Posted on 05/01/2024 8:50:53 AM PDT by grundle
This is what society has become, unfortunately.
Ironically, other cultures and countries are still sane on these liability issues. If you fall in a hotel bathtub, that’s too bad. It’s on you.
How many is too many? When will CONgress act and ban cliffs?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Advice to the young: Don’t climb fences protecting you from a 50 foot drop while drunk.
And even then this doesnโt look like a โnewโ fence and so doesnโt need to be taller. Likely he just would have climbed that one as well.
Agreed. There should not be grounds for a lawsuit when someone is intentionally on the wrong side of a safety fence.
It’s a wonder anyone can sell fences anymore in America. Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy’s Miggy Invasion made fences irrelevant.
Darwin will not be denied.
Cleaning the gene pool.
It’s a very sad situation for his family, but there was a fence put up, and it’s purpose was quite obvious.
The ‘Serial Killer Cliffs’ didn’t kill that kid.
His deliberate defiance of the safety rules was his undoing.
If the community was extremely unkind, and unbothered with public opinion, they could talk even about sueing the deceased’s family for the money it cost to recover the body. Something I imagine already being done in countries like China, Russia or Cuba.
“...6-foot-1 Jake climbed over a 42-inch tall metal wire fence onto a 33-inch wide concrete ledge, bordered by an 18-inch tall metal rail along the cliff’s edge”
Common sense lacking in so many in that generation...
All the best parties were down on DP.
Time for sensible cliff control laws?
If he hadn’t had that six-pack, he would still be alive.
It doesn’t look like those houses will last much longer, either. Then the problem will solve itself.
[... the 6-foot-1 Jake climbed over a 42-inch tall metal wire fence onto a 33-inch wide concrete ledge, bordered by an 18-inch tall metal rail along the cliff’s edge in an effort to make it to the gazebo. While trying to climb back over into the party, Jake lost his footing and fell about 50 feet to his death.]
(party) - intoxicated? high?
I gotta tell you, when I saw the headline my first thought was โWhy donโt the owners put fences up near the cliff?โ
Then you kindly included a picture. The fences are already there. If some unfortunate fool wants to climb over them, thereโs not much more you can do. Even a six-foot tall fence wouldnโt deter a determined college kid.
You can’t fix stupid, but stupid often fixes itself.
Every Spring Break we have at least one drunk college student falling off a multistory hotel balcony.
Nobody sues the hotels and condos for having balconies.....................
This is California. Nothing is ever anybodyโs fault.
Surely you mean ‘commonsense’. ๐๐
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