On my city’s nature trails there are signs on the entrance of unofficial paths in the woods warning people that the ground could be uneven and slippery.
How pathetic have we become as a species that we can’t even let someone walk in the woods without fearing a lawsuit?
Edit: I even remember being told by an employee at Costco to walk the long way through a long empty queue instead of simply going over or under the chain because “I could have hurt myself” doing so.
American litigiousness is a direct result of the missing safety net.
A lot fewer people would sue if their slip didn’t land them five to seven figures in debt, make them unable to work, and completely fuck up their finances
Until 2023 there was a tree in a national park near me that was 65m tall, and you could climb to the top because there were rebar climbing pins in the tree. Not a ladder, as such, but just steel pins sticking out from the trunk about 2 feet apart, spiralling up the tree at an 80 degree angle. There was no safety net, no safety line, no harness, no gates. It was not ‘closed’ during major storms, it was just assumed nobody would climb in one. You could just drive up, and start climbing in thongs and a bintang singlet during a thunderstorm if you wanted to.
Sadly this era came to an end in 2033 when they restricted the climb to just 30m.
On my city’s nature trails there are signs on the entrance of unofficial paths in the woods warning people that the ground could be uneven and slippery.
How pathetic have we become as a species that we can’t even let someone walk in the woods without fearing a lawsuit?
Edit: I even remember being told by an employee at Costco to walk the long way through a long empty queue instead of simply going over or under the chain because “I could have hurt myself” doing so.
American litigiousness is a direct result of the missing safety net.
A lot fewer people would sue if their slip didn’t land them five to seven figures in debt, make them unable to work, and completely fuck up their finances
Until 2023 there was a tree in a national park near me that was 65m tall, and you could climb to the top because there were rebar climbing pins in the tree. Not a ladder, as such, but just steel pins sticking out from the trunk about 2 feet apart, spiralling up the tree at an 80 degree angle. There was no safety net, no safety line, no harness, no gates. It was not ‘closed’ during major storms, it was just assumed nobody would climb in one. You could just drive up, and start climbing in thongs and a bintang singlet during a thunderstorm if you wanted to.
Sadly this era came to an end in 2033 when they restricted the climb to just 30m.
Nobody has ever died falling from it.
A warning from the future.