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KCK police have already announced this is a civil matter, no criminal investigation is being done and there will be no police report on the incident.
Editing to add they announced that less than 24 hours after the incident.
Schlitterbahn money apparently works fast in Wyandotte County.
I just hope they are able to get a FAIR TRIAL like everybody is entitled to,
The trial should not take place in Kansas where everybody already has them tared and feathered before it even begins,
I want them punished to the max for poor Caleb and everyone injured on the monstrosity
And that would be exactly my point, thanks for proving it for me,
you already have them pegged as guilty without knowing all the facts and details, you are only basing your opinion on the nonsense that the media spews out of their rear ends,
thank God you are not on the jury
Apologies for quoting myself, but I found more on Jeff Henry's engineering training, or lack thereof...
Henry never finished high school and never formally learned to draw. All his knowledge came from his work along the river.
http://grantland.com/features/the-wet-stuff-verruckt-waterslide-schlitterbahn/
Long, but interesting article on the origins of the water park .
And more..
Incentive packages like the one offered by Corpus help keep the companys costs down, as does the fact that all the design work is done in-house by Garys younger brother, Jeff, a self-taught savant of water park design who learned the business as a teenager by building rides with his father.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/lucrative-when-wet/
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And a bit more from the Smithsonian article...
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So how does one go about building the world's tallest water slideand more importantly, ensuring it's safe? Amazingly, it's little more than trial and error.
Henry has over a dozen waterpark-related patents to his name, like the Master Blaster, an uphill water coaster technology that uses water canons to propel riders up slopes. Schooley is a designer with a degree in biology and a background building yachts, and when Henry asked him for help designing the Master Blaster, Schooley found moving from yachts to water slides an easy transition. But when Henry decided to build the world's tallest water slide, the pair realized their ride might have more in common with roller coasters than with the traditional water park slide.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/trave...est-waterslide-180952069/#LlXfHp1rsRe5Ryll.99
These yahoos were completely unqualified and had no business building something like this.
Real engineers do not design through trial and error.
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So, neither of the owners/builders/designers had any formal training in engineering.
"We pretty much built the ride in house, from start to finish, with some outside consulting from safety experts and engineers," Schooley says of the Kansas City, Kansas attraction. "A project like this is really a group effort."
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Schooley's models could predict some of the friction and G-forces that would act on a rider plummeting down the Verrückt, but drawing precise conclusions from these calculations is tricky because of the as-of-yet unmentioned major component: water.
"Whats really difficult on these slides is that we can know something about friction with the size of the raft and how much weight will be in it, but when you start adding water into the equation, theres actually no way to really know whats going to happen in terms of hydraulic friction forces on it other than testing it," he explains.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/trave...est-waterslide-180952069/#LlXfHp1rsRe5Ryll.99
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Ummm... no, I'm pretty sure there are hydraulics engineers who actually know how to compute the effects of water and adjust the design accordingly, before it's built.
Because, you know, they actually studied hydraulics engineering...
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I made up my mind on August 11, 2016.
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This is going to come back to haunt them in court.
Yeah, they were giving a lot of interviews... practically bragging about their lack of credentials and how they were self taught.This is going to come back to haunt them in court.
“The designer of a water slide which decapitated a 10-year-old boy in 2016 appeared in court on Monday to plead not guilty to his murder.
Designer John Schooley, 70, is one of three people charged over the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab.
He designed the Veruckt slide at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas, on which Caleb, the son of Congressman Scott Schwab, died while riding with his family.
Schooley was arrested last week after arriving back in the US from China where he had been conducting business.
He was extradited to Kansas from Texas and now remains in jail on a $500,000 bond.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rt-plead-not-guilty-murder.html#ixzz5CIkkwp1Y
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article211897439.html
A Kansas Department of Labor audit released earlier this week identified problems ranging from missing paperwork to parts in need of replacement on 11 rides at Schlitterbahn. The company called the audit "malicious" and pushed back on several of its claims. But Schlitterbahn still chose to not open those attractions until it and the Wyandotte County District Attorney can agree that they are in compliance.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article211897439.html
A Kansas Department of Labor audit released earlier this week identified problems ranging from missing paperwork to parts in need of replacement on 11 rides at Schlitterbahn. The company called the audit "malicious" and pushed back on several of its claims. But Schlitterbahn still chose to not open those attractions until it and the Wyandotte County District Attorney can agree that they are in compliance.