Body-Sliding: Not A Good Idea For Teenagers
It might sound fun, but “body-sliding” — that is, diving onto and sliding across a wet sheet of plastic on the ground — is dangerous.
Issuing a safety warning, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has highlighted multiple cases of spinal cord injury and permanent paralysis in teenagers and adults. The CPSC has noted that injury can occur because the “slider’s forward momentum drives the body into the neck and compresses the spinal cord.”
So, those slip-and-slide-style toys you played with when you were a kid? Those are made for children, not Boy Scout-aged youth.
So if it rains on your next campout, and you’re above the age of 11, you’ll want to resist the urge to slide across a wet tarp, or, even worse, across a muddy field.
I go to a place where they have a 50 ft slip’n’slide
Slip-n-slides are fun, but it makes total sense why it could be dangerous to teenagers; I wonder why it isn’t dangerous for kids under 11 though…
I think that people should do what they want as long as they know what could happen. otherwise why not have fun sometimes and enjoy life. plus these teenagers were probably not being….what’s the word oh yah mature and responsible so just cause a couple of teens we shouldn’t stop having fun
hmmm… well thats good to know
its fun no matter what
No more sliding for me… Dang!
I did not know this! But it is fun to do this in a muddy field or slope!!!
Yes it is fun, but there are safer ways to have fun.
That’s probably for people who do it ALL THE TIME! If you do it every once and a while it probably wouldn’t be bad.
That’s Weird….
how fun is it to bee