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Tell us about the time the fairground came to town and you were sick in a hedge; or when you went to a theme park or circus and were sick in a hedge

Suggested by mariam67

(, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 11:37)
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I can't find a picture of it
but we had a huge slide at the park that required you to sit in little burlap bags with a strip of carpet on the underside. The tops of the bags had some sort of plastic coating on them and a little pouch you stuck your feet into to keep the bag under you as you slid.

One night some friends and I hopped the fence after a night out drinking, and decided it would be cool to go down that slide at 2am. As we climbed up one of the guys noted that the slide was wet with dew, which meant that we wouldn't slide very well- we'd get stuck partway down.

"It's okay!" piped up one drunken voice. "Flip the bags over shiny side down and we'll hydroplane!"

I still don't know why we thought this was a good idea, but we got to the top and put the bags shiny side down and sat on them. One guy let out a whoop and pushed off, and I saw him get airborne on the first drop. I immediately followed suit.

Had I heard him hit bottom I wouldn't have done it.

I went forward about twenty feet, zooming far faster than normal for this ride, and found myself about two feet above the slide through about a twenty foot drop down as the slide curved away under me. Then the slide slammed up against me as I hit the bottom of the trough and flew up the other side. The end of the slide and the carpeted area where you were supposed to safely slide to a stop were at least a foot below me as I slammed into the fence, three feet from my groaning friend.

We heard the whoops and rumbles just in time to roll out of the way as three more drunks flew past us and crashed into the fence, then lay bruised and bleeding on the carpeted area. I remember hearing a whimpered "Oh FUCK."

Very sober, we limped back to our cars and went home and never spoke of it again.
(, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 22:47, 3 replies)
Drink driving LOLs?

(, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 3:05, closed)
Nicely
I very much approve of this idiocy
(, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 11:42, closed)
was it like this?
www.themeparkjunkies.co.uk/img/albums/Flamingoland%20Crazy/Rock%20Slide/normal_DSCF0076.JPG.jpg

I used to wax it to make it faster!!
(, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 22:09, closed)

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