Giant Verrückt Water Slide at Schlitterbahn Kansas City
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- Giant Verrückt water park slide at Schlitterbahn waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.
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I rode this water slide when it first opened and I never knew it wasn’t designed by a professional engineer 😳 glad I only rode it once!
A hand drawing is as good as anything, right?
We should be glad it was demolished
@@Sticky_sausage69 they only did that because of a childs death
It seriously looks like a 3rd world build quality. I mean just pause at the drop gate...
@@highturbulencetv9584 good
All that metal passing above your head sure seems unnerving at those speeds.
Or BEHEADING
@Rouge Five a kid got decapitated because of those bars so
@@areyoujelton So edgy
You could call it….Death Metal
I agree. You should really keep a heads up for them
The netting is so terrifying and one of the worst builds I've ever seen. It doesn't take a genius to understand a thin metal fence is bad news when going 70 mph. How is that going to protect you?
Absolutely.
I don’t know why they though they needed the mesh in the first place, if the ride was properly designed from the start, it should’ve been physically impossible for the raft to fly out under all operating conditions.
@@Ian-pe9rj It really is impossible to understand.
If they were scared that a raft could go airborne and wanted a plan B just in case, making something that won't kill you might've been a good idea!
As someone who lives in Kansas City, Veruckt is a mess we’re all still trying to forget, but at least it put more attention on safety regulations for water rides so such a horrible tragedy cant happen again in the future.
@KingBxcon bro what you on about that’s the funniest thing g I’ve seen all day
this is the last thing that boy saw, fucking sad man
Yes 😭
What are you talking about?
@@bettytunabreath9317 some kid died in this water slide
@@bettytunabreath9317 a boy was decapitated on this slide
@@Sparkly7088 no fucking way
Pure genius putting a mesh metal fence overhead to stop people from flying out.
And decapitate a kid that had a life to live
@@arinewstoday3477 you know you got trolled right?
@@dh6865 that’s not a troll they were being sarcastic
@@arinewstoday3477 definition of a troll is drawing out idiots to show themselves as idiots by pretending to be an idiot.
@@dh6865 😐
I felt so sick watching this, that poor little boy. My heart really does go out to his family
The kids father is a republican politician, karma for being a twat
@@jarkkehhh213 you are a terrible person someone’s political beliefs doesn’t mean they should have to go through tragedy like that. You are part of the problem when it comes to politics
@BusinessMan. jpgWhat?
@@jarkkehhh213 What they mean is go outside, see people, do things. Stop being an indoor troll.
@@justSomeUserOnYT Guessing you support right-wingers/fascists?
They literally ignored engineers, specialists, and the multiple warning signs when they were testing the concept where the raft would just fly off the ride.
The father of kid that was decapitated literally did everything in his power to let them get away with that.
Only when his kid died, the bitch did 180 and started screeching about them needing to be responsible.
Is that a fact?
@@fotisfotis8060 There's a whole documentary of its creation before the event happened.
The engineers said it wasn't a good idea, the simulations were yielding bad results, and they had so many failed test runs with sandbags so bad that they put safety nets over the ride but that was also ill advised because as in the case of the kid who was killed flying upwards in or outside of the raft would mean getting severe head trauma, I'm no expert but they at least should've had safety nets on the sides so that they are caught, and not scalped and beheaded.
@@badgamedevreacts3855 Exactly, better yet, they should have put strong plastic vertical walls on each side that are tall enough to prevent the raft from going off the slide, like a giant coin slot. That way there would be nothing overhead and nobody would lose an arm if they happened to not keep arms inside the raft at all times. And make the walls transparent so people can see through it. I bet if they actually followed the safety requirements, the slide would have been just what I explained
@@blankearth5840 If it hasn't already been done I think it'd be a great publicity stunt to make a water park that has a ride that looks exactly like the verruckt but actually designed correctly and say something like "this ride is safe because we care enough to make it safe" be a great way to take the Schlitterbahn empire down a couple of pegs, however I am biased because the owners grandkids always got to use the boogie bahn after the park closed, so they were the only ones who could enjoy riding it with only a 5 min line.
Imagine going out soo excited to have fun . And then everything ends in a short time when you only wanted to have fun
Yup just like the tragic accident that happened last week on Thursday i believe. A 14 year old teenager named tyree slid out his seat from the tallest drop tower in Orlando..
@@anabanana8064 the video was posted on tiktok, i was sick to my stomach, that poor boy :(
1:07, the net looks dangerously close.
1:11 🔪😰
I remember watching a TV show about the construction of this slide. I won’t forget how they refused to let anyone see the first few test runs and how the rafts went plummeting off the ride. It honestly shouldn’t have been a surprise when we heard about the tragedy on the news.
Even the slide itself when you look at it from a far looks sinister
afar*
Even the name is too
Yeah and it sounds like a map from Nazi Zombies
@@qualicumjack3906 no, it’s literally the name
This is one of those contraptions that sounds way better on paper than in practicality. That mesh should've immediately been seen as a hazard and removed.
But then he would’ve flown out and died in a worst way tbh. The whole thing should’ve just never been build by this guy PERIOD.
Honestly they should’ve just removed the pointless second hill and it still would’ve been the tallest water slide in the world. One small adjustment and that poor kid would still be alive today but for some reason they just had to have that damn second hill
The fact that the owners had no engineering experience and created a ride mind blows me . RIP to Caleb 🙏
From Wikipedia:
Reportedly, Caleb, who weighed 74 pounds (34 kg), had been allowed to sit in the front of the raft, rather than between the two women accompanying him - one weighed 275 pounds (125 kg), while the other weighed 197 pounds (89 kg).[31] This created an uneven weight distribution, which some experts concluded may have contributed to the raft going airborne.
Of course fat people killed him. Fatties should be banned from all public attractions and transport. If you can't even control your own basic health metrics, you should not be allowed to do normal people things in society because you are not normal by definition. That's a fact.
In other words they were obese hogs and the kid died because of it
No doubt, but the rafts going airborn were very common, even with other weight ratios.
This ride was an accident waiting to happen…
Yes
So true, a geee
A very gruesome accident
@@ShawnLamont1997 which one? I see no accident.
@@bettytunabreath9317 search for Caleb Schwab
1:10
'The raft he was riding went airborne during the ascent of the second hill and impacted a metal support of the netting, decapitating him.'
Where is this excerpt from?
@@c_rebekah The Wikipedia article on the Verrückt waterslide.
You can see at that exact spot for whatever reason there is a opening in the netting. And the reinforcement bar looks extra reinforced. I can see how he was decapitated now, I have never seen this detail mentioned before but it seems like a ridiculously negligent mistake to have no netting there
@@pickleman40 1:15 thanks 👍
Indeed I see the opening in the center with the reinforcement bar sticking out . 😳
To add, he sat in the front. One of the women behind him weighed 197lbs and the other 275lbs. My guess is the weight of the 275lbs woman levered the raft, that is if she was furthest back.
Idk I'm not a physicist, but could imagine that being the case and that it contributed to the accident during the ascent
R.I.P Caleb
I can’t even imagine the horror of seeing a young child nearly headless from the neck showing up in the front, being one of the workers at the end grabbing each riders float
His brother witness it 😱😱
@@okWojtaz he had 3 brothers I think as mom n dad had 4 boys I'm sure
@@okWojtaz yes he had a brother, his brother didn’t meet the weight requirement so he went back down and watched his brother come down .. he witnessed everything
@@gabriellaveir147 alr
Even worse, imagine being his parent and seeing that
"Not too bad"
Indeed, you even still got your head over your shoulders
What is that metal fence with metal arches going to do besides decapitate people?
when you got airborne, it gave me chills
He never got airborne ??🤣🤣
@@hanisjackson1681 Yeah, only for a few seconds at about 1:16 , but he definitely did. Probably not as severely as other had but yeah
It’s honestly a miracle only one person was killed in this considering it was designed and built by two guys who aren’t engineers
If it hadn't been closed and then torn down after Caleb's death, there is no doubt more people would have died. There was already a list of people with serious injuries that had been covered up, and the ride hadn't even been operating that long.
There’s almost no rust on the slide which means that in the drone / helicopter video after the kid died, it was actually blood snd not rust
yep, all blood. I noticed that too.
So forgive me if I misunderstand, but the netting enforced by metal rings was meant to pretty much keep the raft from flying off the slide? Wouldn't they have expected the first object on the raft to hit the netting/rings to possibly be somebody's head?
Are these just Velcro straps? Nice.
Fck this slide that innocent boy lost his life because of incompetence and negligence I’m glad this embarrassment of a slide has been tore down.
I'm really glad I never rode this thing. I feel awful for that boy that lost his life, and his family...
This all could have been avoided if they just used a transparent plastic instead of netting, or if the owner just fucking listened
if the took out the second hill.
Plastic would also kill you at 70 MPH
Plastic would still have the ability to internally decapitate you. They should’ve not had Velcro straps and they should’ve had a softer material for the outside part of the slide
or, you know, maybe going with your gut when the raft goes flying off into space on the first try
How the hell was this ride approved?
I've watched this video so many times and I still can't figure out exactly which moment of the ride that killed Caleb. It doesn't seem like there is enough momentum on the second hill to eject someone strong enough to decapitate them? Does anyone know exactly how this happened and which part of the ride?
It was off the 2nd hill.
@@stevebarbieri1399 It slows down down as it goes up the second hill though. So how did the tragedy happen?
@@BM-qw8hy his raft didn't slow down.
