49 Replies to “Breaking: Playground Equipment Becomes Hot In Direct Sunlight”

  1. My neighbour is a roads inspector for the city. The got a call recently about locking up their equipment better at a construction site recently, as “the kids are able to play on it…” (we’re talking bulldozers here). His response: “where, pray tell, are the kids g-d parents?”

  2. Ok, English is not my second language, so I’d better fix that up… 🙁
    My neighbour is a roads inspector for the city. His dept got a call recently about locking up their equipment better at a local construction site, as “the kids are able to play on it…”(we’re talking bulldozers here).
    His response: “where, pray tell, are the kids g-d parents?”

  4. please everyone, email these articles to all your family and friends immediately! They could be in danger!
    Think of the children! Ban outdoor playground equipment!
    btw, apparently sun baked asphalt and beach sand can also be a hazard. be careful out there!

  5. I won’t be surprised if the Government makes it mandatory to wrap one’s children in bubble wrap. And we wonder why this generation of Me’rs don’t want to act like adults.
    LOL I love the headline Kate.

  7. If a parent is so dumb that he does not know things can get very hot in the sun and/or so dumb that he never explained to his children that things can get very hot in the sun, maybe that parent is too dumb to have kids?
    No wonder such people want a nanny state.

  8. In further breaking news, your tongue will stick to a swing set in freezing temperatures.

  9. For the love of The Almighty, please don’t let McGuinty see this. I promise if he does, he’s going to legislate that all kids will have to wear asbestos pants in playgrounds.

  10. “My neighbor is a roads inspector for the city. The got a call recently about locking up their equipment better at a construction site recently, as “the kids are able to play on it…” (we’re talking bulldozers here). His response: “where, pray tell, are the kids g-d parents?””
    Driving around gigantic Road Closed signs (they get bigger every year) – then looking at you like it’s your problem they can’t get through. Love the burn outs they leave doing U turns 🙂
    The bigger the signs get- the more people (parents) become reliant on someone else to do their thinking.

  11. But wait! There’s more!
    The concerned mavens of Tranna have already called for a “shade audit” of playgrounds so the little brats don’t get too much sun. Next thing we see will be the manditory planting of trees over the playground equipment. That of course will lead to having the trunks of said trees covered in padding so the little charmers don’t ram their heads into them.
    Here’s a tip. Put your hand on the equipment. If it’s hot, don’t let your kid use it.

  12. Tell the parents not to send their precious snowflakes down to the maritimes lest the little bastards drown in the playground. A long weekend and all rain & fog but at least I miss the hurricane in texas 😉

  13. Children playing is no longer child’s play.
    With all the adults around who refuse to grow up, what do we need kids for anyway?
    As Obama says “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”. No further generations are required. The ‘WE’ may just live forever on a soon to be safe, pristine Gaia with a subjugated sun, clouds, cosmic rays and ocean currents.
    Return to Eden, vote Obama.
    But first we must get rid of the monkey bars and swings.

  15. Kids used to test their limits. They learned to take reasonable risks because there weren’t a million “helicopter” (hovering) parents and other custodians around, watching and limiting their every move. This was psychologically much healthier for kids, who, I swear, have a serious case of cabin fever these days: they’re never on their own to make their own decisions. (Thinking of this just now, maybe that’s why kids so often treat adults as if they’re invisible: e.g., they’ll walk down a hall at school, oblivious to any adult around. ‘Hold a door open? Nope.)
    The litigious nature of too many exploitative idiots in Western societies has a lot to do with this lunacy: schools are so afraid of being sued, they anticipate any problem the kids might have and then avoid the possibility that it will happen. Frostbite? If it’s really cold, the kids stay inside. Forget dressing appropriately: in fact, the stupider ones never have a chance to test their limits on this one!
    Interestingly, on really cold days, teachers with before or after school duty are required to go out. Guess what? Even though they move far more slowly than the kids, who run like mountain goats over ice and snow, they don’t get frostbite or freeze to death! Indeed, when I was growing up and the temperatures were easily as cold as they are now, we always had to go out for recess and our clothing was much less high-tech: I don’t know of one instance where a kid had problems. Classroom windows? The new ones can only open 14 inches—usually outward: try getting a cross draft in a stifling, non air conditioned room with such windows. Why only 14 inches? A kid can’t fall out. As a student and teacher, I’ve been in classrooms for nearly five decades. I’ve been in rooms where the sash windows were over 6 feet high and could open about three. Did ANY kid, EVER, fall out? No!
    This nanny way of thinking degrades kids. I’d like to give them some credit for not being total morons. And, as Malcolm Cross has suggested, maybe we so stunt their growth by such interference, they don’t ever grow up: being both coddled and the centre of the universe, too many of them seem to be perpetual spoiled brats, rather than adults.
    In fact, one, final solution, is for everyone to stop having kids. (PETA and the Green Party would like that!) I’ve actually read recently, in a Theodore Dalrymple article, that a number of women are eschewing parenthood altogether because the world’s just too dangerous. (I wonder what the cave[wo]men and all our forebears would have thought!)

