Ooops.....
Jul. 28th, 2008 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundSurf's up, suits down in Hersheypark water attraction
"Hersheypark's Waverider is designed to "knock your socks off," park spokeswoman Kathy Burrows said. As it turns out, socks aren't the thing that can be knocked off by the boogie-board ride down a wide, two-lane slide with water shooting up its incline.
"The water will rip off your bathing suit," said Chelsi Ball of Cincinnati after she fell off her board, was hurled into a padded wall and had her top and bottom pulled askance. How often does that happen? "All the time," said one lifeguard who was working this week when Ball, 18, wound up splashing and flashing about a dozen people in line for a turn on the slide. One out of every five riders loses some part of their swim wear, the lifeguard said.
When it happened to Ball, a Hersheypark lifeguard threw a blanket over her, shielding her from those behind her in line. "
"Hersheypark's Waverider is designed to "knock your socks off," park spokeswoman Kathy Burrows said. As it turns out, socks aren't the thing that can be knocked off by the boogie-board ride down a wide, two-lane slide with water shooting up its incline.
"The water will rip off your bathing suit," said Chelsi Ball of Cincinnati after she fell off her board, was hurled into a padded wall and had her top and bottom pulled askance. How often does that happen? "All the time," said one lifeguard who was working this week when Ball, 18, wound up splashing and flashing about a dozen people in line for a turn on the slide. One out of every five riders loses some part of their swim wear, the lifeguard said.
When it happened to Ball, a Hersheypark lifeguard threw a blanket over her, shielding her from those behind her in line. "
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Date: 2008-07-29 11:09 am (UTC)"Depending on who sees me ride this, I might get to go home with somebody," quipped Drew Tress, 18, of Baltimore. "So the bathing suit thing is a risk I'm willing to take."
Woohoo, the BRATZ culture is really catching on, eh what??