Comments on: NYC: Children Burned by Hot Playground Equipment

By: veryinteresting

veryinteresting — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:25:06 +0000

The city has responsibility in this since one does not know the surface is too hot until it’s too late and it is discovered someone is injured, heaven forbid.

By: chgoachdus

chgoachdus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:17:52 +0000

Wouldn’t we rather have our children learn some degree of caution? So many normal dangers are taken out of the realm of possibility for them, I’m not sure they are left with a normal sense of care and caution when proceeding into a new arena of activity. I don’t want injuries, but I also don’t want the world so child-safe that there is no common sense left. If something is in the sun on a 100 degree day, it will get hot. That’s not a bad lesson.

By: Daniel Breslauer

Daniel Breslauer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:31:08 +0000

This seems pretty logical to me.

Parents should simply tell their children to stay away from such things in these warm days.

Metal things get hot, yes.

The sidewalk grips on outside stairways in Jerusalem also get so hot that you can burn your hand from them; yet nobody here is complaining to the municipality about that.

And the keys of ATMs get very hot also, yet I never heard anybody complaing about that yet. (Davka it would be really nice if the banks would use a type of keys that get less hot, because those ATM buttons get REALLY hot sometimes.)