Electrifying Bounce House Party

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Bounce House, Meet Power Lines

A bounce house has become a common fixture at kids’ birthday parties. You can hardly get away with inviting kids anywhere if there isn’t a bouncy castle in the mix.

But for all of their popularity, the inflatable structures haven’t gotten any safer.

As if recreating a scene from the opening of The Wizard of Oz, a multi-colored house flew and twisted through the air last week.

The party was held in Niagara County. The family was able to capture unbelievable video of the event as it happened.

Luckily, no one was in the bounce house when the wind took it, but not everyone is so lucky.

Not the First Time

As amazing as it might be that a breeze could be strong enough to lift such a big structure, the most shocking aspect of this story is that it’s not the first time this has happened.

A quick search shows that these events are far more common than they should be. And when it does happen, it rarely has the same happy ending as this story.

In 2014, a fully inflated house was blown away with two children still in it.

Luckily there were no fatalities in this accident.

Even twice is two times too many for this kind of incident, but would you believe that there’s another horrifying moment? Last year during Memorial Day weekend, the same disaster struck a South Florida beach.

How many more incidents have to occur before people stop putting their kids in this things?

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