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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Action Park

Action Park was an amusement park open from 1978 to 1996 based in Vernon Township, New Jersey, in the recreational area known as Mountain Creek.

It had separate areas with their own attractions: Alpine zone, Motorworld and Waterworld. The latter is considered one of the first water parks in USA. Several of Action Park's attractions were unique and attracted many visitors. So, what's so weird about this park?

Well, it became famous because of poorly designed and unsafe attractions, inattentive employees, minors as employees, food intoxication and other similar characteristics Unsurprisingly, it broke records as one of the most unsafe parks in the world. It even has a record of six deaths in one try of one ride.

It was named "Park Accidents" by doctors in the region because of the many patients that came injured from said park. Even so, nothing  was done by the authorities. In later years, however, some visitor lawsuits forced the closure of various attractions, until the closure of the park itself in 1996.

Thankfully, Disney does have some talented engineers.




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