Two Kids Hospitalized as "Bounce House" Gets Flung 50 Feet in the Air

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11. Don't be so quick to judge - those anchors aren't worth a damn - even if they were set

If that photo shows the bounce house at 50 feet, then it must be one of the smaller 9' x 9' bounce houses, not the giant bounce houses you rent for parties. I bought one of the small ones for my girls when they were 3 and 4 and we set it up many times. I set it up in the yard a few times, but like I said the anchors weren't worth a damn so they would pop out of our clay soils after an hour or so of jumping. I had an experience where the wind moved the bounce house once, but only ten or fifteen feet and not in the air like this story. After that I just set it up in the living room. My neighbors and family members thought I was crazy to do that, but the girls loved it in the house and I didn't have to worry about them getting sunburned (a bigger concern than getting blown away, at least in our experience).

Anyway, this story is awful and makes me feel lucky we never had more serious injuries than a busted lip. My heart goes out to the kids and the parents.