Parents 'shocked' after kids soft play centre uses realistic 'body bags' as Halloween decorations

Pictures taken connected Sunday astatine the Rugrats and Halfpints centre successful Cirencester, Gloucestershire, showed the decorations resembling quality bodies, covered successful achromatic integrative and hanging upside down from a structure

A children's play centre has apologised implicit utilizing realistic "body bags" for Halloween decorations aft concerns from "shocked" parents.

Pictures taken connected Sunday astatine the Rugrats and Halfpints centre successful Cirencester, Gloucestershire, showed the decorations resembling quality bodies covered successful achromatic integrative hanging upside down from poles adjoining 1 of the structures astatine the brushed play area. Some of the decorations were seen wrapped with portion marked "Caution" and "Danger".

But the "realistic" décor astatine the centre - which caters for children aged 0-12 - near immoderate parents concerned, with 1 parent saying she did a "double take" erstwhile she saw the hanging bags. The mother, who spoke connected information of anonymity, said: "I went wrong with my daughter.

"The assemblage bags were astatine the backmost which can't beryllium seen from the café area, lone by kids inside. 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. I spoke to immoderate different parents aft 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!"

A Rugrats and Halfpints spokesperson 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 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 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”. It adds: "In essence, Rugrats and Half Pints is the brushed play centre you person been waiting for."

The quality comes aft a mum claimed she was forced to teardrop down her assemblage container Halloween decorations aft killjoy 'Karen' neighbours complained astir the life-sized props swinging from a tree.

Caroline Ashley was stunned erstwhile a Liverpool Council idiosyncratic reportedly rang her doorbell demanding she region the offending decorations. The 41-year-old says the assembly sojourn followed a 'really upset' section who banged connected her doorway to accidental she was 'triggered' by the display.

As the 2 inflatables were hanging from a histrion connected a spot of council-owned onshore successful beforehand of her property and not her ain land, Caroline says she was obliged and took them down. The hospitality idiosyncratic said she was initially baffled by the petition arsenic her ain kids 'aren't scared' of them.

The mum-of-two said the assembly idiosyncratic returned the pursuing time to cheque the decorations had been taken down, and requested they beryllium moved onto her property. Caroline asked a Facebook radical of 300,000 members if the assemblage bags were excessively much?