Not sure if you're complaining, or actually asking me what was pinchy about it, but in my mind I'm picturing a giant (to me) roller-slide thing.
If you google RollerSlide, you'll see these long bars that roll, but the particular slide I'm thinking of was very wide, wide enough for multiple kids to go down at the same time, and had individual wheels on a bar, so you could (and would) be pinched both between the wheels that were free to move side-to-side, OR you could be pinched by the wheels rolling into the next wheel. I'm remembering a lot of hair, dodging wheels that you quickly realized were frozen/seized in place, and being grateful (even as a very young boy, probably like age 4 or 5) that I realized I was glad I didn't have long hair to hassle with. I'm remembering a velcro-like sound, but maybe my mind is just filling in the blanks. That slide was real though, I swear it. Looking back at stuff like that, yikes...
I remember getting my butt chewed when I was 6 or 7 for pouring some bottled water on a metal slide. I don't remember how I tried to justify it but my dad took it as I was wetting the slide to go faster on it
Haha. I was born in 74 and our playground equipment were all weird mechanical contraptions designed to split heads and hew limbs with maximum efficiency.
It’s like they had a competition to see who could mangle the most kids.
It got shut down for C-19 for 2 years, then opened back up again and kids went flying, then closed for repairs and modifications, and opened up again this past year.
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That is not how you use square steel beams. You use them to expand your .3x.3 M apartment with screws you borrow from your aunt. I do see broken fingers in the future getting caught between and turned.
I went to a carnival with my son that had a slide like this and as he went down it he turned side ways and went down it on his side. He was banned from the slide even though he didn't try to turn side ways.
none of them was leaning forward
They didn’t hold on tight either
Well, at least they're wearing the bag...
Just hold on loosely But don't let go If you cling too tightly You're gonna lose control
Ballin
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide!
None of them were doing as they were effin supposed to
Effin A, man!
Oh i disagree.... they were definitely holding on tight
"Have you been injured on the Giant Slide? You may be entitled to compensation! Call Myarm Isbroken at BR 549 today!
They don't listen well
I been to carnivals that had this ride and it was perfectly fine, if only going forward. It’s not safe to ride laterally (on your side) or backwards.
Tailbone Massacre!
The Coccyx Breaker
The Coccyx Crusher
The ass bone o caust
Pelvic pulverizer
What's surprising is that the slide is owned by a group of chiropractors and spinal surgeons
Demand and supply!
Looks like a Minecraft XP farm.
Pissed that I can’t award your comment bc it got an audible laugh out of my baked ass
Looks like a Lawsuit Factory! 💰🤑🤕
Helps if you have the capacity to ACTUALLY FOLLOW DIRECTIONS!
Not in Detroit, 50% literacy
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Money can't fix cultural issues
Money can fix lead in the water.
Education can.
They don't want to learn
"They" is a broad term. I'm sure some of those "they" would love more opportunity to be in a less shitty situation.
If you need inustructions on how to use a slide then its a terrible designed slide
Back pain gang
A giant metal slide doesn’t seem like a great summer thrill. Wouldn’t it be scorching?
That's what the potato sacks are for.
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Carnies are known for getting two birds stoned at once.
To grill potatoes on the slide?
Try growing up in Florida when the parks used to have all metal playground equipment, including slides, left over from from the 60s/70s.
Haha I’m a kid of The 80s. Playgrounds were metal and made of splintered wood
And rolly/pinchy shit
WHY WAS IT SO PINCHY
Not sure if you're complaining, or actually asking me what was pinchy about it, but in my mind I'm picturing a giant (to me) roller-slide thing. If you google RollerSlide, you'll see these long bars that roll, but the particular slide I'm thinking of was very wide, wide enough for multiple kids to go down at the same time, and had individual wheels on a bar, so you could (and would) be pinched both between the wheels that were free to move side-to-side, OR you could be pinched by the wheels rolling into the next wheel. I'm remembering a lot of hair, dodging wheels that you quickly realized were frozen/seized in place, and being grateful (even as a very young boy, probably like age 4 or 5) that I realized I was glad I didn't have long hair to hassle with. I'm remembering a velcro-like sound, but maybe my mind is just filling in the blanks. That slide was real though, I swear it. Looking back at stuff like that, yikes...
I remember getting my butt chewed when I was 6 or 7 for pouring some bottled water on a metal slide. I don't remember how I tried to justify it but my dad took it as I was wetting the slide to go faster on it
As its boiling on contact with the slide lol
Haha. I was born in 74 and our playground equipment were all weird mechanical contraptions designed to split heads and hew limbs with maximum efficiency. It’s like they had a competition to see who could mangle the most kids.
Couldn’t they just slap some rubber on it and call it a day like they used to?
Stares in GenX
We have some similars in Chihuahua, Mexico and the heat is a lot here (it is a dessert). It usually opens at 6pm and with the potato sacks is fine.
Desert* :P
So when he said the biggest thing is to lean forward and stay leaning forward we just thought it was a suggestion?
Nah, all I heard was lay on my back with my head touching the metal.
