It's Time To Make Bouncing Castles Illegal.
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Same with trampolines. They’re such a problem it’s actually exempted from many home insurance policies.
No. It’s time hold adults responsible for gross negligence when kids die in bouncy castles. It’s time to rent bouncy castles out with mandatory insurance so that if a kid becomes a paraplegic, at least his expenses are paid for life. (And if you can’t afford the Ins, you don’t get the castle).
5 kids, where they jumping with running chainsaws in there. Lard tunderiin jazus.
Also bouncing castles don't kill people, uh uh
Jon Lajoie killed people with bouncing castles.
Sure but dead is still dead. Also being a quad, no amount of money makes up for that. I know one, I just signed off on his medically assisted suicide documents as a witness for when things get bad enough.
Also bouncing castles don't kill people, uh uh
Jon Lajoie killed people with bouncing castles.
If that bouncy castle had been tethered down properly… those kids would be alive.
I don’t know… maybe I am wrong. It’s a bouncy castle. It should not be hard.
I'll admit I didn't read the story. I was figuring kids bouncing around and cracking skulls but 5 is a lot. If it blew in the wind like our friends the ants*, I could see it, but still 5 or more kids, that's some weight.
*To quote Bob Dylan. The ants are our friends, they are blowing in the wind, the ants, are blowing in the wind
By the sounds of it, it went up like Aunty Em’s house in the Wizard of Oz
I could have sworn I saw Kyle Rittenhouse walking in front of my house with a bouncy castle.
My thoughts completely. A castle with five kids has to be about 300 pounds and it was strong enough to not just roll the castle but take it 32 feet in the air ? I wonder just how windy was it and as someone mentioned - why wasn't it tethered to the ground if it was that windy ?
Even more important, have rules on how to secure the things to the ground, complete with detailed instructions geared to the lowest common denominator. Maybe there ought to be a special class of Darwin Award for doing something really stupid to get your own children killed. There's gotta be a few people who look at one of the Darwin stories and think to themselves
"well, I better not do that!" Makes the whole thing worthwhile...
I think that before we decide to ban this that or the other thing based on an incident, we need to get the numbers in perspective.
It's the bane of all public policy discussions, rarely are numbers put in perspective.
If we banned things on deaths occurring once or twice, sorry, that is not good enough, otherwise we would ban every damn thing kids do, including eating hot dogs, and grapes - leading choking hazards in kids.
Lets get some stats, how many kids have died in bouncy castles compared to how many kids have used bouncy castles?
It's the bane of all public policy discussions, rarely are numbers put in perspective.
If we banned things on deaths occurring once or twice, sorry, that is not good enough, otherwise we would ban every damn thing kids do, including eating hot dogs, and grapes - leading choking hazards in kids.
Lets get some stats, how many kids have died in bouncy castles compared to how many kids have used bouncy castles?
Usually the place you rent it from is responsible to securing it down as part of the rental agreement. I assumed it was rented. They would have to deliver it. Also, 3 kids are critical. Kids rely on adults to take care of them.
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Since Toronto is so windy, anything not bolted down to huge concrete blocks risk being blown away.
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Another death, this time in Spain.
Girl dies, 8 children injured after wind gust lifts bouncy castle in Spain (msn.com)
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