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In fairness, it's my understanding trampolines are really honestly fairly hazardous, despite their pedestrian appearance & our fond memories.

More than 1 million people went to emergency departments for trampoline-related injuries between 2002 and 2011, with nearly 300,000 of those injuries involving broken bones

approximately 900,000 consumer trampolines sold each year

Doing some extremely crude correlation- For every ten trampolines sold a year, one person will visit the ER that year, and for every thirty trampolines sold, one person will break a bone. Yeah, I can see why insurance doesn't like them.

They aren't saying you can't have one, they just don't want to cover them.

http://theweek.com/articles/472062/dangers-owning-home-tramp...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/trampoline-injuries...



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