Waterslide that decapitated a 10-year-old was built to ‘impress producers of the Travel Channel’s Xtreme Waterparks’

10-year-old Caleb Schwab died Aug. 7, 2016 on the tallest waterslide in the world, Verruckt, after the raft he was riding in became airborne and he was decapitated by metal bars that supported overhead netting. His "death seemed like an isolated accident until whistleblowers from Schlitterbahn revealed that experts who examined the slide found evidence indicating other rafts had gone airborne and collided with the overhead hoops and netting before the fatality," the Associated Press reported.... keep reading this story »

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