Razor blades found glued to children's playground in Illinois

[Shaun]

A 2 year old boy was injured on Monday when razor blades were found glued to playground equipment in East Moline, Illinois.
Lieutenant Brian Foltz, who has been with the East Moline Police Department for almost 20 years told KWQC-TV, "I've seen a lot of things, but not razor blades glued to equipment at a park."

"East Moline parks are safe, but it's just a bad situation, bad instance where somebody, or maybe a group of kids, I don't know who did this, but figured this would be a fun prank to do," he said.

Police found around a dozen blades glued to the playground equipment and the 2 year old boy ended up with a cut on his hand. According to the Quad City Times, police weren't sure how long the razor blades were there. Police also had no information on a possible suspect or suspects.

The blades were found on the "monkey bars, a slide and on the ground, all connected with a putty-like substance" according to KWQC-TV.

A man at the park, Ty Langley told the TV station, "It's something I can look out for now, if ever I'm here. We just kind of think about them swinging on the swing set or, you know, climbing the monkey bars. Don't really think about razor blades."

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what the actual **** is wrong with people

[Crimson Dynamo]

*shakes head*

[Kate!]

Bloody hell. What sort of warped minds do stuff like this. :conf: it beggars belief.

Can't get over this, horrified. :mad:

[Loukas]

ummmm wtf did i just read. This world is full of looney people. jheeze, what did the kids ever do to deserve this, umm nothing!!

[Livia]

I reckon this kind of wacky stuff has always gone on, it's just with the Internet everyone gets to hear about it. Also, the more this stuff gets reported, the more wackos think "Hey! That's a really good idea..."

[BBfanUSA]

Someone burned down a recently built playground and it got on the local news.

[arista]

he or she must hate children

[Livia]

of course, it could have been a kid that did it.

[BBfanUSA]

Yeah, because it was at a elementary school.

Some people are either truely psychotic or don't give a ****.

[Crimson Dynamo]

he or she must hate children

It will be someone with a gripe against mums/adults

like the nutter in Dunblane

[Z]

Bizarre

[reece(:]

Really sad as **** as to anyone who would waste their time glueing razors on things to cause harm, freaks.

[Jessica.]

That's disgusting. :bored:

[Vicky.]

Thats awful..

Reminds me of some nutter that stuck razor blades in the waterslide at stanley baths when I was a kid...something I will NEVER forget, seeing some kid going down then the whole pool turning red and everyone panicking :/

[Ninastar]

Thats awful..

Reminds me of some nutter that stuck razor blades in the waterslide at stanley baths when I was a kid...something I will NEVER forget, seeing some kid going down then the whole pool turning red and everyone panicking :/

That's disgusting

And terrifying! Did everyone get evacuated?

[Niamh.]

Thats awful..

Reminds me of some nutter that stuck razor blades in the waterslide at stanley baths when I was a kid...something I will NEVER forget, seeing some kid going down then the whole pool turning red and everyone panicking :/

Ugh D: omg that's gruesome

[Vicky.]

That's disgusting

And terrifying! Did everyone get evacuated?

Yeah really quickly, but there was just panic everywhere. I must have only been about 7/8 ish and I remember everything still. Including the ribbons of skin hanging off this kid..was horrific, totally:(

[Marsh.]

:eek: Ouch, that's awful.

[Samm]

That's just sick :bored:

[Marsh.]

Yeah really quickly, but there was just panic everywhere. I must have only been about 7/8 ish and I remember everything still. Including the ribbons of skin hanging off this kid..was horrific, totally:(

Were they all right in the end?

[Vicky.]

Were they all right in the end?

I don't actually know :/

[Benjamin]

What utter *****.

[Scarlett.]

And people wonder why some parents feel the need to wrap their kids in cotton wool.

[Kizzy]

There's some twisted people out there, just unbelievable :(

[Nedusa]

There certainly are a lot of sick fcuks on the loose.

[AnnieK]

Thats awful..

Reminds me of some nutter that stuck razor blades in the waterslide at stanley baths when I was a kid...something I will NEVER forget, seeing some kid going down then the whole pool turning red and everyone panicking :/

This happened near me too - on more than one occasion and the water park place was shut down because of the insurance risk :nono:

[Scarlett.]

Yeah really quickly, but there was just panic everywhere. I must have only been about 7/8 ish and I remember everything still. Including the ribbons of skin hanging off this kid..was horrific, totally:(

Sounds horrific :shocked: I hope the poor kid was okay in the end

[Vicky.]

This happened near me too - on more than one occasion and the water park place was shut down because of the insurance risk :nono:

Yeah this place got shut down too...though I dont know if it was connected or not. Was about 6 months or so later so it could have been

[Beso]

of course, it could have been a kid that did it.

Nah, they would be too busy sniffing the glue.

[lostalex]

of course, it could have been a kid that did it.

I immediately thought it is probably one of the kids that did it. most likely the kid that first reported it.

I remember when i would draw graffiti in the bathrooms, the first thing i'd do is go tell a teacher about the "perverted" graffiti i saw in the bathroom.