Jumping castles please reconsider ☆☆☆☆TW☆☆☆☆ child deaths

[Kylie83]

Our little town of Devonport Tasmania is broken, words cannot describe the pain everyone is feeling.

Please please reconsider the use of jumping castles, this was purely a freak accident.

R.i.p little angels.

www.news.com.au/national/serious-injuries-reported-in-jumping-castle-chaos-at-tasmanian-primary-school/news-story/72cce7190128925e8b2425b726165b4b

Absolutely heartbreaking for the families.

Its absolutely awful, my children are older now so unlikely to go on a bouncy castle but it does make me think twice about letting any of my nieces or nephews go on them. I think these days there are plenty of indoor inflatable parks etc that I might just stick to them.

It was not exceptionally windy apparently. It was a celebration day to mark the end of the school year. The year 6 students were allowed first on the castle.

It’s horribly sad. I’ve had reason to hire bouncy castles many times in the last two years (in UK) personally and for work, they all have set up the bouncy castle with weights and tethering, and have clauses about checking the tethering, cancelling in high winds etc.

I've just read about that before. It wouldn't make a difference when it happened but 9 days before Christmas really doesnt bare thinking about.

My heart goes out to all the families, the children and teachers and community affected by this. Absolutely horrific.

Just awful. 3 more kid still critically ill in hospital. I can't imagine the families' suffering.

This sounds so utterly horrible for everyone involved, I was reading about it earlier today, cannot believe 5 children have died and others critically injured

Thinking of this town, the children & their families and all those involved in helping in the aftermath, it must have been horrific

Sorry, Kylie83, this is such a sad incident.
I always check the tethering for bouncy castles and wouldn't let them on if it was windy. But if it was a school fun day i wouldn't even know they were on one. Was it a windy day?

This is unspeakably awful. I'm sorry OP that this has happened in your community.

I'd quite happily see these banned. They're clearly not properly regulated.

This isn't an isolated incident. There have been deaths in the UK over the past few years due to these as well and in my view the benefit of a bouncy castle being a bit of fun doesn't outweigh the risk.

i agree with the comment about banning them.
there was an incident a few years ago here in uk, with an art installation, that people walked around inside, an inflateable; it took off and people were killed.
just not worth it.
we don't now allow lots of things that were done previously, re safety.

Absolutely awful.

RIP 💐

It brought tears to my eyes to read about it. I am so so sorry. Your community must be more than devastated.

I hope we all learn from it.

Utterly tragic, but also a very unusual accident I believe there has been about 6 deaths world wide in the last ten years, and it's all down to operator error. Feel very much for the poor families.

I'm sure that stat can't be right. There have definitely been 2 in the Uk (and I feel as though even that might be more) so the number worldwide must be higher than that.

@INeedNewShoes - and Australian article stated this pre the current tragedy. ABC news article. All were operator error

And now a sixth child has died. No words.

Just so heartbreaking.

Rip little ones.

My heart goes out to the families and the wider community.

Unfortunately every tragedy involving bouncy castles has been operator error, typically not tethering it in the way the manufacturer states in the manual. If you are renting one no matter how small you need to follow the instructions

This is utterly heart-breaking.
My thoughts are with the families, and your whole community OP