Play Land Park: a new victim of mechanical games appears

The accident happened last weekend at the well-known amusement park Play Land Park drew attention to the safety that these types of attractions can guarantee. While this is an alarming fact, it is not the first of its kind. A young woman identified as Camila Armas suffered a deep cut on her hand when she was in the well-known Tagadá, a game famous for being a record that rotates violently on its axis.

“Everyone started shouting that please stop the game,” he says it was the reaction of those around him when they realized what had happened to him in the middle of the game. In order not to suffer damage while the disc was spinning, Armas held on to a tube, but in this tube the sudden movements caused the metal to damage his skin. “My clothes were bloody, I was bloody, my arm was in blood,” he told ATV news.

The victim describes the pain as unbearable, so between fear and insecurity he decided to let go of the tube that had hurt him and his body “ended up bouncing from corner to corner of the game,” according to the newspaper article published. The game did not stop at the cries of the victim and the demand of the people, but waited for the cycle to which it is scheduled to end. It was then that he noticed the blood emanating from his arm and sought medical attention.

Camila Armas denounces that during the care they made her feel guilty about what happened when asked where she had put her hand so that an accident of that magnitude happened. The family consulted with another health professional who stated that a different procedure had to be done before the cut suffered by the victim. “What they have done is to put the skin that was outside on him and heal him there,” said Armas's mother.

Although Armas shared your details with the establishment so that they can communicate with them, since January 31 that the accident happened, she has not received any type of call or message showing interest in hearing her case.

UNSAFE PLACE

Two minors have been the most recent victims of the games that have been installed in Play Land Park. The mother of one of them reported that the amusement park tried to hide the place where the victims suffered the accident. “They covered the game with a canopy, and the staff who were there began to isolate people by repeating that 'nothing happened' and asking people to leave,” Norma Aguilar Ortega told La República.

Aguilar is also the aunt of the other victim who is being held in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) because of the severity of her injuries after the accident. Aguilar Ortega stated that when his son was not found, after a few minutes he received a phone call informing him that the minor was at the door of Play Land Park, but they did not confess to him that he was injured and the person who called him was not identified either. “He didn't identify himself and they didn't even tell me that my son had an accident, or anything like that,” he added.

The woman indicated that “the responsibility is 100% of Play Land Park” and that it could have happened to any minor who attended the amusement park to have a pleasant time with his family, but found moments of horror. “It's not a fortuitous event, it's negligence,” he concluded.

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