Alexandria makes parks safe for weens

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051000622.html

Will the jack booted thugs of the Alexandria Park Service prevail, grinding children and their toys underfoot, just like they do with their parents' rights????? And for what reason, just to protect the weak and the stupid from getting hurt?!? That's what playgrounds are for, to weed out the kid who can't figure out that sticking a piece of broken plastic in his eye is probably a bad idea. Hell, we need MORE junk in the Pit! Why, in the old days, you'd be lucky if you got any toys or equipment at all. As long as there was gravel and dirt clods, we knew we'd be entertained. The few contraptions available were made from rust and tetanus enshrouded iron, or wooden boards so splintered they resembled porcupines in heat. Surviving kids would come in from recess or a morning in the park looking like they'd returned from the Battle of Stalingrad. Alexandria could practically station an ambulance permanently at our local park, (Monticello), to haul away the casualties from a normal Saturday morning. And when it snowed, Oh when it snowed! Everly Wheatley could always be seen revving up the hearses in anticipation for the day's slaughter. On days like that a car traveling down Old Dominion Blvd would have to stop at least three times to clean kids and their sleds off the grill. They didn't need to put chains on their tires, a more gruesome traction was available.
But now, we are faced with that most demonic challenge of all, the nanny state, where everyone is to be placed in their own bubble of invulnerability. Where any and everything one comes in contact with will be soft, contain no edges, be too big to swallow or pound into any other orifice, dull, non-toxic, wholesome and blessed by a priest. Pathetic.


This just in, it's worse than I thought: http://www.katu.com/team2/story.asp?ID=85715
(Thanks for the link, Mike!)