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Children's Slide Under 24-Hour Guard
A slide at a Melbourne housing estate playground is under 24-hour security after it was deemed too dangerous for small children. Three small children were seriously injured on the slide in October last year, a month after it was installed. Now a guard watches the slide from a car at night. I wonder if anyone has ever written a career paper on the life of the playground equipment security guard?
Still - if they let the local paedophiles do the guarding, it won't cost them a penny in staffing!
or is that to dangerous of a tool to use?
If they don't want children playing on the slide, they should tear it down.
If they don't want children to get hurt playing on the slide... how will a single guard help? In that case, it would be better to install a sandpit or wood chips.
We all live in a world of risk and we, as reasonable and sensible people, take those risk as part of a normal life. Also the parent (the adults) should have better sense than to have small children to play on equipment too large for their children. I have children and I knew that some playground equipment was too large for my children when they were small so I diverted them to smaller playground equipment. Now they are older they can play on those larger pieces of equipment.
Playground equipment has some size/age ranges so put notices that particular piece of equipment to prevent parents from using that equipment. No need to post guards.
Having failed to grasp most of the basic concepts of modern society like morality, democracy, self government, resisting buggery and bestiality, etc. the inmates have begun to revert to their penal colony origins.
To whit, I've observed that instead of using proper adult supervision with a playground toy and unable to solve the problem of the resulting injuries, they revert to what they know....they put a guard around it.
Along with their recent tendencies towards a police state, with round the clock citizen surveillance, filtered Internet, and increasing xenophobia, they appear to be converting the island back into the prison of their heritage. Apparently they find comfort in the familiar, no matter how Machiavellian.
Hopefully the researchers at our larger, more recent penal facility (the inmates call it The United States since their riot and revolt) are seeing better progress...
http://xkcd.com/255/
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Here is another article that shows a picture of the slide: http://hobsons-bay-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/security-guards-watch-over-point-cook-playground/
The slide is actually more akin to a slide you would find in the childrens section of a theme-park rather then a local play-ground type of slide.
To call it a "slide" is to call a Argentinasaurus a dinosaur... yeh it is but far from your average. Think of one of those "Wet and Wild" water park slides that were all the rage in the 80's and early 90's, now take away the water.
Why not just have access controlled by a lever that can't be reached unless you're at least the minimum height?