[SMGFan]

Sad, but elsewhere 10 year old girl climbed Yosemite's El Capitan

[nevergore]

very tragic.... most of these place require a climbing belt and belay.....Hard to understand how this happened....

[VTenigma]

So OSHA won’t let me get 6’ off the ground without a “fall restraint” system at work, but a 12 year old can climb to 15’ without one for fun? Me thinks Altitude Trampoline has a problem. This should not happen.

[mylife]

free climbing. what could go wrong?

[sphinx]

I used to climb up sheer quarry walls at that age -- but yeah, I would think that a harness would be required on a rock wall. The main risk at a trampoline park would be neck injuries from people trying flips or bouncing off the trampoline and onto the side platform. Those risks are inherent in using a trampoline. But I though harnesses were standard on walls, because what comes up must come down. Even if people can make the climb safely, the descent is trickier. And people do a lot of precarious tip of the toes leaning and stretching to try to grab the next handhold, which makes for potentially awkward falls.

My guess is that a teenage employee didn't do his job.

[rbg81]

Very sad & tragic. Happened at his birthday party no less. Whoever turns out to be at fault, his parents will probably be beating themselves up over this for the rest of their lives. Prayers for his family.

[EEGator]

[Skywise]

10 to 15 feet? Back in my day we had jungle gyms that were taller than that made of steel or iron and sitting on top of hard asphalt.

I know those trampoline gyms have the rock walls on top of large foam mats. This had to be a tragic fluke of some sort.

[deport]

Example of their climbing wall. Don't know if the one at this
facility was exactly like this one.

[Pollard]

He must have landed just the wrong way. Sounds exactly like a neighbor. He was riding a dirt bike up the gravel road, chasing his cousin’s dog home. Looked like he was trying to touch the dog’s tail with his front tire. Dog lost traction and ended up against the front tire, guy turned front wheel too sharp, too quick and went over the handle bars. I watched it happen and it didn’t seem like a bad fall but his breathing wasn’t right and he was unconscious. They airlifted him but I guess both lungs had collapsed. Took 35 minutes for the ambulance to get here and then another 30 to get to the chopper. Obviously, he was brain dead long before the ambulance even got here. We’re kinda rural. He was a little overweight and soft around the middle.

I’ve fallen or been flung that far before. No damage except for scrapes and sore wrists or elbows depending on which side I landed on.

Me and a childhood friend used to climb a pine tree that had to be 60 foot tall at least. We’d go so high the thing was swaying back and forth a few feet with the wind. 4 inch diameter trunk up there. Gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it now. I think most boys and some girls should/could have been dead a few times over. A Lot of people have cheated death more than once. Some people don’t.

[NormsRevenge]

Expect to see a ‘Matthew’s Law’ soon.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Sad. RIP.