here we go again, the city did not create the hill, it just happens to be there. now, if you go sledding anywhere is it not possible you get hurt anyways? why should the city be responsible? now this one hill supposedly overlooks or lands into the ohio river. if so, then the city could put up some kind of barrier for the sledders to stop. what i don’t understand is why they can ban plastic sleds? i can understand metal ones.
so, will this town go downhill? or will the sledders find a bigger hill?
It is about time that the liberal lawyers get sued for the pain and suffering of not being able to have fun. Can’t fish here, ice skate over there, play ball on that lot, sledding on that mountain. No wonder today’s kids don’t know how to GO OUT and have fun.
Heck, I take my grandkids and pull them on sleds behind my pickup (live in a town of 80 people and not much traffic) and just found out that that is child endangerment. Hard to convenience my 5 grandsons that we shouldn’t do it any more. Let people be responsible for their own actions.
It’s rather pathetic that for fear of getting sued by some money-grubbing _sshole with a law degree, America has to change or abandon traditions that we’ve had and enjoyed for centuries. I recall the old “flexible flyer” sleds. You were taught not to walk in front of one; otherwise, you’d get hurt. One incident provided a lesson you’d never forget. You were also taught that if your sled was approaching water or a tree, you’d best roll off the damn thing.
Enter the scumbag personal injury attorney. Anything for a few buck. “my client suffered severe emotional and psychological injuries when he was injured while playing”. How bad off are these charlatans in suits to take a case involving a few stiches or a simple fracture? Where were the parents supervising the kid?
Blame it on juries that when faced to assess damages in a death or paralysis case have no problem in making awards against boroughs for the hazards that might be downhill. Happens all the time. Some times the hazards are man made, other times a tree in position to impede the sled. Plastic sleds have no runners and thus no control. As a councilman in my borough (that’s what insurance people do – they take leadership roles in the community), I cannot disagree with the course taken. We removed a slide about a decade ago due to similar concerns. When I was a kid, if you got hurt on a sled or slide, your parents took you to the doctor and then coached you on being more careful. Since the advent of attorney advertisement, everyone seems to be looking to blame someone now a days.
Years back, my town had a tobaggon slide. It went out onto the lake and people loved it. When condition weren’t right the city would block it off so people wouldn’t use it. One night an idiot climbed the fence and helped his kid over the gate barricading the slide (top and bottom) The kid went doen the slide and hit the bottom gate. The guy sued and won because the city didn’t post a sign at the top of the slide warning someone that if they climbed the barricades and used the slide, there was a gate at the bottom of the slide too. The slde was removed by the city.
That’s the underlying issue. Nobody wants to take responcibility for theit own actions. When I was growing up we were responcible for our own actions. Parents were respecible for their own kids. These days it’s easier to blame the city, and sue for big bucks.
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here we go again, the city did not create the hill, it just happens to be there. now, if you go sledding anywhere is it not possible you get hurt anyways? why should the city be responsible? now this one hill supposedly overlooks or lands into the ohio river. if so, then the city could put up some kind of barrier for the sledders to stop. what i don’t understand is why they can ban plastic sleds? i can understand metal ones.
so, will this town go downhill? or will the sledders find a bigger hill?
Fanucci–please if you want people to take your comments seriously, learn how to spell–or, learn how to use spell check.
I’m wondering if your name is really “Fanussi” ??
It is about time that the liberal lawyers get sued for the pain and suffering of not being able to have fun. Can’t fish here, ice skate over there, play ball on that lot, sledding on that mountain. No wonder today’s kids don’t know how to GO OUT and have fun.
Heck, I take my grandkids and pull them on sleds behind my pickup (live in a town of 80 people and not much traffic) and just found out that that is child endangerment. Hard to convenience my 5 grandsons that we shouldn’t do it any more. Let people be responsible for their own actions.
It’s rather pathetic that for fear of getting sued by some money-grubbing _sshole with a law degree, America has to change or abandon traditions that we’ve had and enjoyed for centuries. I recall the old “flexible flyer” sleds. You were taught not to walk in front of one; otherwise, you’d get hurt. One incident provided a lesson you’d never forget. You were also taught that if your sled was approaching water or a tree, you’d best roll off the damn thing.
Enter the scumbag personal injury attorney. Anything for a few buck. “my client suffered severe emotional and psychological injuries when he was injured while playing”. How bad off are these charlatans in suits to take a case involving a few stiches or a simple fracture? Where were the parents supervising the kid?
wudchuck it looks like the plastic “disc” sleds are the ones being banned. Likely because they’re harder to steer, who knows.
ROSEBUD……………..
Blame it on juries that when faced to assess damages in a death or paralysis case have no problem in making awards against boroughs for the hazards that might be downhill. Happens all the time. Some times the hazards are man made, other times a tree in position to impede the sled. Plastic sleds have no runners and thus no control. As a councilman in my borough (that’s what insurance people do – they take leadership roles in the community), I cannot disagree with the course taken. We removed a slide about a decade ago due to similar concerns. When I was a kid, if you got hurt on a sled or slide, your parents took you to the doctor and then coached you on being more careful. Since the advent of attorney advertisement, everyone seems to be looking to blame someone now a days.
Years back, my town had a tobaggon slide. It went out onto the lake and people loved it. When condition weren’t right the city would block it off so people wouldn’t use it. One night an idiot climbed the fence and helped his kid over the gate barricading the slide (top and bottom) The kid went doen the slide and hit the bottom gate. The guy sued and won because the city didn’t post a sign at the top of the slide warning someone that if they climbed the barricades and used the slide, there was a gate at the bottom of the slide too. The slde was removed by the city.
That’s the underlying issue. Nobody wants to take responcibility for theit own actions. When I was growing up we were responcible for our own actions. Parents were respecible for their own kids. These days it’s easier to blame the city, and sue for big bucks.