Could this possibly be real?
  • Slide the City
  • Could this possibly be real?

I saw this last night in a NyQuil stupor and assumed it was fake because if it's not then THIS IS THE BIGGEST NEWS EVER! Forget the Super Bowl, a company called Slide the City has chosen Seattle as a location to set up a 1,000-foot Slip 'N Slide (okay, remember the Super Bowl again—that's over three football fields long, apparently) party to which attendees are encouraged to bring "water buckets, floaties, and water guns (non-realistic of course), to squirt, spray, splash, and get all attending soaked." Slide the City does not know where in Seattle they're going to put it yet (fingers crossed it's Denny Way! Ahh!), and the website only indicates this will happen "July 2015," but tickets to ride are already priced at $15-60 and all ages are welcome.

There's still something weird about this. I mean, how is this not a slick-vinyl-on-asphalt liability waiting to happen? Where is all this water coming from? And who are these people? The first Slide the City was in Salt Lake City, which is where the company is based, which makes me skeptical that this might not just be plain old secular fun... But their website does seems legit (they have over 100 cities as "coming soon" stops), so I'll just have to have faith in something I can't quite picture, but want to believe in so badly.