Last week Dailymotion and Mashable released a documentary on the notoriously dangerous ACTION PARK… which left the Internet awash in water park horror stories from New Jersey residents.
1. Action Park was pain for the whole family. This dude's whole lineage suffered...
"Me: sprained ankle walking on the wet rocks.
My dad: Broken nose - in the dark cave of the river rapids ride he got knocked in the air and into my face.
My friend's dad: 20 or so stitches from flying off of the alpine slide."
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2. And this story reads like a real-life Final Destination movie.
"I was there 3 times when I was 9 or 10 - I left 2 times in an ambulance.
The 1st time was broken ribs on the 'Tarzan Swing' (my dad had to jump into the water to save me - NOT the ride operator.)
Next was the alpine slide, my car had no brakes- 1st big turn I flew over the slide and into the grass - my WHOLE right side was cut up - and then had to walk the whole way down crying and dripping blood.
They kept sending us free passes to go back - so we went again - I was EXTREMELY cautious - only went on 1 ride - a kayak where you simply paddled around a sort of lazy river. I LOVED IT and it was safe!!! The VERY next day the ride was closed because someone fell off their kayak and was electrocuted by the electric currents. Never went back again - too afraid."
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3. At Action Park,sometimes you had to crawl your way out of a dark hole.
"The 'water' tube that goes underground and is supposed to eject you into a freezing lake. Well there wasn't enough water in the tube and I only weighed about 57 pounds at the time. I went "sliding" down the tube, but got stuck in the middle of the tube, essentially in the dark. Everyone on the outside of the tube kept waiting for me to shoot out - but after a few minutes they realized I wasn't coming out. I had suffered abrasions to the back of my legs due to the friction induced stop which was caused by the dry tube. I eventually turned myself around in the tube started crawling on all fours towards the opening, but was too scared to jump into the water. So after some hesitation, I just sort of fell out like a crumpled, demoralized child, and hit the freezing water. I never went on it again."
Eric Michael Arnone / Via Facebook: ISurvivedActionPark
4.The staffers got hurt too!
"Staff, after/before hours would take the single tubes from the other rides on the river, daisy chain them and fly down the damn thing. One time the guy at the very end couldn't hold on, flipped off his tube and wrapped his poor body around a tree. Oops."
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