“One slide was closed down – somebody broke their nose on it”: MTV once took Alice In Chains to the deadliest waterpark in America

Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains in swimming trunks, sat outdoors with MTV host Riki Rachtman.

If you were a kid of the Greater New York area in the 1980s, Action Park was marketed to you as the most awesome place on the planet. The Vernon, New Jersey, haven promised thrills that no other waterpark would dare offer: a slide (called the Cannonball Loop) with an actual 360-degree loop at the end of it! Another slide that dropped you seven storeys at 60mph! There was even a high-speed twist on that boring lazy river ride your parents drag you onto!

However, there was a reason no other waterpark promoted such excitement. Because it was fucking dangerous.