[Berlin_Freeper]

There was a nice children's playground near us that recently got redesigned and what I saw that they made for small children horrified me. I sometimes ride my bicycle by there and I don't even like to look. That's how dangerous it is. I'll take a ride and add a few pictures...

[noiseman]

This thread is going to be pure gold.

[alexander_busek]

New German playgrounds are constructed to be harmful dangerous, forcing kids to negotiate perilous obstacles whereas and risking harm in the event that they fall in accordance , according to a professor of motor growth.

Regards,

[algore]

I agree.

When my children were little I sought out the older playgrounds.

I was lucky to find there was an old playground at an hoa not really far from me that had a centripetal spinning thing.

Not as large in diameter as I would have liked, but...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In CA they passed this law that if any party to a lawsuit is even just 1% guilty they can be forced to pay the entire award to the defendant if they are the only one with "big pockets". Soon all of the playground equipment was removed from all parks for fear of cities paying huge lawsuits.

After a few years low-to-the-ground rubberized plastic monstrosities started popping up. No dangers. No fears. No fun.

Lately I've seen those replaced by more elaborate and fun equipment for the kids. Still rubberized, but taller with much more to climb and crawl around in.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Danger Baby

[Billthedrill]

I survived the Jungle Gym and the Monkey Bars and a couple of swings that were trainers for NASA launchpads and I was never the bravest kid in the pack. But there were casualties, anywhere from a chipped tooth to a broken collarbone. A certain moderation is probably in order here, and I’d save the punji stick pit and the hot lava for the over-twelves if it were me doing it.

[llevrok]

The Germans know if you are afraid of a skinned knee as a kinder, how the Hell can you ever grow up to invade Poland?

[PlateOfShrimp]

Thanks BF!

This is pretty much the only sign of any intelligence left in humanity that I have seen in the last 18 months.

Cheers.

[ClearCase_guy]

Get the kids off the playground and just let them play with some quality Mainway Toys.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I'm back with pictures. It's a chilly November Thursday morning so there were no children (thankfully, The HORROR LoL!). But keep in mind I am talking about perils to small children whom I have seen passing by on my bike.

I used my bike for scale which is an extra large size frame because I am 6 feet 4 inches tall...
There is sand here but you can see this slide is very high and not easy to get up on:
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Then getting off is a risky maneuver where a child needs to drape their legs over the bars and slide down:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51688290048_cd1a1e3527_b.jpg

This play house looks safe enough because much of it is enclosed but there are open areas inside with difficult rope climbs and open side panels a child could fall out:
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The top of this climb is very high and looks like a difficult move to get up on the platform:
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Plus if a child wanted to do the whole challenge they would start with the ropes leading to the climb which is very long and looks tiring so they will be worn out by the time they need to climb:
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Here is a mouse/cheese house where a child could fall out of the open hole and drop about 10 feet:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51688917855_c077a8847d_b.jpg

This is what freaked me out when I rode by on my bicycle and saw a few very small children standing on top. One could easily bump another off by accident:
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There is more but less perilous in my opinion. We had monkey bars when I was a kid that was risky and we were happy when they added rubber mats under it but this park here in Berlin has so many dangerous situations a small child could get involved with. Add to that many parents take their small children here and then are staring at their phones.

[sit-rep]

did you have your helmet on and knee and elbow pads as well??

I for one think its not too bad of a concept seeing how pussified men have become in this country...

[bagster]

If we would like kids to be ready for danger, we’d like to enable them to come into contact with danger,’

Is that why German Hillary let all those moslems into your Vaterland?

There was a nice children's playground near us that recently got redesigned and what I saw that they made for small children horrified me. I sometimes ride my bicycle by there and I don't even like to look. That's how dangerous it is.

Ahahahaha. Did you really just say that, German daffodil? I think we kilt all the real German men in WWII. Now look what's left.

[fruser1]

I was always a fan of the junkyard-refrigerator playhouse.

[MayflowerMadam]

I don’t know who Photoshops those memes placing those FBI guys from Jan. 6 in different places. It would be funny to put them in a new wimpy playground.

[Manic_Episode]

Back in the 60s my neighborhood had an older couple whose children had long since grown up so they turned their old jungle gym into a lawn sculpture complete with a bed of white driveway rocks underneath.

When the neighbor girl challenged me to hang upside down by one leg I fell straight down onto my head.

Might explain a few things. That was the first time of many getting stitches.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Germans have kids? Who knew? Oh wait…German Muslims have kids. Got it!

[bgill]

Make your child play in the street and save the cost of building a dangerous playground.

Frogger game.

[lepton]

I recall reading some studies a few years ago which purported to show that as playgrounds became ‘safer’, that the *kinds* of injuries sustained became more severe in the sense of damage to the head and spine. In a functional sense they were much more dangerous. Even lots with broken glass were better.

[bgill]

The trolls are certainly out. Bunch of nasty replies. Ignore them. They’ve obviously fallen too many times on their heads.

[Berlin_Freeper]

A Freeper sent me this picture: