Quincy Presidents Day festival narrowly ducks disaster

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Running for their lives
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– News about Quincy covered by Quincy Quarry News

 

Quincy Presidents Day festival narrowly ducks disaster.

 

“The mayor decided he wanted Quincy to own Presidents Day,” said Mark Carey, a media specialist in Mayor Thomas Koch’s office. 

 

As it turned out, Mayor Thomas Koch instead narrowly averted both a public relations as well as a liability disaster when people in charge of a large inflatable slide failed to duly control an only to be expected rush by children onto the slide when it was opened up for use.  

 

In turn, the crush of the rush of children made the slide top heavy and it thus toppled.

 

Dodged a moonbounce PR disaster
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

While a number of people were apparently as well as variously impacted by the toppling of the slide, fortunately no one was seriously hurt.

 

Given that Quincy Quarry knows that City Hall will not return inquiries made by the Quarry, the Quarry was not able to discern if the mayor was among those on the top of the slide when it toppled.

 

In any event, after the slide was righted and order was imposed on its use, the festival is said to have gone smoothly thereafter on what was unseasonably balmy winter day in the Q.

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