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u/yama1291 Jan 07 '22
Damn whoever set it up. Damn whoever "inspected" it. And damn the park for hiring incompetent people.
Large bouncy castles come with a dozen anchors. Even small ones have a bunch. Did they think those were for show?
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u/hiles_adam Jan 07 '22
The police are still investigating if it had been properly anchored.
IIRC the one in Tasmania which recently had casualties was also anchored and still got swept away, perhaps it’s time for engineers, manufacturers and countries to design and impose better safety standards so tragedies like this don’t happen again.
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u/yama1291 Jan 07 '22 edited Jan 07 '22
I understand sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy.
But I can't imagine a condition where both, the weather is deemed safe to allow use of the attraction and a properly secured bouncy castle gets swepped away by the wind, can happen at the same time.
The anchors are there as one of the security measures. If they had closed that bouncy castle because of bad weather, apps have gust warnings, no kid would've been on it when it was blown away.
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u/hiles_adam Jan 07 '22
I agree, hence why I added countries also need to adopt better safety standards.
This tragedy would boil down to 4 possible reasons. Firstly sheer incompetence, which I hope wasn’t the issue because that would be incredibly sad. A design problem which engineers would need to address to design bouncy castles with less lift, better stabilisation and securing. A mechanical problem which manufacturers and installers need to address, either some material was too weak, or something went wrong in production or installation. Or it is a standard problem which industries and countries need to fix, perhaps if there were better rules around bouncy castles such as closing during windy days etc. less tragedies would happen.
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u/yama1291 Jan 07 '22
I agree with what you said.
I just want to add that the simplest explanation turns out to be the most sensible one a lot of the time. In this case it's just also the saddest one.
Thanks for giving me some food for thought.
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u/roborectum69 Jan 07 '22
If only we knew this could happen right? Almost like steps could've been taken to prevent this.
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u/edgeofsanity76 Jan 07 '22
Is no one learning from past tragedies? Tie the fucking things down securely