No need to send it twice...junk mail.
Regards
icaida
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From: Alexander Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [balita-anda] Cerita palsu mandi bola
Date: 16 April 1999 13:56
Ibu-ibu yang suka mengajak bayinya main di mall, harap jangan tertipu
dengan gosip mandi bola. Berikut adalah cerita aslinya, dan perlu dicatat
bahwa kesimpulan akhirnya: cerita mandi bola adalah palsu. Artikel asli
dapat dilihat di http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/ballpit.htm
Mudah-mudahan ini membuat lega kita semua. Namun seperti ditulis di bagian
akhir artikel ini, hikmah dari cerita bohong ini adalah: orang tua harus
tetap menjaga anak, dimana saja berada. Sebelum anak diperbolehkan main
(mandi bola atau apapun), lihat dulu apakah tempat bermain bersih, tidak
jorok dll dll.
Kalau melihat ada perbedaan sedikit antara bhs Inggris dan terjemahan, saya
berkesimpulan si penterjemah sengaja menakut-nakuti.
Saya heran koq ada ya yang senang melihat orang lain susah. Apa untungnya
sih? Atau orang ini sakit jiwa ya?
Buat yang sudah terlanjur bermaksud baik memberitahu teman tentang mandi
bola ini, mungkin perlu dikirimi bantahan ini.
Buat yang sempat berantem gara-gara mandi bola, ayo baikan... :-)
Wassalam,
Marsel
(tidak punya hubungan dg pengusaha mandi bola dan mandi-mandi yang lain)
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The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/ballpit.htm
The Culprit in the Ball Pit
Claim: Venomous snakes lurk in the ball pits of fast food restaurants.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1998]
About a week or so ago, a mother took her eager 3 year old son to Burger
King for lunch. After they ate their lunch the mother said that the son
could go and play on the playground for awhile since he ate all his lunch.
She watched as the boy played in the tunnels, slide and in the ball-pit.
The boy played for about 10 minutes when he started to whimper slightly.
The mother asked the boy what had happened and he mearly replied, "Hurt
mommy." The mother assumed that the little boy had banged his elbow or
something while playing.
They left to return home. A half and hour after they were home, the mother
noticed some big red welts on the little boys arms and legs. Not being able
to figure out what they were, the mother started to look at them closer.
Could be red ant bites . . . she did not know.
An hour later, the little boy died. Come to find out, when returning to
Burger King to see if there were red ants in the play area, in case the
little boy had an allergic reaction. Burger King employees and herself
discovered that there was a family of baby rattlesnakes living underneath
the balls in the ball-pit area. She has since found out that this happens
more frequently than not. The snakes will crawl into the ball pit because
it is dark and warm in there. She knows for a fact that another death has
occurred because of this in South Carolina. Please use caution when letting
any children play in an outside play area of a fast food resturant, this
could happen anywhere. Burger Kings are now building their play area's
inside the buildings for more safe environment.
Variations:
McDonalds and Burger King are named as places where this tragedy occurred,
with the nod going to McDonalds as the one most frequently cited.
The fatal fanging is said to have taken place in Arlington and Dallas,
Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Arizona; and Alabama.
Although the rattlesnake is the most common critter mentioned, water
mocassins and "vipers" also stand accused.
Origins: Despite their benign appearance, children's indoor plastic ball
pits have their health and safety problems. Those who clean the ball pits
report finding everything from used syringes to dirty diapers. Before
letting your child loose in one, make sure the play area's maintenance
staff spot clean the pit once a day and wash all the balls every week.
Diapers come off in ball pits, and half-eaten candy is routinely found in
there. More disturbingly, syringes and knives have turned up in ball pits
as well.
Yes, ball pits have their dangers. But snakes aren't one of them. That part
is pure lore.
People have been reporting hearing this tale since at least the mid-1990s.
It's a horrific tale of a parental nightmare -- one wants to believe there
are at least some places a child would be safe in. If not a supervised play
area, then where?
Though this legend has gotten around, there are no real life incidents
which match up with it. No children have been bitten by snakes lurking in a
ball pit, fatally or otherwise. Though injuries and one death have occurred
in ball pits, none of them were snake-related.
It's no wonder: a ball pit is one of the last places an animal such as a
rattlesnake would choose for a residence. Just as we dislike snakes, they
don't much care for us, either. A rattler will avoid people and inhabited
areas whenever possible. As well, snakes are cold-blooded and depend upon
their environment to regulate their temperature. Therefore, they seek out
places that will keep them warm when the weather is cool, and vice-versa.
Snakes tend to burrow under things like rocks and sheets of metal that
provide shade when the weather is hot and offer surfaces for basking in
absorbed or reflected heat when the weather is cooler. The bottom of a ball
pit doesn't see the light of day, and thus is much too cold and damp an
evironment for a rattlesnake.
Also, snakes do not live in "families." The female rattlesnake gives birth
in a nest and continues on her way -- she doesn't wait around to make sure
the young ones are all right, nor does she attempt to care for her young in
any way. With no parents to take care of them, the newborn snakes have no
reason to remain together as a family unit. Their number one priority is to
scatter in search of food, not huddle with one another.
Analysis: This legend of a child fatally encountering a venomous snake in
an amusement area is closely related to a similar tale about a wooden
carousel horse. A little girl rides the merry-go-round to her death as her
mother discovers all too late the painted hollow steed is home to a nest of
vipers who bite at her daughter all through the ride. Similar tales abound
of snakes nesting in roller coaster cars just unhoused from winter storage
and bad-tempered venomous vipers fanging any hand carelessly trailed in the
water of an amusement park's Tunnel of Love.
The message is clear -- danger lurks amidst the gaiety, and a wise parent
never takes his eyes off his kid. The juxtaposition of venomous snakes and
amusement areas makes an even stronger statement than if these selfsame
snakes were putting the chomp on youngsters in less carnival-like settings
-- say, a schoolyard or a department store. Such legends work to caution
parents to not relax parental vigilance even in presumed safe settings.
Barbara "bawl pit" Mikkelson
Additional Information:
Information from Burger King web site
Last updated: 4 November 1998
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