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Re: A Trampoline

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Post by akoboldfrying »

sublinear wrote: post #26
dnemmers wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the previous comment was more about second hand, and free options compare to running out to buy them new from a store; not if the parent should/shouldn't get them anything.

I knew what I was commenting on. I see that HN continues to be salty about anything that doesn't support their entitled worldview. The broader thread was commenting about the dangers of trampolines and I was simply suggesting how to sidestep an entire category of suffering. If they insist on wanting a trampoline and actually do yard work for it or whatever, then the pain won't be wasted. It may not even be remembered…

> I see that HN continues to be salty about anything that doesn't support their entitled worldview

Read their comment again, and discover that the salt exists only in your imagination

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by davidw »

I just took down part of our trampoline this morning, and it gave me the sads, because our kids have used the heck out of it over the years. When they were smaller they'd ask me to 'bounce' them, and they'd scream happy screams as they flew into the air. I was wondering myself if it'd end up being one of those things they used for a week and grew bored of, but they enjoyed it for years.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by oasisbob »

Trampolines are great. They're also super cheap!

One of my favorite trampoline hacks is to rip the legs off and use them as a giant tree swing, or portaledge when tree climbing.

The hoop is immensely lightweight, strong, and doesn't care if it's being supported by legs in compression, or by lines in (equal) tension. They break down and transport super easy.

But don't jump.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by aeontech »

whoamii wrote: post #38
eweise wrote: post #22

I sweated the years we had a trampoline. It was visible from the street so anyone could have jumped on it and broke their neck. One of my children's friends did get hurt but fortunately, not enough to become an issue. They're a huge liability and not sure insurance covers them.

Insurance… lawyers… No wonder most kids these days are glued to screens: liability free! Went to an “amusement” park the other day (US). Throughput of people going down a waterslide at about 2 kids per minute. Insane. Wavepool? Cleared out every 15 minutes or so. Non-stop whistling by an army of lifeguards. Insane. A kid got whistled at because they had a kid on their shoulder. Okay… At least the cop walking around t…

I was at a trampoline park last weekend (regular kind of place, everything padded for safety, as you'd imagine).

A ten year old kid left in an ambulance, neck injury, one side of the body paralyzed at the time of the event.

I really hope the kid recovers... but I don't think I'll ever forget that image.

Yes, everything in life has risks, but I don't even want to imagine how I'd feel if my kid, or my kids' friend had a life-changing injury on a trampoline at my home.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by cvadict »

dylan604 wrote: post #7
1970-01-01 wrote: post #2

The hidden costs are in the ER visits

Or your home insurance company dropping your coverage because you didn't declare the trampoline yet they found it while surveying aerial imagery

That's the absolute best possible outcome... The more severe risk is where a neighborhood child gets severely injured and then the liability policy/coverage you were relying on as a homeowner is invalidated because you failed to disclose the trampoline (which is one of the things they typically ask for). Now you are stuck with legal + medical bills which will likely bankrupt you and/or cost you that house.

Same with pitbulls. Like "neat you hid it from your insurance company, boy you sure showed them!" They are going to be so super sad to cash all of your premium checks for years and THEN pay out $0 on the liability claim when fido rips a kids face off.

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by aaron695 »

lbrito wrote: post #6

>A reminder to buy the kids things they say they desperately want. If I were to follow this, I'd be spending half my days driving to stores to buy the thing my kids happen to "desperately" want today :) Also a reminder that you're not obliged to _buy_ everything. Its kind of amazing how ingrained this is into a large amount of peoples' heads. You can get a lot of things for free or secondhand. I got my kids' large tr…

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Re: A Trampoline

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Post by m463 »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #24
dlcarrier wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My parents dug a hole in the ground for a trampoline, so it was flush with the ground. It was great because you couldn't accidentally fall off, and it was safer than doing any given stunt on regular ground.

A great idea but it's not the main cause of kids at ER because of trampolines: the main issue is two kids hitting each other, not one kid falling of the trampoline. Say the head of one kid hitting the jaw of the other kid. That's the main issue (my source is a doctor friend who worked at ER and refused to have a trampoline for his kids). So I came up with a very simple rule: one kid at a time in the trampoline and I…

hmmm... that reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend about pools.

I thought "don't get a pool because kids drown in them all the time."

My friend told me that kids actually drown in the grandparents' pool, not their home pool.

(?)

Re: A Trampoline

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Post by y7 »

eweise wrote: post #22

I sweated the years we had a trampoline. It was visible from the street so anyone could have jumped on it and broke their neck. One of my children's friends did get hurt but fortunately, not enough to become an issue. They're a huge liability and not sure insurance covers them.

How did this common-sense-defeating liability culture actually start in the US? From a European perspective it is really strange to be liable in situations like this.
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