Class Action Park (2020) - A documentary about the most dangerous water park and it's collection of poorly designed water slides, ridiculously fast go-karts and faulty brakes on the Alpine coaster all run my barely supervised teenagers? What could go wrong?
A lot, obviously. Action Park was in operation in New Jersey from the late seventies until the mid nineties, which seems way way too long. I mean once you watch it, you have to wonder why no one shut it down almost instantly. Remember being a kid and thinking a loop do loop in a water slide would be a great idea, but with age and experience you realize that physics just won't allow for it? Well these guys went ahead and built one anyway and offered staff $100 each to test it out. Early riders had teeth knocked out, the second wave of testers cut themselves on those very same teeth that ended up embedded in the ride itself.
The founder of the park, Gene Mulvihill, bought two ski resorts in New Jersey and figured a good way to make money in the off season was to open a water park, but not to worry too much about properly designed attractions, or safety or insurance, he created his own fictitious insurance company in the Cayman Islands and refused to settle suits brought against the park by injured parties, instead dragging them out in court until they gave up. All of this builds to the eventual loss of life in several tragic cases, the Mom of one victim does appear in this documentary. It's unfortunate such a casual disregard for public safety had to lead to this.
We watched this on Carve.
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