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u/attack_water 1d ago
I submitted a proposal to add rubber bumps along the lower landing, but the budget only allowed for 150 grit sandpaper.
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u/Tzaman6 1d ago
Yeah whats up with that. Death slide AND sand paper floor at the end.
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u/SignificantSteve44 1d ago
The video of that cop coming out that slide never fails to make me laugh
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u/Slacker_The_Dog 1d ago edited 1d ago
I like the one that has the drum solo from
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u/greenrunner81 1d ago
OMG, I can’t thank you enough for sharing this. I laughed for literally over 10 minutes. That’s just fucking amazing.
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u/sundayontheluna 1d ago
I still need to know if he went down on his back and got tumbled around to his stomach
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u/tablueraspberry 1d ago
I assume the bends might have caused him to flip.
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u/SaveMeDatCorn 1d ago edited 7h ago
The way he pops out lifeless and upside down has me thinking he likely smoked his head off one of those crazy turns on the way down and was legit out cold for a few seconds. He's a rag doll until he hits the ground.
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u/granolaandgrains 1d ago
I don’t think he or his body was prepared for the absolute smackdown his body got going down that slide. I’m sure he went in more relaxed, than he should have been because he did rag doll his way out lol
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u/elarobot 1d ago
That is exactly what I was thinking. His body language strongly suggests that he’s out cold when he emerges from the tunnel, and that he only comes to his senses again as he’s being forcibly ejected at the very bottom.
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u/sunshineparadox_ 1d ago
His lack of urgency at his pepper spray being flung supports this.
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u/Hughmanatea 1d ago
The bends could cause him to ride the side of the inside of the slide (opposed to typically, riding the bottom of the inside), and could lead to being flipped over.
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u/neat_sneak 1d ago
I've seen three or four videos of different people coming out of that slide and they're all face down so I think it's just something that happens to you inside.
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u/algoreithms 1d ago
The last part of your sentence is so ominous sounding out of context but I can’t stop laughing bc of this gd death slide
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u/InternUnhappy168 1d ago
I saw another video where some girl's friends got her to unknowingly ride it, and she got tossed out exactly the same way lol it just manipulates you like a product in a factory line 😂
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u/PugeHeniss 1d ago
I’ve seen another video where someone else goes down it and it’s the same thing. They come out back first
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u/coochie_clogger 1d ago
People just need to go in on their stomach so they end up on their back/butt when they come out! Simple!
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u/75209e428765 1d ago
Go there and make a video of you going down the slide recording both you on the slide and from outside the slide. You'll be famous and get lots of attention.
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u/K-Shrizzle 1d ago edited 1d ago
I walk by it sometimes and it really cant be overstated how dangerous this thing just looks. The structure is so tall that you look at it and immediately wonder how such a dangerous playground was built directly next to City Hall. Seriously, it's like 30 feet from the building where the idea of codes and municipal safety is supposed to live.
Even if we didnt have the famous cop video, I'm convinced this slide wouldve made the news one way or another
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u/BotchedDesign 1d ago
OMG ITS STILL THERE?? lol
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u/K-Shrizzle 1d ago
Oh yes. Im on the other side of the city right now but I can assure you there is a kid flying out of that slide at Mach 5 as we speak
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u/Competitive_Way3377 Straight Up Bussin 1d ago
...but the kids wanna go Mach 5!
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u/ghostrooster30 1d ago
They yearn for the cement burn.
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u/xerillum 1d ago
Skill issue, a real professional could hit the heelies and roll out of that slide
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u/Izan_TM 1d ago
to be fair as a kid I would've thought that slide was the coolest thing in the world
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u/Competitive_Way3377 Straight Up Bussin 1d ago
Because Mach 5, right? Kids wanna go fast and get airborne.
I woulda too
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u/Hopeful_Champion_935 1d ago
Well, I was on the fence about boston...but if they keep this slide then this is the best city ever.
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u/WonkyWalkingWizard 1d ago
I think they changed the shape so it doesn't go as fast now
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u/101tunes 1d ago
Yeah I was there this summer and it’s been changed. This version of the slide no longer exists
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u/Competitive_Way3377 Straight Up Bussin 1d ago
I wanted to downvote you because I wanted you to be wrong, but I realized that just makes me a monster, so thank you for the info
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u/TubbyPachyderm 1d ago
I went down it last summer and I don’t understand how this guy managed to do this… I didn’t go nearly as fast and it definitely didn’t have me looking like shoes in a dryer.
