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

[Solomon Lurke]

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

I went down this slide in 1990 when I visited my Aunt in Detroit and don't remember these kind of wipe outs
It must be a more high tech metal they using now to make you pick up speed faster

It’s these weak boned never been outside kids. Dangerous playgrounds built us up different.

 

[Pseudonym]

Looks like fun!

 

[Pool_Shark]

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.

Yup my aunt lost a thumb on one of those slides back in Mexico

 

[Tair]

Shoe flying off
back hitting up against metal
Sliding into a post hearing an audible *ding* sound

Ridiculous.

 

[RageKage]

Reminds me of this doc

 

[B86]

Did they actually test the shyt before opening it to the public? Like did workers a actually go down the slide themselves?

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

This is sinister - how did parents think this was safe??

 

[↓R↑LYB]

nikkas gonna leave that bytch like Hank and Walter Jr

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

 

[acri1]

I used to ride the giant slide all the time when I was a kid

Lowkey looking back I'm probably extremely lucky I never got hurt

 

[maxamusa]

I'm an adrenaline junkie and do WILD shyt all the time..I've jumped out of planes...ziplined in jungles...hit top speeds on fast bikes...and my answer is HELL NO to that slide

 

[chargers31]

I know that metal burn when it’s hot outside

 

[Solomon Lurke]

 

[CopiousX]

Pay $40 for spinal damage brehs.

 

[acri1]

Pay $40 for spinal damage brehs.

Actually it only costs $1 to ride no cheaper place in the country to fukk up your spine