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Mayor: Sledding ban meant to protect city
The Express-Times ^
| 12/06/07
| Edward Sieger
Posted on 12/07/2007 7:56:18 AM PST by MrLegalReform
Mayor Phil Mitman said he grew up sledding in Nevin Park and later watched his children do the same.
But we live in such a litigious society that a municipality's primary job today is to find ways to avoid lawsuits, he said.
Anyone who headed to Hackett or Nevin parks this week for the season's first snow was greeted by signs banning sledding, tubing, skiing and snowboarding at the risk of a $300 fine.
"If people wouldn't sue the city, we wouldn't have to do this," Mitman said Wednesday. "Those signs protect the city of Easton in a court of law."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: culturewar; grinchstolechristmas; lawsuits; lawyers; litigation; nannystate; sledding; tortreform; triallawyers; winter
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Yet another sign that our society is litigation-crazy...
To: MrLegalReform
Mayor: Sledding ban meant to protect cityGood bye America....we hardly knew ye.
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posted on
12/07/2007 7:58:16 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: MrLegalReform
If people wouldn't sue the city Not "people" - trial lawyers.
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posted on
12/07/2007 7:59:03 AM PST
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: MrLegalReform
just close the park, problem solved!
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posted on
12/07/2007 7:59:16 AM PST
by
tired1
(responsibility without authority is slavery!)
To: MrLegalReform
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posted on
12/07/2007 7:59:38 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
He’s got a pretty damn good reason for it. Did you even read the article or just the headline?
To: MrLegalReform
Is midnight basketball still on?
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:02:33 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Its a lame ass reason. Throw it out of court. sheesh
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:02:41 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
They’ll be no more toy makers to the king!
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:03:49 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: mylife
Its a lame ass reason. Throw it out of court. sheesh Throw what out of court?
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:05:06 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I read it and saw no “pretty damn good reason”. I see a city cowering in fear of the almighty trial lawyer.
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:05:54 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: Puppage
They’d better prohibit snowball fights too. Especially since kids have been known to pack the snow around rocks or to ice-up their snowballs.
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:07:36 AM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: L98Fiero
I see a city cowering in fear of the almighty trial lawyer. A single lawsuit would cost the city a couple of million bucks, just to show up.
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:08:01 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: MrLegalReform
Sled anyway. If the police happen by, they will chase you away. Nobody is going to get fined.
If you plow into a tree and break your neck, the city can point to the sign and say “we tried” as a defense. This way everybody is happy.
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:08:47 AM PST
by
gridlock
(Recycling is the new Religion.)
To: L98Fiero; wagglebee
The ACLU will probably step in to prohibit "snow angels" in city parks...
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:08:50 AM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: weegee
Especially since kids have been known to pack the snow around rocks or to ice-up their snowballsHeeey, don't give away my secrets!
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:09:29 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: mylife
He is a jerk. A republican mayor who backed democrat Ed Rendall for Governor.
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:09:43 AM PST
by
stevio
((NRA))
To: L98Fiero
To: tired1
Close the parks in winter. That sounds good.
You might slip on the ice and hurt your back/neck/arms.
You might eat yellow snow.
You might celebrate the Pagan winter solstice.
You might lick a cold pole and get frozen to it...
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posted on
12/07/2007 8:11:48 AM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: L98Fiero
"
I read it and saw no “pretty damn good reason”. I see a city cowering in fear of the almighty trial lawyer."Maybe the city should be act big and brave like you who apparently has never been sued for everything you own by a trail lawyer. Or else you have super-powers to make you immune from nuisance lawsuits.
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