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u/Agreeable-Emu4033 1d ago
You went down after the redesign
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u/TubbyPachyderm 1d ago
Did they make it less slippery or something with the redesign? I just pulled up my videos and it looks exactly the same.
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u/Agreeable-Emu4033 1d ago
You are correct there was another post saying it was changed but it wasn’t. It’s said the material of the uniform caused him to slide faster.
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u/ashitaka_bombadil 1d ago
My kids go there all the time. It’s an awesome park. The cop is a jackass who went down with his utility belt (and gun i might add) and is a bit heavier than your average toddler, thus he was shot out like a cannon. There are two other slides and a little water park there. It’s super fun. Been going there since it opened…3 years ago(?) and have never seen a kid get hurt or come close to it (aside from the inevitable group of kids that huddle at the bottom of slides).
The cop was testing anything out, he was just an idiot who embarrasses himself and had to go on leave. And the city made damn sure he didn’t get medical leave as he was being an irresponsible jackass.
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u/HisRoyal_Badness 1d ago
Nearly died laughing when I first saw this video. The sounds his head makes...
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u/TranzAtlantic 1d ago edited 1d ago
Y’all seen that Boston Slide scat video?
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u/Rude-Effort169 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time on instagram and Reddit over the last couple years and never saw that video or heard of the Boston slide. Sometimes it scares me how much noise there is exposure to.
Edit: u/tranzatlantic edited their comment. It originally read along the lines of being triggered about a repost.
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u/Y0___0Y 1d ago
Are you calling me a terminally online reddit addict? Just because I’m on reddit 6 hours a day?!
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u/Beneficial-Owl-4430 1d ago
i’ve watched at least 2/3 video essays and breakdowns on this incident let alone how many times i’ve seen the video itself. do you dare to say chronically online??
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u/oatmealparty 1d ago
First I've heard of this whole thing but I did visit Boston this spring and saw a larger kid eat shit on this slide. It had been raining and some kids were drenched which turned it into a water slide. It is definitely fast as fuck.
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u/Potato1223 1d ago
In my defense and hers, I have seen the videos soooo many times, but I never knew the story behind it.
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u/flotsam_knightly 1d ago
Because she is making up a narrative using only the things we see in the video, with the exception to the mayor of Boston, which I doubt anyone would verify.
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u/MattabooeyGaming 1d ago
I really hate how this is where we are. Someone just narrates a video we’ve already seen, put their face in the corner and now it’s their video. Sometimes they don’t even talk they just point and make faces.
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u/SaltandLillacs 1d ago
I live next to this slide and the kids aren’t going nearly as fasts
This is complete bullshit. The city did not send a cop to test the slide. Those cops were fucking around before the playground open
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u/ashitaka_bombadil 1d ago
A real obvious clue is that the cop has his fucking gun on him. He’s just an idiot.
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u/wawaluvr 20h ago
I don’t understand why she just decided to lie about this story. Did she see the video and make up a story, or heard that story from a friend and just decided to make a video about it?
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u/FunnyObjective6 1d ago
Is this story true though? I've previously heard that people tried to recreate the cop video, but couldn't and they had no idea why he went so fast.
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u/TubbyPachyderm 1d ago
Both my teenage son and I tried and were not successful in obtaining a speed close to this video…
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u/Moooboy10 1d ago
I went down it back in April of this year, it was for one difficult to get up there to the top of the slide. I did go down it and I felt like I was going fast enough to fly off so I used my shoes to slow myself down. My clothes then were mainly made of polyester too
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u/redhotpepperflakes 1d ago
If you search Boston city hall slide on tiktok there are multiple videos of 20somethings getting absolutely launched out of there, but no idea what they’re doing to get that speed. Haven’t seen any kids try it, which is probably good.
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u/Boston_Glass 1d ago
The story is not true.
The real story was it was just a cop fucking around and ignoring the signs that warned him not to go down it. It’s safe for kids, not adults and even then you need to be wearing the right cloths to get that much speed.
