Subject: BALL PITS

McDonald's Play Area's

In addition to the following true story, I

will also add that my own

sons were playing in the ball pit at Discovery Zone

oneday.One son lost his

watch, and was very upset. We dug and dug in those

balls,trying to find the

watch. Instead, we found vomit, food, feces,and

other stuff I do not want

to discuss. I went to the manager and raised heck.

Come to find out, the ball pit is only

cleaned out once a month. I

have doubts that it is even done that often.

My kids will never play

in another ball pit.

Now read this:

Hi. My name is Lauren Archer. My son Kevin

and I lived in Sugarland,

Texas. On October 2, 1994, I took my only son to

McDonald's for

his 3rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I

allowed him to play in

the ball pit. When he started crying later, I asked

him what was wrong. He

pointed to his back and said, 'Mommy, it hurts.' I

looked, but couldn't

find anything wrong with him at the time. I bathed

him when we got home,

and It was at that point that I found a welt on his

left buttock. Upon

investigation, it seemed as if there was splinter

under the welt. I made a

doctor appointment for the next day to have it

removed. In the meantime, he

started vomiting and shaking. Then, his eyes rolled

back in his Head. We

immediately went to the emergency room! My only son

died later that night.

It turned out that the welt on his buttock was the

tip of a hypodermic

needle that had broken off in his skin.The autopsy

revealed that Kevin had

died from a heroine
overdose. The next day, the police removed

the balls from the ball

pit
and found rotten food, half-eaten candy,

diapers, feces, the stench

of
urine, and several hypodermic needles."
(If you question the validity of this story,

you can find the

article on Kevin Archer in the October 10, 1994

issue of the Houston

Chronicle.)
Please forward this! to all loving mothers,

fathers, aunts, uncles,

and grandparents. Note: Some children have also

gotten lice from ball pits.