Michael J. Erickson Wrote:
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> I brought my 4-year old daughter to the Fair Oaks
> Mall child play area. I was so disappointed to
> find that the Mall has contracted with Michael &
> Sons HVAC company to destroy all the
> child-oriented soft-climb toys and replace them
> with blatant advertising by Michael & Sons. All
> the plastic features of the child area are nothing
> more than advertising for M&S. I observed numerous
> children falling off the toys (e.g. Rolls of tape;
> Vehicle). Further, the grotesquely-ugly plastic
> Truck is so large that it causes
> Child-endangerment by blocking the field of view
> for all parents attempting to safeguard their
> children by keeping them in observation. When the
> children enter the M&S truck, parents are unable
> to maintain view of the children, as they freely
> exit opposite end or opposite side of Truck.
> Further, when children run around to other side of
> truck, parents lose sight of them. I observed a
> strange man pick up a child that was not his own.
> Fortunately, the parent came around the!
> truck and grabbed her child and scolded the man.
> Because the truck is so large, parents on one side
> of play area cannot observe someone stealing
> children over the seats on the other side are
> area. Additionally, I observed several children
> hit their heads on the hard-plastic advertising
> trucks that line the outside of the play-area
> (when they were standing on the couches). Children
> do NOT need these unsafe, advertising equipment
> when they are playing. I intend to report these
> unsafe conditions to the Virginia Dept of Social
> Services, Virginia Government, the Consumer
> Product Safety Commission (CPSC), National
> Playground Safety Institute (NPSI), National
> Recreation and Park Association (NRPA). I will ask
> them to conduct a Naitonal NAEYC Audit on your
> facility (The results of which I will publish in
> all the local newspapers). You should be very
> ashamed of yourself for stealing-away the
> child-appropriate play-toys and replacing them
> with your commercial advertising paid for by
> bribes from M&S.
>
> Michael J. Erickson, President of Aviation
> Management Inc., LLC
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Michael J. Erickson
This is what he looks like.