so sad... but!

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[urlhttps://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/pary ... e312ce2316][/url]


A WHEELCHAIR-bound former brickie who is suing a trampolining centre after breaking his neck said he asked a teenage attendant if it was safe before he dived head first into a foam pit with devastating consequences.

Frankie Kuzba is the latest customer who has taken legal action against a popular chain of trampolining centres, Flip Out, seeking compensation for serious back and neck injuries after jumping into their foam pits.

Central Coast father-of-two Craig Middleton settled out of court against Flip Out after breaking his neck doing a forward flip into a foam pit at the Charmhaven centre.

Two women in the UK have also taken legal action after they claiming they fractured their spines jumping off a 4m tower into a foam pit.

TRAMPOLINE EMPIRE HIT BY LAWSUITS

Mr Kuzba, from Wollongong, claimed he asked the teenage assistant at Warrawong Flip Out three questions before he bounced off the trampoline into the foam pit.

“I asked ... how deep it was, he said very deep. I asked if anyone had ever hit the bottom, he said no one ever had hit the bottom. I asked him if I can dive, he said, yep you can though you might get pumped.”

Mr Kuzba said he jumped “real high” and dived into the foam and hit the concrete below.

“I went straight through and hit my head ... 96kg straight onto my head. I heard my neck crunch and my ears were ringing real loud — at first I thought I had died. I tried to yell out to my friends but I could barely talk.”

Mr Kuzba claimed the pit was shallower than his 193cm height, and when he crashed into the concrete and his friends desperately dug him out, his shins and feet were sticking out the top of the foam.

It took 30 minutes for the ambulance to arrive and another 30 minutes for the fire brigade.

Mr Kuzba was conscious throughout the ordeal at the centre, however when he was travelling in an ambulance past Port Kembla steelworks he started feeling extremely nauseous and lost consciousness.

“I woke up three weeks later in a hospital in Sydney fully paralysed and ventilated. I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t drink, all I could do was blink my eyes.”

Doctors said he broke his neck in four places and is now a quadriplegic.

He said at first the doctors gave him a 50/50 chance of ever being able to breathe on his own again but after a couple of weeks he recovered enough for the ventilator to be removed.

After 280 days in hospital, Mr Kuzba was allowed to go home to a very different life than the one he had previously led.

Before the accident he was extremely active — he loved the bush, fishing and “everything to do with the outdoors”.

“My life is nothing now, it’s gone, I can’t do nothing for myself,” he said.

Mr Kuzba is being represented by Slater and Gordon in the NSW Supreme Court in his personal injury claim.


whatever possesses anyone to dive headfirst into the unknown.. I will never know....

whatever would possess adults to do this at all again is an unknown...

[Neferti]

When I was young, NOBODY had mental problems .... or anger or abuse problems .... shit happened and you took it on the chin.

Back then, Schizophrenics ( or odd bods) were contained in a Mental Institution ... for their own good. Then they closed the Mental Institutions and let these poor people wander the streets .... to figure it all out for themselves ....

Do-gooders have done a lot of HARM to our society. Mentally challenged individuals, who tend to seem to be a threat to society, need to be monitored and kept, exclusively, in one area .... parents are unable to cope with this.

Most of these people are harmless.

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I am not this guy had mental issue before his accident but I am sure he might have a few now..

such a waste just to be show off.

[Black Orchid]

It's a sad thing but it beats me why young men dive in to the unknown head first just because! They do it from piers too and why would anyone base their own judgment upon asking a teenage employee if it was safe?

Did he really think the kid would say "No it's not safe"?

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It's a sad thing but it beats me why young men dive in to the unknown head first just because! They do it from piers too and why would anyone base their own judgment upon asking a teenage employee if it was safe?

Did he really think the kid would say "No it's not safe"?

did you see the pictures of the foam pit?....hilarious I wouldnt allow a small child to jump in head first...

just because someone says . 'it is" doesnt make it do...I dont think he has much of a chance for a pay out...

it is awful what has happened to him.. but sheeeeeese you really have to take most of the responsibility for your actions..