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Verrückt was well-received upon opening, winning a Golden Ticket Award from Amusement Today in 2014. After Schwab's death, amusement park safety laws were updated to require state inspection of all attractions. It was later revealed that at least 13 other people had suffered non-fatal injuries from hitting the netting above the slide.
In August 2016, 10-year old Caleb Schwab was killed while riding Verrückt. The death occurred when the raft he was in went airborne at the lower bump and struck a metal support of the netting, decapitating him.
Caleb Thomas Schwab, 10, died of a neck injury in August 2016 at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City while on the water slide known as the Verruckt. Kansas family wins $20 million ...
— Caleb Schwab, 10-year-old son of Kansas state representative Scott Schwab (7 August 2016), in response to his father telling him "Brothers stick together" before Caleb and his brother rode the Verrückt water slide. Caleb was decapitated by a metal support of the ride's netting. "I trust you." [153] [154]
The deconstruction of the 17-story slide called Verruckt will start a week after Labor Day and is expected to take about three weeks.
1-year-old Kahleb Collins was last seen in September, but his disappearance was never reported, police allege . On Dec. 8, Kahleb's family members were in a car crash that killed father Steven ...
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In what police are calling a senseless and unprovoked attack, a man was arrested over the weekend in the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old boy while he walked to school in New York City last week.