Alaina Urquhart

Repeat visitors stuffed their pockets with band-aids and sported scabs and scars along their arms and legs.

And yet none of those injuries seem to keep people from attending the park.

Like truly.

On the contrary, the rumors of heightened risk seem to be one of the reasons people were so enthusiastic to come in the first place.

Then in the summer of 1982, two years after George Larson's death, it happened again.

In late July, 15-year-old George Lopez drowned in one of the wave pools.

That same week, two men filed civil suits against the park, alleging serious injuries suffered on a water slide two years earlier.

Then in August, 27-year-old Nathan Langenthal collapsed while riding the whitewater kayak experience.

Langenthal was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead when he arrived.

In a statement to the press, Action Park spokesperson Diane Beauchamp said, there are reports of a possible electric shock, but no evidence of electrical malfunction has been found at the ride yet.

Hello?

Despite the park's repeated denials that Langenthal's death was due to their negligence, the Orange County, New Jersey coroner determined that Nathan's cause of death was, quote, heart failure by electrocution.

Still, Action Park refused to acknowledge reality, saying they tested all 11 fans that produced the waves and everything was in perfect working order.

Something has to be wrong.

Yeah.

uh operations manager adam ringler told a reporter at this point there's absolutely no malfunction we would say it's not electrocution at this point but like there's nothing wrong with the red brother but the coroner literally said that's the cause of death argue with the coroner like

You're an operations manager at a kooky, kooky amusement park with no safety standards.

And you're telling the coroner you are wrong.

I love that guy.

Are you sure it's not an animal wound?