http://www.metafilter.com/tags/intoxicating Posts tagged with 'intoxicating' at MetaFilter. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:09:34 -0800 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:09:34 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73483/Traction%2DPark Active in the years before padded jungle gyms (and class action lawsuits), <a href="http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=28">Action Park </a> was a sometimes <a href="http://www.rideaccidents.com/water.html">bloody rite of passage</a> for many New Jersey kids. Infamous for its <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/Action_Park_looping_water_slide.jpg/300px-Action_Park_looping_water_slide.jpg">gravity-and-friction-defying looping waterslide</a> and beer gardens, it eventually produced so many injuries that the park bought the surrounding city extra ambulances to cope.<a href="http://theweirdusmessageboard.yuku.com/forum/viewtopic/id/869"> It still is</a> <a href="http://gregggethard.blogspot.com/2005/07/action-park-worlds-most-threatening.html">alive in </a><a href="http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2082&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30">many New Jersey</a> <a href="http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=235">hearts</a> <a href="http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=22061">today.</a>&lt;-video. Action Park is now no longer in operation, with a new waterpark named <a href="http://www.mountaincreekwaterpark.com/">Mountain Creek</a> having inherited its location, but not its dubious safety record. Or watersnakes. Or 40 foot diving cliff located on top of a public swimming area. Or flesh burning fibreglass alpine slide. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73483 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:09:34 -0800 accidents andwelikedit! freedom intoxicating newjersy waterpark concreteforest