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Angry parents remove dangerously overheated playground mats
NY Daily News ^
| July 22, 2008
| JEFF WILKINS, ELIZABETH HAYS and RACHEL MONAHAN
Posted on 07/22/2008 11:55:31 AM PDT by Alouette
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Rubber mats? When I was a kid playgrounds were CONCRETE. And you could fry an egg on them in the summer.
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posted on
07/22/2008 11:55:32 AM PDT
by
Alouette
To: Alouette
My God!!! In Britain these parents would be put in concentration camps.
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posted on
07/22/2008 11:57:42 AM PDT
by
Porterville
(I hasten karmic justice through revenge.)
To: Alouette
I was thinking the same thing....we dangled on monkey bars 10 feet above asphalt. lol
To: Alouette
Concrete-You must have been a rich kid. We had dirt!
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posted on
07/22/2008 11:59:24 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: Dr. Ursus
Dirt? Oh how we wished we had dirt.
All we had were big piles of old, rusty razor blades.
And we were glad to have them!
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:01:11 PM PDT
by
Knitebane
(Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
To: Alouette
Whats wrong with good old fashioned sand?
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:01:53 PM PDT
by
Charlespg
(Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
To: Slapshot68
Growing up, our playgrounds were covered with punji stakes and venomous snakes and we still had a good time.
Kids are so spoiled today.
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:02:23 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Dr. Ursus
Concrete, Dirt.
We were really lucky we had a mud puddle much of the time.
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:02:31 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
( We say they said, but we should remember , we are they.)
To: Slapshot68
Yes. I used to shinny up the pole at one end of the giant swing set, and then monkey-swing my way across the length of the top bar and down the other side.
Over hot, black asphalt.
Well, the trial lawyers are going to love this one! Damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. Probably the best solution is to close down all the playgrounds!
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:02:33 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Alouette
When I was a kid playgrounds were CONCRETE. Yeah, and look how YOU turned out.
Don't wanna have any more right-wingers!
It's for the children, dontcha know.
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:02:35 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Knitebane
All we had were big piles of old, rusty razor blades. That's nothing. Our rusty razor blades were mixed with unexploded ordnance.
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:03:04 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: ThomasThomas
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:03:27 PM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: AppyPappy
You had a play ground? Why, when we were kids, we lived in a shoebox along the side of the road, and before school, we awoke every morning at 4 to sweep the streets. AND we were thankful!
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:04:09 PM PDT
by
abigkahuna
(Step on up folks and see the "Strange Thing" only a thin dollar, babies free)
To: Alouette
BLACK rubber mats. Out in the sun; during the summer.
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER GENIUS !!!!!!
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:04:43 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(What the hell is wrong with these people?)
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:05:33 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(What the hell is wrong with these people?)
To: Alouette
Um, why don’t they put some nice, fluffy white SAND on these playgrounds?
I assume they are already fenced, which would keep the cats out of the sand....
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:05:51 PM PDT
by
a real Sheila
(Just say NObama!)
Here’s and idea parents. Make sure your kids dont take their shoes off when it’s 95 degrees outside. In order to accomplish this you must put down the cell phone and pay attention.
To: Dr. Ursus
12 great comments - another DUH moment in NY!
To: Alouette
Good - The city was practicing CYA by installing mats
Bad - Black rubber mats will end up causing burns
My town park uses recycled rubber in a pretty shade of terra cotta that’s been shredded to look like mulch. Safe and no burns.
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:08:33 PM PDT
by
Dasaji
(The U.S.A. is the Land of Opportunity and you've got 50 states to do it in!)
To: Alouette
Someone is objecting to black rubber mats?
That’s racist.
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:08:54 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Alaska has the oil. The Senate has the dipsticks.)
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