If a water park usually reminds us of joy and fun, there was a park to rethink that concept. The Action Park is considered the “most dangerous in the world” and recently told its story
The bizarre park was located in New Jersey, USA and had no rules. At the gate, visitors could already see images of bloodstricken people in the facility. Since it was founded in 1978, something like this has attracted even more visitors.
Gene Mulvihill, founder of Action, believed that people want real emotion without having to be overprotective. He took it seriously and let children sit on the roof when a passenger car was full.
Gene used his own son Andy as a tester for the equipment he was designing at the park. He (Andy) was the first creature to test a water slide with a 360 degree loop. I was 16 then
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A total of six people died in the park grounds, forcing Gene to purchase additional ambulances for the city since the existing ones were always on duty due to the action.
The wave pool, for example, had twice the power of a regular pool, causing up to a thousand people to collide on the sides, in addition to a system that sucked them into the eightfootdeep bottom.
Three teenagers died in that wave pool
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Another attraction was the human labyrinth made of hay. It seemed easier than the other attractions, more exciting, but some took nine hours to exit.
The only thing left trapped was to scream for help. Occasionally a snake would enter the room and chase the poor visitors into the maze to make matters worse.
Staff were often seen intoxicated and minors were allowed into dangerous attractions, some of them completely intoxicated.
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Nevertheless, the 1980s were the heyday of the Action Park, which attracted around 1 million visitors a year.
Amateur engineers were hired to design new attractions. All of these thoughtprovoking accounts are contained in a recent book by Andy and a documentary sponsored by HBO.
Some of them were considered so dangerous that they were never opened.
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At the same time that the park was prospering, a number of lawsuits were piling up.
The most successful, however, were the significantly more dangerous trips.
To make things even more bizarre, the administration didn’t insure the park.
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Gene, the manager, had invented an insurance company and paid himself money, a clear scam
In 1996 the park was finally closed and declared bankruptcy. Attempts to reopen it never went very well. Gene died in 2012 at the age of 78 and is still admired by many New Jersey residents.
In Florida, a park was forced to close because of “intense sexual activity by snakes.” Check out this incredible story below!
Administrators shut down much of public access to Hollingsworth Lake Park in Lakeland, Fla., after discovering “intense sexual activity by snakes.” The investigation began after residents of the area reported multiple sightings of water snakes in places they don’t normally go.
The warning to residents not to approach the site was issued on the Facebook page of the City of Lakeland Parks & Recreation, which manages the parks in the area.
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According to them, the snakes are “neither poisonous nor aggressive”.
But they warn they ‘must not be disturbed’
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“They are an important part of the ecosystem and must not be disturbed,” the ad continues
Water snakes are usually very restless during the mating season.
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Every year, this union of love fills the region with snakes.
According to the Florida Department of Parks, in 2020 the number of snakes involved in sexual activity in the park “exceeded previously recorded limits.”
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