Where do you go to check out a rumor, when Snopes isn't carrying it?

I wouldn’t spend too much energy on it. All articles point to this, which has conveniently left out any links to outside sources to confirm what she is saying. There is nothing else that confirms this that I see.

But here’s the thing – if you have kids, you’ll find that in the past 12+ years, any old-school playground (wooden, etc) has been replaced by the most pedestrian, boring horseshit sad excuse for a playground. Every single one. There are some very small, economically-struggling and forgotten towns where you might find some old rusty spinning thing. Companies apparently don’t even make these things any longer, because everyone wants the same old cookie-cutter nonsense that every single other town has.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone had welded some old, rickety thing in hopes of putting off having to replace the playground equipment – and to hold off any lawsuits. But this story is too easy. Nobody is going to be surprised. It’s a story that is perfect for facebook circle jerks, where everyone can express their outrage at the loss of childhood and the rise of the nanny state. We’re all so anxious to jump in with “when I was a kid” stories, that there needn’t be any real sources in the story. It doesn’t necessarily have to be true. There could be some kernel of truth in that blog post, or it could be all shit. But it doesn’t matter if it serves its purpose. National Review and Reason online can get their people in a lather about stuff they are already in a lather about. And we can all tell our stories to each other about the character building experiences of falling off a spinning playground ride.

Oh, I know. We used to have this huge, huge slide at one of the smaller parks here. It must have been 30 feet high. The kids used to ride their sleds down it when it snowed. They removed it at some point.

Story looks pretty legit to me from that link.

From that link it does. But another rag picked it up and made it sound like they were pretty much banning everything! And that’s the one my fb friend posted.

I remember when my daughter was about 6. She was one one of those merry go rounds that the kids have to push. She fell off. She didn’t realize that her hip was under the still spinning merry go round and when she went to get up, it merry go round shoved her back down and drove her knee into the gravel! It was a mess!

@Dutchess_III Yeah – it certainly isn’t saying they are banning all playground equipment in all NYC playgrounds.

I was just wondering if any one knew of any myth dispelling websites other than Snopes.

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