The quicksand is around the slide. After climbing through poison oak to get to a rope swing, they swing to the slide. The rattlesnakes are in the hole at the bottom.
that’s like walking up to an office party birthday cake, taking the 20th piece, and shouting with joy because you were able to get some cake. Here’s news for you, those cakes suck, those office parties suck, and the 1st through the last piece of that cake will be consumed standing around pretending to enjoy the company of others while they return that favor. Not fun, nothing to brag about, and the rest of us sure do not give a crap.
well when i first saw this there was only 2 comments. then when this page loaded there was 12 comments. and i never got the opportunity before! and i don’t like cake anyways.
This isn’t a fail.. its our patented “Pervert Trap.” The perverts go in to stare at the little children playing (the children are fake…but very well made.. much like the creepy wax figures of the jonas brothers (which are also in thereto attract the perverts)) Then we send the rattlesnakes after them, see if they ever go back to their child porn after the snake bites THIER snake off… i know, its ingenious..
Oh, well you all know that i meant ‘their’ ….lol i typw to fast for my brain to catch up.. see i just misspelled type…. it’s my abnormally fast super-brain
Oh no, I missed your birthday thread and you’re one of my favourite posters. A belated happy birthday to you, and have a tentative *squeeze* though I’m not sure we’re on *squeeze*ing terms yet…
Ok, gotta say that when I was a kid twenty something years ago, I played in ditches, in the woods, and had a blast – even when a cottonmouth kept me and a friend up a tree for a few hours, lol. Hey, kids gotta learn sometime about snakes. My son’s 3 and we’re already teaching him…
When I was a kid fifty something years ago, I lived and played near the AFB in Sweetwater, Texas. Yes, the Sweetwater where they have the rattlesnake roundup every year. But, it was ok because they put a big chain link fence between base housing (24 houses) and the vast desert expanse where the Roundup took place.
People found rattlers big and small in garages, dresser drawers (surprise!), while mowing the yard, etc. And, kids were pretty well educated in matters of snakebite avoidance.
However, the desert outside the fence remained a much more interesting place to play than the tiny playground we had.
I don’t see any kids in this pic, so I think this situation is working the way it was meant to. Kids don’t belong on playgrounds; they belong indoors playing video games. Too much exercise and fresh air…not good.
Yes. I see it now! This is how one enterprising school district is attempting to enforce the “No Child Left Behind” requirements. A most elegant solution!
“When I got to the bottom I went back to the top of the slide
Where I stopped and got bit by a rattler; I cried.
Then I got poison oak; I HATE BEING OUTSIDE!!
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah!!!”
lived in Texas. this is true sign. Texas kids are hardy. Also lived in NY where the playgrounds were over concrete and hypos were left around. Rattlesnakes at least let you know they are there.
There’s an embedded win here but I don’t know how to say it succinctly. Or even succinctly say it. But the win is something about life providing you with an opportunity to look good (like a good mother, for example) while doing something that fulfills that little vengeful place inside so you feel all warm and fuzzy AND nobody can point fingers and accuse you of being bad. Maybe not a happy Pollyanna-type win, but a win nonetheless.
Is there a way to briefly and concisely convey that with humor? (And to all the haters who’ll imply it’s not worth saying, you’ll just be redundant if you say so after reading this.)
…and then you let your rattlesnakes accidenty escape from the terrarium and your poison oak spread all over the village and you did not understand where all those pitchforks suddenly came from?
I live in Northern California and several of the playgrounds around here have signs like this. Around here, if you see a rock, you can guess there’s a rattlesnake under it. And yes, they send out animal control whenever someone actually sees one. I’ve seen the inmates from the state prison in orange jumpsuits working at the park and I guess they’d be the ones cleaning out the poison oak. Which is oh so NOT reassuring, I know. Maybe the sign should read snakes, poison oak, and convicted felons.
We have them in Southern CA, too, on playgrounds and at some of the schools. It’s always interesting to drive in and see the school custodian wandering off the basketball court with a deceased Mojave Green rattler in his hand.
Not so many convicted felons or poison oak, though.
I don’t know if this particular sign is legit or not, but I should mention that I have seen playgrounds with similar signs. Heck, I found a little Crotalus viridus on the field the local little leauge kids play ball on God bless Texas!
