Community group gets given the merry go round

Conan of Cooma said :

There’s more vomit on those horses than paint. Ew.

mmmm?

The entire thing is enclosed in shutters.

PantsMan said :

John Hanna suggested that it should be moved to Glebe Park once – good idea.

Only if you enjoy finding syringes on the rides…

While I think this is a great idea (given that the group is properly resourced to deal with conserving the roundabout) and that working helping children there would be fun, I had to laugh.

I think the origin of the word circus is the round space for horses galloping/pulling chariots in Rome. And we’ve just had Katy Gallagher going on about healthy eating.

So it really is bread and circuses!

Plus – who is going to conserve the 100-year-old paintings that are all over it? Doc Dogg – I smell the same rat!

LOL I don’t mean to be cynical, but it seems the ACT Gov is doing the same thing I do when I have some old, degraded item that is too expensive to fix but too good to throw away…give it to charity 🙂

I hope they’ve done a thorough risk assessment – that merry-go-round is a very dangerous instrument for all it’s a “kids’ thing” (hoofs would crush a bike helmet in their way on their downward “stride”) . There needs to be at least one (you’d think two) able-bodied and mentally proficient person supervising the deck at all times … and I wonder what the insurance premiums will be (given the above) once it’s out of government hands. Hope the non-profit has done all its sums.

John Hanna suggested that it should be moved to Glebe Park once – good idea.

There’s more vomit on those horses than paint. Ew.

artuoui said :

Keijidosha said :

Sounds like a great idea. The merry-go-round is pretty neglected though. It’d be great to see it supported during the warmer months with some mini carnival-type events for the kids – a petting zoo, face painting, sideshow games, all that kind of stuff.

The city needs more activities to pull people out of the Canberra Centre vacuum and create some atmosphere around City Walk.

Can we get a roller coaster too?

Will a monorail do? I understand there’s one going cheap …

Keijidosha said :

artuoui said :

Can we get a roller coaster too?

Only if you eat your vegetables.

😀

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