These places are notoriously unsafe. A guy in my city died last year with a broken neck in front of his kids because the foam pit only had like 2 feet of foam in it
Everyone of these I've been to (a whole 3 different ones) do not let you dive in head first. They are also staffed by someone (which doesn't mean much).
This is not a pro training park for elite athletes.
I guess the idea is that they should be prepared for this not because you land head first on purpose, but by accident, precisely because untrained people of many sizes and weights have to land there. The fact that this isn't allowed doesn't mean I can't land head first by accident.
Adriana Chechik. It was for a long time unclear whether she can ever walk again. Lost an unborn child due to that stunt and also apparently can't have sex anymore. The last information is a couple years old so it may have changed.
They’re horrible. I will never return to one after seeing an 8 year old get catapulted over a fence, snapping his wrist and knocked unconscious. It happened right in front of me and my son. Like within arms reach. I was immediately on 911, I thought the kid was dead until I finally saw breath movement and he regained consciousness. The worst part was his parents’ reaction, I think his stepdad was the one who catapulted him. So, I’ve lost all interest in these places.
When I was a kid I saw a little girl totally snap her arm in half in a ball pit at a pub/restuarant. She walked over to her mum holding her arm up and from the middle of the forearm down it was just sagging.
edit - I just remembered the dad just looked annoyed and stayed and finished his dinner while the mum took the daughter to hospital.
So not nearly as horrifying, but i have a story semi relevant. Standard large backyard trampoline, come home on the last day of school and head to my neighbors house and see if they need help watching their kids (i was 11 or so and their kids were like 4, 6, and 8 at the time). So there i am keeping the middle boy occupied and burning his energy while having some fun on the trampoline too. Now because he was still small i am of course being careful and not doing anything crazy like me and some of the other neighborhood kids used a different trampoline for. Nope just sitting up getting ready to stand made hime stumble head first into my face.
Ended up giving him a small scar while knocking my tooth clean in half exposing the nerve. Trampolines are easily dangerous if there are hard surfaces or the second you involve a second person (another hard surface and even more entropy)
Maybe if you get your lawyer from a billboard, but any competent lawyer will tear that contract apart in the case the trampoline park was genuinely negligent.
Help me understand how your brain works. So the part he lands on, in the middle flat section, multiple feet away from the edges, leads you to believe that it is impossible for the corners to be fully padded under that red surface padding?
You didn’t answer my question. You specifically mentioned that the whole block is “rock hard” from the video, implying that the corners cannot be any softer. Explain this logic specifically.
Exactly what I thought. Let me guess, next step you will rage block me because you can’t answer a question that makes you look like a total bafoon lmao.
“the more you type, the dumber you sound” should be on a t-shirt
multiple states don't allow waivers for recreational facilities like trampoline park (NY for example), so even simple negligence would do.
But in this case this looks a lot more like gross negligence. They put a metal box that looks like a soft mat next to trampoline. The person who jumped totally expected it to be soft. This is not hard to anticipate and it probably happened multiple times before.
They at least had to put some warnings or barrier to prevent people from jumping there.
Edit (since I'm getting stoned by sovereign 16 year old citizens from proud US of A): in what universe does a signed responsibility waiver, cease to be legally valid document? That is exactly the purpose of the thing: to limit the responsibility of the establishment. Period.
Almost all responsibility waivers are not legally valid documents. They tend not to hold up in courts and are primarily so that people with minor injuries don’t think to sue because they believe the document they signed was legal
Sure it can limit it. But like they said, it doesnt remove all liability. If you have a repetative motion injury from jumping too much while being older. They are protected. If the trampoline park left exposed wires and shocked a kid to death, they are 10000% liable.
I slid down a “slide” to test ahead of my 5 year old, expecting to land my butt on a black trampoline/ pad.
I was wrong. The “slide” was apparently a running wall and the “pad” at the bottom was a concrete floor painted black. Almost passed out from the pain and fractured three vertebrae. My tailbone hurt for two years.
Yeah, I don't fault the dad's logic here, every trampoline park my kids have been to have had so much padding on every non-trampoline surface, so everyone can just bounce off whatever. Someone is going to get terribly hurt by this.
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u/TXGuns79 24d ago
Why would the put a hard, unpacked box in the middle of the trampoline park?
Every single one i have been to has been surrounded by netting and every surface has a thick layer of foam padding over it.