*ahem*

Dear people who are now put out by this asshat.

Go. Enjoy that hill anyway. Don't let one asshat spoil things for you. This is a stupid law/ruling, and it NEEDS. TO. BE. CHALLENGED.

If you don't challenge it, it won't go away.

FTA: On February. 11, 2007, she said she slammed into a frozen hay bale at the bottom and broke her back, both legs and both ankles.

She said she didn't know the bales were frozen solid and blamed the county, Monroeville and Plum.

*facepalm*

Tr0mBoNe: FTA: On February. 11, 2007, she said she slammed into a frozen hay bale at the bottom and broke her back, both legs and both ankles.

She said she didn't know the bales were frozen solid and blamed the county, Monroeville and Plum.

*facepalm*

I honestly wish she would have died.

Darwin is seriously slacking.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: I honestly wish she would have died.

Darwin is seriously slacking.

She would have if she was going face first on a krazy karpet.

/wishes we had significant hills around here.

Prohibition signs posted in response to lawsuits should name the plaintiff and plaintiff's lawyer. "This playground closed because Bobby Sue says her son Billy Joe burned his genitals while humping the metal slide. Billy and Bobby's lawyer is Steve Miller of Brentwood."

Some states have laws saying if you open your property for recreational use for free, you are not liable for negligence related to that use. (And so the lawsuit against a Massachusetts agency over a badly maintained bike path said the bike path was for commuter use, not recreational use, but that game doesn't work with sledding.)

ZAZ: Prohibition signs posted in response to lawsuits should name the plaintiff and plaintiff's lawyer. "This playground closed because Bobby Sue says her son Billy Joe burned his genitals while humping the metal slide. Billy and Bobby's lawyer is Steve Miller of Brentwood."

And watch attention whores file even more lawsuits so their names would be plastered on a sign for eternity.

How about this: If a judge or jury determines your lawsuit is, frankly, farking dumb, you pay the defendant's court costs. And if you can't afford that, you get to be their slave or something :P

One asshat's lawsuit closes ........ enjoyed for generations.

A Fark Mad Lib.

Why can't people sue the asshat for depriving them of depriving them the Blessings of Liberty to themselves and their Posterity?

I'm sorry but did any of you people READ the article?

This woman, through no fault of her own, wound up with two broken knees and a broken back because the hay bales intended to keep her from getting hurt were frozen the fark solid?

All you TF Independents^TM think your so cool and punk rock, "oh she should have died," why don't you turn off the computer and come out into the sunlight and take a good long think about what your doing with yourself.

Or you could sit in the dark covered in cheetos dust. You're call.

Anybody who has been around bales of hay for more than a few minutes knows that those suckers aren't made out of marshmallows and cotton candy. Those things are just short of being rocks. Which is why hay baling equipment uses several hundred pounds of force to compress them.

Perhaps she should have avoided the bales of hay entirely and sledded out into the road. Then she would have found out how soft cars are compared to frozen bales of hay.

Can I testify at the trial? Can I? I live for this sort of thing ;)

Eat_At_Milliways: Or you could sit in the dark covered in cheetos dust. You're call.

I am not call. You f*cked up the apostrophe ;)

SpinStopper: Eat_At_Milliways: Or you could sit in the dark covered in cheetos dust. You're call.

I am not call. You f*cked up the apostrophe ;)

You missed one, SpinStopper:

take a good long think about what your doing with yourself.

We may be covered in Cheeto dust, but we know the difference between a contraction & a possessive.

Mmmm....Cheetos.....

Now I'm not one to side with lawyers but, lets face it. Someone got badly hurt on the hill. The city or county has no choice but to close it.

That just the way things are now days.

brigid_fitch: We may be covered in Cheeto dust, but we know the difference between a contraction & a possessive.

Mmmm....Cheetos.....

Cheetos GOOD! Especially with beer while sitting on bales of hay ;)

Eat_At_Milliways: I'm sorry but did any of you people READ the article?

This woman, through no fault of her own, wound up with two broken knees and a broken back because the hay bales intended to keep her from getting hurt were frozen the fark solid?

All you TF IndependentsTM think your so cool and punk rock, "oh she should have died," why don't you turn off the computer and come out into the sunlight and take a good long think about what your doing with yourself.

Or you could sit in the dark covered in cheetos dust. You're call.

What about my so cool and punk rock.=?

