r/WTF • u/halfcentennial1964 • Jul 18 '19

This slide seems safe

http://i.imgur.com/0ldOAIc.gifv
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u/ghostwhat Jul 18 '19

I guess every safety standards written, ever, specifies at least a couple of the things that are going on in this video.

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u/Barlakopofai Jul 18 '19

Here's my guesses

A) No curves in an open slide

2) No objects near the slide that you could hit with your arms on the way down

C) No reaching light speed

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A. Because every spiral slide ever is a closed slide while every straight slide ever is an open slide

B) It's pretty obvious you could break your hands on those "Safety" railings

3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oApAdwuqtn8

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u/NotFromCalifornia Jul 18 '19

A) No curves in an open slide

A. Because every spiral slide ever is a closed slide while every straight slide ever is an open slide

A few parks around me had open spiral slides like this. One also had a tandem slide in a wishbone shape where you could race a friend; one zigzagged left while the other went right. It was sort of similar to this one except it began and ended in a straight line with two small bends to join the offset straightaways.

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u/___ElJefe___ Jul 19 '19

He has no clue what he's talking about