One child was killed and another was injured after a wind gust blew a bounce house into the air at a baseball game in Maryland on Friday night, local officials said.
Local emergency personnel received a call in Waldorf, Maryland, at about 9:21 p.m. Friday from the Regency Furniture Stadium reporting that a moon bounce house became airborne because of a wind gust while children were inside.
At the time, the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs minor league baseball team was playing a game, and “the moon bounce was carried approximately 15 to 20 feet up in the air, causing children to fall before it landed on the playing field,” according to a news release from the Charles County government posted on its website.
A 5-year-old boy from La Plata, Maryland, was flown to Children’s National Hospital in Washington, where he was later pronounced dead, the release said. A second child also was flown out by Maryland State Police with non-life-threatening injuries.
Good luck with the liability lawsuit when a child drowns in your pool and you don’t have a locked fence between the public road and the pool. They will take everything you own in that lawsuit, because you didn’t take necessary safety measures to protect children.
The same should apply to a bounce house, not anchored properly, launching a child to a violent death.
Set up the law so that the responsible parties that failed can be sued into bankruptcy, or perhaps even jailed for public endangerment or manslaughter due to their negligence.
None of this “nothing we could do” BS. Bounce Houses shouldn’t blow away except in the most extreme conditions, and it should be obvious under those conditions not to use a bounce house.