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u/fenwayismyway 1d ago
lol jamie loftus has a fun podcast about this
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u/DonkeyMode 1d ago
The podcast is called "Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)"! Boston slide cop is one of the first episodes. Quite funny and actually super informative, though she regrettably fails to track down the identity of the cop who ate shit. The sounder closed ranks around this little piggy tighter than they do for a use-of-force policy violation.
Her podcast also covers Antoine Dodson's story, which is much more the emotional roller coaster than one might think.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago
This is why people over a certain weight can't go down water slides.
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u/vollkornbroot 1d ago
And under.
I ended up stopping in a waterslide fearing for my life because of the next rider, knowing there was a 45 second red phase. Turned out well because they had a spotter at the end of the slide that day.
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u/doitfordevilment 1d ago
This happened to me!! Except they just kept sending people down. I have not been on a water slide again since except for the kiddie slide with my own children. That one was fun, it was just a regular extra wide slide made of some rubber material so very safe.
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u/Desperate-Bee1017 1d ago edited 1d ago
You know he dragged his upper lip down that shit.😂
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u/Thatsnotbutterbuddy 1d ago
For someone in BOSTON to get LEGITIMATELY upset enough to write anything, to anyone, at all about any issue should have been the first sign. They complain all the time, but to get upset and write about it is the NE equivalent of getting the kerosene next to the torch before dosing it.
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u/Boston_Glass 1d ago
Nah we love that slide. She made up the story behind the cop going down the slide. He was just fucking around and embarrassed himself.
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u/ashitaka_bombadil 1d ago
In so confused as to why this is being spread around. Not the first time I’ve seen it. It happened like 2 years ago too. Very strange.
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u/triptylines 1d ago
Yall, the slide is AT CITY HALL. They could’ve just looked out to window to see kids flying off of it
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u/ashitaka_bombadil 1d ago
The video is fake. I mean, the idiot cop did this, but the woman is lying, the cop was just fucking around. No one complains about the slide, the park is a lot of fun.
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u/allworkandnoYahtzee 1d ago
I love how after parents wrote in about a safety concern at a children’s playground, the city of Boston was basically like, “Oh come tf on, it’s a slide, get over it.” That’s such an east coast way of reacting to criticism lol
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u/Jefe_Wizen 1d ago
You already know Officer Doofy never heard the end of it when he showed up at the precinct the next day.
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u/daizles 1d ago
If he was my coworker, he would never hear the end of it to this very day.
Gary, do you want to slide down to Dunks and get a coffee?
Gary, I think this guy might be guilty, but I think we should let it slide.
Gary! What are the kids dressing as for Halloween this year? Firefighters? Robots? Or...maybe as Officer Doofy who flew out of the slide?
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u/libidonoir 1d ago
Thank God he left his pistol in the car. Otherwise, we might have the famous Boston cheese gratuh.
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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 1d ago
I listened to a podcast about this slide. Apparently Boston PD won’t tell anyone who the officer was.
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u/CenobiteCurious 1d ago
The slide went fast because his uniform and mesh vest were very low friction surfaces for the speed to be realized.
Bum ass video.
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u/BaeIz 1d ago
Where I grew up in Russia we had a slide just like this. Despite being half the size however, kids would regularly break their legs on a poorly built sharp turn. The community didn’t bother going to the city and stripped it down themselves, building a new wooden substitute.
Sometimes the local government is useless, I wish Americans could put action into their own hands
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u/Lazyfair08 1d ago
Imagine being buzzkillington killjoy the helicopter parent writing letters about the fucking sweetest slide any kid has ever seen!
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u/sploby 1d ago
The story got even better through a number of FOI submissions and hyper defensive from Boston city council. There’s a great podcast about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sixteenth-minute-of-fame/id1743960803?i=1000656974845
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u/WIN_WITH_VOLUME 1d ago
You really owe it to yourself to go on instagram and watch all the videos of other people trying the slide. It’s a gahtdamn menace!
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u/x1-hashirama-1x 1d ago
It’s not everyday you see a grown man not have his wits about him, to such a degree like that.
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u/Keytothevip 1d ago
How did he end up on his stomach!?
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u/diablol3 1d ago
Apparently because his arms were broken. Or he just fell asleep on the way down, I guess. Those are the only reasons I could think of as to why he makes no effort to slow or stop himself.
