Action Park is perhaps the most infamous amusement park of all time. George Larsson Jr was the first to die at Action Park. Their rides were poorly designed, their safety record was shocking and their juvenile staff were under paid and under trained. It was estimated that up to 100 people per summer would leave the park seriously injured with people often joking “I managed to survive action park”. Unfortunately however, some weren’t as lucky. The parks poorly designed rides are documented to have caused the deaths of at least six people whilst the park was open. This video will focus on the death of George Larson Jr. George was the first recorded death in the park and perhaps the most infamous. This is the infamous story of the Alpine Slide Disaster.
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Let me know if you would ike to hear more induvidual stories from Action Park! Also,Thanks for 100k everyone.
Action park sounds like a fun place. What about those who jump from airplanes or hang-glide off a mountain. Who gets sued when these go wrong? Pure bolderdash.
Yes, please cover more deaths here. Electrocution!??? Oh my
Try lakeside park in Salem, Va. One of the last wooden coaster's that closed. There were 3 or 4 death's (that I know of) but could be more
Probably trying to show off by going fast
That negative G aneurism loop slide does look like fun if you manage to survive
For those that went to Action Park—Was it pretty much just teens and young adults that would attend or would any groups of middle-aged/older adults attend?
I would love to see a series on Great Adventure Park in Jackson Township, NJ. In 1984, eight people died in the Haunted Castle attraction when it caught on fire. In 1987, a girl fell from a roller coaster because the operator allegedly didn't properly secure her harness. Plus an employee also died there.
SIX people? They let it stay open that for that many people? Wtf
Still can’t believe they thought a looped water slide was good. No way do you have enough speed to do a loop without just going up and then falling.
$100k,……. the value of a boy's life.
reminds me of taking my nephew to breckenridge one summer….we were going down slide on a sled…youngster told me i am going to win cause i am not touching the brakes….after he flipped and went out of chute he never said a word
I'm shocked by just $100K settlement for the family after tragically losing their son.
The family settled for a 100,000 💵 only? 😳
It looked like underpaid people on meth designed the park.
Your voice 🥱🥱💤💤
I could tell by the thumbnail of (probably) his senior picture that he was about my age. What a tragic loss, with his whole life to live.
Sooo, the ride vehicle had no brakes, you say? And that is why it was going too fast, causing the young idiot to go off track and hit his little head on a rock. Yet that same defective vehicle was used all day by rider after rider with no problems. Everyone but this moron was able to keep it under control. That says something about the person who died, not the park or the vehicle. In case after case of deaths and injuries at Action Park all have one thing in common and that thing is a stupid careless person trying to show off to his or her friends by doing something that they should not have been doing. Simply put, one idiot can ruin the fun for thousands for decades to come. Thanks idiots!
Thanks to the internet, I may never go on an amusement ride again 😭😅😵
Please cover them all in one video
Yeah Action park or it's nickname of "Traction Park" seemed like it was designed my Mr. Krabs.
I remember a park similar in mid of California. I have no idea what it was called though. I remember I was afraid of the slides through cement.
Traction Park
My dad told me recently he went here when he was younger (late teens to 20s? probably) and luckily was never injured by any of these horrific rides. I was in shock when he told me because I'd heard nothing but negativity about it. Awful that so many people fell victim to this place.
Should have been called Class Action Park.
Interesting story
I survived Action Park!!!
It's shocking that not only did the park lie to try and evade responsibility, but they actually went on to use this and other incidents as a marketing strategy to attract people in….one which unfortunately worked because people go to theme parks because of the element of risk (or perceived risk) and knowing that others have died there seemed to work as an attraction
Iv been on one of those type of rides. Even as a kid I was like man is this dangerous.
I was a local growing up and I'll never forget the time a big fat guy came out of Cannonball Falls right on top of me. It was one crazy place but it sure was fun. I'd go there again if I had a chance.
i’d DEFINITELY still go, that place looks sick AF, i miss real slides from the pre nanny era
This is all too sad. We have experienced much the same thing at a place in Collingwood, Ontario they had slide rides so my husband fell off one of them and scraped his whole body. He was lucky. They are very unsafe and did close down likely due to many accidents.
a propper alpine slide like the one in this video still exists in Minnesota and we ride it every year, multiple people in my family has shot off of this slide. still love it, still go back!😍 man the hell up!
use to go there as a kid, almost went over the side of the open slide in a turn on the alpine
You don't even say which Alpine Park this is!
I’m new to your channel and I’m so pleased you gave a shout out to another UK Channel fascinating Horror it’s one of my favourites and your channel is awesome thank you for videos
Such a sad story 😢
I could make a theme park way more dangerous than that
Where were the authorities that handle safety guidelines, it's just unbelievable this parked even got clearance.
I was hurt real badly on the Alpine Slide in VT…flipped off of the sled and slid between 15-20 feet down the fiberglass slide. I got a pretty bad friction burns on the right side of my face, on the whole outside of my right arm and all down my right leg. The way they cleaned it was torturous. The took gauze an soaked it in some cleaning solution and rubbed the burns in the opposite direction of how I slid. They said the needed to get the fiberglass particles out of the wounds. It was one of the most painful situations of my life. Do not recommend flipping out of the sled going full speed!!!
Action Park was a good time. I'm sorry for the people who got hurt though.
You know what else is scary? A world where there are no parks anything like Action Park.
Yes, they should have done better with safety, be careful not to legislate all fun away
There are people, RIGHT NOW, driving alone in their car, windows up, no other humans around, wearing face masks and scared to death anyway.
WHAT KIND OF A LIFE IS THAT???
We had an alpine slide in Chattanooga, TN in the 70s, and 80s. Not sure if it is still there. They have something like this in Gatlinburg, TN.
well, back then, Americans were not a pussified country, like today, grow a pair !, lol
I too have some skin in Action Park… cement loofah.
Gosh, that 100k that the family settled for is only $360k in today's money. 😳
They should have received that money plus the park so that they it could have been torn down and made it into something in remembrance of George.
Life during the middle ages was safer than this place. Should have been called Darwin Park.
Ah, reminds me of the carnies in the 80's when I was a kid. They'd be smoking, grease all over them, looked like they just woke up from a bender, but you'd lock eyes with them and at that point you knew if he took his job seriously, or he shouldn't be within 200 yards of children….the 80's