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.”
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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.
What you wrote is crude, lewd and correct.
SOMEONE taught those kids to be so screwed up. Children learn, mostly, by example.
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.
Why, that sounds almost...Shakespearean! :o)
It’s socialist America.
Wouldn’t it be great if we anacted a law that said we could bankrupt the panty waists who bring up these lawsuits
Lawyers have destroyed this “Nation of Laws”.
Ban lawyers, not joy.
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.
Only the Exempt Ones, shall be permitted to have self recreation at their private paid for 200+ acre club/residences.
Impact.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
Pull a saucer sled behind a car
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. )
Trial shark-driven Nanny State PING!
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
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