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URBAN LEGENDS
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| I must have first heard this story when I was about 10 or 11 -- the details were vivid and predictably gruesome. Just the kind of story one kid might tell another to freak him out during one of the long, hot summers for which much of Australia is famous. There used to be an amusement park called "Grundy's," built into a shopping centre called the Paradise Centre, in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast. It had one of the first waterslides (if not the first) in our State. It was, to say the least, a terribly popular place. Circa 1978 or 1979, however, a story began to spread -- a girl, aged about 13, had been terribly injured on the slide at Grundy's (it went). When the police investigated the cause of her injuries they found razor blades stuck to the surface of the slide with chewing gum! Of course, 20 years later it's evident that this tale has travelled the world. But at the time it was enough to send a thrill of fear down the spine of anyone who had taken that one-way trip down the slide at Grundy's. Grundy's has long since gone, but the memories -- well, they remain. I bring this story up every now and then with people around my age bracket, just to see who says what. I have been struck a number of times by how vivid this story must have been when it was originally vectored, because the details remain almost undiluted. In my part of the world this terrible event always took place at Grundy's, usually happened to a girl of an approximate age of 13; and the injuries she sustained were almost always described as long slices or gashes in her legs. Some have even claimed to have read about it in a paper or to have seen it on television.
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