# Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water slides

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebenezer-floppen-sloppers-wonderful-water-slides/850225 "2020-03-25T02:43:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pascal666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pascal666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pascal666)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebenezer-floppen-sloppers-wonderful-water-slides/850225/1 "2020-03-25T02:43:26Z")

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Why did Ebenezer Floppen Slopper’s Wonderful Water slides close?

> **[Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water Slides](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Floppen_Slopper%27s_Wonderful_Water_slides)**
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> Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}41°51′47″N 87°57′42″W / 41.863119°N 87.961698°W / 41.863119; -87.961698
> Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water Slides is an abandoned waterpark located on a hill near the intersection of Illinois Route 38 (Roosevelt Road) ...

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**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebenezer-floppen-sloppers-wonderful-water-slides/850225/2 "2020-03-25T02:47:52Z")

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Apparently nobody knows why it [closed](https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/illinois/abandoned-waterpark-il/).

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebenezer-floppen-sloppers-wonderful-water-slides/850225/3 "2020-03-25T16:25:24Z")

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Buried deep in the Wikipedia article is this

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> However as of December 2018, the park is listed on the website of a law firm specialising in amusement park injuries, which claims: “We have successfully gone up against all major water parks in the United States including, but not limited to [this park]”

I suspect there was an injury claim, and even if it wasn’t that serious and was settled out of court, the insurance companies got spooked and the park couldn’t get coverage.