Mountain Creek Waterpark

And then they all wind up up in this woods where there had been a notorious amusement park.

People from the New York area, New York, New Jersey area, might remember that there was a place called Action Park in the 80s where it was, this was a real park and people really did get hurt.

Yeah, this is

some 80s shit with a whole amusement park that was not safe at all to anybody anywhere.

Nuts, man.

Well, I would look forward to the band, The Stone.

I look forward to checking out Traction Park Massacre.

Thanks for all the Beastie Boys stories.

So Vernon Valley was started by a guy who owned a ski resort.

Vernon Valley was at a ski resort, okay? It was called Action Park.

And it's this famous, famous place because in the summertime, they had all these water rides and people died.

Right.

And, you know, this is, this is in like the eighties.

Right.

Um, And his whole idea was that he had this resort, ski resort slash summer action park, that he was going to sell this beer at.

And they did.

Yeah.

Now, the one thing that we missed out on is there was a place that was relatively close to us that's called Action Park.

They did a documentary about this on HBO, I think.

The sort of the lovable name for it, the informal name for it was Class Action Park.

Because it was owned by one monstrous libertarian...

Who would employ nothing but teenagers.

What is on the Patreon this

week? So yesterday on the Patreon, we talked about a very famous, infamous, not famous amusement park in New Jersey called Action Park that had many deaths.

And it was basically the Wild West.

There were no restrictions.

Yeah.

Class Action Park.

Cla- Yes.

God, that's-

Was that in Greg-

It was the, uh, Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey.

Yes.

Yes.

It's

about Action Park and it's called Class Action Park.

It was Action Park, which was a, like a theme park in California and it was totally unregulated and everyone was always breaking arms and getting sued, right? A water park.

Like a water park theme park, right? But, The guy who ran it designed his own water slides, and I plead that you go and Google the water slide from Action Park.

It's a big tube, right, heading to a lake.

It's a big tube, but just as you reach the lake, there's the tiniest little loop-the-loop.

documentary in the world.

Is there a documentary about

Did you see the story that Brother Dan sent over to us? I forget what he sent.

We have a modern-day action park on our hands here, people.

Go ahead.

What do you know about it? I know that Six Flags Over Georgia had a casualty on one of their biggest roller coasters.

Yeah, that's crazy shit.

I know.

It made me think of Action Park, though.

How many people died at Action Park? At least three we talked about on the show before.

Your infant can win.

Listen, there was, um, there's an amusement park in New Jersey which is, it was many years ago called Action Park, and now it's Action Park again, right? So they used to have a promotion where it was, um-

Is this the soda can promotion?

Yeah.

I'm s- I'm sorry.

COT on the chat says, uh, Action Park wasn't that bad.

That's true.

Remember the amusement park up in North Jersey?

Love, love me some Action Park.

It was one of the most dangerous-

Love me some Action Park

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