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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Perhaps that is one of the many things they should have taught their daughter (she was 35...if not taught by her parents, she should have figured it out as an adult). It DOES NOT take a village, nor the government to raise a child. It takes 2 parents, mom and dad.
They obviously did a poor job at it....their filing a law suit clearly demonstrates that fact.
Hope you don’t mind....I saved that one. For some reason I giggle when I see it.....I know, I’m a horrible person.
The parents’ situation is sad. They can’t seem let go. Or address where the responsibility lies. Having raised kids, we breathed a sigh of relief when they passed the threshold of age 18 ... you never stop worrying about them. They have to be adults at some point. [Remember that Casey Anthony case in Florida? Throughout the interviews the parents tried to buffer the daughter, or it seemed to me... Palin calls it being a *grizzly mom*]
I didn’t know about the case, I had to look it up. She is the one who murdered her 2 year old daughter? Is that the story you are referring to?
She’s been charged with the murder...not sure where the trial is...her family maintains that she did not harm her child and that she is innocent of all the charges.
I do that Polar Plunge every year to benefit my kids Catholic school in Sea Bright. It’s not that bad. The cold air is ok when you’re dry and the water temp is warmer than the air...it’s just when you get out that is brutal.
Has any ambulance chaser ever sued the mob for a faulty pair of cement shoes that lead to some poor slob’s passing?
I’d say those would be perfectly functional cement shoes.
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