Masterton playground's 'unsafe' tractor and bulldozer removed by council staff

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#280476 16-Dec-2020 17:30

Based on the following.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/123724800/masterton-playgrounds-unsafe-tractor-and-bulldozer-removed-by-council-staff

W.T.F , are we so bloody PC now days that these two items have to be removed. Sorry but I am just sick and tired of the cotton wool wrapped bullsh*t rules and regulations that have come into place over the years which takes the genuine fun out of everything.

Rant over.

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#2622987 16-Dec-2020 18:51

Guessing it is a liability thing? Next thing is that children will need helmets and other safety gear before using public playgrounds. . But to be fair, I would doubt many other councils around NZ would still have this sort of thing in their playgrounds. I remember my council removed an old train a good twenty years ago as it wasn't considered safe and potentially could develop sharp rusty pieces of metal.
After living in this area I have found is about a decade or two behind the rest of NZ, as I think it operates on a different time scale for some things.

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#2622990 16-Dec-2020 19:04

JaseNZ: W.T.F , are we so bloody PC now days that these two items have to be removed.

I will quote the article:

There had been a lot of interest in doing the work to bring the equipment up to scratch and it was being taken away so the work could be done.

Looks like a case of a runaway train..

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#2622997 16-Dec-2020 19:15

gzt:
I will quote the article:

There had been a lot of interest in doing the work to bring the equipment up to scratch and it was being taken away so the work could be done.

Looks like a case of a runaway train..

Like wrap it in bubble wrap ?? , From the looks of them does not look like there is much more they could remove and if they did they would not resemble what they are supposed to be.

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#2623009 16-Dec-2020 19:55

JaseNZ:

gzt:
I will quote the article:

Looks like a case of a runaway train..

Like wrap it in bubble wrap ?? , From the looks of them does not look like there is much more they could remove and if they did they would not resemble what they are supposed to be.

Maybe they will make a cast of them, and mould them out of plastic. Can't seem them coming back TBH now once removed. The amount to do what they need potentially could allow far better equipment to be installed.

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#2623048 16-Dec-2020 21:42

Keep in mind a toddler was killed in a playground in Upper Hutt a few months back buy unsafe play things. Saving livings and preventing injury is not being PC its being sensible.

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#2623057 16-Dec-2020 22:17

MikeB4:

Keep in mind a toddler was killed in a playground in Upper Hutt a few months back buy unsafe play things. Saving livings and preventing injury is not being PC its being sensible.

Was the toddler actually killed by the things, or by inadequate supervision/being allowed to use things or go places it really should not have done?

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#2623060 16-Dec-2020 22:22

We have a very more record of protecting children in Aotearoa and that needs to change. And its the responsibility of all adults.

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#2623065 16-Dec-2020 22:47

The same people that are "sick and tired of PC bullsh1t" are the same ones that will moan to the council when their precious darlings scrape their knee.

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#2623066 16-Dec-2020 22:49

Find this crazy as when we were last over that way, we took a visit to the pioneer museum (or similar) in Carterton, and saw the numerous near 8 inch long spikes hanging off the back of the old timey hay machine that Was in an area freeAly available for young kiddies to impale their heads and severely injure themselves on. Different council to Masterton but surely that should have been removed

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#2623077 17-Dec-2020 06:25

JaseNZ:

Like wrap it in bubble wrap ?? , From the looks of them does not look like there is much more they could remove and if they did they would not resemble what they are supposed to be.

It could well be repair/replacement of sharp/rusty sheet metal parts, given they are 60 years old

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#2623084 17-Dec-2020 07:51

Geektastic:

MikeB4:

Keep in mind a toddler was killed in a playground in Upper Hutt a few months back by unsafe play things. Saving lives and preventing injury is not being PC its being sensible.

Was the toddler actually killed by the things, or by inadequate supervision/being allowed to use things or go places it really should not have done?

None of the above. It was a freak accident and has had a terrible impact on the family and community.

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#2623090 17-Dec-2020 08:02

When I first read the article I was pissed off too.

As likely I would have played on these on a school holiday, and depriving future generations of these iconic static tractors which have been part of our youth could be another pc power trip.

However on reflection, I have a Btd6 crawler. Its steel has lots of defined edges and super slippery when wet, if anyone fell from the top of these and knocked there head on the many raised edges your looking at an injury for life. I have even beat my self up getting on and off our one when its wet.

In my view the council as liability holders did the right thing for them,

We now live in a world where people are not as educated about risk and children didn't have the farm / rural family (uncle, cousins etc )upbringing which most of us enjoyed. Which gave us a chance to learn about dangers in an environment.

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#2623092 17-Dec-2020 08:06

gbwelly:

None of the above. It was a freak accident and has had a terrible impact on the family and community.

My point was not to assign blame to anything it was to point out that these playgrounds are not safe and to highlight what the Masterton Council was doing was a good thing to ensure that the playgrounds are as safe as can reasonably be and it was not some "PC" crusade. The attempt in a later post to assign blame was a classic diversion.

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#2623095 17-Dec-2020 08:13

We had a couple of vintage tractors, fibre glass boat, and a de Havilland Vampire jet fighter to crawl around inside and on the wings. Oliver Park, Redwoodtown, Blenheim. But they went about 30 years ago.

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#2623097 17-Dec-2020 08:17

MikeB4:

Keep in mind a toddler was killed in a playground in Upper Hutt a few months back buy unsafe play things. Saving livings and preventing injury is not being PC its being sensible.

Are there no negative aspects to removing risky playground activities? Do you consider them important?

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