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Posted on 06/16/2018 6:32:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Sarah Goodman says she and her family were at a wedding reception at a Kansas Community Center when her son wandered into the main hallway where the statue was placed.
Surveillance video captured the moment when the child appeared to hug the statue, causing it to fall over. When she ran over to help, she was told the sculpture's price tag.
City leaders do believe the situation was an accident, but they still think the Goodmans should pay for the damaged statue.
(Excerpt) Read more at news4sanantonio.com ...
I know. I cannot believe how leftist liberal these posters are sounding with the twisted logic. Never anyone’s fault but “the big guy” while one must be innocent if one has no money to pay. Absurd.
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“Every contract had a clause that held the party holding the event responsible for any damage. “
Yes, and an insurance bond as part of normal (and is required in most states), operating expenses which is incorporated in the price quote.
Something is missing in the story.
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Bookshelves usually are designed to be hard to knock over, because most enigeera are not idiots. Overpriced statues in public areas where kids may be present that are not roped off and can fall very easily through casual touch are idiotic. If I saw a book shelf that could fall that easily I would be afraid of bookstores. The morons in charge of thr display should be grateful their stupid statue did not seriously injure the kid.
“Bookshelves usually are designed to be hard to knock over,”
But they CAN. Especially if you let your kid climb up on it.
“Overpriced statues”
Irrelevant...
“in public areas where kids may be present”
Lots of stuff is in places where kids can be. What ever happened to “we cant bubble wrap the world” like we like to say to lefty parents?
“The morons in charge of thr display should be grateful their stupid statue did not seriously injure the kid.”
Yeah, they are “morons”, but you will just ignore the fact that it didnt fall over until some brainless parent let their kids climb up on something that isnt a toy.
Well if this is the case then All the Confederate Monuments/Statues the commie leftists, antifa, etc have defaced or destroyed need to have the group(s) pay up also for vandalism/destruction they have done.
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That’s what I was thinking. What has happened to personal responsibility? Secured or not, cute picture or not, a child that age should not be allowed to be wandering around touching stuff in public unless he has been told by the host it is permissible. It will probably go to court anyway, with the end result being a percentage of responsibility to each party, venue and parents. With the percentage the parents will be deemed responsible for and lawyer’s fees, they would be better off trying to negotiate an out of court settlement with the venue/artist.
Exactly - personal responsibility. When you go to an affair and have to bring a young child along you have to keep an eye on them, you can’t just let them wander off expecting someone else to look out for them; and if they did call the child on something here comes mom or dad or both saying they’ve no right to blah blah blah with their kid.
Exactly! I can’t tell you how many events my husband or I missed when the kids were little, we didn’t have a sitter, and the event/venue was not child friendly. We would switch off. Of course, they were homeschooled and spent many hours volunteering with us at the county Republican HQ. They were better behaved than most, at least in public. The grands are driving me bananas though. ;-)
Have the feeling if the kids had been supervised properly or Mom had been properly mortified and contrite instead of “offended”, it wouldn’t have gotten to this point. Of course the insurance company is going to try to reclaim their loss any way they can from anyone they can.
That too!
Then Hang ‘em high !!!
If "let their kids climb on on" means the kid asked: "Mommy, may I climb all over that statue like its a toy?" and the Mommy considered for a few moments and came to the conclusion: "Absolutely my sweet young boy, climb all over it, nothing could go wrong". That would certainly open the Mother to the charge of being "brainless". However that is not what happened. The term "let their kids" must mean a momentary attention lapse at a social event, which in the real world is quite common. However this second meaning can not justify the parents being considered brainless.
What ever happened to “we cant bubble wrap the world” like we like to say to lefty parents?
Certainly we can't. Accidents happen all the time around kids. They are naturally curious, lack mature judgement, and less coordinated than adults. And unless the parents wrap the kids in bubble wrap or chain them to the floor, the moment you are distracted might be the moment they are knocking things over.
What we can do is have businesses that cater to family events not set up 132,000 dollar statues on wobbly foundations and force their customers to pay the price of their idiocy.
Indeed, It was not a toy, but then most of the things 5 year olds come into contact are not. But then very few of them are things that will fall over if bumped and crush the kids family financially when it does.
And yes the price is entirely relevant. Use common sense, say a kid knocks over a glass pickle jar. Big deal. Doesn't mean its idiotic and irresponsible to put a glass pickle jar where small kids will be. The same can't be said for a pickle jar costing 132,000 dollars. The parents of the kid that knocked over a pickle jar are not necessarily brainless or negligent. If it is a 132,000 dollar pickle jar that looks like an ordinary one, then its whoever decided it was ok to have it around little kids that is brainless and negligent.
I blame museums trying to be “kid friendly” encouraging kids to touch and feel etc etc....
https://washington.org/visit-dc/kid-friendly-museums-hands-attractions
Counter sue. The city endangered everyone by not securing the statue. If a child could knock it over then that kid was lucky not to be killed by the city’s negligence and you know the city officials would claim not their fault.
The parents should sue city for failing to secure the statute and endangering their child. That’ll fix their little red wagon.
And what if they don't have a homeowners policy or the one they have does not cover this? Anyway, I hope that your premiums go up if the Goodman's are forced to file a claim.
If the Goodmans didn't have a Homeowner or Renter's policy, they'd be irresponsible people. If they do, which is most likely, their Personal Liability would defend such a claim. We don't live in a perfect world, and things like this are what liability insurance is designed to defend.
You evidently have never dealt with small children.
Or you know just raise them to not be uncontrolled hell creatures. If I started climbing all over the furniture I got spanked, so I stopped doing that.
I don't think that was the Mom, just 2 ladies visiting with each other. If that was the Mom, the kid would have run over to her, and not down the hallway disappearing into a door. And, the Mom wouldn't have calmly talked to the other woman who came over; I think she would have wanted to check on her child to see if he was hurt or not.
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