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Due to my company firewall I cant post the link, but here's a quick rundown.
In Brownsville Brooklyn, a group of teens were playing a game of chicken on a parking gate that goes up and down whenever a car leaves or enters. The last person to hang on wins. Only this time, one of the teens held on too long and was afraid to jump resulting in him getting crushed within the mechanism at the top of the gate. Immediately the mother spoke out about how if the park within the complex for the kids to play at wasnt fenced off that this would have never happened. She also blamed security for not paying attention or rushing to the aid of the child as he hung from the gate for approximately 10 minutes while waiting for emergency services to arrive.
While I feel sorry for the loss of this child, I'm becoming quite annoyed with people putting blame on others for theirs or their childrens self doing. Although he was only 12, I'm quite sure he knew that this was not a safe game to play. According to neighbors, this teen was warned just the day before by security to stop playing around and hanging on the gate. How the mother feels she has a case is beyond me. Although I wont be surprised if a judge rules in her favor and she is awarded a substantial amount of money for this.
easy way out of the hood. make a child, disregard what child is doing and not pay attention, profit off death.
It's a horrible situation and may the kid RIP, but I also just rolled my eyes at the lawsuit. The more judges that rule in favor of these frivolous lawsuits, the more that people seem to grasp over everything to get their very own lawsuit.
I'm becoming quite annoyed with people putting blame on others for theirs or their childrens self doing.
I'd agree and the classic example is high dives. When I was a kid these were common at any pool. The community pool where I live doesn't even have a dive at all let alone a high dive. A few kids got hurt (not at this particular pool), parents sued, now the insurance is so outrageous the pool can't afford it. No more diving boards at any pool.
I read this in the NYDN the other day and it is sickening that they could even have a law suite. It is a tragedy, but the children were told several times by just about everyone NOT to play with the gate. They did so anyway as sort of a dare or challenge to entertain themselves, and a kid paid the price with his life.
Then the parents and community had a nerve to critisize the developers for not building a playground, assuming that if one had of been built, then the kids would have had somewhere else to go ...yet when it was pointed out that they actually did have one, they were critisized AGAIN for not having one for the age of the kids playing with the gate ...then the developers mentioned that they tried to have a basketball court built, but due to liability issues they scrapped the plans. And who can blame them? This is Brownsville we're talking about after all.
And for those folks who aren't familiar with the area, Brownsville is the poorest, worst area of NYC. I don't blame the developers for not putting a ball court there.
If anything, the developers should sue the parents for any damage caused to his gate. After all, someone has to pay for that.
I'd agree and the classic example is high dives. When I was a kid these were common at any pool. The community pool where I live doesn't even have a dive at all let alone a high dive. A few kids got hurt (not at this particular pool), parents sued, now the insurance is so outrageous the pool can't afford it. No more diving boards at any pool.
I used to love diving, and when the pools around here started removing their diving boards, I was like WTF? It's sad that our society has become so sue happy!
I read this in the NYDN the other day and it is sickening that they could even have a law suite. It is a tragedy, but the children were told several times by just about everyone NOT to play with the gate. They did so anyway as sort of a dare or challenge to entertain themselves, and a kid paid the price with his life.
Then the parents and community had a nerve to critisize the developers for not building a playground, assuming that if one had of been built, then the kids would have had somewhere else to go ...yet when it was pointed out that they actually did have one, they were critisized AGAIN for not having one for the age of the kids playing with the gate ...then the developers mentioned that they tried to have a basketball court built, but due to liability issues they scrapped the plans. And who can blame them? This is Brownsville we're talking about after all.
And for those folks who aren't familiar with the area, Brownsville is the poorest, worst area of NYC. I don't blame the developers for not putting a ball court there.
If anything, the developers should sue the parents for any damage caused to his gate. After all, someone has to pay for that.
Building a playground would also get them sued.
Keep in mind too that in certain parts of the US, lawsuit judgments are VASTLY higher and they tend to be impoverished areas where a jury is likely to be uneducated and looking to just give someone a payout.
This is why a number of states have put laws into place to limit venue shopping like in IL where they try to get the cases moved to East St. Louis......or in class action suits why 50% of the suits are brought in Mississippi with 1% of the US population. Just a coincidence no doubt.
And who can blame them? This is Brownsville we're talking about after all.
And for those folks who aren't familiar with the area, Brownsville is the poorest, worst area of NYC. I don't blame the developers for not putting a ball court there.
Actually, neighborhoods in the Bronx are among the poorest neighborhoods in NYC.
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...then the developers mentioned that they tried to have a basketball court built, but due to liability issues they scrapped the plans. And who can blame them? This is Brownsville we're talking about after all.
