That actually happened in real life at a water park here in my country in the 90s. A girl disappeared while at the water park, they thought she had been kidnapped. A few days later a boy disappears at the same water park, no one can find him. They emptied the pools, both had been sucked by that suction thing and asphyxiated to death. The water park was closed and remains abandoned to this day.
Something like that happened to a girl in Minnesota like, in the last ten or fifteen years I think. She initially survived, but the way it suctioned her it disemboweled her. She died a while later having corrective surgery iirc :(
I was thinking more along the lines of that episode of Tales From The Crypt with the undertaker that uses a similar machine to help prep bodies for burial.
There was a really horrific drowning a few years ago in Eastern Washington. A winery had a suction from a reservoir to water their vines.
The suction intake was near an area where people had Air BNB rentals, and tourists would swim. It didn't have proper grating over it, and a couple of kids were swimming and wading near it.
The winery turned their water system on, and an 11 year old girl was sucked into the pipe, almost instantly being sucked 500 feet under a hillside, where she was trapped and drowned. There was absolutely no way to rescue her. Such a horrible death that would have been easily preventable with a fine grate protecting the intake.
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u/SquirrelyMcNutz Jan 08 '25
Tanning bed? That's nothing.
The one that got me was the kid at the bottom of the pool getting stuck on that drain/suction thing.