I noticed that on Tuesday! I don't normally walk that way, but was trying to get some exercise in while my kiddo was having practice. At first I was like what on earth was that, and then realized that swings probably used to be hanging there.

Place your bets: miscreants and vandalism, renovations, or CoCS doing the "swingsets are grounds for a lawsuit, we can't have that?"

In reply to PS3D I think the fear of being sued, fear of someone getting hurt is why there aren't very many swingsets in parks and none at schools (or at least not at any schools I've seen since I was a kid).

Since these are a different style and that same park has a zipline (or whatever kid equivalent of one), this is maybe different.

I don't think it could be vandalism because they seemed like they would've been very difficult to remove/steal.

I'm guessing either some type of renovations (in which case they should also repair the ground where actual cement is showing through in a few spots like at the end of one or the slides) or they've decided to completely get rid of swings in parks even though kids love them.

In reply to threecatcorner

threecatcorner said:

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I think the fear of being sued, fear of someone getting hurt is why there aren't very many swingsets in parks and none at schools (or at least not at any schools I've seen since I was a kid).

Since these are a different style and that same park has a zipline (or whatever kid equivalent of one), this is maybe different.

I don't think it could be vandalism because they seemed like they would've been very difficult to remove/steal.

I'm guessing either some type of renovations (in which case they should also repair the ground where actual cement is showing through in a few spots like at the end of one or the slides) or they've decided to completely get rid of swings in parks even though kids love them.

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Had to remove them for the children.

Maybe call the city to find out? If they're removing or repairing them they'll likely say so. If not you can assume it's something else…like aliens taking them for unusual spare parts.

In reply to FlyRod

FlyRod said:

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Maybe call the city to find out? If they're removing or repairing them they'll likely say so. If not you can assume it's something else…like aliens taking them for unusual spare parts.

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a quick google search and I found this ... I think you are on to something

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