I read in the local paper the true story of five 20 odd year old friends who after a night on the turps decided it would be fun to go to a waterpark after hours and use the slides without the hassles of any lines. One of the crew was a former employee of the water park and knew how to turn on the right taps so the water was flowing down the slides. After about 15 fun minutes of going down the comparatively slow tubes the guys decided they needed to up the ante, so they decided to go down the speed slide. For those of you unfamiliar the speed slide is a very steep slide about 100 metres long with a pool at the bottom to slow you down at the end. As you can reach speeds of upto 50-60kms hr it is a very necessary precaution.

Unfortunately the drunk fools hadnt counted on the fact that the slowdown pool takes up to an hour to fill and was currently less than a quarter full, having only been on for 15mins or so. The first guy went down and upon hitting the pool at the bottom skimmed over the top of the water and crashed into the concrete wall at the end of the pool going approx 40 kms hr!. He shattered his legs and pelvis and had severe internal injuries rendering him unconscious, thus denying him the chance to warn his mates of their stupidity. The second mate went flying down after him oblivious to the danger and quickly found himself in the same predicament, and worsening the firsts injuries. According to the paper article it took three of them to learn the hard way before the guys at the top realised something was amiss,and their mates werent answering them. They went down the stairs to discover their mates lying in an unconscious tangle in the slowdown pool!.Being drunk and stupid and aware they had broken the law they carried their badly injured mates away and put them in the back of the ute to drive to hospital. They made up some story of a car crash but their wet clothes etc had the doctors suspicious. The next day a water park attendant discovered the pool half full and stained with blood in the pool and the edges where they had been dragged. The police quickly did a check of the local hospital, only 5 min drive away and found the unfortunate fools. All three had multiple fractures and internal injuries and were slapped with a hefty fine also for their troubles!!. The police said it was lucky they didnt die and i agree because surely they would have been immortalised forever with a Darwin award!

I will try to find the article but it is a few months old and it only came to after seeing this site, by the way it happened in perth australia and i have been to the waterpark in question.

Submitted on 06/21/2005

Submitted by: jack
Reference: West Australian newspaper,

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Kelly said:
Neutral: Honorable Mention
I would like a link to a verifiable source on this. If you can find it, please submit it.

Jack said:
Neutral: Honorable Mention
It's a good story, but we'd still like to see a link to a news article.

Charles said:
Neutral: Honorable Mention
I wold very much like to see the newspaper story on this... it does sound like it might be a contender.

Tracy said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
It's a good story - we'd love some media corroboration

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