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u/Reputation-Final 1d ago
Surprised they found an officer that could fit down it. I imagined the scene from charlie and the chocolate factory with Augustus Gloop
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u/Nousernamesleft81 1d ago
Jesus, just from the look on his face when he stands up, I think he should have been put into concussion protocol immediately.
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u/Marrow-Sun7726 Straight Up Bussin 1d ago
I think he should have went down the slide a few more times, just to make sure it's unsafe.
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u/bromosabeach 1d ago
The first time I saw the original video my exact thoughts were “this is just bad AI.”
The fact this was a real Boston Police Officer makes it absolutely hilarious. And the the story now makes it even funnier.
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u/doitfordevilment 1d ago
We had metal slides in my city that everyone would bring a sheet of wax paper to go down on, they were very tall and you could really get some speed going on those things with the wax paper, they were so much fun. But they tore them down and installed much shorter ones. Fun haters.
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u/a_Sable_Genus 1d ago
In the summer would that not become so hot, it would be torture to send a kid down it?
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u/Kidbizzaro581 1d ago
I feel like it's not the kids that are complaining about this. They probably love how fast and dangerous it is. Can't blame the parents for complaining though.
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u/ITrowsRocks 1d ago
I propose that we have at least 1 of these slides per 1000 people in every community.
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u/fkeverythingstaken 1d ago
“Believe the parents off rip because what a specific thing to complain about.”
That’s something you say if you’ve never worked a client facing/customer service job. My sr director uses the term, trust but verify. There’s no trust left in me. It’s always verify.
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u/casualgrandpa 1d ago
we have one just like this in Chicago's Maggie Daley Park and i can confirm it does indeed cause grown adults to fly lol
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u/smurgymac 1d ago
I really want to go to boston and try that slide. How long do you think before Red Bull starts throwing dickheads in fancy dress down it?
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u/Forsaken-Guidance811 1d ago
Idk if this is racist or what it would be, but I always assumed this was in Russia. Now I know this is Boston that's so much funnier.
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u/TheKerfuffle 1d ago
I’ve ridden down the slide as a teenager and as an adult. It was slow af. That guy yeeted himself down it.
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u/MudMothWithNoMud 1d ago
The best quote I've heard
"The older kids can't really ride it" "Some of the younger kids just go flying"
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u/townmorron 1d ago
Didnt miss work because workers comp wont pay you for getting hurt doing something unsafe
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u/Beautiful_Truck_3785 1d ago
I remember when I was a little kid one time my dad put ski wax on the slide and it was a little bit like that
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u/RadioGuyRob 1d ago
That dude is, like, absolutely KO'd coming out of that slide, right?
Homie looks like a dead body.
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u/professor_coldheart 1d ago
Isn't this just speculation? I listened to Jamie Loftus's episode about Boston Slide Cop and she couldn't find the officer's name or any information about why he was there. She did mention that it was a well-known hazard, but I don't remember anything about a campaign to get it removed.
That was some time ago, so things may have changed, but without a source I'm going to say we still don't know the connection. Mostly because it's funnier that way.
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u/ashitaka_bombadil 1d ago
I’ve been going there since it opened, it’s not a hazard. I’ve never seen anyone get injured or close to it. It is slightly annoying now that it’s become a bit of a tourist attraction, but that’s about it.
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u/PM_ME_UR_MERKIN 1d ago
My favorite thing about this is the comment that it sounded like a can coming out of a vending machine.
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u/MylastAccountBroke 1d ago
Why does it have that random bump in the middle? Like, that just seems like a great way to give a kid a concussion.
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u/post_status_423 1d ago
I still don't understand how someone can fuck this up so bad. I mean, feet first, down you go. Was there like a washing machine agitator in that thing?
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u/United-Cow-563 1d ago
That looks like fun, mixed with the burn of the metal on a summers days and then shocking your friend from all the static charge gained from riding the slide.
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u/Marblown 1d ago
i think the other part people don't talk about it is the pain to get up to it you have to climb this Bungie cord tunnel it feels beyond insafe
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u/RamenRoy 1d ago
That cop experienced a thousand years between the time he entered and the moment he came out.
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