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The Biggest and Baddest Backyard Roller Coaster
BoomZilla writes "Following on the heels of previously reported backyard roller coasters (here
and
here), I'd like to add Jeremy Reid's
wondrous beast to the list. This behemoth certainly takes the award for the
largest, fastest (and most likely the most expensive) labor of coaster love.
Located in Newcastle, Oklahoma, it has an initial drop of 20ft, pulls max
positive G's of 3.5 and max negative G's of -0.2. Overall it's a stunning 444
feet in length. Total cost is estimated at $5.5k. Jeremy is, clearly, a man with
too much time and money on his hands!"
I doubt the use is heavy enough for maintainance to be a big issue.
The unofficial
He's hosting large mpegs, and its still early. Who wants to wager how many more comments get posted before someone starts whining about the borked Windows site?
That leaves us with an extremely young child with poor judgment in an uncompensable situation just because someone likes to maintain a rollercoaster in his yard
To make this sentence correct, the word "just" needs to be deleted and the words "and because someone else likes to let their kids run around other peoples' yards unsupervised" added.
It is not the parent's lawsuit -- it is the child's lawsuit.
If it were really the child's lawsuit, then:
The damages would only be taken from the maintainer of the "attractive nuisance" after the parents had demonstrated an inability to pay.
They would be placed in a trust for the child that his guardians could only touch to cover medical bills.
The child would be placed in a foster family away from those parents, who, even if there were no backyard roller coasters, may be unable to successfully raise children in a world with operating railroads, roads full of fast cars, alleys full of junkies and muggers, and all sorts of other dangers that can be lethal to young children running around public (not to mention private) property unsupervised.
Last summer when I was at Cedar Point I was stranded on the top hill of a roller coaster for about two hours before being escorted down the stairs to the side of the first hill. The engine towing us up the first hill was siezed. I was really pissed off because I drove 1,200 miles for the roller coasters and spent a good chunk of my second of three days doing nothing, I mean, for the two hours, I could have almost made it completely throught the line of the Millenium Force!
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
It looks like the coaster is made of bare wood, without any sort of weather seal on it of any kind. It seems to me that unless he paints it or stains it, rotting is going to make it unsafe in a few years.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
You can quote case law all you want, but the fact is most people sue in instances like this to try and get rich, or cover their own financial losses for being stupid (or allowing their kids to be stupid). Lawyers support such lawsuits only because they can line their own pockets.
Couldn't a reason for all these lawsuits also be the high costs of medical care. West Europe is compareable with USA in wealth and in most countries there is the healthcare very cheap, hence no need for a lawsuit. Maybe it's just me but I've never heard of a lawsuit like that in Europe...