Waterslide opens, causes injury, closes

Paramedics have been called to Lithuania's newest and biggest aqua park - Druskininkai Aqua Park - on three occassions since it opened on December 26. They have dealt with two traumas and one mysterious poisoning.

We're not sure about the poisoning (it was mentioned on a local website with typically scant details), but it seems the injuries were caused by a too-short landing pool at the end of the "Extreme" water slide. Ouch!

We've also heard that some people have had cuts and abrasions as a result of poor water flow in that slide. The 140m "Extreme" waterslide has now, not surprisingly, been closed. One photographer, sent by a local newspaper, copped a "good bump by the temple". Rumour has it, in the form of off-the-record comments from employees, that one builder came away with a noticeably scraped back and bum.

The rest of the park, with all manner of pools (including a wave pool, kiddie pool and a pool with an artifial beach and fake 'sunlight'), spas saunas and other aquatic mayhem, is apparently functioning well and not injuring anyone.