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Children's Slide Under 24-Hour Guard

Posted by samzenpus on from the thinking-outside-the-sandbox dept.

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?

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  1. This is article is misleading by alienunknown · · Score: 3, Informative
    It is actually quite a huge slide and nothing like the slide pictured.

    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.