You're lucky to be alive, RMP! Swings are a clear and present danger and should have been banned long ago, along with slides, sleds, swimming pools, scooters, skateboards, tricycles, bicycles, slingshots, BB guns, rubber bands, pencils, pens, dolls, football, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, hockey, ice skating, roller skating, roller blading, track and field, gymnastics, walking, running, crawling, picking one's nose, picking scabs, squeezing zits, lighting farts on fire, smoking cigarettes, holding hands, and candy. All have been shown to pose some sort of danger or risk, and therefore must be forbidden by the ever watchful guardian state. After all, it's for the children.

We are raising a bunch of weaklings in a litigious society. Along with the dumbing down we should be able to devolve to cro-magnon in just a few generations....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLn...

I hear they don't do dodge ball or snowball fights anymore either.

When I was six, I walked almost a mile to school with a friend and her older brother, who was nine. I live in the same area now, but it would be unusual for my six year-old to make the walk to school. I'm amazed at how much has change. The crime rate is way down compared to then. Why are we so scared now compared to then?