This picture was taken in my neighborhood. I stumbled upon this site a few months back and I thought about putting this picture up but apparently someone beat me to it.
no comments? First? Maybe. also, lol
omg
Apparently he doesn’t mind a bit.
Lulz
Why not just have a sign that says “Registered Sex Offenders and convicted felons in this area”
because they used most of the letters on this sign already… otherwise they probably would have
Because there are no sex offenders in the area. They’re too scared of the rattlesnakes.
And the poison oak
And the slide lol
lol. good shit
wtf
BBQ
PDQ
Mind your Ps & Qs
Cure that STD.
She said I wouldn’t get one only Halfway Inn
You can’t believe a word Ryannon says.
*goes off to give it back* This might take a while.
Show off.
i like to play the game ‘just the tip’
Is that one kinda like “Jenga”?
I dread to think how many you would need for a Jenga game.
*shudders*
Would take a lot of skill, though. Porn for naughty, nerdy girls.
Bach ?
You know, Adam being first would be a whole lot funnier on the holy soap page.
The name might be convenient but it would still be a disappointing post. When I read it, though, I thought he sounded like Miss South Carolina.
dude, cant u see the edit? look at the wooden part of the sign, the color changes. that doesnt happen unless it Floods.
Late term abortion?
It’s marketed as the ‘Decade-after Pill’.
Nice one!
lice nun?
4th!
Grader? Yep, more the merrier.
Has the universe exploded yet?
Nope. There hasn’t been a paradox yet.
This sentence is a lie.
*universe collapses, implodes, explodes and catches fire*
WooHOOO! Let’s do it again!
Wheee! M Theory has never been so fun!
Who’s to say that they don’t add to the fun?
Oh, you mean Rattlesnake is to Playground, as Python is to Stripper?
I suppose so – both python and stripper produce venomous fluids.
Um… Pythons aren’t poisonous. Not so sure about the stripper though.
What, no quicksand?
The quicksand is around the slide. After climbing through poison oak to get to a rope swing, they swing to the slide. The rattlesnakes are in the hole at the bottom.
…which they climb out of using the barbed-wire ladder.
hhm… this sound like a top secret training facility!
*sounds
I think they’ve taken the behaviour re-education to the next level.
woohoo im one of the first to post
that’s like walking up to an office party birthday cake, taking the 20th piece, and shouting with joy because you were able to get some cake. Here’s news for you, those cakes suck, those office parties suck, and the 1st through the last piece of that cake will be consumed standing around pretending to enjoy the company of others while they return that favor. Not fun, nothing to brag about, and the rest of us sure do not give a crap.
Wow. Your office must suck! Birthdays at my office are always enjoyable and the cake is tasty.
Maybe you should talk to your HR person about all those personal issues you seem to have. He or she might be able to recommend a good therapist.
well when i first saw this there was only 2 comments. then when this page loaded there was 12 comments. and i never got the opportunity before! and i don’t like cake anyways.
Mookie, just don’t eat the apple, baby.
Um, adjust your fig leaf, please. *averts eyes*
Oops. It just goes up like that sometimes. *gets bathtowel instead*
Have looms been invented yet?
Are you suggesting this weft is warped? It’s the weight of the towel. Honest.
And the water is cold.
And I suppose you want me to believe that flower blooms in Spring?
We might leave the apple up there this time, hey?
.
Pear? *proffers*
Liar! That’s a potato.
Playground these days..they don’t know how to be humble. What’s next?
I wouldn’t be too harsh. Maybe the playground was created before this became a habitat for rattlesnakes.
You wouldn’t be harsh? Aren’t you feeling well?
If you build the playground, they will come. Snakes love slides.
That would have been funnier if I had said ladders. Ah well.
Aw, shoot.
*ducks*
You should watch where you fire that thing, Mookie.
like the ever popular board game: Snakes and Ladders?
Yes, like that.
Still funny, Mikey.
Scientfic research has shown that the average person loses about fourtyfive percent of his wit on his thirtieth birthday. You know that, right?
Tek nee notice wor Moom.
98% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Including that one.
Sshhh… I’m trying to make the Moomin feel better.
Oh, sorry.
…Great, I can’t think of anything to say to the Moomin.
*note to self: must remember to change the name back*
I was wondering who Dave was. Are you refering to the TV channel of the same name?
Look down a couple of threads. All will become clear.