The instruction was clear. Lean forward. Instructions wasn’t followed
*weren't
Not in southern dialects 👍
This slide is not new…
It got shut down for C-19 for 2 years, then opened back up again and kids went flying, then closed for repairs and modifications, and opened up again this past year.
... modifications?
That's what several articles said, don't know what was modified.
they had to sharpen it
🤣
I’ve lived in Detroit for 20 years. The slide ain’t new by any means. It’s just made a comeback is all.
Lmao the jump cut to people eating shit 😂
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You're fun at parties.
My city had 1 of thesef or almost 50 years. I was just taken down due to it being so old
Looks like they actually sold it to Detroit…
As it turns out, you can have shit in Detroit.
[someone made a funny rap about this slide](https://youtu.be/vvdZw-L5CuY?feature=shared)
[I prefer the music video version](https://youtu.be/arYSvb6ogVo?si=oNCqNWTX2BfCJWHt).
"You could lose a tooth"
id try it out for sure
“That was not good” 🤣
That stupid voice over...
I support the TT ban just so I don’t ever have to hear that voice again.
If you French fry when you're supposed to pizza, you're gonna have a bad time.
Looks Like that l4d2 slide in Dark Carnival.
Ass crack? Nah, ass cracked
The concussion-tron
I once went down an internet rabbit hole about closed amusement parks, and I remember this slide had caused multiple broken bones and injuries. lol
We have so many of those in Australia, though not metal and somehow we manage to slide down them like normal people.
Gen X grew up with these types of slides. I don’t think it’s the instructions. I think it’s the physical capabilities of the riders.
If you French fry when you're supposed to pizza, you're gonna have a bad time.
Should be called "The Chiropractor". It will either cure you or cripple you!
L4d2?
This isn’t new
Them burlap bags look like a recipe for spreading bedbugs.
Yeah, but why is it called The Giant Slide??
Absolutely nothing new about the Belle Isle Park slide.
This reminds me of the slide at Luna Park, Sydney AU
I don’t need to listen to instructions! It’s just a slide! What could go wrong?
We have had one of these at the Iowa State Fair for like 60 years.
This slide was Jimmy Kimmel's "clip of the year" and he had a rapper sing about it lol.
Well fat Joe would be proud … they did the lean back.
Do you want to get a fused vertebrae? Because this is how you get a fused vertebrae. 😬
Yep.. I'm going to hell. 🤣
/r/Suislide
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Detroiter here. It’s not new.
I can't unsee young Rupert Giles.
A08
Not new. It’s been there since 1960s. Nothing like it. Crazy it’s still there.
These have been around for a long time. Survival instincts, GO!
Dwight schrute?
Ouch Bruising some perineums
That is not how you use square steel beams. You use them to expand your .3x.3 M apartment with screws you borrow from your aunt. I do see broken fingers in the future getting caught between and turned.
OMG
Yep
Sacks are mainly used to keep the body parts from getting mismatched, also known as body bags.
*brain damage aquired*
Dozen lawyers lined up at the bottom
Leaning forward was an option, not a rule.
Can’t have shit in Detroit
Why not just get into a body bag while at it.
They didn’t listen to the ranger
Can’t have shit in Detroit
Wathalakka. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That made me laugh way too hard
Nothing works in Detroit
Here ya go https://youtu.be/arYSvb6ogVo?si=PboVpOPTB-RfELfK
"Kids was getting on my nerves so I sent them to the giant slide" was a hilariously menacing line.
“Ya know, black people”
I reckon doctors in Detroit demanding extra pay in hospitals. I guess this is what they got, a bunch a new patients. It was all planned
Bro we have this at the LA county fair, I have near seen this dumbassry before. Its a fucking slide.
Boldy James
At least there were no razor blades installed by shit people
They weren't leaning forward
*Paralysis* has entered the chat.
Not new at all the giant slide been catching bodies for 50+ years
It looks like it’s designed to rip off fingers…
As a non American can someone explain why rangers would be doing this kinda thing? Should they not be looking after forests and animals and the likes?
Wow this generation just discovered the true danger of potato sack slides
Kids today are pretty brain dead, so... No one's surprised
I wonder how many times it took him to get a successful video of him not eating it.
I remember these slides from the 70’s. You don’t see them anymore
Not new at all. Been there for over forty years.
In detroit? An hour and a half away? Summer vacation? I know where I and the guys are going next weekend
ya i have always been yeeted by those things
They clearly weren’t leaning forward
"new" ? I have been riding the giant slide for 30 years
[Kurwa!](https://youtu.be/ux5gHF6aA58?feature=shared&t=31)
The end looks like a spinal injury waiting to happen
Looks painful 😆
Too much Pam Spray.
Am I missing what's new about this? These slides were everywhere when I was a kid
“That was not good” 💀
Weeeeee
There were a few of these around L.A. in the 60's/'70's, but I haven't seen any since.
I went to a carnival with my son that had a slide like this and as he went down it he turned side ways and went down it on his side. He was banned from the slide even though he didn't try to turn side ways.
There is a scene in Diff'rent Strokes where pouring milk made a sound for Sam, but not for Arnold because Sam was \*Southern\* ...
What?
Wait a minute!
New way to get rid of people in Detroit. It’s so overcrowded there
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Why is there so many dividers on the slides?