‘Pretty devastated’: Calgary small business pleads for return of stolen portable playground [Video]

Simon Nash spent days scrambling to clean and collect extra children’s play equipment after thieves got away with a custom-made portable playground.

Security footage shows a black Dodge Ram truck towing a silver trailer away from a northeast Calgary warehouse area shortly before 1 a.m. on Wednesday.

The children’s playground was packed inside the trailer — gone when staff showed up at the warehouse later in the day.

“(The trailer) vanished and I had to rack my brain for a minute or two to think where it could be and realized it’s been taken and it was our playground, already loaded for an event the next morning,” Simon said.

Simon and Marija Nash are the co-owners of Sprog and Sprocket and rent out the playground and other children’s equipment for events and birthdays.

The Stampede and summer season is one of their busiest times of year.

“It was a special …