More likely one of the safety walla's has seen that people go within 30ft of it and have started having cold sweats that they will get sued if someone so much as breaks a nail on it.
Its one of the nice things about moving away from the UK. There is an old Russian steam engine dumped in a play park for kids near me.
The little sods have free range to climb all over it. I have spent hours watching the GF's nephews and nieces playing in that park. Seen a few fall off into the surrounding sand and bounce. Its up to the parents if they deem it to dangerous to play on. they also have a witches cradle and all the stuff we used to have as kids and is now deemed too dangerous in the UK.