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This slide has been this way for months! Placing a traffic cone on a children's slide to hide a defect is dangerous to the extent that the defect is dangerous, as children can simply remove the cone! It also looks disgusting and demonstrates disrespect for the individuals that frequent that park (and particularly when it's allowed to linger for as long as it has). Additionally, traffic cones are not intended to obscure defects on slides, but for controlling traffic! Another slide on this same playground equipment used to similarly have a traffic cone placed on it to hide an exposed nail last year and that slide had it for many many months before simply being removed from the playground without replacement. And in that case, the cone was removed many times by kids and even used as a toy in some cases! Fix the underlying defect PROPERLY and do so immediately -- it's been like this for too long. The neighboring Tehachapi playground just got an overhaul, so this should be a piece of cake.