The next time you try to get all self-righteous, try to figure out the difference between 'you're' and 'your'. You may be surprised to learn they're not interchangeable.

Eat_At_Milliways: I'm sorry but did any of you people READ the article?

This woman, through no fault of her own, wound up with two broken knees and a broken back because the hay bales intended to keep her from getting hurt were frozen the fark solid?

All you TF IndependentsTM think your so cool and punk rock, "oh she should have died," why don't you turn off the computer and come out into the sunlight and take a good long think about what your doing with yourself.

Or you could sit in the dark covered in cheetos dust. You're call.

It's WINTER. There's snow and likely ice on EVERYTHING. This woman got on a piece of PLASTIC at the TOP OF A HILL with NO BRAKES and zoomed down towards HAYBALES, which aren't exactly airbags when they're thawed, either.

LIVE AT YOUR OWN RISK, PLEASE.
The fact that she felt somehow that she was less safe than the past 40 FARKING YEARS of people who used the hill for the EXACT SAME PURPOSE and ruined it for everyone with her lawsuit is DEPLORABLE. Instead of taking the blame like everyone else who ever was injured on that hill, she screwed things up for TWO WHOLE TOWNS. SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED AND I HOPE SHE READS THIS AND DOES.

Lawsuits are NOT for use when YOU are the person being negligent. Case farking closed.

SpinStopper: Anybody who has been around bales of hay for more than a few minutes knows that those suckers aren't made out of marshmallows and cotton candy.

Exactly. I use them for archery practice and they're far more solid than the casual onlooker would think. They wouldn't even have to be frozen to do some damage if you hit them badly at a top-sledding speed.

The local county college has a HUGE hill by the employee parking lot. Every time it snows, the maintenance workers are nice enough to put sawhorses & a snow fence at the bottom so that sledders don't end up slamming into parked cars.

However, unless you bail quickly, you end up slamming into wooden sawhorses, instead.

/Every snow there's always a couple of sprains and at least one mild concussion
//So far, no one's stupid enough to sue, as we all know you take your life into your own hands when you're sledding down a 30-degree slope with no way to steer or brake.

Winktologist: It's WINTER. There's snow and likely ice on EVERYTHING. This woman got on a piece of PLASTIC at the TOP OF A HILL with NO BRAKES and zoomed down towards HAYBALES, which aren't exactly airbags when they're thawed, either.

If its not safe for people to sled on than they shouldn't be sledding on it!


Oh and way to go, I always love how you assholes jump on ppls grammer instead of responding to what ppl are saying!!

Eat_At_Milliways: Oh and way to go, I always love how you assholes jump on ppls grammer instead of responding to what ppl are saying!!

We don't like ppl who call names and behave like douches.
And we HATE bad grammar and spelling.
We're a vast conspiracy of ppl and the like, tasked with the sole purpose of your destruction.

Don't you have a frozen haybale you can take a header into?

Eat_At_Milliways: Winktologist: It's WINTER. There's snow and likely ice on EVERYTHING. This woman got on a piece of PLASTIC at the TOP OF A HILL with NO BRAKES and zoomed down towards HAYBALES, which aren't exactly airbags when they're thawed, either.

If its not safe for people to sled on than they shouldn't be sledding on it!


Oh and way to go, I always love how you assholes jump on ppls grammer instead of responding to what ppl are saying!!

Grammer? You cannot possibly expect anyone to find any intelligence in an argument with stupid mistakes throughout.
That is a sign that the writer is not intelligent, therefore neither is what he says.

Eat_At_Milliways: If its not safe for people to sled on than they shouldn't be sledding on it!

after 40 years of sledding down that hill, only one person suffered bad enough brain damage to actually sue. I'd say its her that did something wrong, not the towns, and not the hill.

Eat_At_Milliways: If its not safe for people to sled on than they shouldn't be sledding on it!

Let's ban sledding everywhere. Let's also make it illegal to smoke. Hey, that beer you're drinking in your profile pic? That's gotta go too, causes fights, and drunk driving accidents. Also, let's ban cars when it's wet outside, that's dangerous.

You see what a slippery slope this is.

