[Leica] Skateboard park

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Only in the USA - laws will not allow this level of over-the-top legal
activity anywhere else in the world!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:56 AM,  <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Larry Z ?offered:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ric,
>>
>> Good action shots. But if I was the park manager or the town attorney I
>> would have nightmares about potential liability litigation. Only one of
>> the
>> kids is wearing protective gear. Our local skate park requires helmets,
>> knee
>> pads, and elbow guards before a kid can put a wheel on those slippery
>> slopes.<<<<<<<<
>
> ..........>>nightmares about potential liability litigation. <<<
> And right there is why kids are so molly coddled these days instead of
> letting them go to the parks climbing and falling out of trees and breaking
> a leg or arm once in awhile. My gosh millions of us did that in the "good
> old days!" and yep we got hurt many times, But sue?
>
> When we hear of a guy suing his parents because he was circumcised at 
> birth!
> Then one really has to wonder why we should bother going out side some days
> due to these mindless greedy pigs who may find a reason to sue us due to
> their own stupidity and greed!!
>
> And this modern day of sue every thing and anytime over the simplest of
> things to merely make a buck people with nothing better to do but, "I'll 
> sue
> and make a bunch of MONEY" attitude are shameless trash and fun spoilers 
> for
> many!" ?This lousy make a buck mindset at any cost for absolutely nothing
> but make money should be thrown out of court the moment they walk in. Sure
> there are some cases where an honourable reason for suing can be found...
> but 99.9% of these people are pigs with nothing better to do in their lives
> but make life miserable for others.
>
> Look at it this way... some economically poor kids who's parents can't
> afford the so called safety equipment are denied "play time" due to not
> having the extra gear. Don't get me wrong I'm all for head gear and other
> common sense safety equipement, however in many cases rules for gear have
> been made by bumbling bureaucrats who don't want to be sued by the pig
> element of society who relish suing for every little thing they can work at
> making a buck.
>
> Ok I think that's my rant for today! :-)
> cheers,
> ted
>
>
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