Posted on 04/10/2017 2:51:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A wind gust sent an inflatable bounce house and slide sailing into the air over the weekend during a church carnival, injuring five children.
Springwell Church invites the community to attend its free spring carnival each year, but this year the carnival ended in tears, with church members asking for prayer.
Organizers say the inflatables were anchored with stakes and tethers, yet a strong wind gust was still able to rip them from the ground and shoot the bounce house up to 30 feet into the air, where it hit some power lines before tumbling to the ground.
Witnesses reported seeing two children fall from the inflatable structure.
Five children in all were sent to the hospital via ambulance Saturday afternoon, two with serious injuries.
As of Sunday, three children were released, while two remained hospitalized in stable condition, according to the church.
A church pastor states on Facebook, "We are saddened for those who were injured during the unfortunate accident today. We join their families in prayer for their full recovery... Please continue to pray for everyone affected."
Church members raced to stop the bounce house from continuing to roll down the busy street into oncoming traffic.
The inflatable house hit the power lines with such force that it caused a power outage for several hours.
Unfortunately, bounce house injuries are not uncommon.
Just last year a 7-year-old child was killed in England when the inflatable she was jumping in was also blown away by the wind.
In 2015, a waterspout came ashore in Florida, sending a bounce house on the beach flying through the air with kids holding on for dear life, injuring three.
And in 2014, two boys, 5 and 6, were seriously injured in New York when their bounce house was also blown away.
There's at least one who posts like a bot.
Funny huh?
Well, if you know of any then you should bring the matter up with Mr. Robinson.
“There should be a better way to stabilize and secure
these bouncey houses.” - murron quote
- Yes! Someone knowledgeable should INVENT an improvement
NOW! - Happens too often as these bouncey houses do NOT do
well in windy situations.
Any suggestions for a solution? (I’d say just stop having
them available; but I’m old & a party pooper. :o)
when I was a combat engineer, we had these five foot steel engineer stakes. You slegehammer four of those into the deck and whatever is tied to them isn’t going *anywhere*.
Better still, call the attraction off in gusty wind conditions.
I believe the suspected bot you speak of is the above Sean Anthony, and he posts solely from Canada Free Press.
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Gee, I had noticed a lot of Sean Anthony posts. I thought he was just public spirited. Doesn’t it take a mind to figure out what to put in the posting form?
Scary! We almost rented one for the grandkids. Now, no way. This isn’t the first one that flew off.
https://thepostnewspaper.net/2018/05/15/bounce-houses-are-flying-away/
I was just thinking about the bounce house problem a couple days ago when we were having extremely fun winds. Really folks, tie em down, know how tie downs work, and if the wind is getting above a dozen miles an hour don’t even do them.
Lazy and stupid.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
Dean Wormer
Let’s add lazy and persnickety. The Freepers correcting other Freepers here for nothing. Newbies. Irritating girlies with underwear in a bunch. We aren’t a Sunday School class. We are a political posting/commenting page. We can get a LOT of information here when the main stream media refuses to tell the truth. Like the CDC....
Nickcarraway, I have always enjoyed your posts and comments. texasgator is the lazy persnickety Freeper I was talking about. He/she just goes around instuling eveyone else on FR. I know so many good Freepers who no longer read or post here because of people like him/her. Just rude and immature and lazy.
“The Freepers correcting other Freepers here for nothing”
I send a Jim Robinson post via PM and you go back to a five year old post to attack me!
At least you didn’t cuss me out!
“He/she just goes around instuling eveyone else on FR. “
I didn’t insult you. I sent a PM to you only containing a post from Jim Robinson. If you consider the words insulting to you, take it up with JR.
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