Photo courtesy StormTracker13 Facebook page
Humans are funny creatures, finding new and inventive ways to enjoy water slides, no matter how illegal or dangerous those slides might be.
The Huffington Post's James Cave reports on one of Hawaii's more secluded hot spots, a water reservoir in Waimanalo (Oahu) that seems to attract the more adventurous traveler.
Cave points to this video posted by StormTracker13's Facebook page:
Right away you will notice smiles, bathing suits and what looks to be fun for the entire family. Heck, it's a huge swimming area that was just made for slip-sliding fun.
Well, as anyone who has tossed some garbage bags on the lawn, turned on a hose and slid for free will tell you, just because it looks like a slide doesn't mean it is a slide-at least one that won't cause bodily harm.
Cave writes, of the above video, "If you look it up, Google suggests words such as "trespassing" and "death" - the seams of the plastic liner have been known to cut people and Elijah Martin commented on the above Facebook video that he is paralyzed from the chest down due to an accident there.
Let that be the only warning you need about this destination that remains very much off limits-regardless of how you really, really wanted to use your bodyboard.
Now if possibly cutting yourself on the surface or far worse isn't enough of a deterrent, perhaps the probability of a slap on the wrist will do the trick.
The New York Daily News' Joel Landau writes, "People caught entering these areas will be charged with criminal trespass, which is a petty misdemeanor in the state."
As noted, there are numerous videos all over the Internet, featuring countless individuals turning a reservoir that feeds the area's irrigation system into a makeshift water slide.
It makes you wonder just how well the reservoir is monitored, because there is certainly no shortage of video evidence that a good time has been had and then some.
Of course, this is hardly the only water slide news to hit the Internet recently. A minor stir was had when Schlitterbahn Water Park (Kansas City, Kan.) opened Verrückt, the world's tallest water slide.
You won't, however, have to hop any fences or risk a misdemeanor to ride that particular slide, just good ol' fashioned gumption.
Both water rides, official and not, seem to suggest there is something to the Field of Dreams adage "If you build it, they will come," albeit with the added caveat, "whether you want them to or not."
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