we are a nation of pussies. and shyster lawyers looking for chum.
Okay! Everybody! Don’t move and stop breathing! Here come the bambulance chasers!
Invest in some signs:
IF YOU SLED, YOU AGREE THE CITY IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES/INJURIES YOU MIGHT RECEIVE
I can't blame the owners. All it takes is one kid to stub a toe or pull a muscle and the soccer moms are filing massive lawsuits.
A few years back, I was sued because a kid slipped on ice on the sidewalk in front of my house. It was later dropped because I was able to establish that I had my walkway shoveled and that the kid did not actually slip on my property. So I assume the town got sued instead.
Crazy. 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. These days, when it snows, every supermarket has hundreds of pounds of salt and sand poured all around it because they are so paranoid.
Unless we have some serious tort reform in this country, this is our new reality.
No wonder our kids are so screwed up.
I hope the city is at least providing the kids with a sledding app for their smartphones.
I didn’t sled on city hills, but on a hill back in the woods. It was great! Suicide Hill!. Ran along the edge of a cliff. Had a buddy fly off, and he ended up in a tree. Fun!
Not sure where I am now, but it definitely isn't America.
no sledding, no football, no head shots in soccer, no bullying, no praying, no guns yada yada
Free condoms, free abortions, free food stamps, free borders, freekin driving mecrazy
I am guessing that this has to do with the financial condition of the cities as much as being a nanny city. Maybe they have been letting their insurance slide.
Yet they will let gay men have unprotected sex at hundreds of bars and sex arcades / book stores all over their city who will end up dying as a result of the HIV / AIDS they contract.
Kill all the lawyers.
Statists can’t let you hurt yourself, because they insist on reserving the right to hurt you to themselves.
It’s the lawsuit plague, and it’s out of control.
But, if there’s a town with some dangerous parks to sled in, it’s Dubuque. Not your average Iowa town. Below, on top, and on the side of the west bluff of the Mississippi, it’s rugged, lots of steep hills and some cliffs, with plenty of trees. Most of Loras College is built into the side of that bluff, right in the middle of town.
this isn’t a story about the nanny state. It’s a story about how we need to close about half of our law schools . . . tomorrow. And then pass tort reform in all 50 states
They can’t just put up a “sled at your own risk” sign?
First, kill all the lawyers.
My wild and crazy childhood sledding story involves an old VW Beetle hood, some quilts and a cow pasture. It was faster than we bargained for, with every terrace it went airborne. I bailed out after the first barbed wire fence. My friend, whose idea this was, stayed with it to the bitter end. Through two more barbed wire fences and crashed onto a frozen pond. The ice was thin and the pond was shallow. He waded out. Cut, bruised, soaked with clothing starting to freeze and it scared the heck out of him. That VW hood is still in there to my knowledge.
Ban lawyers instead.
A little well constructed tort reform could stop much of this nonsense.