Bounce House Gets Blown Away

[knight1fox3]

Some one's going to lose their PE license over this!

http://time.com/2808322/bounce-house-blown-away-colorado/

A young girl was thrown about eight feet into the air and another boy was injured after an inflatable “bouncy house” started to blow away in the wind during a lacrosse game in Colorado on Saturday.
Witness Desiree Hunter described watching the structure tumble across the field “like a bag in the wind” in Littleton, Colo., KUSA reports.

The incident marks the second time in the past month that a bounce house has caused injuries after getting picked up by a gust of wind. Two young boys were injured in upstate New York in mid-May when they fell 15 feet out of an inflatable attraction that reached a height of 50 feet in the air.

Local officials said the girl was released on site while the boy, who was trapped in the bounce house as it traveled 200 to 300 feet, was taken into an ambulance. Police do not believe he suffered serious injuries.

Airbound, the company that manufactured the bounce house, did not respond to KUSA’s request for comment.

Similar incidents in the past few year have prompted Jim Barber, a National Association of Amusement Ride Safety Officials spokesman, to call bounce houses “probably the most dangerous amusement devices they have” in 2011.

 

[csb]

Don't we use air bags for crash injury protection in cars?

 

[Flyer_PE]

Here come the law suits. I wonder if the bounce house will suffer the same fate as the lawn dart.

 

[snickerd3]

aren't these user error issues...i thought these things come with stakes to connect them to the ground. the ones i have seen have so many disclaimers on them on what not do it almost makes them not worth the effort if something bad happens

 

[mudpuppy]

aren't these user error issues...i thought these things come with stakes to connect them to the ground. the ones i have seen have so many disclaimers on them on what not do it almost makes them not worth the effort if something bad happens

I thought I heard on the first one the stakes broke and thus were inadequate for the size of the load.

As for losing a PE license, ain't going to happen with the industrial exemption and all.

 

[Road Guy]

Tobacco has disclaimers also.........

 

[snickerd3]

aren't these user error issues...i thought these things come with stakes to connect them to the ground. the ones i have seen have so many disclaimers on them on what not do it almost makes them not worth the effort if something bad happens

I thought I heard on the first one the stakes broke and thus were inadequate for the size of the load.

As for losing a PE license, ain't going to happen with the industrial exemption and all.

got to love industy exemptions

the one the rental place here in town has has big letter warnings about not using during windy times...if it is going to pick up the whole bouncy house stakes and all it is windy day...