  16. GYM,
    I have been called a racist for less. :0)
    The lefties are good at connecting insignificant dots such as those, but they fail miserably when it comes to things like climate change, wealth creation, cause and effect. You know, the important stuff.

  17. Good Lord! What Next? Who didn’t get their ass burnt on the “new” metal slide. I recall going home so mom could pull the slivers I got from the plywood one.
    Swings had ropes that occasionally broke.
    We played hockey without body armor. (except the eatons catalog, it had other uses too!)
    we rode bikes on gravel streets, with shorts on.
    Helmets were for football (GO RIDERS)
    Bugs Bunny and the Three Stooges weren’t too violent
    CBC News had news not Left Wing Propoganda
    Ahhh, the Good Ole Days.
    OOPS, The CCF! The days weren’t all good.

  18. Play grounds are death-traps!
    Has anyone stuck their tongue on monkey bars in the winter?

  19. Play grounds are death-traps!
    Has anyone stuck their tongue on monkey bars in the winter?

  20. Just more of the “You are stupid” propaganda campaign. Do parents not know if the monkey bars are hot? Or is it more that media weenies are making money pretending people are stupid?
    Because I have a question. If the average Joe/Jane out there is that incompetent, how does this intensly complicated, technical and demanding society of ours keep working?
    And how is it that every time a weather disaster or an earthquake happens, people pull together and fix everything really fast? They really don’t do that other places in the world where thousands die from a flipping rainstorm. Same rainstorm every year too.
    Its a snow job. MSM guys want me to believe people in Canada and the USA particularly are stupid and must be controlled. F- ’em. I’m not buying their dreck.

  21. Guess that means we need 10 or 20 thousand more public servants to staff the new Department of Playground Protection.
    With salary & benefits, we should be able to get by with about a $billion annually and then add in another $billion so they can all travel around the world representing Canada at various and sundry UN sponsored Conferences and Think Tanks.
    Money well spent, eh ?

  22. OMG, kids will get a hot sensation if they touch metal surfaces in the summer!!! Bummer!
    Corolorary: Kids will get a cold sensation if the touch metal surfaces in the winter, especially with their tongue.
    Fortunately, global warming will end this latter problem 🙂

  23. My kids just come home if the playground equipment is to hot.
    Aren’t most kids able to figure that out on their own? One burnt bum trip down a slide and they’ll remember to check first next time.
    I’m a mean mom.

  24. the joke in college was,
    the losers enroll in journalism
    the headlines prove it.

  25. But, but…Malcolm Cross … with all those darker skinned immigrant children, they will need as much sun exposure as possible to provide the vitamin D they would otherwise lack, due to the Northerly latitudes they have moved to.
    So, what, exactly, is this racial progrom Tarrana city is launching??

  26. Another news flash, water is wet, fire is hot. stay tuned for more news as it develops.

  27. If the girls wore burkas then 50% of the child population would be protected!!
    However, boys will be boys.
    Remember now, burkas have nothing to do with Islam.

  28. This kind of stuff is written for the many “Road Scholars” out there. You know the type, they were open toe shoes if they know they will need to count beyond ten.

  30. That’s it. I demand we start a movement to ban the sun. It seems as though it is responsible for more and more problems to we humans than first thought.

  31. Gosh, it took these brainiacs 40 or so years to learn something I learned in elementary school – metal and dark objects gets hot in the sun!

  32. This is why kids today seem to have less common sense. We don’t let them explore on thier own.

  34. When they took monkey bars away I knew it was the end of any more children having fun. The boomers had taken over & created a rubber room out of the playground.
    Just another link in the causation of our decent into governmental driven adolescence. Education being the Neo-Marxist pillar of this social engendering. To create a Nation of neutered wimps, who could not blow there noses alone, nor make an individual decision. If you think that silly just observe how daycare kids interact with each other or problem solving versus stay at home kids. The daycare kids are group orientated with merit spread to that cadre as a whole. While the others rely on individual prowess or ingenuity giving them more room in the pecking order. One only has to observe America compared to Japan to see the difference this makes.
    Now they want even the toys to be the lowest common denominator with no competition. Capitalism is bad you know?
    JMO

  35. I just can’t believe that the CBC missed out on this important scoop.This story is made for them.There are little lives at stake here . We must have more regulations to protect the children.

