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    Museum Robot
    • May 9, 2007
    • 5788

    Swing Along



    I was on a bunch of these as a kid, they all moved when you were swinging like they may just fall over, it gave the whole thing an added sense of danger.

    Also, those slides became deadly come July.





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  • Hedji
    Citizen of Gotham
    • Nov 17, 2012
    • 7246

    #2
    All kinds of parenting alarms are sounding in my head at the sight of the young man hanging upside down.

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    • Valor
      Member
      • Aug 25, 2017
      • 59

      #3
      doesn't look too sturdy

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      • Mikey
        Verbose Member
        • Aug 9, 2001
        • 47242

        #4
        I had a swing set like them but got way more mileage out of an old tractor seat hanging from a tree on a rope

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        • Megotastrophe
          Permanent Member
          • Jun 29, 2018
          • 2693

          #5
          Ah the backyard swing set. The perfect way to begin a long night in the emergency room.

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          • Earth 2 Chris
            Verbose Member
            • Mar 7, 2004
            • 32498

            #6
            Made by Daisy no less! From "You'll shoot your eye out, kid" to "You'll break your neck, kid".

            My swing set had two swings, the glider or "air guide" as they call it here, and a slide. And yes, it did occasionally flip over when my friends and I got older and were pushing the weight limit.

            Chris
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            • newlyknighted
              Persistent Member
              • Feb 21, 2010
              • 1625

              #7
              Are Gage and Desoto on duty? Cue the Emergency! theme music.
              I post in thy general direction!

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              • EmergencyIan
                Museum Paramedic
                • Aug 31, 2005
                • 5470

                #8
                There all of kinds of playground toys that we used back then that would never be allowed now.

                - Ian
                Rampart, this is Squad 51. How do you read?

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                • Megotastrophe
                  Permanent Member
                  • Jun 29, 2018
                  • 2693

                  #9
                  And this is a little number we like to call the Finger Remover Slide...And this is the Skullcracker Trapeze.

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                  • Earth 2 Chris
                    Verbose Member
                    • Mar 7, 2004
                    • 32498

                    #10
                    And this is a little number we like to call the Finger Remover Slide...And this is the Skullcracker Trapeze.
                    I witnessed a girl almost lose a toe sliding down a large metal slide at elementary school. Her toe got caught in a rusty hole as she slid down, and RIPPPP. Blood everywhere. She had to have LOTS of stitches.

                    They took that slide out after that.

                    Chris
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                    • tay666
                      Career Member
                      • Dec 27, 2008
                      • 753

                      #11
                      Originally posted by RSS
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                      Also, those slides became deadly come July.
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                      Ah yes. I remember well the burning sensation caused by those shiny metal slides in the middle of summer.
                      Kids these days don't know just how good they have it now.

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                      • HardyGirl
                        Mego Museum's Poster Girl
                        • Apr 3, 2007
                        • 13933

                        #12
                        Being a NYC kid, I never had a swing set, although I would dream of them. When my cousins moved to CA, they had one, and I loved playing on it. When I was older I had some other cousins in CA, and they had one too, but it wasn't anchored down too well, so it always felt like it was gonna tip over, but it never did.
                        "Do you believe, you believe in magic?
                        'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
                        Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
                        If your mission is magic your love will shine true."

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