladies that ride on that ride is disturbing.
What is even more disturbing is that the boy was under the weight requirement 😒
The weight fits the ride requirement, the total weight of 500 pounds was adequate, and the victim should of been i the middle of the ride.
In truth, the victim was actually under the minimum requirement to ride the ride and shouldn't of been admitted.
Yeah 275lbs/125KG is a lot for a woman. Would be easily noticeable.
Jane Doh they had a scale. It didn’t weight people individually but the total of the people slotted to get in the raft. It’s easy to blame the women when it wasn’t their fault and it’s never been established they ever said what they weighed. The initial weights were from the police report who probably asked the high school age ride handler what he though people weighed. People are notoriously unable to estimate heights or weights especially teenagers. It’s irrelevant anyway because it was the total weight at issue. Now these armchair experts are saying the boy should have been in the middle - maybe so but there was NO policy stating that. They did not issue the certificate for the ride stating how the weight should be distributed therefore the people working the ride - who are mostly high school kids, not PHD level engineers - wouldn’t know that.
When this ride came out, my mom told me "someone is going to die on this eventually" and sure enough, a small child did. She even told me she would NEVER let me ride this.. the safety concerns are obvious that no one should of been riding it. They kept trying to not let this ride be in Schlitterbauhn and now they got away with it.
As most sensible parents would say. No way would I let my kids on that ride and they are late teens!!!
I wouldn’t trust that water park just by looking to its surroundings !! 🤦🏻♂️ it looks terrible !!
Junito Punto Comm ikr
Seriously!!
oh trust me. If you really looked at the surrounding in person you wouldn't say that
I live in Kansas City and I’ve been there. It’s actually really nice, it just looks bad because they built it on the exterior part of the actual park where the is nothing surrounding it
Max Pardo thank you!
My god I cannot imagine the horror those women went through. There was a live news feed that showed blood ALL over the entire track, and pooled at the bottom. Not only were they physically injured, they had severe mental trauma.
Used to drive by that water slide almost every day on the way to theatre rehearsals. It was always chilling to look at that ghostly structure and be reminded of a poor little boy’s death
ElectricSharkHow did they not realize the woman who claimed to be 170 lbs was actually 275 lbs? That's a huge weight difference!1 second ago•
Honestly, over 100lbs off!
I rewound that shit.... tragic, to out a 73 pound kid on the front of a ride with that much weight behind him? I feel so bad for Caleb, his family, and wow guilt is gonna eat the staff that didn't pay enough attention and the women on the ride if they gave weights that off. Neglegence and ego took that poor boys life. He shouldn't have been allowed on 😢
ElectricShark yeah! What the fuck. Like, it’s one thing to say you’re 120 when you’re closer to 130 but sheesh
LOL
No one actually said they thought it was 400. They thought it was at least 400. Others speculates it was less than 400. The ride attendants were correct it was way more than 400.
me and one of my old lifelong friends went to this water park and rode this damn ride 2-3 days before Caleb passed. I came home and my mom took my phone away from me because she thought I was with a boy, since I had bruises all over my neck/chest area where the shitty velcro seatbelts were. when this news story came out me and my friend and both our families couldn’t believe it. I still have the wristband from 2016 summer. ill never forget this, and my heart definitely goes out to Caleb and his family.
💖🙏🏽🙏🏽
Cap
your mother is truly something. she thought you were doing something by having BRUISES (because that makes sense) and of all things she decided to do .. she took your phone? didn’t ask why you had the bruises? 😂 what a smart, logical mother. she was probably projecting cause she was a sleaze at that age. sorry you had to deal with that.
Your mother is an awful person.
@@dreamkittylmao it’s kind of embarrassing that you don’t know what a hickey is
If the weight of the people going on this ride was so important to make it safe then they should have had scales there to weigh them. I think the ride should have never been made in the first as it's clearly not safe.
there were scales, the weighed to make sure the boat would weigh enough. The weight was not the problem.
But the kid was underweight, he was only 73 pounds. The rules were 90 pounds and over
Soooo the scales didn't work. Are you f ing kidding? Send an employee to wal mart and get some damn scales.
That 275-pound bitch would have broken that cheap Wal-Mart scale!
@@RK831
Damn, shots fired.
Wow, I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for the riders and how horrible and gruesome the incident was. I feel for there family. Rest in Piece Caleb.
Why did exactly that word have to be a typo
*Peace. Edit this.
and then you had adults bringing their kids 3 days after happened, there is no limit to human stupidity
@@crystaloats8177 this isnt an english lesson ffs
@@jessicatheplotagonist2k864 “piece” on someone who was decapitated just feels terrible reading. I know the author meant well, but if the OP sees this and can fix an easy edit, why not. I know it’s not an English lesson, but in sensitive topics the right spelling can mean a lot. Also, autocorrect or voice texting can be a pain and change words unknowingly sometimes. Don’t have a cow, I wasn’t impolite on this old a$$ comment.
There is driver's license weight and there is "get on the scale" at the hospital weight.
On the internet, everyone has a PhD in waterslides.
drewzifer but they are not completely up to date
I’m 30 pounds heavier than when I got my last license, they better not be using that. It expires 8 years later in my state.
What is the point of asking for your weight/height/eye color when you apply for a driver's license? You could lie and put any answer you want.
the kid wasn't heavy enough to ride it in the first place
And no one thought that metal "safety net" with the death trap metal girders was a tragedy waiting to happen? How stupid could those designers have been?
Omg...I am BAWLING!!! My son is 10 yrs old and I can't even IMAGINE arriving at an amusement park with him (or ANYWHERE for that matter) and leaving WITHOUT HIM. God please CONTINUE to comfort ALL of those involved in this HORRIFIC TRAGEDY.
Get a grip
@@ilovesparky13 get a heart
I can’t imagine what that family went through that day. I’m so so so sorry for the loss of your baby boy💔
So your telling me there was 3 people going into that raft. A 275lb woman, a 197lb woman, and little 73lb Caleb, and they decided it would be a good idea to put him in the front and send him down at high speeds, there’s no way that raft’s nose wouldn’t have lifted up. They literally basically sentenced that kid to death the second they sent them down the slide
R.I.P. Caleb Shwab. Still thinking of you and in our heart and prayers everyday. ❤️.
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They dont mention it but the reason one woman had the facial injury is because when the poor boy was decapitated; his head hit her. Prayers for this family
How horrible
I heard the same
Broke her jaw
Omg😨😱😱
That's a lie, his head wasn't fully detached from his body
Uhm where's the part where the woman speaks out....?
Yes ABC click baiting us by telling us the woman speaks out.
no shit, basically just summarized what we already knew. Poor kid.
It doesn't exist. It's just a lie to get us to click on it so ABC can make some more money.
*BUZZ* You Have Been Click Bated...Um...Goodbye.
watching the test runs for this ride is absolutely horrifying. apparently it failed a test run on that day
The metal rings supporting the "safety" net every few feet are a great way to decapitate the riders whether the safety belts fail or not. The ride is probably safer without the net. Who's the genius that approved this deathtrap?
I believe that’s actually what happened to him 😣
AquaCarb he was in the middle
Emily Garcia yes, it is what happened to him.
The net was there because before that they were having issues with people flying off the ride at the hump. It was all together a very unsafe ride
mark moore I agree the net is also not safe, but they added the net, due to all the tests ran before hand, with sand bags/dummies, etc... it’s on another video on CZcams I seen before this one, where it was delayed in opening up due to the safety issues... it shows the dummies flying out, sand bags, etc.. so they added seat belts and the net.... I think the whole thing needs to be shut down
wet n wild had scales that didn't actually report weight. they only lit up green when it was high enough and red when it went either too high and too low. i don't know when they introduced them but in rides where weight it crucial to safety i think there should always be a scale of some sort
And organized seating
Should tell people what their weight is. Whole lot of enormous people wandering around in total denial of extreme weight problems now that weren't there 35 years ago.
Not in front of everyone, just printed on a paper or something.
It's getting insane now
Brilliant idea
They have teen kids supervising these rides. That alone is already a red flag.
It’s so heartbreaking to think that he would be would have turned 17 this year…
What’s even worse is that Caleb’s decapitated head rolled down the slide in a bloody mess, they never cleaned it up, and from what I’ve heard, they dropped charges against the park for some absurd reason. In fact, they didn’t even tell the parents. A random guest had to.
God that’s terrifying that would traumatizes me my whole life
Yeah.. there is even footage of the slide where you can clearly see the spots of blood splattered on it..
Was he actually fully decapitated? I've heard of injuries where the base of the skull detaches from the cervical spine internally classified as "decapitation" even though on the outside the head is still attached, as well as when it's partially detached... If that actually happened that's horrifying af
He was, yes. :( That amount of blood isn't going to happen with an internal decapitation like you're describing.
There were criminal charges. They were charged with negligent murder. The dad didn't seem phased by this whole thing on camera interviews, he stopped charges because of his career, no doubt. We now know politicians care about nothing else.
That ride looks HORRIFYING!
No way I would've let my child on it! I hate what happened to that little boy. My heart goes out to his parents.
His parents should have read the weight rules that day and not let him go on it. He was only 73 pound and the limit was 90 pound minimum. But everyone in US blames everyone else. Parent your own kids.
@@shaybatty3785 I feel the same way you do. I am a grown woman and I wouldn't go on the ride. I hope I'm not being too harsh on the parents. It's a terrible tragedy but I wouldn't let any kids nor suggest any adult get on this ride.
I lived in Kansas during that event. The scariest part is they never cleaned the slide off. You could see blood stains on it from the road. Its horrifying.
Fatal neck injury. More like his head came off
Oh wow..
ZoMBiEpip1031 hitting his head on that metal barrier at 70mph. Damn
@@2ification Ik! 😢 how awful
ZoMBiEpip1031 I feel bad for the brother and family to have seen all that bloody mess
I couldn’t imagine being witness to this like Jesus Christ it must have been traumatising for everyone from his family, the women on the side, the staff, the ambulance crew etc, poor little kid man he didn’t deserve to die especially not in such a brutal and public way. Too sad I hope his soul RIP.
The women were in back of him so they saw everything really gruesome and sad 😢
One of Caleb's brothers was waiting at the bottom of the slide, along with people just watching other rafts' normal progress down the slide. When it became horribly clear what happened, Caleb's mother was prevented from getting near and seeing the worst/most gruesome of the aftermath. It was a twisted coincidence that his family had been given tickets to the park that day, as part of an annual free admission day for State legislators and their families.
That little boy got decapitated!! .. his parents left home with him .. and had to to go back home without him😔😢😭
They have received 20 million so far and are still suing
This is what happens when you pay your employees minimum wage, then trust them to ensure your guests safety.
Riders could be asked to step on a discreet scale at the ticket booth and which would only be shown to the ticket seller and imprinted on the ticket b4 letting you through. Beyond that I don't know if the ride is truly safe? Anyone?
yeah when you go to things like Wonderworks in TN you have to step on scales before you go on certain attractions because they're weight balanced. There was a max weight on several things like the inverted bikes and the tightrope area. If it's a safety issue, you just have to be able to balance things and people can't get mad for having to be weighed...it's too important to not risk your life over.
Marlissa Cunningham Thanx for that Marlissa. Interesting name btw.
Fred Lewis Thanks. I was reading on a different video of this that you're weighed as a group at the bottom before boarding and again at the top when you ascend in the boat to check weight AGAIN along with tube pressure. So I don't know how they missed it...also, that the boy was loaded in the FRONT of the tube. Which should NEVER happen with two larger persons riding behind. It might have just been the force on him that killed him.
Marlissa Cunningham Interesting observation. Your business is in floral design. My photography and artwork, as limited a showing as it is on google+ may interest you, (I peaked in at your profile page. Hoping you don't mind.)
Fred Lewis Not at all. Yeah I don't use my google plus a lot except just connected to my youtube here.
in reports given that day many said the scale at the top was broken, they relied on the individual to give an accurate weight, that raft had been reported by another rider that the velcro was coming open and they had to rely on hand rails of the raft to avoid being thrown out. this park is 100% negligent.
listen to the CZcams video of the owner on the day Verruckt opened, he was a pompous ass patting himself on the back saying plans were ready for the next slide to double the height of verruckt, then a third taller than that!!!
