READ if you have KIDS or GRANDKIDS!!

[Babygirlxx]

TO ALL THE PEOPLE WITH KIDS. READ THIS !!!!


Body: McDonalds, Chuck E Cheese, Discovery Zone... Some of you might not be parents, but you may have nieces, nephews, grandchildren or friends with children. This will pertain to you too. As I read the following, my heart sank. I urge each and every one of you to pass this on to as many people as you can. I cannot stress how important this is! This is very disturbing news. In addition to the following true story, I will also add that my own sons were playing in the ball pit at Chuckee Cheese one day.

One son lost his watch, and was very upset. We dug and dug in those balls, trying to find the watch.

Instead, we found vomit, food, feces, and other stuff I do not want to discuss. I went to the manager and raised hell. Come to find out, the ball pit is only cleaned out once a month. I have doubts that it is even done that often. My kids will never play in another ball pit. Now read this:

PRETTY SCARY!!

Please read and be very careful with our childern!!!

Be very careful when taking your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, etc.to the McDonald's Ball Pit play area. Ask the manager when was the last time they cleaned the play area out. Please read this even if you don't have children and forward it to everybody you can! This is so sad and so terrible!

Hi. My name is Lauren Archer, my son Kevin and I lived in Midland,TN. On October 2nd, 1999 I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started whining later on, I asked him what was wrong, he pointed to the back of his pull-up and simply said "Mommy, it hurts." I couldn't find anything wrong with him at that time. I bathed him when we got home, and it was at that point when I found a welt on his left buttock. Upon investigating, it seemed as if there was something like a splinter under the welt. I made an appointment to see the doctor the next day, but soon he started vomiting and shaking, then his eyes rolled back into his head. From there, we went to the emergency room. He died later that night. It turned out that the welt on his buttock was the tip of a hypodermic needle that had broken off inside. The autopsy revealed that Kevin had died from a heroine overdose. The next week, the police removed the balls from the ball pit. There was rotten food, several hypodermic needles: some full, some used; knives, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, and the stench of urine.

If a child is not safe in a child's play area then where? You can find the article on Kevin Archer in the October 10,1999 issue of the Midland Chronicle.

Please forward this to all loving mothers, fathers and anyone who loves and cares for children!

Don't think it's just McDonald's either or that this is something that just started. When my oldest son who is now 9 was small the area Burger King closed their play area for awhile for "remodeling" because in another town there had been an incident similar to the one described above that happen @ a Burger King. A little boy had been playing in a ball pit & started complaining of his legs hurting. He later died too. He was found to have snake bites all over his legs & buttocks. When they cleaned the ball pit they found that there was a copperhead nest in the ball pit. He had suffered numerous bites from a very posinous snake. I wouldn't let my son play in the ball pit after that. I was lucky even though that wasn't at our Burger King or McDonald's it could have been. I still have my son.


(( Please send this on so that it doesn't happen to someone you know. ))

[katzeyze]

And yet sadly enought this is a hoax....

People have been reporting hearing the 'snakes in the ball pit' tale since at least the mid-1990s. It's a horrific tale of a parental nightmare — one wants to believe there are at least some places a child would be safe in. If not a supervised play area, then where?

Though this legend has gotten around, there are no real life incidents that correspond to it. No children have been bitten by venomous snakes lurking in ball pits. Though injuries and one death have occurred in ball pits, none of them was snake-related.

It's no wonder: A ball pit is one of the last places an animal such as a rattlesnake would choose for a residence. Just as we dislike snakes, they don't much care for us, either. A rattler will avoid people and inhabited areas whenever possible. As well, snakes are cold-blooded and depend upon their environment to regulate their temperature. Therefore, they seek out places that will keep them warm when the weather is cool, and vice-versa. Snakes tend to burrow under things like rocks and sheets of metal that provide shade when the weather is hot and offer surfaces for basking in absorbed or reflected heat when the weather is cooler. The bottom of a ball pit doesn't see the light of day and thus is much too cold and damp an environment for a rattlesnake.

Also, snakes do not live in "families." The female rattlesnake gives birth in a nest and continues on her way — she doesn't wait around to make sure the young ones are all right, nor does she attempt to care for her young in any way. With no parents to take care of them, the newborn snakes have no reason to remain together as a family unit. Their number one priority is to scatter in search of food, not huddle with one another. (It's a neat folkloric juxtaposition, though — the "evil" family of snakes destroys the "good" family of humans.)

You got conned babygirl, but don't feel bad. Happens to the best of us. I was had last week.

[lynettispaghetti]

Dammmm and I believed it too.

[judgedredd]

wow that would scare the hell out of me too. thanks for tip

[Tange]

Wow, things like this could happen, you never know

[babygirl51]

OMG..even just the thought is enough to make you think..I would love to share pixs of my grandbabied..got to leowrites photo album and check them out..there is one that has all three of mine..her two girls, Rebecca (Becca or Bec) the redhead 8 years old and Haylee 11 yrs old and a beauty, then little Lucas (Luke) almost 2 redheaded too, my sons baby..sucking his thumb..they are my world..

[Annuka]

the stuff about turds and piss and stuff is true....i hate those places..how on earth can you sanitiize over 2-3 thousand plastic balls and make sure they are clean?.. those places employ kids to run it...(minimum wage) and they are not bothered if the place is crawling in shit.....most are!..we even saw a dirty nappy (diaper) left in one once...like WTF???

my advice is to take your kids to a nice park with a picnic you have packed yourself, go and climb a few trees....and fuck the big money making corps who are screwing you and your kids......

[Absolute BiOnyx]

Originally Posted by judgedredd

wow that would scare the hell out of me too. thanks for tip

um, you did read katz' post, right?