Children’s soft play centre hangs up ‘realistic’ body bag decorations for halloween

A children’s play centre has apologised for utilizing ‘realistic’ assemblage bags arsenic halloween decorations aft complaints from shocked parents.

Images of the decorations extracurricular Rugrats and Halfpints successful Cirencester, Gloucestershire amusement achromatic bags tied up to lucifer quality bodies hanging from poles down the main play area.

But the décor astatine the centre – which caters for children aged 0-12 – went down poorly with immoderate parents, with 1 acrophobic mum saying she did a ‘double take’ upon seeing the bags.

Speaking to Sky News, she said: ‘When I saw them I did a treble instrumentality – surely that can’t beryllium what I deliberation it is? I conscionable didn’t privation to person to explicate to my kid what they were’.

The bags were reportedly located astatine the backmost of the play centre, which meant they couldn’t beryllium viewed from outside.

‘I spoke to immoderate different parents who were arsenic shocked arsenic I was that it was deemed appropriate. It’s a large brushed play, but that did daze maine a bit,’ she added.

A spokesperson for the centre told Sky News: ‘This is the archetypal clip idiosyncratic has brought it to our attraction truthful of people owed to this we volition instrumentality them down immediately. 

‘It wasn’t to origin distress and we apologise this is however they person felt’.

The Rugrats centre, Winner of the Travellers Choice Award 2022, says connected its website it is ‘committed to providing a safe, cleanable and stimulating environment, with the accent connected fun’, with prices ranging from £5.75 up to £11.75 per child.

It says it offers parents ‘a assortment of antithetic play areas and amusement for your kids to get stuck successful portion you tin bask our on-site cafe,’ adding: ‘In essence, Rugrats and Half Pints is the brushed play centre you person been waiting for.’

The quality comes soon aft a Merseyside mum claims she was forced to region her ain assemblage container decorations aft complaints by the council.

Caroline Ashley was stunned erstwhile a assembly idiosyncratic allegedly visited her location and demanded she region the decorations pursuing complaints by a neighbour. 

After initially admitting she was baffled by the petition arsenic her kids ‘aren’t scared’ of the decorations, the mum-of-two yet took them down to debar causing immoderate further offence.

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