3 Kids Blown Away When Bounce House Becomes Unmoored

New questions about the safety of the bounce house and whether it should have been out.
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[Danimorales]

What that lawyer gon do. sue the wind?

[rmsolympic]

Good that the kids are okay - very scary. Not more bounce to the ounce.

[own]

For generations people have dreamed of flying. The society thought that human flight would be possible, but it would take literally an estimated million years of human minds working together. A decade later and people are complaining about how their kids keep on accidentally flying away.

[xanderskullion]

That one family has a lawyer? What are they gonna do take nature to court?

[bouncingkid]

This is the result of poor judgement by the bounce house installer. Inflatables in general should not be installed when winds are or will be above 15 mph. Also, when installing an inflatable on an open field, extra precautions should be taken to anchor the unit. 36" or 48" stakes should be used. In addition, the inflatable needs to be securely tied to fixed strong points (trees, concrete structures, etc.) using heavy duty straps. When there are no fixed structures that can be used, the company needs to bring concrete weights enough to have 300 lbs per anchoring point, usually at a substantial additional cost.

[InsideOutsider]

I loved bounce houses as a kid. But after seeing a few of these incidents, I don't think they should be outside

[DownUnderDigitals]

5 Children were just killed in Australia when a bouncy castle blew away in the wind.

[zach]

Why didn’t this shit ever happen to me?

[lvmiswv]

i saw a meme about this and didnt think it was real XDD

[bdbase]

AWESOME  that the kids are still alive and not badly injured :) that's a blessing <3

[canolopez]

You can never know when a bounce house wants to start flying Into the sky with the birds

[isaaclooper]

We need to put the Kardashians in one of those.

[vidavida]

Could you imagine telling your friends you flew away in a bouncy house...

[Slazmoservicing]

6 years ago and 6 kids die in Tasmania from a similar event...

[richyearle]

R.I.P to the five Australian children that died only a couple of days ago in one of these bouncing castles. .Other kids were also critically injured. They were celebrating their last day of primary school with less than two weeks to Christmas.
With the weather only getting more unpredictable, more stringent safety rules need to be developed or ban these things altogether, before more kids die..The castle in Australia flew 10 meters or 30 feet in the air.

[Zzzk]

Love that the kids started laughing at first before getting injured. Brave kids

[gamathis]

Now in Australia 5 kids have died from similar situation

[Judith]

Why are these bouncy castles not tied down to trees or metal spikes all the way around the bottom to keep them down?
The companies that make these bouncy castles must take wind into consideration and must keep children safe.

[crystility]

On my birthday I had a bounce house in the backyard and there was a nail or something on there that we weren’t supposed to go near and my friend apparently jumped near it or got near it and he got a huge cut on his foot and had to go to the hospital- That was traumatized. He’s fine now though he got stitches

[connorbleblablihum]

Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore