Posted on 11/26/2015 12:38:19 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Scared man who sued over 'haunted house' loses in court
People who go to "haunted house" attractions to be scared shouldn't be surprised when they're scared, a state court of appeals has ruled.
A state appeals court has given precedent-setting status to a ruling that gave the scary mansions the same legal status as ski lodges, bumper cars and other commercial recreational facilities: They're not responsible for injuries caused by an "inherent risk" of the activity.
In this case, the court said, that risk was the terror Scott Griffin experienced after leaving what he thought was the exit gate of the Haunted Trail, an outdoor haunted house at Balboa Park in San Diego, one evening shortly before Halloween in 2011. As he walked away, laughing with a group of friends, he said, a man turned on a gas-powered chainsaw and pointed it at him.
Griffin said he backed away, asked the man to stop, then started running, with the saw-wielder in pursuit. Griffin fell and injured his wrist.
In a lawsuit against the trail's owner, Haunted Hotel Inc., Griffin argued that the company should not have trained its actors to chase visitors beyond the marked exit. He said he had feared he was in danger - real fear, he argued, as opposed to the "fun fear" he felt inside the gate.
Haunted Hotel said the fake exit was part of the trail, and the man with the saw - which had no chain - was the park's "Carrie effect." It's a reference to the last scene in the movie "Carrie," and many other horror flicks, in which the audience is given one final scare after being led to believe their horror is over.
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And that’s not what it takes to love me.
You fool!
LOLOL
Memories.
;)
now that IS a big baby... 8^)
Indeed.
;)
Balboa Park is crawling with queers. Sounds like he might be one.
Yep, spiders and snakes.
Whatever happened to Jim Stafford?
Still touring.
:)
Or maybe it happens to your 10 year-old kid.
Yuk, yuk, yuk....
Leni
The guy should be glad they didn’t re-create the chainsaw scene from ‘Scarface’. (NOT going to post the URL, too gory)
Quite Goth.
I think people mess around with these things sometimes to try to prove they personally have the moxie to withstand them.
HTRN take: A better respect for God is needed. There’s a difference between God inspired moxie and self-generated moxie. I’ve encountered that myself. It shows in what you stick up for, in what you love the most, in how you treat things you don’t particularly like. This haunted house thing is a lot of hooey. We need more hoo-ah and less hooey. Again HTRN IMHO.
That is a rooster chasing that kid. A rooster can cut ya!
Never taunt a cockadoodledoo bird.
still lookin for something to slip down her dress...
Right, I did once, that how I know what they can do.
They have talons like eagles!
They have a thing like a blade on the side of their legs. Don’t mess with one if he hasn’t been clipped.
I know a lot of farm people, many relatives, who caught roosters and decrapitated them. I don’t remember them ever saying anything like that. Are you trying to spackle my backside with birdlime, Mr. Ditter?
My wife’s aunt would catch them, stand on the chicken’s head and pull it off.
And I had a great grandfather (sword side) who raised three and a few four-legged chickens for a while, until he gave it up.
Maybe you’re talking about the spur that our friends to the south put on the legs of fighting cocks?
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