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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

These city playgrounds aren't for child's play.

Black rubber mats designed to break a child's fall turn blistering hot in the summer, soaring to higher than 165 degrees, a Daily News investigation found.

Doctors at two city hospital burn units reported seeing 16 to 18 young children with playground burns a year, mostly from the mats under junglegyms and sliding boards.

"I have nightmares," said Anne Casson, whose toddler son, Will, ditched his shoes at Carl Schurz Park on the upper East Side one day last May.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: danger; nannystate; playground
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To: Nathan Zachary
Perhaps liberals should keep their kids indoors, and leave other kids to play.

Liberals don't have kids, but they still want to control other people's.

81 posted on 07/22/2008 1:06:20 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Alouette
I'll bet you even rode in the back of the station wagon.

My parents let ride on the roof with the dog.

82 posted on 07/22/2008 1:10:38 PM PDT by AU72
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To: maine-iac7
And besides, they have a sign up!

But it's in ENGLISH. Who reads English anymore?

83 posted on 07/22/2008 1:13:24 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Big Giant Head

Fun thread ping.


84 posted on 07/22/2008 1:16:04 PM PDT by listenhillary (Obama - The Wizard of Uhs)
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To: 21twelve

[BB gun]

You had a BB gun?? Go ahead and rub it in, rich kid, My parents were so poor they gave me one BB for Christmas.

(OK, I’m done, my sides are aching)


85 posted on 07/22/2008 1:16:45 PM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: Nathan Zachary

I don’t think I have ever been described as a liberal. But yes, children or anyone else throwing sand is bad. Apparently the kids aren’t as evil now as when you were one, ‘cuz sand lots quickly become turd lots.

I am not particularly keen on the rubber mats either, but the customer is always right. I prefer the in-place pours, rubber mulch covered with a half inch elastomeric coating or just plain old-fashioned mulch. It has nothing to do with being a liberal.

It is about providing a service to a customer in what has become a ridiculously litigious society. One injury can mean big dollar settlements or jury awards. It is thought of as school money and city money, but it isn’t. It is your money, my money, the taxpayers money. Daycares are small enterprises and only ever one ambulance-chaser away from being out of bidness. I have only contracted for sand fill twice and the last was 5 years ago. Parents despise sand.


86 posted on 07/22/2008 1:21:14 PM PDT by WildcatClan (Dear Illegals, You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.)
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To: Cicero

“Over hot, black asphalt.”

More racism blaming black asphalt for the problem. White asphalt causes just as many problems but no one says anything about it.


87 posted on 07/22/2008 1:24:20 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: Charlespg
"Whats wrong with good old fashioned sand?"

Meow?

88 posted on 07/22/2008 1:41:04 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" white guy)
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To: Alouette

They just condemned Houston’s Astrodome (essentially). The Fire Marshall called it dangerous and it will take $30million to make it right.

Of course he’s applying criteria that the building has never had to meet in 45 years history.

No one may enter. It is ruled a “death trap”.


89 posted on 07/22/2008 1:47:39 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: WayneS

The dog wants her duck back.

90 posted on 07/22/2008 1:51:33 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Knitebane

Let me guess: you were so poor, if you hadn’t been born a boy, you’d have had nothing to play with!


91 posted on 07/22/2008 1:58:16 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: EveningStar

join the fun


92 posted on 07/22/2008 2:05:16 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: AU72

I grew up in Tucson, AZ. We didn’t have 4 and 5. We did have the County Landfill and cherry bombs that gave us hours of enjoyment.


93 posted on 07/22/2008 2:07:11 PM PDT by wjcsux (Islam: The religion of choice for those who are too stupid for Scientology)
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To: Hacklehead
More racism blaming black asphalt for the problem

I'm surprised you didn't say I was a racist for saying that I used to do monkey swings when I was a boy.

94 posted on 07/22/2008 2:15:48 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Larry Lucido

Hotter than the Sahara in summer, colder than Antarctica in winter. That’s what I remember from when I was a little boy.


95 posted on 07/22/2008 2:21:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Nathan Zachary

I am about your age. We played with rattlesnakes and other fun desert critters. My brother got bit by a Western Diamondback. Maybe my parents should have sued the state of Arizona.


96 posted on 07/22/2008 2:34:29 PM PDT by wjcsux (Islam: The religion of choice for those who are too stupid for Scientology)
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To: weegee
It is ruled a “death trap”.

R U series??

97 posted on 07/22/2008 3:06:31 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: Alouette

How racist of these people to say that black rubber mats are dangerous. Next thing you know they’ll be having monkey bars in their playgrounds.


98 posted on 07/22/2008 6:26:47 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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