Being a plumber, I have been known to use shower pan liner, comes in rolls 6'wide by 75' long! makes a good slide!
Slip n Slides
- Thread starter zesty
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I actually thought of that but it's expensive enough to make the slip n slides worth it.
Man, I wish I would have thought of this when I was in college. The thought of my toddlers and neighbors getting oiled up doesn't sound as fun.
LMAO.
I actually have heard that these things are dangerous. Any rock or stick underneath can wind up causing severe cuts. My hill is new sod and clean fill from work we did last year so I think we'll be ok.
guess i'm the only one that likes the crocodile mile instead
Yes I had adults in mind when posting
I just bought the sheet plastic people use for crawl spaces pretty cheap @ lowes 50$ I think for 75' 2 sprinklers and a cheap bottle of dish soap
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Donât try this at home
YouTube is filled with videos of questionable uses of Slip ân Slides, but itâs the permanence of some poor judgement calls that have caused alarm.
Due to multiple injury reports, way back in 1993, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a notice about the Slip ân Slide, which said in part:
Use by adults and teens has the potential to result in neck injury and paralysis. Because of their weight and height, adults and teenagers who dive onto the water slide may hit and abruptly stop in such a way that could cause permanent spinal cord injury, resulting in quadriplegia or paraplegia. The sliderâs forward momentum drives the body into the neck and compresses the spinal cord.
True stories
In the early 1990s, a 37-year-old Californian named Bill Evans was left a quadriplegic after fracturing his neck using the Slip ân Slide. After a settlement with the toyâs manufacturer at the time, Kransco, Evansâ attorney wanted to issue a press release about the toyâs danger to for adults. Predictably, âdire consequencesâ were promised if he did so⦠and the matter was dropped.
Unsurprisingly, not long after, a college studentâs life changed drastically in 1998 after what was supposed to be some Slip ân Slide fun. A âdevastating accidentâ left Bryon Riesch paralyzed from the chest down, with limited use of his arms. (A little over two and a half years later, he started the The Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation, with a goal to find a cure for paralysis.)
The issue of gag orders and threats of litigation aside, the issue is truly less of an issue of a product defect, and more a fact of physics. Colloquially stated, âThe bigger they are, the harder they fallâ â which is backed up byNewtonâs second law of motion.
http://findersfree.com/science-nature/slip-n-slide-unsafe-adults
YouTube is filled with videos of questionable uses of Slip ân Slides, but itâs the permanence of some poor judgement calls that have caused alarm.
Due to multiple injury reports, way back in 1993, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a notice about the Slip ân Slide, which said in part:
Use by adults and teens has the potential to result in neck injury and paralysis. Because of their weight and height, adults and teenagers who dive onto the water slide may hit and abruptly stop in such a way that could cause permanent spinal cord injury, resulting in quadriplegia or paraplegia. The sliderâs forward momentum drives the body into the neck and compresses the spinal cord.
True stories
In the early 1990s, a 37-year-old Californian named Bill Evans was left a quadriplegic after fracturing his neck using the Slip ân Slide. After a settlement with the toyâs manufacturer at the time, Kransco, Evansâ attorney wanted to issue a press release about the toyâs danger to for adults. Predictably, âdire consequencesâ were promised if he did so⦠and the matter was dropped.
Unsurprisingly, not long after, a college studentâs life changed drastically in 1998 after what was supposed to be some Slip ân Slide fun. A âdevastating accidentâ left Bryon Riesch paralyzed from the chest down, with limited use of his arms. (A little over two and a half years later, he started the The Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation, with a goal to find a cure for paralysis.)
The issue of gag orders and threats of litigation aside, the issue is truly less of an issue of a product defect, and more a fact of physics. Colloquially stated, âThe bigger they are, the harder they fallâ â which is backed up byNewtonâs second law of motion.
http://findersfree.com/science-nature/slip-n-slide-unsafe-adults
