Would you ride this slide? Belle Isle giant slide closes, hours after reopening, due to safety concerns

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Belle Isle giant slide closes, hours after reopening, due to safety concerns​

• Published: Aug. 20, 2022, 9:25 a.m.

The giant slide on Belle Isle in Detroit. (Photo by Scott Pratt | Parks & Recreation Southern Michigan District Chief)

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• Mitchell Kukulka | MKukulka@mlive.com

DETROIT, MI -- A grand reopening for one of Michigan’s most famous slides was swiftly followed by its indefinite closure.

The giant slide on Detroit’s Belle Isle was closed Friday afternoon -- about five hours after it was reopened -- officials from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced in a statement on the Belle Isle Park Facebook page.

“We are going to be making some adjustments to the speed that we have seen users coming down today,” officials said. “Hopefully after our small adjustment we will be back up and running and the slide will be slower for more enjoyment.”


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Officials said an update on the slide’s hours of operation will be posted soon. As of Saturday morning, it is unknown when the attraction will reopen again.


The slide was reopened Friday morning after being shut down the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


After the reopening, videos posted to social media showed patrons taking the $1 trip down the 40-feet tall, some experiencing a rougher ride that they might have anticipated.


The original slide was put in place in 1967, according to the Detroit Free Press. The current structure replaced the original slide at some point in the 1980s.

Belle Isle giant slide closes, hours after reopening, due to safety concerns

Belle Isle officials said the slide will be open and running soon after some adjustments are made.

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[MischievousMonkey]

Make a giant slide out of container metal walls Detroit brehs

 

[King Poetic]

Who thought this shyt was a good idea

Hell at least have nikkas on the side spraying the water hose on that hard shyt..

 

[General Mills]

Looks like some shyt out of Action Park

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

Nah breh
I refuse to believe people out here sliding on metal knowingly

That first video funny as hell

 

[☃ ೋ]

nikkas get third degree burns and cte when they get to the end

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Make a slide and not consult an engineer

Or the engineer didn't do his geometry correct or whatever the fukk they do to decide the angles and speed needed and all that shyt.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Looks like some shyt out of Action Park

Basically

 

[zayk35]

Wtf...was expecting a giant steep water slide....and it's metal

 

[Optimus Prime]

Unless they were all taken the same day, it seems to be still open because there's tons of videos on TikTok of folks wiping out on this

 

[sportscribe]

Slide down a weapon made of recycled cheese graters brehs.

It look like a breh put this together with a cigarette and 40oz in his hand.

 

[Wildin]

These slides been around forever.

These p*ssy ass plastic slides they got now......


In fact that's what it is. The folks are used to shytty playground equipment having to push yourself down the slide.

You get on this and are supposed to lay down and just slide, not grab the sides and sling yourself down.


I don't know how or why but I read a book on playground equipment, back to the 1800's.

Kids were literally playing on steel girders. Swinging from a 2x4 attached to chains, hung from metal pipes or girders.

No kiddie colored paints, no cartoon characters, shyt just looked mad depressing. Like a playground in Auschwitz.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

When it’s time to leave

 

[Geek Nasty]

This slide is bumping off black folks like the KKK, who paid for this

 

[lespaulultra3]

I rode that same slide in the 90s and never went airborne like that