@@stevebarbieri1399 Oh right. I read an article about this waterslide after i asked you that question, and it stated there were issues with it going too fast
@@BM-qw8hy also there was a big weight difference. The lady in the back was 250lbs or so. While Caleb was 80 90 lbs in the front.
Reminds me disturbingly of "The Running Man" (1987). Can't help but think of that poor kid that was decapitated by this thing.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but - why even have the metal cage on top of the slide? In theory, wouldn't it be less harmful for someone to just fly off the slide rather than what happened to that poor kid?
The fact that they even had it makes me think they knew it was dangerous
There’s absolutely no reason to have that on the top regardless. You’re not gonna fly into space. Put up some rails or extra platforming on the sides in case someone flies off the side… but the entire arch is completely unnecessary and it ended up harming someone anyways instead of protecting them
@@AlzMarioWolfewhat
@@AlzMarioWolfe Better yet, why not just enclose the whole thing in a plastic tube, like many water rides do? Put some padding on the ceiling where the airtime hill is just in case, easy fix
@@AlzMarioWolfe The construction of the net tells you how bad the problem was of rafts flying off.
My favourite part being that their "safety net" is at that speed basicly a cheese grater
Whoever designed this water slide clearly did not study hard in college
The designers were high school dropouts
@@MarkSamurai5 the designers probably didn’t even learn how to write
The designers probably dropped out of preschool
@@BotchuLeeSim they probably were never allowed to touch legos or play Minecraft
Soon as that gate opens, “Umm excuse me! I change my min--OH SHITTTT!!!!!”
I wonder if that slide instead had ~6+ foot plexiglass panels with maybe a noticeably higher sidewall ON the part of the slides right where the potential for being airborne is the highest but WITHOUT the metal net/fence structures on top…
That this entire park would’ve still been open and with an acceptable safety record. In spite of its misgivings on other rides… heard/read that much more secondary rides were also closed to the public in their final year of operation…
At that speed, if someone’s head were to bump against it, it might still be fatal. They needed engineers for this ride to be safe. It would have to probably be 15 feet above the slide, but still at those speeds head injuries could still happen I’m sure. Maybe if the raft was on a train of some sort to keep it in the tube? Defeats the point of a slide but I don’t really see any other way of this working.
bruh this is the same the boy died on😭
just want to clear it up that is a cry not a laught^
Just a month before the tragedy of Calab...R.I.P and Caleb :(
Verrückt. its german for "crazy"
@@vairexxx Alright, I changed it. Close enough.
why would you want the poorly designed waterslide that decapitated a child to “rest in piece” tf
@@literaldipwad7786 I guess I didn't think of it that way?
That's about 113 km/h, scary speed and splash sound 🤔
This was posted only a month before the accident 😭
God, it's so creepy looking at things knowing people died on them.
“Alright have fun guys”. Dies half way through
Me: watches people go on the ride
Verruckt game over theme: *plays*
Me: 😳
I remember going to the water slide once bit never actually tried it, but after a couple of minutes later I began hearing rumors of a little boy who got decapitated and his family yelled at the engineers that he's dead it was horrifying
America, what the hell. Third world country shit, especially when the judge dismissed the case. Just terrible for the family and the boy whose life was taken.
I cannot believe it was dismissed. Wtf is our justice system.
Honestly this ride would've been perfectly safe if they remove the fence looking roof, then raise the sides very tall. "But it's too expensive," they complained. So they avoid the extra spending and do this instead. What a bunch of cheap ass greedy people who created this.
no, it was never safe. It's an intrisically fatal design.
Who else is here after they found out about the horror that happened? 😔
Me🥺
Me. RIP Caleb Schwab.
“How do you keep a waterpark open after one of your fucking attendees gets decapitated?” Penguinz 2021
It's not open, genius
This video post 5 years ago. Probably before the accident.
@@King5150Ed wait it’s not anymore?
@@blitzo719 I meant to say that particular ride, my apologies
@@blitzo719the park is still opened but the water slide was demolished.
The fact that this ride was only 10_15 seconds long and it killed that boy in just that time goes to show how dangerous it was so glad it was torn down, My condolences to his family but also to the women that witnessed it all they will be traumatised for life
Someone really thought "They'll hit the 'protective' mesh so that they won't fly off the slide" and the other agrees on it.
They didn't even want to know the worst that could happen, they didn't bother.
Anyone else feel that drop without even being on it
That sure sounds like fun
Not
A kid got beheaded by this
@@jujublue4426 so big deal
didnt a boy get decapitated from that water slide
@@nicoleconnolly1596 yeah, big deal
The netting is an absolutely obviously bad idea. If you're going 70mph and you get an arm or a leg through that netting, you're going to lose the arm or leg. Like what happened to that skiier who got a ski stuck in a net and it nearly ripped him in half.
This was the tallest waterslide in the world!
