I RECEVED THIS IN A EMAIL THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE IT SEEMS IT IS IMPORTANT

McDonalds, Chuck E Cheese, Discovery Zone... Some of you might not be
parents, but you may have nieces, nephews, grandchildren or friends with
children. This will pertain to you too. As I read the following, my
heart sank. I urge each and every one of you to pass this on to as many
people as you can. I cannot stress how important this is!

This is very disturbing news. In addition to the following true story...
One son lost his watch, and was very upset. We dug and dug in those
balls, trying to find the watch.

Instead, we found vomit, food, feces, and other stuff I do not want to
discuss. I went to the manager and raised hell. Come to find out, the
ball pit is only cleaned out once a month. I have doubts that it is even
done that often. My kids will never play in another ball pit. Now read
this:

PRETTY SCARY!!

Hi. My name is Lauren Archer, my son Kevin and I lived in Midland,TN. On
October 2nd, 1999 I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday.

After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he
started whining later on, I asked him what was wrong, he pointed to the
back of his pull-up and simply said "Mommy, it hurts." I couldn't find
anything wrong with him at that time. I bathed him when we got home, and
it was at that point when I found a welt on his left buttock. Upon
investigating, it seemed as if there was something like a splinter under
the welt. I made an appointment to see the doctor the next day, but soon
he started vomiting and shaking, then his eyes rolled back intohis
head.

From there, we went to the emergency room. He died later that night. It
turned out that the welt on his buttock was the tip of a hypodermic
needle that had broken off inside. The autopsy revealed that Kevin had
died from a heroine overdose. The next week, the police removed the
balls from the ball pit. There was rotten food, several hypodermic
needles: some full, some used; knives, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces,
and the stench of urine.

If a child is not safe in a child's play area then where? You can find
the article on Kevin Archer in the October 10,1999 issue of the Midland
Chronicle.

Please forward this to all loving mothers, fathers and anyone who loves
and cares for children!

Don't think it's just McDonald's either or that this is something that
just started. When my oldest son who is now 9 was small the area Burger
King closed their play area for awhile for "remodeling" because in
another town there had been an incident similar to the one described
above that happen @ a Burger King.

A little boy had been playing in a ball pit & started complaining of his
legs hurting. He later died too. He was found to have snake bites all
over his legs & buttocks. When they cleaned the ball pit they found that
there was a copperhead nest in the ball pit. He had suffered numerous
bites from a very poisonous snake.


Repost this if it scares the crap out of you! Repost this if you care
about our kids!!!

AND FYI:


In Florida and other places on the East Coast a group of people are
putting HIV/AIDS infected and filled needles underneath gas pump
handles, so when someone reaches to pick it up and put gas in their car,
they get stabbed with it. 16 people have been a victim of this crime so
far and 10 tested HIV positive. Instead of posting that stupid crap
about how your love life will suck for years to come of you don't
re-post, post this. It's important to inform people, even if you don't
drive, a family member might, and what if they were next? CHECK UNDER
THE HANDLE BEFORE YOU GRAB IT!!! IT MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE! Tell as many
people as you can about this serious issue

Thank you so much. My kids will NEVER play in a ball pit area ever.

That is so sad. My heart also sank. Every one that has kids, or watches
kids needs to read this.

My heart goes out to those poor parents, I cannot imagine the pain that
they went through.

huh?*holds my balls*

eerr--sorry---

It is so very sad that this is how Society has become,,

Thank you so much for posting this.... Thank You

HOLY ****

I was in Coupus Christy Texas two years ago and I and a lady were
walking in the sand at the beach and I was in shoes and she was
barefooted and she noticed something shining and stopped to look down at
it,,,,,YEP, a hipo needle, and I then carried her off the sand beach to
be safe,,
It is bad in our world everywhere, with needles and hiv...

thank u for the info and sharing the stories. very serious!
and awareness is the first step to prevention. TC

seriously you guys are whats sad, anyways I'm totally up for reading
jokes and stuff in the forum, but promoting a spam message?

www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/ballpit.html

Anyways, since when do we see ball pits anymore these days?

WELL I DO APOLIGIZE IF THIS IS A FAKE LETTER I DID NOT KNOW THAT BUT
THAT IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO BE RUDE AGAIN IF THIS IS FAKE I AM SORRY I
POSTED IT

Like Neeping pointed out, most of this stuff is just someone's idea of a
joke - to perpetuate on kind-hearted well-intentioned people.

A good place to look up chain-mail like this is www.Snopes.com

THANK YOU NEXT TIME I GET A LETTER LIKE THAT I WILL CHECK IT OUT MORE
BEFORE I PASS IT ON

Thank you for sharing this . We try to protect our kids in all ways and
then it comes down to the point that you can not even take them to
Public places without having to worry about if it is safe for them.

by the way----thanx for the info---i was playin' stupid earlier--

thanks for the post I personally have been aware of this for awhile

and vouch for the validity of the story

thank you FedMAn

Thank you so much for this. I've already called my daughter to warn her
about it with my granddaughter. My only concerns about those ball pits
was that the kids would bang their heads together while they were
playing. A bloody nose or a bump on the head. God, this got me so
upset.
What's this world coming to.

Yes it's as bogus as the women from Russia :
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/archer.asp
No harm no foul Tracy, it just showed your heart was in the right place
by trying to warn others of something you thought was valid.
It doesn't hurt to make people think once in a while about some of the
things they do and let their kids do either. The big problem comes in
knowing where to draw the line otherwise we'd all be never going out of
the house for fear of running into another human being and spending all
of our time on the computer to make up for real life interaction.....
wait......
ummmmmm never mind

good writing tracyly,, that is good info, girly!!