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If it were safe, the kids wouldn’t play on it.
I have to say that the teeter totter (bottom, left corner) looks like an Insta-Wedgie Machine… at least duct tape a toilet seat or a 2″x4″ to the pipe!
If I were a kid, that would be an EPIC WIN.
looks like a Rube Goldberg machine.
it even gets sattalite
If I were their mom, I’d be waiting inside with lemonade and tetanus shots.
And it has satellite dish TV! Where’s the TV?
Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase “Swing the satellite dish.”
TWO dishes for multi-room viewing!
I hope the people at Child Protective Services don’t regularly visit TIFI.
I’m speechless.
Slip n’ Slide n’ Die.
With the Teeter-Tetanus-Totter, the Deli-Sliced Sliding Board and the Sawhorse Pallet Plunge, this playground set must be the darling of the ER.
Is that slide made from an AC duct? It looks like it would slice your arms off!
TO be featured in the next SAW movie!
Total win. That kid will remember this jungle gym fondly for the rest of his life.
Summer must start early every year for this family…cause we all now it’s not officially summer until you’ve been to the ER with your kids.
OMFG! I would have been the coolest kid in the town with a jungle gym like that. I could have charged admission and have kids line up round the block.
No, no no…its just being repaired, that’s all scaffolding, and the “kid” on it is just a very precocious repairman.
Other than needing a tetanus shot just to look at it, it’s pretty sweet. My favorite part is the “see-saw” made of duck-tape and old tires.
Don’t miss the kid on the right playing pinata with a bag full of insurance claim money.
I love how they made the Teeter Totter “safer” by putting the tires in the ground to stop the bar from hitting the ground too hard.
What’s the sawhorses + pallet supposed to be? A trampoline?
The see-saw mounted on the ladder is just right for crushing little toes.
One word: yikes.
that’s the trailer park community play ground.
that’s ok guys… It just needs a truckload of RustEZE…
They really needed a place to hang the dishes, the playground was an afterthought.
I think those big rocks are *much* better than the six to twelves inches of mulch the “big” playground manufacturers tell you to use.
@pirateguillermo
He’ll also remember the arm he loses.
You guys are all pussies!
Where I went to school, the monkey bars were over CONCRETE. If you fell and cracked your head open it was just another little win for DARWIN… or JESUS if you were that sort.
It’s not like their neck would be any less broken if they landed on sand.
I’m thinking the see-saw could be fixed with a pair of old shovels (you know, after the handles rotted off) for seats, and there could DEFINITELY be a tire swing. A STACK of palettes along with those saw horses and the kids could be building forts! Get a big spool of rope and web the whole thing up, and there’s not much likelihood a kid would hit the ground without something to snag their fall (dislocated arm versus cracked skull, easy trade). Easy fix.
This is WAY better than the swing set my parents got for us four boys, held together with loose screws and hope. At least this looks like it’s ANCHORED into the ground and WELDED together. You don’t get to swinging and have the supports start popping up off the ground with THIS!
We took cross-country trips when we were little (what can I say, my parents were masochists) and we’d be clambering all over the inside of the car, and the dog, too. My mom or dad would take corners and we’d all slide down the vinyl seats. They’d hit bumps and we’d all go briefly airborne.
When I grew up a little, my three brothers teased me when I started fastening the seat belt (early grasp of physics for me) and even unlatched it as soon as they thought they could get away with it. Lap belts only, if you could find them.
What do you mean unsafe? The 100′ extension cord that the swing is suspended from is plugged into a grounded outlet.
This is Darwin’s playground.
previously lynching gallows?
No no no no! You’ve got it all wrong. The see-saw is Hagrid’s Q-tip.
i dont know but that looks unsafe but kinda fun!? bcuz it has a slide, it has a seasaw and it has a rope with a big thick stick at the end so fun but safe!
i meant at the end fun but un safe sorry he he heew ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+1 for Evil Dave. Kids need this kind of thing to teach ‘em to be careful. If you make everything soft and billowy they grow up to be weak adults. With asthma. I bet that kid isn’t allergic to anything either.
I went to that same school. This playground is redneck kids’ heaven. Gets the kids ready for some real playing a bit later when pick up trucks and ravine jumping are involved. @Evildave
Notice the attention to safety… it has cross members on the platform so small toddlers can’t fall 10 feet. The swing’s height has been precisely measured by wrapping the rope around the pole.
It only needs a merry-go-round about 3 feet off the ground to be perfect.
Our playground had metal “monkey bars” over concrete as well. As one of the smallest kids in class, I was smart and stayed away.
