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Parents blame Polar Bear Plunge for daughter's 2009 death, sue 19 people involved
NJ.com ^ | Saturday, February 12, 2011 | AP

Posted on 02/12/2011 2:27:29 PM PST by Daffynition

SEA ISLE CITY — The parents of a Pennsylvania woman who died shortly after attending a "Polar Bear Plunge" charity event in southern New Jersey two years ago have sued the city where it was held and the group that organized it.

Also among the 19 defendants in the federal lawsuit brought this week by Tracy Hottenstein's parents are the owners of two bars she was at on the night she died and the couple who invited her to dinner at their home that evening. Also named is the hospital where she died and the doctor who pronounced her dead, as well as the Sea Isle City Police Department and individual officers who — the suit claims — did not allow rescue workers to perform lifesaving treatment for hypothermia after they discovered Hottenstein had no pulse.

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To: NoGrayZone
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61 posted on 02/12/2011 4:11:35 PM PST by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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To: NoGrayZone

Sue everybody and everything in the hopes someone will want to settle. It would seem to be about the Benjamins.


62 posted on 02/12/2011 4:28:45 PM PST by John 3_19-21 (If guns kill people ... then I can blame misspelled words on my keybord)
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To: Daffynition
There was a birthday party in the bar the day before the suicide that she also did not attend. Why wouldn't everyone at the party she didn't go to the day before be responsible for her death? Should all birthday parties be banned from now on?

Also, why not sue everyone who was in the bar that day. Didn't they all have a civil duty to monitor and control the girl to keep her from getting blasted? Shouldn't they all have known or checked when she left that she was getting ready to jump into a freezing ocean? Shouldn't the patrons and the bartender have physically restrained her from leaving? Don't they have a responsibility to stalk her when she left and make sure she goes home?

What about the company that build the pier and the material suppliers. Shouldn't they have known that some day an idiot may get drunk and jump off and drown? Shouldn't all piers be banned from now on.

What about all the people who read or heard about the event. Didn't they have the responsibility to know that someone might get drunk and jump off a pier a 2am the next day? Shouldn't they have stopped it?

Shouldn't there be police stationed on the pier 24 hours to keep drunks from jumping in the freezing ocean?

What about the way Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh promoted and even caused this suicide?

Wow, so many people to sue. So little time.

63 posted on 02/12/2011 4:31:04 PM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Riley

I was on a whitewater rafting trip when I was in my 30s and in good shape. At one point, we had stopped for lunch and the guide told us that we could jump into a race on a section of the river. Of course, I jumped in. The water was so cold! My breathing became labored and thought I was going to have a heart attack. I did not hear anyone else in the group, most of whom were younger and male, describe having an experience like mine.


64 posted on 02/12/2011 4:42:22 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: 240B; stylecouncilor

Lol


65 posted on 02/12/2011 5:04:36 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Bigg Red
I did not hear anyone else in the group, most of whom were younger and male,

They were in pain- but they'd never admit it.

66 posted on 02/12/2011 5:08:00 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Daffynition
I had to make an emergency dive to free a prop from steel cable. I didn't have my suit or my tanks but the boat had a compressor and hookah rig.

I figured it's Florida, even in winter I can handle a fast swim.

They hauled me out by the safety line after about 10 minutes. I was in my 20s and in prime condition but water sucks the heat out of your body, and fast.

I got the cable cleared, but that was all she wrote for me.

I sure hope I'm smarter now, LOL

Maybe those Yankee folks can handle it better, I sure couldn't!

67 posted on 02/12/2011 5:12:52 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Glad you're still around to tell the tale!

>>Maybe those Yankee folks can handle it better, I sure couldn't!<<

In this John Bryson photograph, Katharine Hepburn is coming out of the icy surf of Long Island Sound on a bitterly cold day in February, running toward Fenwick, her beloved family home. All we see is her back, but we can tell she's fit and hardy, this octogenarian, fresh from her daily swim and waving her towel like a flag.


68 posted on 02/12/2011 5:30:47 PM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
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To: Fiddlstix; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Sounds like they've been taking lessons from Rachel Corrie's folks.


69 posted on 02/12/2011 8:15:29 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Riley

They were in pain- but they’d never admit it.

^^^
Hadn’t thought of that angle. :)


70 posted on 02/12/2011 8:34:25 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: Daffynition
Now why didn't they sue Sarah Palin and George Bush?


71 posted on 02/12/2011 8:46:06 PM PST by JRios1968 (Laz would hit it!)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

That is THE most sensible defense to this crap.


72 posted on 02/12/2011 8:49:26 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Daffynition

If that durned, arrogant idiot doctor hadn’t pronounced her dead, she’d still be alive to this day!


73 posted on 02/12/2011 8:53:09 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: Eaker

Should have added a ‘sarc’ tag.

Parents who take credit for their children’s success - should not blame others for their stupidity.

It’s all or nothing;)


74 posted on 02/13/2011 4:44:56 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
I just gotta ask, what percentage of fault do the parents ascribe to their daughter for deciding to voluntarily take part in the Polar Bear Plunge?

She did not particpate inthe "plunge" she went in several hours later.

75 posted on 02/13/2011 5:18:13 AM PST by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I suspect suicide, so maybe they should sue themselves.


76 posted on 02/13/2011 7:05:49 AM PST by TheOldLady ("20 Years Ago Desert Storm began...where were you...?" "I believe I was hitting it." - Lazamataz)
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To: rolling_stone
What political party do the “victim”s parents belong to?

Are you seriously asking this question, You already know the answer, We all know the answer to that one

77 posted on 02/13/2011 7:25:01 AM PST by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: ApplegateRanch

The scary thing is that some people really think that way.


78 posted on 02/13/2011 9:04:02 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: JoeProBono

LMAO!!!!! Thank you!!! What a twit!!!


79 posted on 02/13/2011 11:58:02 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Hell really is a bottomless pit of fire. Which side of the line are you going to choose?)
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To: oprahstheantichrist

Thanks for the link! These people are nothing but freaks.


80 posted on 02/13/2011 12:01:20 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Hell really is a bottomless pit of fire. Which side of the line are you going to choose?)
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