A photo of an under-construction water slide in Kansas City, Kan., with what looks to be a right-angle drop has social media users gawking and expressing fear.
The Verruckt Meg-A-Blaster is being called the world's tallest and fastest water slide and the park where it is being built says it will shatter records set by another slide in Brazil. According to Guinness World Records, the world's tallest water slide is the Kilimanjaro in Barra do Piraí, which is 164 feet high. The slide is located at Kansas City's Schlitterbahn park.
Verruckt is the German word for "insane."
The Verruckt Meg-A-Blaster is being called the world's tallest and fastest water slide and the park where it is being built says it will shatter records set by another slide in Brazil. According to Guinness World Records, the world's tallest water slide is the Kilimanjaro in Barra do Piraí, which is 164 feet high. The slide is located at Kansas City's Schlitterbahn park.
Verruckt is the German word for "insane."
The Verrückt -- German for insane -- is being billed as the tallest, fastest and steepest water slide in the world when it opens in Kansas City, Kan., in the spring. About the ride and how it compares to other tall slides:
"This new Meg-A-Blaster speed slide … is going to be a game changer for our industry," Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry said in a news release. "Our greatest challenge will be to find thrill seekers brave enough to ride." Social media users reading posts or stories about the slide said they would be too frightened to try the slide. One reader at the gawker.com site said, "I just feel like you'd fall off the side at some point and that would not be fun." "My fear of heights/falling dreams look cuddly and fun compared to this," wrote another reader. "Who's writing their liability policy?" wrote yet another.
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