TwiztedDame 3 wow you wrote this 2 years ago
@@shunnyrobinson3570 Wow you wrote this 2 years ago
I would never in a million yrs let my kids on this. Parents must b nuts! So sad
Im so glad my kids are afraid of rides😯
My kid would
Cry and scream to go in that death trap and I wouldn’t care a bit how hard they cried. No way in hell.
I WILL NEVER GO ON THIS WATER SLIDE AGAIN....NOR MY CHILDREN..EVER!
I wonder who had the brilliant idea to put the smallest person on the FRONT where the ride actually starts leaving the slide. Literally every video shot of them testing it showed the raft leaving the slide from the FRONT FIRST. Then they put the smallest person in the front. Unreal.
As a parent, I would never ever let my kids on a ride like that!
70 mph? I don't ride in a two ton car at that speed without a seatbelt. Why does anyone think riding in a light-weight raft that's basically hydroplaning in free-fall is a good idea? What a tragedy and injustice!
Imagine if this happened to someone in your family. A child in your family. How are they even supposed to keep living?
Forget what the two ladies in the raft say, I want to hear what Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein have to say about this.
*hear
The kid died cause the 2 women lied about their weight?
this is a damn lie it was dangerous no matter what
@@yarixzamendoza6314 Right! I would never let one of my kids go on that!
Criminalize Obesity You’re a fucking idiot.
Poor baby. Hope he didn't feel any pain. This park is 100% to blame. They knew this ride wasn't safe and that kids under a certain height/weight were NOT supposed to ride it. Someone needs to be held legally accountable for the death.
I think the AGE limit was 14 yrs. of age, Caleb was 10 , he should NOT have been allowed to ride on this anyways, so who gave him permission to 'break the rules?' Now he has suffered a horrible death, a simple , "NO! You are too young and small to ride this water slide' would have been the right and SAFE answer. I have a feeling this accident would have happened eventually to someone in time..
freedom of speech USA
the parents should have been there to prevent their son from getting on the ride. they are first and foremost responsible for their son's death.
Jane Doh bruh
@@nowvoyagerNE You're blaming the parents? Seriously? If you take your child to an amusement park and they meet the minimum safety requirements to ride a particular ride, then it should be SAFE. Parents let their kids get on rides on amusement parks/water parks all over the world...ALL THE TIME. Those that designed, and implemented the safety measures should be the people held responsible! Not the parents! If you put your child on the school bus, you expect the driver will be sober, drive safely, etc. You trust that they have hired a competent, safe driver. If your child dies in an accident while on the bus and it's because the driver was intoxicated, is that also the fault of the parents? NO...it's not. Why? Because the parents have trust that the school did its job in screening and hiring safe drivers! EXTREMELY heartless to come on here and place blame on them! I'm sure they feel quite terrible enough without trolls like you going out of your way to make them feel even worse. I'm sure they already blame themselves enough! I'm gonna assume you don't have kids because most parents understand that you can't wrap your children in bubble wrap for 18 years in an effort that no harm ever comes to them. This was a horrible and tragic accident that could have been prevented...but it's the park and ride designers that dropped the ball. NOT THE PARENTS!!!!!!!!
@@denalistar5256 You are missing the point. he DIDN"T meet the requirements He was almost 20 pounds lighter then the recommended 90 pounds and he was 10 not 15 as the requirements stated. Regardless the parents need to be the ones to set limits.
I rode this with my dad the day before this happened. So crazy to think about
This is confusing. Was Robin and Linsey the "Women in Raft" because they are the only ones speaking out here.
Loving all the engineering 'experts' coming up in the comments blaming the women for lying about their weight or whatever, as if that was the cause of this accident. Get a grip of yourselves.
It just seems to me like those who designed the ride just went to the local department store , get the inflatable boat thing , slap in a few seat belts , and claim it to be safe. If im travelling done a niagra falls tall slide , whatever im riding on better hold me down tight as fuck.
that ride looks like it was built with play dough and legos
+SUGAR XYLER they used zip ties and duct tape too
Velcro seatbelts. You know, the kind that aren’t locked together, but can be pulled apart with, I don’t know, the force of the ride. This park is a joke.
Even if the raft held you perfectly secure in the seat(as seemingly was the case in this accident) it was extremely dangerous. They knew rafts would get airborne, serious injuries or death were inevitable.
@@DoubleMonoLR yeah their disclaimer included that you could fly off the ride.
I remember being a kid and going to Six Flags where I couldn't wait to ride the giant roller coaster at that time called The Screaming Eagle, I loved it! But this INSANE waterslide? Uh- NO!!! NO WAY!!! My heart breaks for this family and their loss. 😞💔
okay people think before you grab your pitchforks. i dont think what they are saying is that the problem was that the raft was too heavy because the women lied, you actually have to be heavy enough or else you will fly off. i think they are saying the weight wasnt met. it is not these womens fault for being to heavy. even if people do lie about their weight the measurement should be absolutely precise. they shouldnt take peoples word for how much they weigh, they should actually weigh every passenger.
MadamMonie thank you for some sanity in the comments area ...
MadamMonie gosh, really?! You know nothing about gravity dynamics.... The more weight, the faster that raft would go downward, therefore increasing immense speed! Furthermore, those women used very poor judgement by placing that child (who was only 10, didn't know better, had no say so, was fully trusting and depending on the sills to keep him safe.) On that very scary and potentially dangerous ride to begin with.
MadamMonie there's a weight limit for good reason.... Because of the dynamics in gravity, hence speed.
No, the ride operators didn't load the raft properly. They met the weight requirements but they placed the lightest rider in front. That caused the nose to go airborne. He should have been in the middle. Not to mention the many, many design flaws from the safety belt to the metal rings holding the net. These women did not know this kid btw. He was separated from his brother because they were both so light. A horrible tragedy.
Cat G seriously? There wasn’t a weight maximum but a weight minimum. They had to be a combined 500lbs, if it was any LESS the raft would have lifted as there wasn’t enough weight to prevent the raft sticking to the slide. What they should have done was place him in the middle, so the raft wouldn’t have lifted from the front or back. Even better? Not let him on because he was not heavy enough to ride the raft in the first place. Seriously, watch the video again. It explains everything clearly.
If it makes the family feel better, Caleb had an instantaneous death. He didn’t feel any pain.
Who in their right mind gets on something like this?!?!?! Dear God
Regular people do cause it looks fun.
I'm guessing the boy was on the back of the raft and with heavier people at the front it nose dived at the top of the ramp making the back end go up.
Or vice versa, the boy was at the front and the nose of the raft didn't have the weight to go down so it went into the mesh.
The women would have been taller and they didn't get decapitated, so it must have been about the angle of the raft surely.
I would, I mean before the accident.
It wasn’t the weight that was a problem, I don’t think. It was the Velcro straps that held people in. They had a history of failing.
it was both.
And he was in the front seat
People making these decisions about your safety are not the sharpest knife in the chopping block. Never put yourself in this position. It's enough you have to get on the interstate every day.
Imagine being the women who lied about their weight, and saw the boy be decapitated in front of them...his blood all over. They would live with the trauma for the rest of their life that if they didn’t lie the boy would still be alive.
@THISIS THEGIRL yeah I agree
@THISIS THEGIRL ok yeah, obviously they had a hand in it but the VAST majority of blame falls on the park. The slide had a huge history of serious, albeit nonfatal, injuries.
And I also don't think this is a fair story to point to to fight fat activists... a better argument would be the overall strain of obesity on the medical system; this doesn't exactly happen every day. Plus, the weight wasn't even the problem, the fact that they lied about it was.
I think she was embarrassed to tell her real weight..and that had tragic consequences
It has nothing to do with the weight, it’s about positioning the weight on the raft. Besides, if you watched the video where they were testing the slide, you can see that even with dummies with evenly distributed weight, the raft goes airborne at the second crest of the slide.
The variance in the woman's weight had nothing to do with the accident. They weighed people because they had to total a minimum of 400 pounds. The news report explains that. You made the jump to blame all on your own.
