State seeks to ban "walk on water" balls

By Rob Anderson

I'm on the record taking the controversial stand against amusement rides in Massachusetts in which people seal themselves in giant plastic balls and roll themselves around giant water-filled pools. This, of course, was an especially counter-intuitive pose to strike after a little girl almost suffocated while trying out the ride in Kingston's Independence Mall recently.

It looks like the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety agrees. According to the Cape Cod Times:

"They're just unsafe to my mind," said Massachusetts Department of Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Gatzunis about the so-called "walk on water" balls. He is recommending that the devices not be used while state officials develop a law to ban them.

Two cheers for common sense.