# Dangerous Playgrounds and Moveable Furniture

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangerous-playgrounds-and-moveable-furniture/986011>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 23, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangerous-playgrounds-and-moveable-furniture/986011 "2023-06-23T21:17:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangerous-playgrounds-and-moveable-furniture/986011/21 "2023-06-26T20:48:14Z")

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Most schools I went to had a paved part for basketball, tetherball, four square and winter. And a mud or grass field with soccer nets, climbers, and space.

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangerous-playgrounds-and-moveable-furniture/986011/22 "2023-06-29T13:35:31Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> My fear was always that ride-on sat on big springs. I’ve seen kids rock it feverishly and their heads jerk and I can just see front teeth flying out or a broken nose.

Oh yes. Pull that thing back and let it go and you have a 20 lb. iron sledgehammer. That’s the way they used to be anyway.

The playground may be the best lesson in school though. 20 minutes of stuff that can kill you. Sort of like driving to work.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangerous-playgrounds-and-moveable-furniture/986011/23 "2023-06-29T13:55:26Z")

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The most dangerous playground equipment:

[![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/07/46/950746c30d3dd63f1ec974b459a29a34.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/07/46/950746c30d3dd63f1ec974b459a29a34.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dangerous-playgrounds-and-moveable-furniture/986011/24 "2023-06-29T14:11:05Z")

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> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> The entire pipefitter’s fantasy was dangerous as it was mounted on asphalt!

As I recall, the one at our school was on packed dirt. I fell from the top of that thing once.

> [@msmith537](#):
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> In elementary school, we had this rusty geodesic “Terrordome” thing.

Our school had one of those as well along with the newer one mentioned above.

> [@eburacum45](#):
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> In the UK we had a piece of playground called the ‘Witch’s Hat’. It was a conical, rotating seat that could carry dozens of kids, and had a phenomenal angular momentum at full speed.

The playground [here](https://goo.gl/maps/J86rXtWtBeyBfCF88) had one of those in the Seventies. Hardly anyone ever used it.

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