Dangerous condition at Walmart Part 3

To their credit, Walmart must have recognized the danger. Some of the skateboards have packaging, making them impossible to ride in the store. There are some clever plastic wheel locks on about a third of them. The locks are specially sized to fit the wheel, and they are held in place with the axle nut. I was not able to remove one in the store, although I didn't try very hard.

Unfortunately, about two thirds of the skateboards do not have locks, so kids ride the skateboards. Nearly every time I go past that aisle, there are one or more skateboards on the floor. Obviously the staff knows this is happening since they have to reshelve the skateboards. I don't know whether some of the skateboards come without locks, or if those ones are returns, but it doesn't matter. As soon as they put an unlocked skateboard on the shelf, they are negligent.

The store where my daughter had her fall has since put up a paper sign asking patrons not to ride skateboards and bikes. If this makes a few kids change their minds about riding it is a good thing. But there are still skateboards and bikes on the floor, so some kids are ignoring the sign.