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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I remember when I was about eleven or twelve a buddy and I rode our bikes down a steep hill on a bluff close to our house. Unfortunately, my friend's little brother had tagged along behind us despite our trying to discourage him from following us.
We went down the hill, and we could see my friend's little brother trying to go down the hill after us. Again, before he started, we told him to turn around and go back.
Well, he got about twenty feet down the hill before he crashed. He managed to get back home bawling to his mother. She gave my friend a good tongue-lashing for not being able to stop his little brother from following us. Sometimes you just can't win.
To grow up with no memories of clambering to the top of a jungle gym, speeding down a snow covered hill in a flying saucer and going momentarily airborne, leaping into a pile of Fall leaves; these children are being taught instead to be afraid of... everything.
Anyone else here use an old car hood for a sled?
Invest in some signs:
IF YOU SLED, YOU AGREE THE CITY IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES/INJURIES YOU MIGHT RECEIVE
We run a farm and we have similar signs posted on the barn stating that as an agribusiness we are not responsible for injuries, etc. This is a state issued sign referencing the appropriate state law.
Recently my wife went to a workshop on how to get better name recognition, etc. for the farm. Insurance was brought up as well as the ADA, (a whole nother ball of worms), and we were told that the signs were nice but that a visitor could claim they didn’t see them. So now we have to get individually signed affidavits from each visitor that they and any accompanying minors understand the state law and that they are responsible for their own stupid actions.
What’s next, bicycles, skateboards, baseballs, footballs, checkers?
Where does the madness end with these petty tyrants?
Thanks for the ping!
VERY interesting article:
The Overprotected Kid
A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
So post a sign saying “Sled at your own risk”. Better than banning it. Wusses.
Wow. I know I feel safer now. #poosface
We had such a great sledding hill, I got killed every year when I was a kid
It’s pretty impressive from the house below it where we stayed when we worked at the OCC Collection Center.
You can pick up one of the lower floor 2 br 2 ba units up there for under $80K these days. Must be a stout building, the wind has been clocked at 160 mph up there on the ridge top. I’d worry about where I parked my car, it might get pitched out of the parking lot and down the mountain, lol.
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