Five girl die in “escape room” in Poland
Five teen girls, all 15, are dead after a fire started during an “escape room” birthday party event in Koszalin, Poland. The fire prevented a worker from opening the room. Escape rooms are described as “interactive games” in which kids search for clues to get themselves out of their locked-in dilemma. There are many in Toronto. It seems the rooms typically have no inside mechanism for emergency exit. The phenomenon will seem to come out of nowhere for some parents, particularly the morbid variant of the game which is obsessed with fear rather than skill. A recently-released movie in theatres now challenges the heroine to “try doing one thing that scares you.” Sure.
