Dust devil tosses up inflatable slide with boy inside

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Friday, October 17, 2014
Dust devil tosses up inflatable slide with boy inside
A dust devil swooped down onto a school fair in Brazil and picked up an inflatable slide while a 9-year-old boy was inside of it.

A dust devil swooped down onto a school fair in Brazil and picked up an inflatable slide while a 9-year-old boy was inside of it.

The tiny wind tunnel threw the slide several hundred feet. Seconds later it came blowing back toward fairgoers.

The child was okay. He suffered only minor injuries and no one else was hurt.

This is just the latest accident. Earlier this month, two toddlers were hurt after a powerful gust of wind picked up the inflatable house they were in. Also, surveillance video in China captured a bounce house flipping over, injuring 14. And in July, a dust devil in Nevada launched an inflatable slide 300 feet, injuring two.

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