*The park and the designer’s of this ride should ALL be sued for negligence!*
My heart goes out to the parents of the boy who was killed on this ride. May they have God’s blessings. I am so sorry. Thankfully the people responsible are being punished and the women who were injured are speaking out to help.
i feel sorry for the innocent 10 year old who died because of parental neglect. where were the parents when they needed to make decisions about this kid getting on that ride? where were they when he rode the ride with 2 strangers?
The senator told his 12-year-old son to stay with his 10-year-old brother. The 12 year olds in the 10 year old could not go together down the slide because of the weight .the 12 year old went down first waiting for his 10 year old brother to come down. I'm so sorry for that Senator and his family and for the 10 year old boy rest in peace.
Well what did the women in raft say????????????????????
They kept repeating thet spoke out but they never said what they said LMAO
It was a generic little statement probably written by a lawyer. I want their story of what really happened
Brian Smith lmaaaoooooo
Brian Smith more like what did the women in the raft weigh??? Fat bitches
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Being a mother of three whose kids love these kinds of ride's is terrifying.. RIP sweet angel!
does anyone expect a woman to give an honest answer about her weight?
James Ricker especially 275!!! Omg!
a man's mouth often weighs more then his body!
James Ricker When it's for safety measures yes? Look what happened
Meh I'm honest about mine.
James Ricker but dude 275...if she lied and said 120 who would believe that. 275 you can't hide..
the steepness of this slide spells danger just by looking at it. it is so certain that someone will get hurt.
IT'S OBVIOUS BY LOOKING AT THIS SLIDE, THAT IT WILL GO AIRBORNE
I love the fact that they translated "verrückt" to INSANE to make the story more dramatic. The more accurate translationen would be "crazy"..it's not that the slides name was screaming "Death" beforehand..
It's the same thing.
God, this so should have never happened. It's like the amusement park people were just being so lazy about enforcing the weight requirements.
And why would you even have a ride in the first place that depends on the weight of the riders to make it safe? That's too random.
My heart goes out to everyone affected by this. The family, who lost their child in such a horrific and negligent way, and the women who witnessed and were injured by this. No doubt all of them will have to carry this horror for the rest of their lives ☹💔💗
That lady who lied about her weight should be In trouble. How can a worker deny your weight without causing issues. Being insecure about weight caused death. It's so sad she lied and then hides behind a lawyer.
I agree. The riders who lied about their weight contributed to this tragedy.
Still gives me chills
I was just watching the episode for worlds greatest water slides where this was being built and I was thinking how someone is going to die. It's so sad
"we are doing everything we can to turn this into a payday"
Yep the parents have already gotten 20 million
They should have a scale for all people on the raft to step on at once so they don't feel bad if it goes over the limit but everyone is safe
Pawsome Pets this isnt that bad of an idea actually
Excellent idea
They had one, and it was broken (like a loooot of stuff at that death trap of a park.)
My 10 year old would never have even been on the stairs of this ride, much less riding down it. No way.
Why? Why would a parent allow it. And then the other little boy had to scream to find the mother, she wasn't right there watching? Biting her nails? I'll never understand these parents. Plus they look fine in interviews. I'd still be crying. They've moved on. No amount of therapy heals this tragedy. Unless you're cold and calloused already. He said they told him to 'write a letter to his son' and 'that really helped. '
That wouldn't make a dent in my grief.
Don’t be blaming the parent shame on you how are they finna know it’s safe ? Don’t you see all those little kids riding rides ?
they didn’t take their kid there knowing it would kill him. smh blame the people who didn’t care about safety procedures and all the violations they had, not parents who just wanted their kids to have a good time.
@@savannahstargaze I stand by my analysis and opinion which I'm entitled to. Never said they took em there to die or murdered them on purpose or deserve jail.
I will never understand their behavior in this tho, A to Z.
Thanks for your opinion.
so, the park it's self is not responsible for anything? how can you blame the women that were with him? if you heard correctly there has been issue with the ride prior to this. the park didn't seem to do anything about it. only here can people judge other people on their weight!!! 😡
bc he was so small each woman should been in front and back have him in the middle to balance out the weight
I agree it was the fat woman's fault because I had this business on a kids ride to begin with!
