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They don’t want to deal with the liability lawsuits.
by mikelitoris 8mo ago
They don’t want to deal with the liability lawsuits.
- _qua 8mo agoWould there be liability lawsuits for this happening on public land? Might it be more a matter of them not wanting to do body clean up once a week?
- etrautmann 8mo agothere aren't that many accidents. It's also more dangerous to jump in ways that attempt to skirt laws (jumping near dark, trying to evade capture, etc)
- schaefer 8mo agoI’m convinced this is how Dean Potter died. Jumping at dusk to try to evade capture my Yosemite rangers. If it had been legal, and had he jumped in broad daylight, I think he’d have survived that day.
- kjs3 8mo agoIf it had been legal, and had he jumped in broad daylight, I think he’d have survived that day. Right. It's the Park Service to blame. Right there with the "it's the cops fault I crashed and burned because if driving 140mph was legal I would be fine".
- al_borland 8mo agoThis seems like something a liability waiver and an escrow account with money for body clean up (if things go bad) would solve. A little red tape, sure, but not illegal.
- kjs3 8mo agoIt can be both. But to your point, when some overconfident dudebro splatters himself all over the flats, we the people have to pay for the cops to show up, the medics and the ambulance even if the idiot is obviously dogfood, the body recovery, the coroner and the postmortem, and all the associated bureaucracy. And someone will still sue because the Park Service didn't prevent the moron from killing himself. You can sue for literally anything in the US.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoThey probably don't want to deal with the bodies either. One man's thrill seeking is another man's lasting psychological trauma.
- etrautmann 8mo agothen we need tort reform to address the root cause. This is so silly and unfortunate that wild spaces are litigated and made illegal for things that are normal and wonderful elsewhere.
- knowitnone3 8mo ago[dead]
- wildzzz 8mo agoYou can pretty much do whatever you want on BLM land but just not in national parks.