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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: Everyone loves a good playground, don't we? And you know what,

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Speaker 2: I don't mind a playground designer who goes, who comes in,

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Speaker 2: who's a bit adventurous, a bit rogue, a bit brutal,

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Speaker 2: It goes.

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Speaker 3: Let's have a bit of fun with the kids. Why

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Speaker 3: don't we do this?

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Speaker 2: Slide could go a bit hyder, higher, maybe a few

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Speaker 2: more turns in there as well.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, you will not see playgrounds like that night. Simple. Hey,

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Speaker 3: let's not build a cannon that shoots kids out of them.

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Speaker 2: Safety standards for playground equipment, such as slides and swings,

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Speaker 2: will be reviewed following a spate of serious injuries suffered

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Speaker 2: by young children. Young children have suffered broken bones, lacerations,

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Speaker 2: and burns. These are on big slides, prompting calls for

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Speaker 2: removal or modification of what experts say is a dangerous

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Speaker 2: item of playground and equipment.

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Speaker 3: Well, there was one that was banned the other day.

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Speaker 3: We were talking about on air. Wasn't there? Where was

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Speaker 3: that one? And it was quite a high slide and

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Speaker 3: I think it was a broken leg. So that was

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Speaker 3: all roped off.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen twenty fourteen, get in frolved your playground injuries? How's

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Speaker 2: this one? Also? The old carousel? You know the ones

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Speaker 2: where they pushed the kids around. I thought that was

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Speaker 2: injury free.

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Speaker 3: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: There's no way that the kids could injure themselves unless

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Speaker 2: it was going flat out and the kid puts their

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Speaker 2: head in.

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Speaker 3: There, or you flew off it.

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Speaker 2: A five year old girl had two of her fingertips

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Speaker 2: seven when her hand became stuck in a Carol.

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Speaker 3: Don't what how do you do that? I mean you

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Speaker 3: get in the car and your head still spinning. I

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Speaker 3: remember that one as a kid. What about those ones

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Speaker 3: where you hop inside it. We used to call it

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Speaker 3: the big apple and you hop inside it, and it's

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Speaker 3: got the wheel in the middle and you turn the

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Speaker 3: wheel and the whole thing spins. If you fly out

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Speaker 3: of that, you're doing two hundred clicks.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the carousel.

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Speaker 3: There's two different types of carousel. Then you've got your

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Speaker 3: outdoor one where there's just bars going into the middle

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Speaker 3: and there's a center point and you just hold on

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Speaker 3: for dear life.

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't look, I don't mind. I don't mind that.

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Speaker 2: You know what we know what playgrounds are all about.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, if you had a playground in

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Speaker 2: your local area, knew that was God. You had to

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Speaker 2: be adventurous to jump onto that thing. Everyone it gets

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Speaker 2: a reputation and you only go down it if you're

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Speaker 2: the tough kid in the area.

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Speaker 3: What have you done the big dipper? Have you that

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Speaker 3: kind of thing?

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Speaker 2: Well, the Monash playground I've told you about, this had

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Speaker 2: to be shut down after insurance claims just got too

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Speaker 2: high after broken legs. But they had a slide that

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Speaker 2: was twenty meters high and it was stainless. Still now

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Speaker 2: in the middle of summer. You would slide down it

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Speaker 2: on a Hesian bag. If you come off that Heashian bag,

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Speaker 2: you are taking layers of skin. But you know what,

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Speaker 2: that's what you knew you did take yep, do you

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Speaker 2: know the.

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Speaker 3: Big one too? And I hate seeing it because I

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Speaker 3: don't want to be that parent at the park who

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Speaker 3: tries to give advice to other parents. But broken legs

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Speaker 3: on kids because they sit kids on their lap as

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Speaker 3: they go down the slide or between their legs is

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Speaker 3: even more dangerous because the kid's leg with their sneak

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Speaker 3: on their rubber sneaker very easily gets caught under the parents'

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Speaker 3: leg as they go down the slide, it buckles and

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Speaker 3: you break the kid's legs.

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Speaker 2: And also your dad's got more weight behind.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah steamrolling, so you're.

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Speaker 2: Going down that slide pretty fast. Yeah, you don't need

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Speaker 2: dad's weight. It in Hawksbury, what happened when your daughter

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Speaker 2: went on the playground of it, she.

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Speaker 4: Was running across the high iy. She was running across

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Speaker 4: the playground and the handrail was actually painted yellow, and

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Speaker 4: the sun was behind the handrail, and she ran straight

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Speaker 4: into the handrail, knocked out sixteeth, go in and have

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Speaker 4: them surgically like the base of them surgically removed, and

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Speaker 4: all her lips thown up.

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Speaker 3: Playground did knock her out of it? Or was she

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Speaker 3: still with us? She was still with us, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: just in a would have been absolutely horrible.

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Speaker 4: See monkey in kindergarten.

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Speaker 2: Ah that monkey bars, without a doubt, When you're hanging

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Speaker 2: from that height and you let go and you put

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Speaker 2: your arm down to brace the fall, that's a breaking

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Speaker 2: up a broken wristore for sure.

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Speaker 3: You know there was one. And we had a bit

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Speaker 3: of an issue with it because the platform was too

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Speaker 3: far from the monkey bars for a kids playground. That's

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Speaker 3: what happened when Ted then went to jump for the

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Speaker 3: monkey bar, didn't hit the monkey bar, lander on his face.

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Speaker 3: We thought he had a fractured cheek bone and the

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Speaker 3: teeth had gone into the gums. It was horrible. And

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Speaker 3: the guy, the dentist we ended up seeing, I said,

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Speaker 3: what's what's the most common of what you see? And

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Speaker 3: he said, every kid that rides a scooter should wear

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Speaker 3: a mouthguard. Yes, scooters, scoters, it is the worst.

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Speaker 2: Joey and Sylvania. What happened at the playground?

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Speaker 1: Joey, Okay, in the playground, huge rope towers that quite much?

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, we've been there and we were leaving.

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Speaker 4: At the time.

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Speaker 2: Terrible, Joey, Joey, can you Joey's take it. Take a

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Speaker 2: step to the left, Joey, and then we'll have a

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Speaker 2: at you. You're just breaking up a bit.

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Speaker 3: Oh can you hear me in Now that's joe again, Joey.

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Speaker 1: So those huge rope towers we were leaving, we're walking

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Speaker 1: past us who was cutting my hand, and another child

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Speaker 1: who was like much older and much bigger than him,

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Speaker 1: decided to have a go of jumping from the very

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Speaker 1: top of it. Actually landed straight on top of him.

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Speaker 3: Oh I know, so what was me?

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Speaker 1: Me being the good mum, was just like, oh, come on,

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Speaker 1: come on mate, you'll be right, You'll be right, try.

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Speaker 4: And get up.

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Speaker 1: All these people came running over again. I don't think

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Speaker 1: you should do that, resulting in he completely snapped his FEMA.

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Speaker 2: Oh he's leg mom, and you're trying to get him

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Speaker 2: up walking again.

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Speaker 3: You'll be right, mate, you'll be right. It's just the

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Speaker 3: biggest bone in my body is broken.

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Speaker 2: Did he have to get you? Were there plates and

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Speaker 2: that put in and screwed joel yeh.

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Speaker 4: We ended up.

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Speaker 1: The ambers were fantastic that we were in the park

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Speaker 1: for about an hour because as you know, it's right.

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Speaker 2: Near your Oh, and.

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Speaker 4: Children's hospital was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: We were in there for like a month or so.

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Speaker 2: You're running the Gordon about it.

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Speaker 3: Six month recovery, Oh my god, because some kid decided

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Speaker 3: to jump off the top.

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Speaker 1: In his leg and wheelchair for four months. So it

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Speaker 1: ended up and then years later another.

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Speaker 3: Operation to have any just because once some other kid

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Speaker 3: is you know what.

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Speaker 2: That's how I love about playgrounds. How you run the gauntlet?

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Speaker 3: Horrible, horrible story.

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Speaker 2: Did anyone read yesterday that Gladiators was rigged. Remember the

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Speaker 2: television show we're talking.

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Speaker 3: Of Running the Post by Tom Williams.

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Speaker 2: No, not Tommy's one, Mike Whitney when he was original original. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Rigged. Yeah, they used to rig it.

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Speaker 2: If people they were going to get to the end,

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Speaker 2: they would speed up a conveyor belt or something or

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Speaker 2: slow it down so it was harder for them to

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Speaker 2: get there. And all the gladiators were party animals. Half

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Speaker 2: of them are rocked up and they were half tank.

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Speaker 3: What about thunder vulcan?

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Speaker 2: Vulcan was fine?

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Speaker 3: What about how storm? Alright, we're going to continue to

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Speaker 3: continue this. I don't want to hear any more stories. Tom, like,

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Speaker 3: I don't want to hear it. Horrible. That was a

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Speaker 3: horrible story for your Friday morning. Some kids who've got

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Speaker 3: a broken fame. There's another idiot. He'd landed on top

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Speaker 3: of this slot. We'll push you down in a minute.

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