I immediately jumped to the conclusion you’d married GCF, how silly do I feel? Didn’t see that coming.
HAHA!
*SQUEEZE*
*squeeze*
Thankyou.
Indeed, I feel well.
Or did you mean to ask “Are you feeling well?”
Aww i wanna play there! poison oak is fun! all the itching, and the scratching, and you can play connect the dots with the bumps!!!
whyyyyyyy, (spitssss ) shoot,,dats nuthin,,,
when I was a kid we had bears ,,and lions and tigers..and dirty old men..these kids today got it easy…..
Someone’s been smoking illegal substances.
peyote?
you can scratch all your poison oak spots with the fangs of a rattlesnake. i hear those fangs are extremely effective at scratching itches.
i can’t believe anyone didn’t reply to this… i snorted soda out my nose!
Wow. Just…wow.
This isn’t a fail.. its our patented “Pervert Trap.” The perverts go in to stare at the little children playing (the children are fake…but very well made.. much like the creepy wax figures of the jonas brothers (which are also in thereto attract the perverts)) Then we send the rattlesnakes after them, see if they ever go back to their child porn after the snake bites THIER snake off… i know, its ingenious..
I’d never get caught in a trap like this.
tomtom, how do you spell ‘their’?
Oh, well you all know that i meant ‘their’ ….lol i typw to fast for my brain to catch up.. see i just misspelled type…. it’s my abnormally fast super-brain
Now we know what was in the pit from the fail a few weeks ago.
.
(How was your B-day, Moomin?
Did you see my clicky on the Cat’s Hit fail?)
*Squeeze*
I just went back and had a look.
Thankyou for the B-day song.
Oh no, I missed your birthday thread and you’re one of my favourite posters. A belated happy birthday to you, and have a tentative *squeeze* though I’m not sure we’re on *squeeze*ing terms yet…
Ok, gotta say that when I was a kid twenty something years ago, I played in ditches, in the woods, and had a blast – even when a cottonmouth kept me and a friend up a tree for a few hours, lol. Hey, kids gotta learn sometime about snakes. My son’s 3 and we’re already teaching him…
in the shower?
Unless you’re referring to the trouser variety of snake, I’d guess most showers are relatively reptile-free…
When I was a kid fifty something years ago, I lived and played near the AFB in Sweetwater, Texas. Yes, the Sweetwater where they have the rattlesnake roundup every year. But, it was ok because they put a big chain link fence between base housing (24 houses) and the vast desert expanse where the Roundup took place.
People found rattlers big and small in garages, dresser drawers (surprise!), while mowing the yard, etc. And, kids were pretty well educated in matters of snakebite avoidance.
However, the desert outside the fence remained a much more interesting place to play than the tiny playground we had.
I love “when I was a kid” threads.
bladder shakes and growing steaks?!?!?!?!
and milk made out of rum !?!?!?!?!
lol
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails!
Wow, nothing like a little rattle snake bite to ruin the day!
RT
http://www.privacy-center.vze.com
And lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! (Not to mention lawyers.)
Riots and fires and quakes, oh my! Welcome to Los Angeles.
Oh, geez, you make me homesick!
The sign already mentions the lawyers. Snakes, says so right there!
Why, so it does! How did I miss that? Kudos to you!
I don’t see any kids in this pic, so I think this situation is working the way it was meant to. Kids don’t belong on playgrounds; they belong indoors playing video games. Too much exercise and fresh air…not good.
A playground for bad children?
Or a way of testing a child’s reading skills. A zero-tolerance approach. Kind of harsh, but probably very effective.
“Mommy? What does that sign back there say?”
*hissing*
*bites are imminent*
Yes. I see it now! This is how one enterprising school district is attempting to enforce the “No Child Left Behind” requirements. A most elegant solution!
Not to worry people, the poison oak should take care of the rattlesnakes.
…or it could make them SUPER poisonous…
I guess…maybe…..OH GOD RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*runs away WITH HASTE!*
I’M SICK OF THESE MUTHA EFFIN’ SNAKES ON THIS MUTHA EFFIN’ PLAYGROUND!!!
Now Chaz, you Mustn’t Grumble.
Sorry, it’s just……first they were on the plane, and now the playground….
That place is totally safe.
( I pick up a Rattle snake in a oak tree)
Perfectly safe.
