It's a Wonderful Life 1946 movie.
George's brother Harry Baily, who had fallen through the ice on a frozen pond, should have sued his parents for allowing his brother to put his life at risk by sledding down the hill.
Plaintiff's lawyers take all the fun out of life and are a big reason the culture of personal responsibility is dying:
It's one of the simple, most wonderful pleasures of life: zooming down a snow-covered hill just fast enough for a touch of fear to quicken your pulse. Maybe it's a solo run. Maybe you're clinging to a loved one as you tear down the hill tandem. Surely, sledding is one of those things that makes it worth toughing it out and living in New Jersey when sunnier climes often beckon.
Unfortunately, it's getting tougher and tougher to find a place to do it. For the past two years on Ledger Live, we've taken viewers suggestions and hit the road in search of New Jersey's best sledding hills. But more and more, we found, the hills that have thrilled generations of sledders are now closed.
Lawsuits filed by injured sledders, it seems, have struck fear in the hearts of municipal and county government officials, prompting them to simply ban sledding at some of the state's erstwhile sledding meccas.
As a kid and young adult, I got racked up more times sledding than I care to remember. But it never would have occurred to me to sue anybody over it.
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2011/01/litigators-ruin-pretty-much-everything.html
A house I used to own years ago had the best sled run in the entire neighborhood because there were no trees. That said, I’d only allow my kids to use it. Others would come over and want to sled, I’d tell them to come back with their parents where the parents would have to sign a hold harmless agreement (whipped up by an attorney friend of mine). Only one brought his parents back and they refused to sign. Needless to say, I was considered a grumpy old man who wasn’t any fun.
In truth, I didn’t want to lose the house to a stupid lawsuit.
It's a Wonderful Life 1946 movie.
George's brother Harry Baily, who had fallen through the ice on a frozen pond, should have sued his parents for allowing his brother to put his life at risk by sledding down the hill.
The key to ALL this nation’s problems is PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
how true....
My trail and error sledding involved going to the junk yard to get old car hoods, removing the emblem and then tying ropes to it to share the burden of hauling it up the hill....
the extra weight of 6 guys piling onto that slick bottom rocket lead to many near disastrous results with the faint hearted bailing about mid way down and the remaining brave souls left to ride it out....no steering,but ungodly speed.
Sledded in South Orange as a kid, awesome hill. Lot’s of kids being busted up but no suits. The Cameron Field rec area was second to none.
When I was growing up we had “Suicide Hill” (didn’t everyone?)
Our suicide hill was a small crooked path on a steep hill surrounded by trees, saplings and rocks.
Way more funner than those open hills :>)
There should be a limit to how many lawyers can be in a state based on population, as Congressmen are limited. The nation would be much better off.
If runaway juries didn't look at insurance companies, state and local governments, and individuals with assets as lottery tickets, Plaintiff's lawyers would have to find another way to earn a living. Juries are a bigger part of the problem. It wasn't all that long ago that a lift ticket was less than $20. Twenty years later they're almost $100. Thank out of control awards by juries for the cost increase.
Perhaps this insanity will spread to Football, Basketball, Wrestling, Track, Volleyball and Baseball/Softball?
Each year, hundreds of youth are injured in these sports; many hurt with lifelong knee, leg and back damage. Many of these require surgical repair.
I’d guess that more people are hurt by sports, than are hurt by sledding.
So true. So much childhood fun ruined by do-gooders who won’t grasp that life involves risk and that’s part of what makes it rich. I often wonder if Sci-Fi authors who wrote about a future where humans are nothing more than stationary blobs who absorb video stimulation weren’t onto something.
My Dad used to take us to Galloping Hill Golf Course when we were kids. One of our downhill vehicles was a toboggan that seated 6 that my Dad would wax the heck out of before we left. Alot of good memories from there, which unfortunately today’s kids will not have. Another good hill is the hill behind St. Joseph’s Shrine in Stirling - not sure though if sledding is allowed anymore.
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When I was a kid we sledded at what we called “Green’s Hill” in Sea Girt. I think it was a driving range but by the time I made it to high school it was turned into a strip mall or food store. There were 1000s of kids there from numerous southern monmouth county towns. It was great fun. In that area of the Jersey Shore, hills of any kind are few and far between.