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View Poll Results: how long before someone dies on Verrückt
1-3 months 17 17.89%
3-6 months 11 11.58%
6 months - 1 year 14 14.74%
more than 1 year 20 21.05%
never, that net is totally safe 33 34.74%
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Old 06-24-2014, 06:29 PM  
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How long before someone dies on Verrückt

Verrückt, world’s tallest water slide, opens Sunday


What will it feel like, this Verrückt? We’re just a few days from finding out.

Schlitterbahn in Kansas City, Kan., will open its world-record-holding water slide to the public on Sunday.

There’s the Niagara-Falls-barrel-plunge analogy — Verrückt’s height at 168 feet, 7 inches is about right — although many of us probably haven’t done that either.

While Verrückt’s opening, originally scheduled for May 23, was delayed for adjustments a couple times, the hype over it seems to have gotten even hypier. USA Today debuted a countdown Monday. The promotional video (see below) of the ride has more than 4.8 million views. The park said the opening this weekend coincides with a one-hour Travel Channel special on “Xtreme Waterparks.”

The Guinness Book of World Records has declared Verrückt — German for “insane” — the world’s tallest water slide. It edged out the Kilimanjaro slide in Rio de Janeiro by several feet. To get to the top, riders will climb 264 steps. That’s about 17 stories.

On the way to the bottom, the four-person raft is expected to reach speeds of 60 to 70 mph in a seriously vertical plummet.

Then, after the big plunge, there is a five-story hump to fly over, so to speak. But not to worry: The hump features a protective net, just in case.
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Old 03-28-2018, 07:03 PM   #136
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people are going to bounce off that thing

I would not doubt the raft goes airborne on the ride down
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Well if I get to go I will be sure to be the first to die. Most likely from breaking apart in mid~air.
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If you come off that raft and hit the net at speed, you're still going to be spending the night in the hospital at least.
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These comments...

Those guys are going to ****ing jail.

EVERYONE called that shit. I knew just by looking at that thing, "NOPE."

But 33 DUMBASSES voted "thing is safe". "NOPE."
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Old 03-28-2018, 07:21 PM   #137
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2 years 1 month 14 days or so

More than 1 year

Edit, time was off a bit. I calculated from thread start but they didn’t open the ride for a while after this thread. Still over 1 year
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Old 03-28-2018, 07:48 PM   #138
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