Shut up you dumb slag
parental neglect was the first contributor to this boy's death. where were the parents before, during and immediately after the ride?
Lisa Canales the child was totally dependant on the women to care for him, to keep him safe. The women took the boy onto that ride. If there were prior issues, the women should have known that, and if they didn't, again.... That's their fault for not researching the ride beforehand, and for lacking common sense.... Look at that ride, would you put your 10 year old in that?! I have an 11 yr old grandson, I wouldn't put him in that!
I don't think people understand that the women's faces were injured because Caleb's head hit them when he was decapitated. I live in Kansas and people are still talking about it. I don't blame them either. We were so proud of this slide, then this happened.
how were they injured? I 👂 it was a rumour.
RachelA when Caleb was decapitated, his head hit the ladys faces and broke one of their jaws.
I live in Kansas to and and I have rode this ride twice and my sisters bottom strap came of at the end of the ride
Decapitation does not always mean the head completely disconnecting from the rest of the body. It can mean the spinal cord severing from the base of the brain within the neck. I've not read anything that said his head was completely severed. I guess regardless, this is such a sad and unfortunate situation ):
I've read several stories and if you look at the pics you can see the two tarps containing the separate ends. I know what you mean though and regardless its devastating.
I don’t risk my life for a short thrill on rides and roller coasters. Literally anything can go wrong.
You're right. This isn't the first death
Well, truth? The car on the way over was way more dangerous in most cases.
See Brian Chase, Still Unsafe at Any Speed
I was smart enough to know this as a kid, but my mum still forced me on rides anyway.
I just watched a brief amateur 10 minute documentary about this. It began with the stages of the build, and went through footage of testing, as well as the delays in opening it. I had never heard of this tragic incident before, nor did I have any idea how it would end, Until I saw that they simply installed more fencing at the top of the hill/hump, just after the steep fall. As an engineer, I knew right away that they could have trouble with wind, or weight, causing the raft to launch into the air at that specific spot. Because the women lied about their weight, the inertial mass coming down caused them to speed up far too fast. Being shy about your morbid obesity is no reason to endanger someone, so I definitely put the women at fault in this, in some way. However, a ride with such a small margin for error should not exist.
the weight was fine. Being too light would have been a problem. The raft was within the required weight. The women were not remotely at fault, so stop your bullshit.
@@janetgood6332 protecting women, blaming little boys... sounds about right.
@@Aribbonofsoundmen they aren't blaming the little boy at all. the raft had to have a combined weight of 440ish to 550ish and the 2 women plus the 10 yr old made it within that weight requirement. the problem is, the ride operator sat the boy up front, instead of in-between the women. that created the ability for the front of the raft to be light enough to lift up and be airborne. the 10 year old would not have known that sitting in the front would be so dangerous. the women probably didn't know either. it was up to the park to train employees in ride safety. you just sound like a fat-phobic jerk. yeah being obese isn't great for anyone's health, but those women are not at all to blame, and neither is Caleb. demonizing a human just because they are overweight is gross.
The weight was still within the stated weight limit though. Even with the measurements taken at the hospital.
The safety of an AMUSEMENT ride should never be determined by weight. This was an accident waiting to happen. The ride should have not been in service...ever.
Even the tests for the ride with sandbags failed. After the ride kept going airborne they added the netting over it. Unfortunately it was held up by a group of metal bars. The boy flew off and was decapitated as his family watched on in horror, and his head hit the two people behind him causing heir facial injuries. Very tragic.
Well I'm still waiting for them to speak about it... That was a statement.
Why is this showing up in my recommended videos in September 2019 when this happened three years ago?
how are you getting 400-550 for 3 people? so you're hoping a child is with two over the average weight adults? they shouldn't have made this ride if that's a safety requirement.
they need to get rid of that slide
They did.
Marshall Paw Patrol ^^^ That shit still standing. Where the fuck do you live? ( sorry if that came out rude) that thing is so weird driving past i swear. Its just chilling. Schlitterbahn is slowly losing their rep after that incident. But i think its gonna be an abandoned park honestly. They were suppose to tear it over a year ago and it still stands.
AWESOMESAUCE GAMING It's still there!?! Wtf you can still see it!?! I live in texas but geez the owners of the park are SICK! Im so sorry you have to see that slide! Its so disrespectful to that poor kid!!:(
@@lynnd.8893 | I've seen it before, it's really disturbing.
Started dismantling it in 2018:
czcams.com/video/SC8eoU4hFZg/video.html
No, the park is at fault, the designers I hope are haunted every day till the day they die. I am a dad and let me tell you, no way I would have kept my cool!! 100 lbs of TNT for that water slide!!
0:57 is the only statement you get from 2 girls. That short, everything else is clickbait
So the women lied about their weight to save their image despite it being vital to the safety of the ride?
My deepest condolences go out to that family, however... As a mother myself, I must say, parents should use better judgement in carrying out our duties to protect our children, definitely use common sense! Gosh, you couldn't pay me to place my grandson in this ride, I know his mother wouldn't take that risk either. That poor boy had no say so in the matter, didn't know any better, he was just along for the ride with two adults who should have considered the risk or danger thereof....I mean look at that slide! It has danger written all over it, it's called "INSANE!" Perfect name for that ride.
I remember going to a water park when I was a kid and going down a super steep body-only slide that was covered. Thank god it was covered because I was basically falling straight down, my body wasn’t on the slide until it evened out. Is that normal? Lol
I have worked for a carnival like this,we did daily reports and they never fixed anything!!!I also heard this story while working for that company.Inspectors are being paid off or friends with these company owner and letting them slide....I stopped working for that carnival because these reasons right here!!! Same year this happened I worked for those crappy people who only cared bout money in there pocket,not families nor employees.They also tried to make us sign paperwork that we were responsible and didn’t want us writing the daily report with what was wrong with that ride.THE COMPANY IS LOWERYS AMUSEMENT RIDES!!!!
Caleb you are now in fathers biggest water park in heaven as one of his special earth angels x
Lord bless the family with healing and love. Give them the strength to get through the dark days and teach them how to laugh again. I ask this with love and light.
Blessings to all
From Elle in England x
This story haunts me. 💔
I have read a lot of comments & nowhere do I remember ever hearing someone ask WHY the parents let him go on that slide to begin with. I'm not blaming them....they probably have blamed themselves every day since it happened, & that child died a horrible death. I would never have allowed my kids to ride it. I think they just used really poor judgement.
Everyone with the "as a" statement to make themselves seem like theyre more affected by something is a trend. If ur not a mom,or dad, you're a son or daughter, you're human,and any human life can be affected by this. I hope it was at least fast for him,and those involved are able to cope. 💚
Absolutely tragic thing to happen. There's no way I would have gone on that slide, or let any of my children go on it. It just looks so damn dangerous, rides are supposed to be fun, not life threatening.
A coworker of mine lives near the park and she told me that thing is still standing.
Liza Waldman fuck yea it is...the weirdest thing to drive past...creepy too.
Liza Waldman it’s still under investigation’s as the family has received millions so far in settlements. Sad it should be long gone . Millions isn’t gonna bring the poor child back. We all want it gone here .
@@mbborylo599 But they say the accident was caused by excessive weight on the raft due to the massive weight of the women who sat with the child.
So if this is true, there will be no more accidents if everyone follows the instructions to use it.
(Not so) Fun Fact: The Kansas City council made negotiations for all water parks and amusement parks to have the least required safety possible so they could bring in more money. Then they had a party for all of the council (the day the boy sadly died) it’s irony in the worst form.
What kind of parents would let their kid ride that? Ridiculous!
Not many know this, but the industry is VERY loosely regulated in KS. The boy who was killed was the son of a state representative and the family was there because the park was offering free admission to families of legislators that fateful day. In my humble opinion this was "thanks" for not drafting legislation to regulate this type of business.
I would never get in anything like that with a 275-pound person
@Criminalize Obesity Trump would pardon himself
Mind blowing how they let that little boy ride in the front seat
why was a boy riding in a raft with two strangers instead of one or two of his parents? parental neglect led to this kid's death.
Scales need to be made mandatory before entry to these types of rides