{"id":5677,"date":"2025-05-09T20:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:15:37","slug":"what-boy-10-screamed-as-brother-was-decapitated-on-worlds-tallest-waterslide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=5677","title":{"rendered":"What boy, 10, screamed as brother was decapitated on \u2018world\u2019s tallest waterslide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-year-old Caleb Schwab was tragically decapitated in 2016 while riding the Verr\u00fcckt water slide, the tallest in the world at 168 feet, at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb struck a metal pole after being flung from the slide by its force. \u201cHe flew from the Verr\u00fcckt!\u201d exclaimed his 12-year-old brother Nathan, who was waiting at the bottom, as he saw the horror.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Schwab family settled with the park\u2019s former owners and pursued legal action against the company that built the slide.<\/p>\n<p>While expressing sadness over the incident, Schlitterbahn Waterpark emphasized that visitor safety had always come first. In 2018, the water park closed.<\/p>\n<p>The loss experienced by the Schwab family is unfathomable, and the tragedy is still unthinkable. Caleb, may you rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-year-old Caleb Schwab was tragically decapitated in 2016 while riding the Verr\u00fcckt water slide, the tallest in the world at 168 feet, at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}