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i don't think that it's a thin veneer to assume that when you run somebody or something over that you feel a bump. Methuen is a well-to-do boston suburb and i hardly think that there are too many "potter's field" driveways around.

and not parking on a big pile of leaves is like looking both ways when you cross the street. should be common sense. especially here in the northeast where we get leaves at this time of year.

an activist judge? aw now that hurts! I didnt' glean anything out of that story like some other folks did like about fences, garagae, etc..

but you said something about tear-assing around in the yard without knowing who or what was about? something like that. how do you know that that isn't what he was doing?

were the kids in the truck in the cab or in the bed? how many people do you see riding around with their kids in the back of their open pickup? is it fun? you betcha! is it safe? no way in heck. A friend of mine will never walk again because he fell out of the back of an open pickup. high school wrestling star with a scholarship when that happened too.

but i wish i wish i wish i had a glass smooth yard!

i don't think that it's a thin veneer to assume that when you run somebody or something over that you feel a bump.

Non sequitur. Bumpy ground will make a bump. too.

Methuen is a well-to-do boston suburb and i hardly think that there are too many "potter's field" driveways around.

It's about the same population density as Fredericksburg, VA. Allow me to thereby invalidate your point, since I know Fredericksburg well. Besides, who said anything about a driveway? Another unwritten fact you implied from the article. Care to guess how many of my vehicles are actually parked in my driveway?

and not parking on a big pile of leaves is like looking both ways when you cross the street. should be common sense.

Parking what? How big a pile? Parking a Yugo on a three foot pile may not make sense. Parking a 4x4 on a 1 foot "pile" isn't even worth noting.

As for common sense - common sense would dictate that you don't conclude negligence unless you know all the facts. Except for you.

an activist judge? aw now that hurts! I didnt' glean anything out of that story like some other folks did like about fences, garagae, etc..

No, you just gleaned a lot of unwritten information about the relative fire hazard in what he did, the size of his yard, the information he was operating on, what he was doing, etc.

but you said something about tear-assing around in the yard without knowing who or what was about? something like that. how do you know that that isn't what he was doing?

Exactly. Thank you for making my point. I don't know that he wasn't being negligent. You don't know that he was. You don't even know what the article means by park. The title says car, the body says truck - if by 'car' they mean 'truck', it's hard to know what any of it implies. Except for you, I guess.

were the kids in the truck in the cab or in the bed?

What, you haven't found the answer to this question IMPLIED in the article somewhere? Hmmm, you must be slipping.