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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on September 02, 2010, 04:43:18 PM
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The Northerner (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-02-10 12:25 PM
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Swing sets removed at some W.Va. schools
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Elementary school playgrounds in one West Virginia county are losing their swing sets.
Swings are being removed from Cabell County schools in southern West Virginia in part because of lawsuits over injuries.
Cabell County schools safety manager Tim Stewart said on Wednesday that a lot of parents are accusing him of being un-American, but he says the cost of maintaining a safe surface is too expensive.
Stewart says a lawsuit in the past year involved a youngster who broke his arm jumping off a swing like Superman. It was settled for $20,000.
Other equipment such as monkey bars will remain. Stewart says the schools are able to maintain the proper protection underneath them.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100901/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9062547
It's a good sized bonfire with most bemoaning the way things have changed, when it is their side that is to blame.
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I heard about this earlier on Hannity. I have a question. Anyone's parents here ever sue the school for your own stupidity while at school?
Hell, my boy decided to play I-Man and bit his tongue leapin' out of a swing when he was in the fifth grade! The school offered to put it on their insurance and I declined. I figured if my kid was dumb enough to pull that crap, it certainly wasn't the schools fault!
I told 'em if he tries that crap again, beat his ass, or call me, and I would be more than happy to oblige!
The thought of suing the school would never occur to me if my kids get hurt on the playground! Kids are kids, for cripes sake! They're bound to get bumps and bruises figuring out they aren't "I-Man"!
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IIRC it was around 1986-7 when the nation's law schools would graduate the same amount of lawyers as were practicing at the time. Could be BS but if not I blame LA Law.
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I heard about this earlier on Hannity. I have a question. Anyone's parents here ever sue the school for your own stupidity while at school?
Hell, my boy decided to play I-Man and bit his tongue leapin' out of a swing when he was in the fifth grade! The school offered to put it on their insurance and I declined. I figured if my kid was dumb enough to pull that crap, it certainly wasn't the schools fault!
I told 'em if he tries that crap again, beat his ass, or call me, and I would be more than happy to oblige!
The thought of suing the school would never occur to me if my kids get hurt on the playground! Kids are kids, for cripes sake! They're bound to get bumps and bruises figuring out they aren't "I-Man"!
That's what the world is turning into with the America-hating communist in the White House. This is the world we live in now. :bird: :censored:
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I can remember playing dodge ball while lined up against the brick wall of the grade school. Jungle Gyms (that's racist, isn't it?) and swing sets were on concrete or asphalt to keep them from settling into the ground.
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CalPiggy should grace us with a poem.
I got hurt at school
a million or 2 would be cool
They won't let me marry my goat
Lawyer says we'll take 'em to court
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CalPiggy should grace us with a poem.
I got hurt at school
a million or 2 would be cool
They won't let me marry my goat
Lawyer says we'll take 'em to court
Now that's just wrong! Think of the goat for cripes sake!
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Now that's just wrong! Think of the goat for cripes sake!
AR, let's remember who JR is channeling here. Cut him some slack! :tongue:
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Plenty of us liberals who are as disgusted as y'all at ridiculous lawsuits.
Although you may rightfully claim more litigation attorneys are Dems/Liberals, I have yet to see evidence that most plaintifs in ridiculous suits lean one way or the other politically.
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Plenty of us liberals who are as disgusted as y'all at ridiculous lawsuits.
Although you may rightfully claim more litigation attorneys are Dems/Liberals, I have yet to see evidence that most plaintifs in ridiculous suits lean one way or the other politically.
You're kiddin', right? I mean get series!
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You're kiddin', right? I mean get series!
You may have to show him the meaning of that in the Dick-shun-nary for DUmmies.
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You may have to show him the meaning of that in the Dick-shun-nary for DUmmies.
I doubt it, that's probably the way he spells it.
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Plenty of us liberals who are as disgusted as y'all at ridiculous lawsuits.
Although you may rightfully claim more litigation attorneys are Dems/Liberals, I have yet to see evidence that most plaintifs in ridiculous suits lean one way or the other politically.
Yea - smoking pot 12 times a day does that to a "person".
Who can you sue for that?
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Well, they'd be half-right; as far as I can tell, they're never any kind of 'happy.'
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Plenty of us liberals who are as disgusted as y'all at ridiculous lawsuits.
Although you may rightfully claim more litigation attorneys are Dems/Liberals, I have yet to see evidence that most plaintifs in ridiculous suits lean one way or the other politically.
You mean like that anti-American group like the ACLU?!?! ::) ::)
What a bunch of libs/progressives running the scam. :bird:
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Plenty of us liberals who are as disgusted as y'all at ridiculous lawsuits.
Although you may rightfully claim more litigation attorneys are Dems/Liberals, I have yet to see evidence that most plaintifs in ridiculous suits lean one way or the other politically.
However , it is the Democrats that prevent any meaningful kind of tort reform from happening. Even something as simple as loser pays would cut down on a lot of the BS that happens.
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How did John Edwards get his money? How did Elizabeth Edwards get hers? :-)
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How did John Edwards get his money? How did Elizabeth Edwards get hers? :-)
They went barefooted and picked cotton.
......uh.....I mean picked pockets.
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They went barefooted and picked cotton.
......uh.....I mean picked pockets.
Well...John did. Lizzy got her's from John in a divorce.
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Well...John did. Lizzy got her's from John in a divorce.
And how did she do that? By suing him. :-)
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And how did she do that? By suing him. :-)
It's the liberal way. Take it from those who have it and give it to those who don't.
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Sort of like the red diaper doper babies we have running around in the White House.
Sue everybody!! Pieces of garbage in my opinion. They do nothing but bad for America and it's values. :bird: :censored: :censored:
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Sort of like the red diaper doper babies we have running around in the White House.
Sue everybody!! Pieces of garbage in my opinion. They do nothing but bad for America and it's values. :bird: :censored: :censored:
+3 H5s, if we still could.
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Plenty of us liberals who are as disgusted as y'all at ridiculous lawsuits.
Although you may rightfully claim more litigation attorneys are Dems/Liberals, I have yet to see evidence that most plaintifs in ridiculous suits lean one way or the other politically.
Really? Ever heard of Michael Newdow?
http://www.google.com/search?q=michael+newdow&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
Damn, but that was easy....