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Originally posted by Moses
A kid goes fishing in a river recently stocked with trout by the state of California. He falls in and is drowned. Do his parents sue the state for creating "an attractive nuisance"?
See? The madness has to stop somewhere. Do you want safety rails installed at rivers edge? Maybe mandatory flotation devices for fishermen? Hell, lets just eliminate all public access to state parks. It's dangerous out there.
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Oh, don't me wrong, I absolutely agree with you. As the state takes on more and more responsibility to govern areas of our lives that it should not govern, these questions have come up. The madness should have stopped a long, long time ago. Don't think for a minute that states have not been sued as you describe. And yes, I have seen safety rails, installed by the state at river's edge, just for this reason. And all manner of rediculous warning signs. They have long since stepped down this slippery slope of regulation and the the responsibility that goes with it. As absurd as it is, I bet these folks might even win this cougar case.