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The woman was the first of her group of friends to slide down the slide at Frank Kitts Park (pictured) when she received the cuts.
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The butt of a Wellington woman was “smashed” after she slid over pieces of broken glass left at the bottom of a playground slide.
Jayda Ormsby-Northcott received three major lacerations and nine minor cuts to her butt during Saturday night’s incident at Frank Kitts Park after attending a concert on the boardwalk.
The glass, which she claimed resembled the large beer bottles sold for the annual Box Day event on Saturday, was nestled in the carpet at the bottom of the slide.
“In fact, there was glass stuck in the holes that came out right at the edge of the slide,” he said.
“I was shot straight through that and smashed my ass… It was like being grated. You know when you grate the cheese how it slides on it, it felt like this, they were cutting me. It was really traumatizing. ”
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Jayda Ormsby-Northcott’s butt was “smashed” after she slid on pieces of broken glass left at the bottom of a playground slide.
Ormsby-Northcott, who had been part of a group of about eight people on the playground, said “a lot” of blood started running down the back of her legs.
An ambulance was called and taken to the hospital where the cuts were treated, which were not deep enough to require stitches.
Event security staff helped her friends clean the glass.
The way the glass was placed made Ormsby-Northcott, his partner and friends think that it had been placed there on purpose.
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The woman said the glass it was cut into resembled bottles sold for Box Day, an annual event where large bottles of beer are sold in boxes.
She was “disgusted” at the possibility that it might have been intentional.
“The glass couldn’t have broken and landed like it did… if it was a bottle, there would be other parts of the bottle, but there weren’t, there were only six large pieces sitting right at the bottom.
“I just know that’s wrong, if that person put it there on purpose, what did you want? What made you do that? Could it have been a child? Even if you broke it and it wasn’t on purpose, clean up your mess.” said.
Ormsby-Northcott said the timing of the incident “sucked” after recently starting a new position at her office job, which requires her to be sitting most of the day. “It was really painful.”
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Wellington City Council staff will review CCTV footage of the park starting Saturday.
A Wellington City Council spokeswoman said neither her parks nor community services team had received notice of the incident.
“Our maintenance team cleaned up some broken glass around the slide area over the weekend, but it’s not uncommon to find bottles and trash in this area. Our teams monitor the site regularly. “
Images from CCTV cameras were reviewed, but aside from the groups of youth playing on the slide, there did not appear to have been any intentional glass breaking or criminal activity, he said.
A Wellington Free Ambulance spokeswoman confirmed that staff attended the incident and transported a patient to the hospital in mild condition.
Ormsby-Northcott said a complaint had been made to police.
