Look, an Israeli inventor has patented the McDonald's playland as a way to escape fires:
A specialised emergency truck would carry an extendible boom that could be raised to a window in a burning building. Jaws at the top of the boom would then expand to clamp a small platform inside the window frame, while a spiralling tube would be dropped from the frame down to the ground.
OK, so maybe it isn't McDonald's playland, but it sure as hell looks like it.
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