A 12-year-old boy’s haunting words after his 10-year-old brother was ‘decapitated’ on a waterslide advertised as the tallest in the world have been revealed.
Caleb Schwab was 10 when he and his family, consisting of father Scott, mother Michele, and older brother Nathan, traveled to Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City.
One of the park’s premier attractions was the Verrückt, which held the distinction of being the world’s tallest water slide. The word Verrückt – a German word for ‘crazy’ – was designed by John Schooley and reached the vertigo-inducing height of 168 feet and 7 inches (51.38 meters).
Those braving the slide would plummet 17 storeys in a huge drop before being shot over a 55-foot-high crest. To prevent riders from falling off the slide, the chute was covered by netting supported in places by metal poles.
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