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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Sue everybody and everything in the hopes someone will want to settle. It would seem to be about the Benjamins.
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.
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.
Lol
They were in pain- but they'd never admit it.
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!
>>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.
They were in pain- but they’d never admit it.
^^^
Hadn’t thought of that angle. :)
That is THE most sensible defense to this crap.
If that durned, arrogant idiot doctor hadn’t pronounced her dead, she’d still be alive to this day!
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;)
She did not particpate inthe "plunge" she went in several hours later.
I suspect suicide, so maybe they should sue themselves.
Are you seriously asking this question, You already know the answer, We all know the answer to that one
The scary thing is that some people really think that way.
LMAO!!!!! Thank you!!! What a twit!!!
Thanks for the link! These people are nothing but freaks.
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