I knew it! Fatal water slide accident involved obeasts, of course. You know that water slide accident that decapitated a kid?  I suspected this from the start: Police: Weight of riders in fatal water slide accident was within limits Hah, barely: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The three people riding the raft involved in the death of an Olathe, Kan., boy at Schlitterbahn Kansas City water park weighed a total of 545 pounds, according to Kansas City, Kan., police. That was within the range of 400 to 550 pounds that the water park said it requires for the combined weight of riders on the three-person rafts. Officials are continuing to investigate the Aug. 7 incident that killed 10-year-old Caleb Schwab as he rode Verruckt, the world’s tallest water slide located at the park in Kansas City, Kan. According to police, Caleb weighed 73 pounds. Two adult women who were also on the ride with him weighed 275 and 197 pounds, according to police.