Everyone who lived within an hours drive of Action Park knows someone who wiped out on the Alpine Slide. I hear they've converted it into regular old water slides now.
Wouldn't surprise me if they did. It was a death trap. I only did it on a dare when workin at Seaside Heights that summer. That was the last summer I was working at the carousel amusement center. The year before MTV stuck their friggin beach house there for the first time and wrecked up the place.
I've wiped out on a similar slide and got the worst friction burns on my forearms and knees. My skin was weeping clear fluid from the huge scabs for days afterwards.
I fell on the track and I tried to stop myself, and I could just feel my arms getting hotter and hotter and then oh shit I'm all fucked up.
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