Posted on 08/04/2006 10:46:04 PM PDT by DuxFan4ever
Here's a tip for campers on the go:
Bring a flashlight when wandering in the woods.
Jerry Mersereau, 23, learned that lesson the hard way when he trekked out in the dark to relieve himself and fell off a cliff in the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Ouch.
Tucked into his lawsuit (Jerry Mersereau v. United States of America) is this succinct description of his misadventure: "While finding a place to relieve himself, plaintiff walked off the unguarded and unprotected cliff falling approximately 20 to 30 feet to the creek bed below."
Now Mersereau wants the U.S. government to pay for his injuries and the "mental anguish" his fall has caused. He says the government should have known the cliff posed a danger to campers.
DANGER!!! GRAVITY AHEAD!!!
This comes to mind:
Ron White: You can't fix stupid!
I'd like to kill him and his Nerfworld lawyer.
....thank God a bear didn't maul him.....would have claimed the leash laws were not enforced my the Park Rangers...
The sad thing is, he'll probably win or get a hefty settlement.
I got bit by some chiggers at a state park once. I wonder if it was worth anything?
If I'm ever mauled by any animal in a National Park, my family has been instructed to sue the Feds for denying me my God given right to the means of self protection guaranteed to all (including felons and wife beaters/berators) citizens in the Amendments to the Constitution.
Don't even ask me to stay out of the Parks, because I helped pay for them.
....maybe if he spilled boiling hot coffee in his lap at the same time.....that one is always a winner
No way. This has to get tossed by the judge once the first motion to dismiss is filed. The government cannot and should not put up guard rails near every embankment in the national forests. This guy was an idiot who probably was half awake when he stumbled out of the tent and fell. Tough break.
Note to Jerry Mersereau:
Why don't you just sue God for making you so friggin' stupid?
Amen.
Mosquiters, poison oak, ignorin' snakes...Lookee here, they jus made being stupid and inorant the Gubermint's fault - yipee, we dun struck it rich!
Is that a racist remark?
It took a bit of getting used to for this American when I lived in Switzerland and would visit local mountain peaks periodically. There is always a Gasthaus serving homey food up top, and usually a nice viewing area with maybe one open metal railing. I couldn't believe how close tourists could get to the edge of the cliffs. Why, a child could stumble right over!
I had to remind myself that this is nature and it IS dangerous. Life is not like Americans expect a la Disneyland where one is to "not touch anything; the safety bar will close automatically." Hold onto your kids so they don't go over the cliffs.
LOL What??? C-H-I-G-G-E-R-S...chiggers. LOL
I live near Sedona AZ. which has some beautiful redrock sandstone formations. About once a year some New Ager tourist tumbles to death or serious injury because they forget, as you stated, that Disney studios did not design the rocks they've been climbing.
(By the way, don't you think the "New Age" is getting kinda, well, old?)
Oregon Ping
(and what an idiot)
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