On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 06:55 +0900, John Willis wrote: > > Something so "dangerous" in the US for children's playgrounds were removed a > long time ago, but in Japan, they still have plenty of giant steel things to > play on and, on three occasions, I have found ~ 10m zip line like rides. They > are in playgrounds or parks near the slides or jungle gyms. > The last one I found was in a children's play park, with many different kinds > of large concrete or steel playground fixtures that US cities would have > demanded ripped out for liability reasons a long time ago ><. They have > specialty support columns, two wires, with bump guards and and enclosed > pulley that rides the wires, and a rope that hands down that you hold onto as > it zips down the small incline. > They certainly still exist in the UK, and Germany as I remember there was one next to our Saturday night bier-garten at SOTM-EU in Karlsruhe, many of us OSMers had great fun on this and other pieces of equipment.
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