  36. As a kid I once grabbed the monkey bars – they were so hot they virtually melted my hands. I could see the bones then see the tendons hanging there. The smell was awful. And after that I got hooked on the pain killers in the intensive care unit and became a junky on skid row for a few years in my short pants. I pulled myself together and now i got metal claws for hands.
    So yeah I think its a good idea to ban the monkey bars at least…

  37. This is presented as a news report, which can only mean that until a few days ago there had never been any danger that playground equipment might heat up in the sunshine. The children’s parents were taken by surprise because all those years ago, when they were children themselves, playground equipment stayed cool all the time, even in the hottest summer weather. What this adds up to is that now we have further proof, if proof were needed, that global warming is true!

  38. This is presented as a news report, which can only mean that until a few days ago there had never been any danger that playground equipment might heat up in the sunshine. The children’s parents were taken by surprise because all those years ago, when they were children themselves, playground equipment stayed cool all the time, even in the hottest summer weather. What this adds up to is that now we have further proof, if proof were needed, that global warming is true!

  39. bart, we had a slide with a tin surface it was hot any sunny day. the rest of the stuff at the beach playground was made of wood and the swings were made with rope. when did society decide that kids should not get bumped or brused while playing?

  40. Does this mean that they have also banned magnifying glasses from those under 18 too? I guess PETA would be all over toasting ants and heaven forbid actually starting a fire with “solar power”. I’d probably get busted for trying to sell my lawn darts at a garage sale too.

  41. I suppose we have to wait for 6 months before the next dire warning….. monkey bars and bike racks get cold, do not lick the frost.

  42. I burned myself twice on playground steel equipment…. seperated days and years, it was february both times ,25 degrees f…no wind,but a bright day..
    I touched the steel and got burnt..
    that never happened during the summer…I think moist air prevents it..

  43. As a father of three boys below 6, I completely agree with your cynicism. My boys know to stay away from dangerous stuff because I brought them to it, explained and demonstrated.
    “This, sonny, is a rosebush. It has prickles on it. Here, grab this branch. Ouch! Now you’ll know to stay away”.
    How do journalists raise their kids? Wait. Do they have kids?

  44. Have you noticed that the tetherballs are gone? Too many kids smacked in the head, I guess.
    And gym focuses on “games” where everybody wins.
    Must keep kids happy and safe. And bored.

  45. Play grounds are death-traps!
    Has anyone stuck their tongue on monkey bars in the winter?
    I saw the move too and I tried it in the winter some years ago. I was 19.

  46. A Serious comment on playgrounds. If coyotes are seen in or near the park where you take your children/grandchildren; keep your little ones in sight at all times. In California parks there have been 3 attacks on children in as many days this year. This is not a rare happening and is frequent in BC but usually the victim is the family dog or cat. Attacks are usually sporadic and vary in number from year to year depending on food sources and animal numbers.
    If a wild animal approaches you or your children it is not just being friendly. A friend tells of such an attack on a poodle on a Lower Mainland golf course. The owner thought another dog was just being friendly.

  47. We should be so lucky to get Coyotes in my neighbourhood. Just endless minivans and SUVs with endless soccer-moms within… … 🙂

  48. Boy, do I feel old. I went to school in one room school. My brother (grade 6) was the school custodian. He opened the school, split wood for stove, started fire, etc. One day he cut the end of his finger off with hatchet. Another time he cut his knee open when not paying attention. Guess what? Not one person suggested taking axe away from him, or the job of custodian either. When little boys were driving farm equipment as soon as their feet reached the petals, things were a lot different.

  49. When little boys were driving farm equipment, women had more than one kid, and earlier.
    I’m convinced this is driving the need to wrap children in bubble wrap and never let them out of adult supervision for a nanosecond. 100 years ago, most women had multiple kids by age 30; if one was crushed under the hooves of a runaway horse, it was tragic and they grieved, but they had other children to care for and plenty of time to make a replacement. When your one offspring is conceived in a lab at age 46, and he tips the plasma TV on himself and gets crushed to death three years later, that’s the end of your motherhood right there.
    Fathers, as we know, can always start over with a fresh young thing. 😛

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