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Everyone read this!! THIS IS SERIOUS!

nitromtcrawler

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Ok today i was reading a bulletin on myspace and found this.This is a true story.This did not happen to me or any one i know but I tought it was important so i decided to post it here since there is lots of new parents here!What is wrong with people now a days!








McDonalds, Chuck E Cheese, Discovery Zone... All places with
ball pits in the children's play area. One of my sons lost his watch,
and was very upset. We dug and dug in those balls, trying to find his
watch.
Instead, we found vomit, food, feces, and other stuff I do not want to discuss.

I went to the manager and raised hell. Come to find out, the ball pit is only cleaned out once a month. I have doubts that it is even done that often.. My kids will never play in another ball pit.

Some of you might not be parents, but you may have nieces, nephews, grandchildren, or friends with children.

This will pertain to you too. As I read the following, my heart sank. I urge each and every one of you to pass this on to as many people as you can. I cannot stress how important this is!

Hi. My name is Lauren Archer, my son Kevin and I lived in Midland , TN.

On October 2nd, 1999 I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday.

After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started whining later on, I asked him what was wrong, he pointed to the back of his pull-up and simply said 'Mommy, it hurts.' I couldn't find anything wrong with him at that time. I bathed him when we got home, and it was at that point when I found a welt on his left buttock.

Upon investigating, it seemed as if there was something like a splinter under the welt. I made an appointment to see the doctor the next day, but soon he started vomiting and shaking, then his eyes rolled back into his head. From there, we went to the emergency room. He died later that night. It turned out that the welt on his buttock was the tip of a hypodermic needle that had broken off inside.



The autopsy revealed that Kevin had died from a heroine overdose. The next
week, the police removed the balls from the ball pit. There was rotten food,
several hypodermic needles: some full, some used; knives, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, and the stench of urine.

(You can find the article on Kevin Archer in the October 10,1999 issue of
the Midland Chronicle.)

Don't think it's just McDonald's either. A little boy had been playing
in a ball pit @ a Burger King & started complaining of his legs hurting.

He later died too. He was found to have snake bites all over
his legs & buttocks. When they cleaned the ball pit they found that
there was a copperhead's nest in the ball pit. He had suffered numerous bites from a very poisonous snake.






Repost this if
you care about kids!! Please forward this to all loving mothers,
fathers and anyone who loves and cares for children!! What has this world
come to?? If a child is not safe in a child's play area then where??

AND FYI:

In Florida and other places on the East Coast a group of people are putting HIV/AIDS infected and filled needles underneath gas pump handles, so when someone reaches to pick it up and put gas in their car, they get stabbed with it. 16 people have been a victim of this crime so far and 10 tested HIV positive.




Instead of posting that stupid crap about how your love life will suck for years to come of you don't re-post, post this. It's important to inform people, even if you don't drive, a family member might, and what if they were next?
 
Thank you for the information!

Reading this made me sick to my stomach.

I can't believe people.

This is yet another reason we moved to the mountains!!

No ball Pits for Wade!

No need to thank! i felt that this might help save some one from getting hurt!
I e-mailed this to my aunt, my cusin is never again going in one or near one.

What a great society we live in?:roll:

yea i know!
 
man im sorry to hear about your loss. cant stop crying now. thank you for all this information. i will never let my son or my niece play in them now.

this is so fawked up.
 
Might be a valid concern, but the story itself is BS and has been
circulating on the web since 1999....see link

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/archer.asp

I recommend that you always check the stories in these
types of emails out on www.snopes.com

Too much BS floating around the net these days to just blindly
pass these things on to others without checking their validity first.

NooB

Sorry i was just trying to help. but i mean come on, people being putting rusted razor blades in childrens sand boxes and on play grounds, so this could also be true!

oh and clodstall it dint happen to me! thanks though!
 
I didnt fall for that one. How would a child OD from herion later and not immediatly? There must have been a LOT of herion in that needle tip. :lol:
 
I have worked in the entertainment industry..... Our ball pit was cleaned once every month.... inspected (lightly) nightly and even if there is a suspicion of urine it was cleaned. THE entertainment and ride authority inspect our rides and kiddie area once a year!!!!! I know for safety of our rides this was sufficent, but the cleanliness was responsibility are mostly left up to the proprietor. Poor management and state inspections are cause for this!
 
Hey - it was on MySpace, so it must be true!

I wouldn't let my kid in one anyway. Just for the fact that they often do kinda smell like pee, and I guess a kid did bust a dookie in one here in town a while back. They have since done away with the ball pit at that place all together.
 
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