WTF - Let's Get Soaking ... OOOOPS!

U know at the amusement park how there's always that big splash water ride where you get about 20 people in the boat, it goes up about 45 - 50 feet, round a bend, then shoots down into a pool and there's a mountain of water that soaks everyone in the boat and everyone standing on the bridge over the splash so that everyone stinks like chlorine for the rest of the day? Well, apparently in Atlantic City, they have this ride. Only, somebody forgot 2 fill the pool:

A Philadelphia firefighter was hospitalized in critical condition, and his wife and their three children injured, in Atlantic City in June after an accident at the Steel Pier amusement park. The five were in a ride car on the Big Splash, where after a descent, the car was to slide into the water at a high speed and soak everyone, but apparently the park workers on duty had either forgotten to put water in the basin or had not noticed that it had all drained out. [Philadelphia Inquirer, 6-22-05]

Usually my sources are reputable, but I don't know if the Philadephia Inquirer is like a REAL news source or more akin to the National Enquirer. I mean, it's pretty hard 2 believe something this absurd could happen, that people could be this negligent and just plain stupid ... but then again, I see and read about stupidity everyday. And it ALWAYS makes me say ...

"What the f*ck?!?!"