When I was a child, we used to go sledding in the winter from high hills. If someone got hurt, we accepted responsibility for our actions and our parents didn’t sue anyone.
Not so today. People don’t like to take responsibility for their actions anymore. It’s always somebody else’s fault and the liberal courts and juries seem too agree.
Cities are banning or limiting sledding in city parks.(1) Why you ask. Because people are getting hurt, running into trees or other obstacles and it is always the cities fault, never the individual or the parent.
A study by the Columbus Ohio based Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital found that between 1997 and 2007, more than 20,000 children each year were treated at emergency rooms for sledding related injuries. (1) (Although the article doesn’t make it clear, I assume this is across the entire US.)
It is very unfortunate when someone is paralyzed from any type of accident. If you look at all the children hurt from motorcycle racing, snow skiing, skateboarding, football, etc., I hardly think sledding is a bigger risk. Parents should be monitoring the activities of their children and assuming responsibility for their safety. It’s NOT always somebody else’s fault.
(1) U-T San Diego January 5, 2015 via Associated Press
Our only hope is that the military gets tired of seeing our country destroyed from within and takes control. The 3 branches of our government are ineffective and running amok. Neither major political party has demonstrated that they can or will solve our problems.
Our problems can be summed up as CLAPS.
Corruption
Liberals
Apathy
Political Correctness
Stupidity
And I bet you thought Clap was just a common human sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
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