Also remember a girl splitting her lip open on a tire swing somehow…oh and a terrifying merry-go-round that was far enough off the ground where kids would get thrown off and lodged underneath it. It wasn’t just recess, it was Darwinism at work.
I have to wonder if the sawhorses are structural/load-bearing in any way.
That’s it Henry! One more word out of your mouth and it’s the “THE SWING” for you!
No Daddy NO! I’ll be good! I promise! ANYTHING but “THE SWING”! ANYTHING!
I know that looks like an instant metal death-trap, but I’ve never wanted to play on a playground more in my entire life.
I bet the kids brag about it to their friends.
*SIGH!*
/my inner child is jealous
How bad is it that I didn’t immediately see anything wrong with this? A second look shows that there’s no spinner and the slide is WAY too short with a boring slope.
Note the other slide on the back. Higher, steeper, faster, and, yes, way more fun for the daring
I would have LOVED that as a kid! Heck! I would love that now as an adult!!!
@Evildave
Sounds like you had a pretty good childhood.
Remember summers of crashing into ditches when the breaks of my bike failed (and I for some reason thought I could stop the wheels with my bare feet. Instant sliced toes…), riding cows (and a bull at one occasion), bading a little bit too close to the sewage treatment plant, and playing in old abandoned (and probably condemned) houses, just to run home with the occasional injuries and treasure found in said house.
Ah, wonderful childhood…
@Evildave: Seconded.
@Evildave
Thank you for sharing Chapter 3 from your forthcoming autobiography, “I Am So Self-absorbed That I Am Sure Everyone Wants To Read About My Unremarkable Life.”
Two slides and a teeter-totter, with a swing, what more could little mosters want! A little rust never hurt anybody and so what if the rocks are big! There’s grass everywhere to bleed on!
That would be SO MUCH FUN.
Dangerous as, but fun.
I want one.
Damn, you can tell who are the people on here that are old farts and boring asses…..lol I’ll bet you all have an emergency H1N1 survival kit with mask and all with you at all times!!!
BTW, you don’t get Tetanus from rust…..a cut of ANY kind is all that it takes and when is the last time in the last 50 years you’ve actually seen anyone with it?! Another little think for people to go ape sh*t over when it amounts to nothing. It’s amazing the human race ever discovered or has done anything!!!
@pirateguillermo
Yep – all 5 minutes of it!
But you have to give it credit cause it’s solar powered or maybe those are satelite dishes for direct tv
I miss merry-go-rounds. By 6th grade or so, I didn’t ride them, I spun them to see how well the little kids could hang on.
Concrete under the bars, concrete just past the leg span of the swings, if you jumped out at the top of the arc you could land on it.
Now kids have to use skateboards to be able to be kids, but the ground’s exponentially harder even as a teenager than in earlier years. Better to learn those lessons while they’re light enough to survive without too many fractures.
OMG, it looks like that game mouse trap.
This isn’t just what we played on as kids, we BUILT this s**t from whatever we could find so we wouldn’t have to wait for Dad to recover from his hangover and build one for us. He threw the sat dishes on later when he figured he could get a better link that way.
Why do they hate their child?
Why not just kill the kid quickly? Less pain that way.
Where’s the laundry lines? Sheer waste of tall structure you can tie twine to…
AND
Just the thing you’d want to play on in a lightning/thunder storm!!! Bzzzzap!!
OSH would have a few words to say about that.
This dad must really love his kinds. Putting all this effort into it instead of just go to the shop and buy one.
I’d bet you money that none of those kids will grow up to rob a convience store…
This has Bloody Stupid Johnson written all over it!
Little Timmy had five tetanus shots last year.
Damn kids! Don’t know why they’re always climbing around on my satellite dish stand.
I don’t get it… why is everyone saying this is unsafe? Throw some paint on it and maybe take the dishes away, neither of which has anything to do with safety, and you people would probably be giving the guy “Dad of the year” awards. Sure, it looks a little ugly, but structurally it seems quite sound. Actually, it looks totally fun! Swing, ladders, ropes, platforms, 2 slides… awesome! And, trust me, it’s a LOT safer than just about anything any boys would find to play with themselves. You ladies have no idea what your little boys are up to when you’re not around.
The kids had fun, and we got FANTASTIC satellite reception !!
This is after three years of nagging from the kids to build them a slide, and a tree house, and a playground – dad snapped and built all of them together. And even installed satellite TV, but that was after mom kicked him outta the house for answering her “it’s unsafe” with “i installed rails around the sides so the kids won’t fall off, what more do you want?!”.
This place has tetanus written all over it…
Waddya mean it isn’t safe?!?!?