source: FOX

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The “Waterboard Thrill Ride,” by Steve Powers, is a stone’s throw from Coney Island’s famed Cyclone roller coaster and Nathan’s hot dog stand. For a dollar, visitors get to look through a barred window on a Guantanamo-like interrogation, enacted by animated robots. The hooded figure leans over a man in an orange jumpsuit, his face covered with a towel and his body tethered to a tilted plane. Lights come on and water pours into the man’s nose and mouth, producing convulsions for 15 seconds.

A sign on the outside pictures SpongeBob SquarePants saying “It don’t GITMO better!” as Squidward, another character in the SpongeBob cartoons, pours water over him.

“Robot waterboarding became a way of exploring the issue without doing any harm,” Powers told The New York Times. On Aug. 15, Powers and a few other men plan to have themselves waterboarded for real by a professional trained in interrogation techniques.