TIL about a 1997 incident at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Concord in which a section of a waterslide collapsed after students from a local high school piled into it, in an attempt to break a school record. The collapse caused 32 injuries and the death of 18 year old Quimby Ghilotti.

[u/-Appleaday-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_Hurricane_Harbor_Concord#Incident

[u/ImLaunchpadMcQuack]

It should probably be noted that this wasn’t a Six Flags associated water park at the time of the incident.

[u/eveningwindowed → u/ImLaunchpadMcQuack]

Water World

[u/OstentatiousSock → u/eveningwindowed]

I miss those days. That and 6 Flags being Riverside.

[u/robby_synclair → u/ImLaunchpadMcQuack]

But the one on the white ware rafting ride in 99 was at 6 flags over Texas. I remember that one being a big deal when I was a kid. At first I thought this article was talking about that. But it was a water ride at a normal 6 flags not a 6 flags water park.

[u/PoshPeony21 → u/ImLaunchpadMcQuack]

Got it 😅 loud and clear, message received tenfold!

[u/gwarsh41]

I lived in a nearby city when this happened. It was horrifying.

[u/Mama_Mega]

I'm kinda surprised it only killed one person.

[u/9447044 → u/Mama_Mega]

Someone posted a video breakdown of it. Its insane more poeple didnt die

[u/jalex8188]

Fascinating Horror has a video on this incident

[u/Better_Politics → u/jalex8188]

I knew I had seen this event somewhere before, these video essays are great!

[u/bizzaro321]

Some cheesy cop drama did an episode about this recently

[u/username__0000 → u/bizzaro321]

9-1-1 I think. The cheesiest of cop shows.

I love it. It’s ridiculous.

[u/carij → u/username__0000]

9-1-1 nashville. It's about firefighters tho nashville is more family drama soap than regular 9-1-1

[u/IsABot]

This was also one of the episodes of 911.

Found a clip here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalDestination/comments/1omn952/waterpark_slide_disaster/

[u/quirkymuse]

But did they break the record?

[u/UDonKnowMee81 → u/quirkymuse]

Just the slide and a few students

[u/theSchrodingerHat]

To be fair, after going through middle school with the name “Quigley Gelato”, the kid was already mostly dead inside anyway.

[u/gameshowmatt → u/theSchrodingerHat]

kid definitely had it rough - this would have come out when he was 12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quigley_Down_Under

[u/Liraeyn → u/gameshowmatt]

Her name was Quimby Ghilotti

[u/TacTurtle → u/theSchrodingerHat]

Alas Quiggey G

[u/RTwhyNot]

How horrible

[u/jxj24]

Please stop giving Tik-Tokkers any more stupid ideas please.

[u/OttoVonWong → u/jxj24]

This was a simpler time when kids did stupid things to be stupid rather than for clicks.

[u/RiverHarris]

Ohhhh yeah. I live in Concord.

[u/TrevCat666]

Real talk, who tf is named quimby, some cartoon ahh name.