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Meet Addison Williams, he is a young teenage boy full of extremely intelligent energy. It is middle of snow season in the cheesy state of Wisconsin, a regular family is staycationing at a resort in Wisconsin Dells. If you don’t live in Wisconsin, and you are coming here. It’s most likely because you are visiting the Dells. This beloved family has headed here in the middle of winter to experience the frozen water from the sky, for the first time. In Florida, there is hardly ever snow, which is where the family lives.

Then comes the night. When Addison and his brotherly companion as well as one friend are looking for some gnarly snow packed hills, to ride through the darkness of brisk air at 10 pm. But when light bulbs popped in their brains and they saw the red skinny vinyl smooth slide, behind a large fence gating enclosing the outdoor water park of Mt Olympus. Now, a normal person wouldn’t think twice in neglecting the bad decision it is to one, sneak into the park, and two sled there, these youths were on whole different brain waves.

The squad decides to jump the 7ft fence with their saucy saucer sleds in hand. The group then proceeds to make their way up to a near water slide, to do the unthinkable. You could say these boys were Snowbored. Up first to attempt the daunting feat was none other the Mr Addison Williams. To begin, the slide was pretty large, it was the largest in the park at 85ft. It had multiple descending slopes, that were about to be ridden like a toboggan riding snowslopes or a dog sled being pulled through a snowy tundra, or at least that was what was intended to happen. After searching for the most pristine sledding spot, the teens have met their match and Addison takes the drop by plopping down on his disk-like sledding plate. He starts to slide downward, you could only have snow much fun until someone gets ice creamed. So in an expected turn of events or at least for a sensible person, Addison gets stuck half way on the slide due to snow build up, in a rushed attempt to dislodge his sled and himself from his predicament, it turns into his fatal error. He falls over the edge of the slide and is emptied down into the cold hard ground. There was no ice-climbing back from this one and he became what he so much wanted to see for the first time, snowfall. He plummeted a staggering 35 feet to his death. The boy was left, melted. In the end, poor Addison decided to go sledding on a frozen water slide, how did that end up? Not so nICE for the Williams family. They left cold-hearted.

Submitted on 02/16/2021

Submitted by: Matthew
Reference: https://www.wsaw.com/content/news/Boy-dies-after-falling-from-water-slide-at-Wisconsin-Dells-water-p

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I don't think we've had a story involving people sledding down water slides yet so I'll gladly accept this. Thanks, Matthew!


Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Bruce is right -we've had them sliding down closed slides occasionally, but never using actual sleds! Thank you, Matthew!