Playground reopens after razor blades removed from slides, other equipment

[Are_grits_groceries]

The city playground on the north end off Lakebottom Park reopened around noon today after workers inspected it for razor blades, which a parent reported finding on playground equipment this morning.

Police and city workers said the blades were taped to places children were likely to touch.

Columbus Police Officer Tricia Wolfley was working traffic patrol at the red light across the street from the playground about 9 a.m. when a woman with a 2-year-old boy came over and told the officer what she found, Wolfley said.

The officer began searching the playground and found nine blades. They were "boxcutter type blades," Wolfley said. "They were taped in places kids of all ages would grab."

Blades were found taped to a slide, on a wheel children use to pull themselves off the ground and other pieces of playground equipment, said Tony Adams, director of the city's Parks and Recreation Department.

No one was hurt.

Read more: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2010/05/11/1118673/police-find-razor-blades-on-weracoba.html#ixzz0nhzwjVXA

Playgrounds being checked with metal detectors is one more incident that shows the depravity of the human mind is bottomless.

[ejpoeta]

1. why would someone do something like this!!! wtf!

[hootinholler]

2. Sick n/t

[mfcorey1]

3. OMG!! Whoever did this is human waste. I can't imagine someone being that cruel.

[theHandpuppet]

4. I hope the perp left some evidence on those blades or tape

There's a SICK piece of shit out there who needs serious time behind bars.

[LeftinOH]

5. Tape and razor blades should retain fingerprints quite nicely-

[druidity33]

6. my first thought too.

I hope they get caught, whoever did this.

wrong. just so wrong...

:(