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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you would like to traumatize yourself more, here's a video about another dangerous water slide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIcekOTOqg

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Jesus, that is horrible.

State legislators from the area passed a law allowing Schlitterbahn to self-inspect its attractions without state oversight as it did in Texas, unlike all other amusement parks in Kansas, which were subject to state inspection.

Verrückt permanently closed in 2016 following a fatal incident involving the decapitation of Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old son of Kansas state legislator Scott Schwab.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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That fucker stayed in office. He became speaker in 2017.

(R) Btw. For those that couldn't guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It is Texas after all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

A direct example of the kind of harm Republican policies can cause.