A 5-year-old boy died and a second child was injured when strong winds sent a bounce house airborne during a baseball game Friday night in Waldorf, Maryland, officials said.
The incident occurred at about 9:20 p.m. local time at Regency Furniture Stadium during a Southern Maryland Blue Crabs game, Charles County officials said in a news release.
This happens numerous times every summer! Is there no way to anchor these damn things down! Evidently parents don't give a damn enough to check! Trust me, I'd rather have parents involved in solving this rather than the nanny-state!
There was a family in the house next door, rental property, that would get one of those a couple times a year. One afternoon a gust if wind came through and lifted it off the ground, fortunately it didn't go anywhere due to it hanging itself up on my garage.. There were 3 kids and 2 adults in it at the time.. JD
I was there at the game when it happened. Gust picked it up and sent it about 100 feet from the play area where it was set up and dropped it in the right outfield. Was about 15-20 in the air for a time. Kids were falling out of it while it was up in the air, like raisins getting sprinkled out of a Sunmaid Rasins box. Wasn’t really all that windy during the day, and not much in the evening either. I don’t think it was tied down very well, because it wasn’t really that windy.
The Bookies are still giving those 2 kids in the bouncy castle better odds of survival than the 2 adults in the Boeing Starliner space capsule
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You are sooooo behind the times.
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Nope.
Because of Trump.
This happens numerous times every summer! Is there no way to anchor these damn things down! Evidently parents don't give a damn enough to check! Trust me, I'd rather have parents involved in solving this rather than the nanny-state!
ReplyDeleteThere was a family in the house next door, rental property, that would get one of those a couple times a year. One afternoon a gust if wind came through and lifted it off the ground, fortunately it didn't go anywhere due to it hanging itself up on my garage.. There were 3 kids and 2 adults in it at the time..
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I was there at the game when it happened. Gust picked it up and sent it about 100 feet from the play area where it was set up and dropped it in the right outfield. Was about 15-20 in the air for a time. Kids were falling out of it while it was up in the air, like raisins getting sprinkled out of a Sunmaid Rasins box. Wasn’t really all that windy during the day, and not much in the evening either. I don’t think it was tied down very well, because it wasn’t really that windy.
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