Also, I notice you conveniently left out my point about the fact that, for 40(+?) years people had been sledding there. This lawsuit is just ridiculous; someone who is 26 should:
a) know the risks of sledding, especially since she had to arrive at the bottom of the hill and walk up (plenty of time to evaluate the situation and either make a plan or bail! Are those hay bales frozen? How will I stop?) and
b) know the physics of accelerating an object to a high speed (i.e. Newton's Second Law). Did this chick not pass high school?

It's not even like this happened to a naive child, this woman was 26 for gods sake. She could have been a college graduate, and according to the article, she worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

No excuses. I don't believe for a second, from the picture or the story, that this hill presented excessive danger for anyone who could be responsible.

You lose your right to ruin something for everyone when you stop being responsible.

Cog: Eat_At_Milliways: Oh and way to go, I always love how you assholes jump on ppls grammer instead of responding to what ppl are saying!!

Grammer? You cannot possibly expect anyone to find any intelligence in an argument with stupid mistakes throughout.
That is a sign that the writer is not intelligent, therefore neither is what he says.

Ouch, pwnt.

Winktologist: SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED AND I HOPE SHE READS THIS AND DOES.

Wow

I thought you guys were just kidding around most of the time

but now I see how vicious you folks really are

"She should have died?" I'm sorry but that's not funny. It isn't. These are real people here, not just pixels on a screen.

The woman in question here is just now learning how to WALK again. Think about that.

Something you do every day, you take for granted... she had taken from her for, what, almost two years?

You guys need to take a step back every once in a while. I like a good joke as much as the next guy ("Your dog wants steak?" Cracks me up) but holy shiat, man.

It's called respect for human life. For this magical, fragile, crazy little blip where all our hopes and dreams live. It's over too quickly and it's all we've got.

Be nice to each other. Take care out there.

elvisaintdead: Don't you have a frozen haybale you can take a header into?

I hate to admit it, but you did make me laugh ;)

What strikes me as funny is that she says "she didn't know the hay bales were frozen solid" which implies that she was aiming for them.

Eat_At_Milliways: It's called respect for human life.

There's another thing called personal responsibility. While it sucks that she was injured so badly, sledding into what amounts to a brick wall at however fast she was going is going to cause injury. Maybe it would have been prudent for the county to have signs up warning people not to let themselves slam into the hay, but this isn't something worth suing over, and it certainly isn't something that is worth spoiling the fun for everybody else over.

What strikes me as funny is that she says "she didn't know the hay bales were frozen solid" which implies that she was aiming for them.

We hear stories here from time to time about kids who like to smash up mailboxes while driving until they go back to the same target once too often and find the fed-up homeowner replaced the fragile post with metal and concrete. Lawyers often ensue.

Not to mention the fact that the city may have inadvertently saved her life by placing those bales of hay there and preventing her from flying off into the nearby street.

Winktologist: You see what a slippery slope this is.

i see what you did there.

I'm guessing Eat_at_Milliways is just jealous because he didn't get a chance to sue for something like that.

/I bet that he's the type that told the teacher if other kids brought candy into class too.

queezyweezel: /I bet that he's the type that told the teacher if other kids brought candy into class too.

More like the kid who told the teacher that a kid brought a baggie of pot to class, hoping they'd have to share.

Followed by "Oops. That didn't work." followed by a trip to the hospital ;)

Tr0mBoNe: FTA: On February. 11, 2007, she said she slammed into a frozen hay bale at the bottom and broke her back, both legs and both ankles.

She said she didn't know the bales were frozen solid and blamed the county, Monroeville Moronville and Plum Dumb.

*facepalm*

Fixed that for someone

AntiNorm: Eat_At_Milliways: It's called respect for human life.

There's another thing called personal responsibility. While it sucks that she was injured so badly, sledding into what amounts to a brick wall at however fast she was going is going to cause injury. Maybe it would have been prudent for the county to have signs up warning people not to let themselves slam into the hay, but this isn't something worth suing over, and it certainly isn't something that is worth spoiling the fun for everybody else over.

And here is a much more eloquent summary of my rage-filled words. This one pissed me off more than most because here we have an adult spoiling fun for 2+ towns of children, and derailing 4 generations of tradition.

It sucks that she got hurt, yes, but I don't know how sorry I can feel for a person who sleds down a hill, gets hurt, and when they come to, says "THIS IS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT!"

Eat_At_Milliways: Winktologist: SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED AND I HOPE SHE READS THIS AND DOES.

Wow

I thought you guys were just kidding around most of the time

but now I see how vicious you folks really are

"She should have died?" I'm sorry but that's not funny. It isn't. These are real people here, not just pixels on a screen.

The woman in question here is just now learning how to WALK again. Think about that.

Something you do every day, you take for granted... she had taken from her for, what, almost two years?

You guys need to take a step back every once in a while. I like a good joke as much as the next guy ("Your dog wants steak?" Cracks me up) but holy shiat, man.

It's called respect for human life. For this magical, fragile, crazy little blip where all our hopes and dreams live. It's over too quickly and it's all we've got.

Be nice to each other. Take care out there.

We get one of these care for humanity types in every other thread, and let me give my generic response...

It's people like this woman who make life for most of us less fun. Be it banning sledding, dodgeball in elementary school, or forcing rules where every peon on a little league team has to play instead of the joy of winning. Those pleasures in life being robbed from us, in a way, kill us inside. So I ask you, what is worse, killing one party spoiler, or killing the fun of everyone else.

Before you answer, keep in mind she was 26, sledding, and did not know better than to bail out of a sled before hitting the hay bales. I mean, I know public schools are bad, but every retard with a GED knows basic physics and that energy in motion remains in motion.

FTA:

Meanwhile, sledding on Boyce's most popular hill is history, much to the consternation of veterans who point out that people have been getting banged up on the hill since the 1970s.

Once I went swimmin' cross Turtle Creek, man thoes snappers all around my feet, sure was hard swimmin' cross that thing with both hands holdin ...

/got nothin

My old grade school has awesome sledding hills and when I went there winter was the best time of year. Now they have signs up all over saying no tobogganing. Sucks to be them. Those were the days.

I think Eat_At_Milliways has pwnd a bunch of you.

Eat_At_Milliways: I'm sorry but did any of you people READ the article?

This woman, through no fault of her own, wound up with two broken knees and a broken back because the hay bales intended to keep her from getting hurt were frozen the fark solid?

Did YOU read the article? The bales were not there to keep her from getting hurt. They were there to keep her out of the street.

And... listen carefully now... THINGS. FREEZE. IN. WINTER.

I believe society owes its members many things, probably more things that most Farkers would agree with. Perfect physical safety is NOT one of them.

Look I'm 29... I go sledding

normally while drunk like every other adult sledding without a child present

There are sleds made for adults

if she was drunk then no suit, she was impaired and could have bailed before hand.

If she was using a kid sized sled then no suit, she used equipment not meant for an adult.

Eat_At_Milliways: The woman in question here is just now learning how to WALK again. Think about that.

Something you do every day, you take for granted... she had taken from her for farked up and lost, what, almost two years?

Fixed

Winktologist: You see what a slippery slope this is.

I think the slippery slope is the point of sledding.

Zing!

I've taken some nasty spills while sledding at good clips, but I have never ASSUMED (even at 5 years old) that somethign that looked soft was guaranteed to be,and usually simply flopped off the sled allowing the snow to slow me down, even if it was icy and tore me up a little.

sorry tard-lady. but you're more of a volunteer than a victim. you lose.

It's a shame you broke your back. I know a woman who broke her back in a drunk driving accident. Yet I still see cars and booze are available. And she took responsibility for her own actions. Weird huh?

Frivolous lawsuits have a very easy solution. Don't allow lawyers a percentage of the reward. Instead, pay them well like you would any professional with that kind of education. But to cash in on the reward just encourages unnecessary rewards.

Strange...

I somehow knew it was the hill from my childhood before I even opened the article. That pit of the stomach feeling...

Sucks. I had a ton of good memories there.

/friend got a concussion sledding there.
//another blow to personal responsibility

Broadcastdave: Winktologist: You see what a slippery slope this is.

i see what you did there.

gwowen: I think the slippery slope is the point of sledding.

Zing!

The best part is I don't think I saw what I did there when I did it. LOL

Eat_At_Milliways: I'm sorry but did any of you people READ the article?

This woman, through no fault of her own, wound up with two broken knees and a broken back because the hay bales intended to keep her from getting hurt were frozen the fark solid?

All you TF IndependentsTM think your so cool and punk rock, "oh she should have died," why don't you turn off the computer and come out into the sunlight and take a good long think about what your doing with yourself.

Or you could sit in the dark covered in cheetos dust. You're call.

1/10, back to troll school with you.