There was 2 women in the raft, the boy who had been allowed to ride in the front died when he lost his control and flung up onto the netting at the second bump. The 2 women was also gravley injured 😞
Who needs actual safety regulations?
He did it before, which means he survived more than once.
Just watching this chokes my throat
This was the last thing Caleb saw...
Hundreds can say, "I survived Verrückt Water Slide at Schlitterbahn Kansas City"....sadly one person can not.....
1:08....Surely that thud would catapult you off the inflatable.
One month before the accident that killed somebody
At 1:11 you could’ve been a victim to this attraction site.
I don’t know but it’s so crazy to watch this after you know what happend a few years ago
Alright have fun guys
**the ride start**
It's All Chill Until It Starts Breaking Necks
Imagine if the lifeguards tell you to “hold on to your head” right after you get on
Here's the thing, whoever made this slide does not know many things. Velcro straps??? They can easily stop connecting at any time. Metal wire at the top??? Decapitate you or severely injure you.
Held in with Velcro! Only in America would this get approved 🤦🏻♂️
Hey bozo, the ride was self-inspected by the person that created the ride. The state had no idea about the safety implications the ride may have
@@waltawite Sums up the idiotic health and safety regulations “bozo”
There a shit ton of shitty rides that have been approved out of america aswell lol😂. Y’all just wanna shit talk
@@waltawite well bozo, you just reinforced this guy's point with your ill thought out comment.
Ohhhhh, man. If you think this is bad, go see what kind of rides get approved in India. Just sayin'.
Bro went airborne for a second
I like roller coasters and all that stuff, but I would never ride this waterslide.
"Yana buckle the middle" "Really?!" if she has to ask why was she working on that slide? 🤔
If it's not safe, then heads will roll.
Caleb Schwab 😥❤️😢
Oh my
RIP Caleb Schwab
1:07 Well thats just luck that you didnt lose your mind
"What a fun looking waterslide i sure hope no one dies on it"
Touching the net at high speed would immediately make you lose the limb. They should done a wrap around slide instead a straight down slide. The slide was a little too steep to begin with.
The kid was 10 YEARS OLD Goddammit, first of all, the ride shouldn’t be able to let him on because of his age and height and second of all the damn father shouldn’t have been so careless like wtf
Least the ride didn’t fly up…poor boy😢 my heart goes out to his family❤
Hali, te tudsz magyarul? Csak azért kérdezem, mert a Harkányfürdős videóban lehet hallani, és azért kérdezem, hogy az a te hangod e, vagy csak másnak a hangját hallom.
Hello, do you know Hungarian? I'm only asking because you can hear it in the Harkányfürdő video, and I'm asking if it's your voice or if it's just hearing someone else's voice.
About 1:10 idls where caleb died. Ascending the second hill. RIP little dude.
We all just saw that Tiktok huh
Bahaha so I’m not the only one who gets wrapped up in these things and further investigates 😂🤦🏻♀️
Yup 😂😂😂😂
*obi wan voice*"thats why im here"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yuuuup!! I had to research more!
yep
Considering the rafts that flew off this slide during the initial test runs, this was an accident just waiting to happen.. and installing a cheese grater to keep you from flying off; gee..what could go wrong? This whole concept was truly verruckt.
*verrückt. For example, “Du bist verrückt.” There’s a big difference between U and Ü
How did the boy get decapitated?
I understand it was on the 2nd hump and it was one of those skinny metal bars supporting the nets
Metal supporting netting
Weight distribution because of a female american whale behind him (275lbs).
@@vonarg Yes, definitely blame the woman for being fat, not the engineer for building a deadly ride.
Is this still in operation or is the park still open?
Not anymore.
No and no
Definitely not after a kid got decapitated on this very slide
Water slide closed in 2016 and then the park shutdown in 2018.
Rip caleb schwab
I’m confused where it happened at?
Look at 1:10. It's where the raft enters the netting.
Not even a month before that boy was killed.
This waterslide belongs in action park
This ride was a deathtrap, an accident waiting to happen.
If the little boy would have just sat in the middle he wouldn’t have been decapitated
Or if he hadn’t been in that ride period. He was too young for it.
@@JaneDoe-is8iw or better yet. Maybe they should make a safer ride. That way no of this becomes an issue
@@JaneDoe-is8iw none*
So... Where is the fun??? 🤔
Rip kaleb😢😢😢😢😢😢
With a ride like this you make the 2nd hill steep enough so it slows the raft down so you dont fly off
he was already airborn from the landing., and then entered the netting. Look at 1:10.
If it didn't have the lift hill it would have been much safer
My idea put a Schlitterbahn in other states or Hawaii yes
Behead Hawaii with the Schlitterbahn
It started in Texas.
Did they order that slide at Wish? Cuz that looks like it's built with play-dough and chicken wire
Its just a rollercoaster