My Thoughts On Trampolines

I meant to look up a bunch of statistics on trampoline injuries. If you want to know, look it up for yourself, and let me know, if it's something interesting. ; )
Anyway.
Mom was talking about a woman they met at the doctor's office who told them a story about a neighbor who got a trampoline and within a week the mother and 3 of the 4 kids had broken a bone. We were amazed...we would have taken it down after the first broken bone.
One of the worst stories in this area is that of a man who got his kids a trampoline and got on it first to show them how to use it safely, then landed on his neck on the first jump and is paralyzed from the neck down now. We heard that story when Anna broke her arm, too, so I recognized it when they told it to Justus.
Anna broke her arm in 2005 on the same darn trampoline. (It's my SIL's) We actually had one at the time, but the girls didn't like to use ours, they would use hers. Anyway, she came down on her arm first, snapped her wrist, then bounced back up and came down on her neck. We were SO thankful it was just her arm broken, not her neck. We took our trampoline down as soon as we got home, then Mom had my SIL take hers to her house (it had been at Mom's). (We sold ours for $50 and let the girls divide the money...it was kind of funny...we met the woman who bought it at the orthopedic surgeon's office)
Anyway, SIL decided to sell hers a couple weeks ago...the doctor told her that her smallest dd needed to NOT be on one, because she has a heart defect, so she was going to sell it, but she left it up. When Justus broke his leg she went out and started taking it down as soon as the ambulance pulled out. I wish she had taken it down BEFORE.
And BOTH of these accidents happened ON the trampoline. No one ever got hurt falling off, so the cages you can get to put around them wouldn't have helped.