“When I got to the bottom I went back to the top of the slide
Where I stopped and got bit by a rattler; I cried.
Then I got poison oak; I HATE BEING OUTSIDE!!
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah!!!”
one of these has to go (Playground or Sign). I know which one is cheaper to remove.
Seems fake to me. The wooden pole changes thickness and color about halfway…
Yeah… and the shadows are all wrong. Photoshopped!
Jam! How lovely to see you on this fine day!
You too BFF, you too!
I’ve hurt my wrist so typing is even slower than usual.
Ah, that’s a pity. But at least you can still type!
No sign of the others yet. Another sloooow day.
I’m only here for a few minutes.
♪I gotta get out of this place
if it’s the last thing I ever do♪
Oh well. That’s a shame.
lived in Texas. this is true sign. Texas kids are hardy. Also lived in NY where the playgrounds were over concrete and hypos were left around. Rattlesnakes at least let you know they are there.
Is there an article shortage in Texas?
That’s what I was thinking. I was waiting for someone to mention it.
It changes from wood to a normal metal street-sign style halfway down. FACT.
That was awfully nice of someone to build a playground for children of the rattlesnake people. Its about time someone did something for them.
Yeah! Those rattlesnake people aren’t represented enough! Votes for rattlesnakes NOW!
*waves placard*
Kids will be mutants in 2 minutes…and counting!
Wait, this is a playground for the RATTLESNAKES…..
KIDS ARE NOT WELCOME HERE……or HUGH JACKMAN
lol just like “Australia” ^_^
This is my favorite place to bring the kids.
There’s an embedded win here but I don’t know how to say it succinctly. Or even succinctly say it. But the win is something about life providing you with an opportunity to look good (like a good mother, for example) while doing something that fulfills that little vengeful place inside so you feel all warm and fuzzy AND nobody can point fingers and accuse you of being bad. Maybe not a happy Pollyanna-type win, but a win nonetheless.
Is there a way to briefly and concisely convey that with humor? (And to all the haters who’ll imply it’s not worth saying, you’ll just be redundant if you say so after reading this.)
Way to steal a hater’s thunder, Wicked….
Are they warning the kids about the rattlesnakes or the rattlesnakes about the kids?
The latter.
I used to live near that park!! =O
…and then you let your rattlesnakes accidenty escape from the terrarium and your poison oak spread all over the village and you did not understand where all those pitchforks suddenly came from?
Or those flaming torches and angry villagers?
What a waste, in my days you had to find out on your own, it filtered out the weak and built character.
OMG. Unbelievable.
Exciting! I never has a playground that cool where i lived.
Hah, I used to live near that park. Plenty of poison oak, but i never saw any snakes.
I live in Northern California and several of the playgrounds around here have signs like this. Around here, if you see a rock, you can guess there’s a rattlesnake under it. And yes, they send out animal control whenever someone actually sees one. I’ve seen the inmates from the state prison in orange jumpsuits working at the park and I guess they’d be the ones cleaning out the poison oak. Which is oh so NOT reassuring, I know. Maybe the sign should read snakes, poison oak, and convicted felons.
We have them in Southern CA, too, on playgrounds and at some of the schools. It’s always interesting to drive in and see the school custodian wandering off the basketball court with a deceased Mojave Green rattler in his hand.
Not so many convicted felons or poison oak, though.
I don’t know if this particular sign is legit or not, but I should mention that I have seen playgrounds with similar signs. Heck, I found a little Crotalus viridus on the field the local little leauge kids play ball on
God bless Texas!
Is this in Chico?
Why? Did you see Flo?
Considering the poor planning and the warning sign…i’m going to have to say yes. We just love to put our kids in harms way here in good ‘ol Chico.
I’m sure the parents who let their kids play three are great! I’d sure let them babysit my kids when I’m older! -_-
is everyone aware that this picture is photoshopped. look at the sign post
HAHAHAHAHAH. I added “Mudkips” to that sign once. Too bad it wore off.
Florida in a nutshell.
WIN!
loly lolz
I heard its the #1 safest place for kids to play. “play nicely”
poison oak??! wtf?
This picture was taken in my neighborhood. I stumbled upon this site a few months back and I thought about putting this picture up but apparently someone beat me to it.
The neighborhood where is was taken is called Santa Fe Ridge…its in Encinitas, California.