Posted on 12/16/2021 6:16:25 AM PST by crusty old prospector
HONG KONG -- Four children died in Australia on Thursday when wind lifted the bouncy castle they were in about 32 feet into the air, local police said. Nine children were in the castle at about 10 a.m. local time when it fell to the ground, Tasmania Police said in a statement. The students at Hillcrest Primary School had been celebrating the end of the school year, the statement said.“On a day where these children were meant to be celebrating their last day at primary school, instead we are all mourning their loss,” Police Commissioner Darren Hine said. Two girls and two boys were killed, police said. Another five children were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries, police said. The students were in 5th and 6th grade, officials said. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called the incident "unthinkably heartbreaking." "Young children on a fun day out together with their families and it turns to such horrific tragedy, at this time of year, it just breaks your heart," Morrison said. Police said a "significant local wind event" caused the castle to lift about 10 meters, or 32 feet, off the ground.
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If they would’ve just stayed in their covid quarantine camps this wouldn’t have happened…
Don’t they tie these things down?
I have seen them attached to large sand bags.
They do sometimes.
This isn’t the first time people have been hurt in those things. I would have thought that they’d always tie them down just as a precaution.
Sounds like a preventable tragedy.
Based on the endless number of videos of these things blowing around, a lot of people don’t.
Maybe so, but any wind gust strong enough to lift a bouncy castle with 4 kids in it 35ft in the air is probably strong enough to pull out your average push style stakes too
Last year, a strong wind lifted my neighbors trampoline over the fence into my yard. total flight was about 100 feet. It stopped when it hit my house.
Unfortunately, only the kangaroos were tied down, sport.
castle with 4 kids in it
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9 kids in it.
Obviously, The AlGore Climate Change Fund needs a massive cash infusion.
New laws will mandate it.
That’s 4 more deaths than Australian Covid deaths in the past week (zero). Yet they setup fascist concentration camps to throw in people even suspected of having Covid.
“On a day where these children were meant to be celebrating their last day at primary school…” the school authorities didn’t make sure the thing was anchored down
You don’t call it off in high winds?
More kids died in that bouncy bounce than from Covid.
They are supposed to be anchored to sand bags or staked into the ground. Appears this one was not.
Killed more children than covid.
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