“Two young boys were seriously hurt late Monday afternoon when a gust of wind blew an inflatable “bounce house” into the air with three children inside, tossing two of them to the asphalt from at least 15 feet above ground.
The boys, ages 5 and 6, were taken to Albany Medical Center, where they were admitted for serious injuries. One suffered a traumatic head injury, officials said. A 10-year-old girl who was inside suffered minor scrapes when she fell, according to her mother.
One of the boys landed on a parked car while the other landed on pavement after being tossed out of the toy when the incident happened at about 3:20 p.m. off Ferry Boulevard.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Don Lehman / Post Star:
http://poststar.com/news/local/two-boys-seriously-injured-when-bounce-house-is-blown-into/article_e0c4aac2-da9b-11e3-99fb-001a4bcf887a.html
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Recently (27-04-14) a 13yo boy was killed and his 9yo sister was badly injured in a very similar accident (though the thing was not a house but rather a cylinder and it happened in an amusement park). These things are dangerous, at least if you don’t follow the rules.