Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

No More Snow Day Fun: More Cities Ban Sledding Over Liability Concerns
http://www.inquisitr.com/1728238/no-more-snow-day-fun-more-cities-ban-sledding-over-liability-concerns/ ^

Posted on 01/04/2015 8:05:27 PM PST by BenLurkin

According to SF Gate, cities are concerned over the potential for lawsuits over sledding injuries. Therefore, many cities are opting to close hills rather than risk large liability claims from injured sledders. The latest city to ban sledding within public parks is Dubuque, Iowa. The city has decided to move forward with a plan that would ban sledding in 48 of its 50 city parks. Marie Ware, Dubuque’s leisure services manager, told SF Gate that the city can’t manage “the risk at all those places.”

(Excerpt) Read more at inquisitr.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last
To: Secret Agent Man

Won’t stop the fascist-communist ExtortionCare Insurance-Banking Companies.

Hospital, “How did it happen?”

Patient, “Sledding in the park.”

Insurance, “Preventable”, “Patient put his/herself at risk.”

Social Worker, “Patient at risk of self-care” “call and bring sheriff-protection workers to patient’s home.(nazi germany)

Invade home.


41 posted on 01/04/2015 9:44:47 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man
we are a nation of pussies. and shyster lawyers looking for chum.

What you wrote is crude, lewd and correct.

42 posted on 01/04/2015 9:58:43 PM PST by cloudmountain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Huskrrrr
No wonder our kids are so screwed up.

SOMEONE taught those kids to be so screwed up. Children learn, mostly, by example.

43 posted on 01/04/2015 10:00:05 PM PST by cloudmountain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Don W

Condoms, lol. We’ve got some of those atop Sugar Mountain here in NC. Looks like the Borg mothership landed up there. They passed a ridgetop law just because of those things. Not that I favor such restrictions on use of private property, but man are they ugly and spoil the vista, so I understand the sentiment. Heck of a view from inside, though. Bet the wind’s something else up there and annual snowfall on a par with Buffalo. Probably the only place in the state where a snow blower is in order and gets regular use.


44 posted on 01/04/2015 10:00:27 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Seruzawa
First, kill all the lawyers.

Why, that sounds almost...Shakespearean! :o)

45 posted on 01/04/2015 10:02:16 PM PST by cloudmountain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Lazamataz

It’s socialist America.


46 posted on 01/04/2015 10:04:34 PM PST by Mozilla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Wouldn’t it be great if we anacted a law that said we could bankrupt the panty waists who bring up these lawsuits


47 posted on 01/04/2015 10:09:00 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

48 posted on 01/04/2015 10:15:26 PM PST by BBell (breathe easy obey the law)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Lawyers have destroyed this “Nation of Laws”.


49 posted on 01/04/2015 10:16:48 PM PST by Washi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Ban lawyers, not joy.


50 posted on 01/04/2015 10:17:09 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Kids don’t need to go sledding. Just put them in front of the TV, or let them play their video games. Let them live virtually.

They probably have an app or some tech gizmo that allows them to sled with a wii game console.

All this will probably result in parents suing video game manufacturers for their kids being obese.

This litigious society is reaping what it has sowed, always trying to get something for nothing.


51 posted on 01/04/2015 10:21:05 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Only the Exempt Ones, shall be permitted to have self recreation at their private paid for 200+ acre club/residences.


52 posted on 01/04/2015 10:26:58 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cloudmountain

Impact.


53 posted on 01/04/2015 10:40:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: RegulatorCountry

We used a car hood once on a local hill. After a couple of times, we grew tired of dragging it up the hill. Instead, we packed some snow under it at the base of the hill to make a ramp. Five of us piled on a tractor trailer inner tube to test the ramp. Problem was, we made the ramp angle too steep in respect to the hill. It was like a deep V, instead of a shallow angle. When we hit the ramp, the tube stopped dead - but we kept going in all directions. It was a pretty good lesson in geometry and physics.


54 posted on 01/04/2015 11:28:51 PM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Cementjungle

We had a great hill across the street from my house, at a girls’ private school. The only downside was the fenced in tennis courts at the bottom of the hill. Half the fun was figuring out ways to not get too beat up by that fence. Great fun!
********************************
My elementry school two blocks from my house had added a new wing for a large auditoreum. It was about 40 feet above the two lane street in front of the school, with many steps and a down-sloping wide sidewalk toward that street.

We kids took advantage of every ice/snow event and that was our hill. We didn’t have sleds, as such events in Dallas TX were rare. ....We used large pieces of heavy cardboard or metal sides from old refrigerators. ....From the porch of the building we could watch for cars and then take off down the steep steps and cement walkway. We’d hit the small dip on the near side of the road and fly across the road to slam into a chainedlink fence along the backyard of the house across the road.

Yeah, that was in the 1940-50 era, when kids were allowed and even encouraged to do things that today’s wimpy parents and kids would never consider doing. The country is doomed.


55 posted on 01/05/2015 12:06:09 AM PST by octex
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

We would sled down hills on side streets that cars had trouble negotiating. We would sled so many times a day that the hill would become ice. Then the fun began when we would put on the ice skates and go flying down the hill.


56 posted on 01/05/2015 12:32:47 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Pull a saucer sled behind a car


57 posted on 01/05/2015 1:53:59 AM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76
I remember breaking my arm when I was 12 by slipping on some ice outside a supermarket. But it never occurred to me (or my parents) to sue the supermarket.

Nowadays your insurance company will sue the supermarket. And they make it clear that you had better cooperate. I don't think they will sue a school (even a private one), and I'm not sure about grandma, but a supermarket, I'm sure they would go after. Nonetheless, you do get a strongly worded letter from the insurance company's legal representation (recovery specialists) wanting to know where the accident occurred and that institution's insurance company (like you would know. )

58 posted on 01/05/2015 2:40:10 AM PST by southern rock
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; ..

Trial shark-driven Nanny State PING!


59 posted on 01/05/2015 3:01:51 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
The only way the average Dubuquer will get their "sledding rights" back is to do one or any combination of the following:

1. redefine sledding as a form of gambling and let both local casinos control the action.

2. get a high-visibility race-baiter to shout out that sledding is a fundamental part of black culture.

3. convince the city manager that sledding is a "sustainable" form of transportation.

Easy, peasy.

Mr. niteowl77

60 posted on 01/05/2015 3:57:00 AM PST by niteowl77 (The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson