I'm reading about Action Park in New Jersey, where I used to go as a kid, and WOW

[DS1]

favorite quote so far "The speed at which riders met the end resulted in many getting wedgies and enemas from the experience.<12> Employees kept fishnets for scooping out the occasional nugget of excrement or tampon."


:wow:

The things you gloss over as a child, that place sounds horrible now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park

[Beetwasher]

1. I Remember That Place!

Had loads of fun there, never got injured, but as I look back, it's a wonder I didn't! I remember careening down the alpine slide at ridiculous speeds. And yeah, it was a brutally hard, abrasive concrete track!

[DS1]

2. Yep

the trick was to take the beginner lanes because they had many more drops to get the slow people moving.

I did have the pleasure of having my entire skiing kit ripped off, except the boots during a winter visit. That place was full of criminals, there was an honest to god line out the ski patrol's door of people filing theft reports

[matcom]

3. "Action Park"??

is THAT where you got the George Michael autograph you brought over to show me the last time you were at the house?

[InternalDialogue]

4. The wiki description sounds like the script treatment for an episode of the Simpsons.

Grisly. Hilarious. Nearly unbelievable.

[DS1]

5. most of it comes from here

http://www.weirdnj.com/stories/_roadside20.asp

[lost-in-nj]

6. OMG!!!!

We went one day with the kids a while ago


I counted 10 (yes)10

injuries


I was scared shitless on some rides




:hi:


lost

[mainegreen]

7. Oh man, that place sounds like fun!

A loop-de-loop water slide?

:crazy:

[Fenris]

8. Wow!

Its popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, underaged, underpaid and sometimes under-the-influence employees<1>; equally intoxicated and underprepared visitors — and the poor safety record that followed from this perfect storm of circumstances.

Where does the line start?!

[Elidor]

9. .

:rofl:

[leftyclimber]

10. And it closed before I could go.

Bummer. :rofl:

[bettyellen]

11. intoxicated and underprepared, yes!! LOL- those were good times....

better that than another mall, i think. i'd try that slide again.

[DS1]

13. I must have been half a dozen times

that place was great, even if the people in it were scumbags.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. To me it's weird enough that Vernon has a ski area.

My in-laws never mentioned Accident Park.
:wow: