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July 11, 1979.

94 degrees at night in the morning and only going to get higher.

Ricky Nelson should have been thankful that his summer job was at a water park on days like this,

and, if it were anywhere else, he no doubt would have been.

But Wild Springs had a unique way of sucking the

joy out of working at a water park, something that should have been a dream come true for a high

school senior like Ricky. Sit around all day eating cheap hot dogs, make sure some kids don't

bang their heads off a slide, hit on some babes when he's on lifeguard

duty, who wouldn't be into that? But here at the ass end of Addison, Wisconsin, Wild Springs

was what Ricky would have called a dump at best, and a rundown hunk of crap at worst.

Marketed as a budget-friendly and family-friendly alternative to other more popular water parks,

everything in Wild Springs had been built as cheaply and as quickly as possible.

Four of the five slides they had were pretty beat up by years of weathering and use.

Hell, one of them was held together mainly by duct tape, super glue, and whatever rubber bands

Tony found in his glove compartment.

The kiddie pool was almost always being cleaned.

God forbid some white trash parents couldn't be bothered to keep their kids from turning

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