[pct-l] meddling NPS

[Julie Flaming]

I hear what you're saying and I actually agree about the sue-happy part. I'm
just saying that blaming the Park Service isn't really fair - They're doing
the best they can. To make your example work, the scenario would actually be
that the kid starts mowing lawns at a country club where another company is
actually contracted already to do groundskeeping and where the country club
is obligated to be responsible to a lot of stakeholders - the contractors,
the guests, any shareholders, anyone who insures the grounds, etc.

Julie




On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Diane Morris <diane_m96002 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> *I might be throwing myself out in the line of fire again... but...*
> *I do understand all the liability points you are bringing up...specially
> the way things are these days, but, that would be like saying a young boy
> that is out earning HONEST money by mowing lawns would have landscapers
> possibly wanting to sue them, because there not legally operating a lawn
> mowing business. To me this country has become SUE HAPPY and I feel that the
> courts allow some of the most rediculous cases to enter the court system...
> *
> **
> *I guess I'm just old school when it comes to this stuff.*
>
> *~Diane Morris*
> **
>
> *"Accept me for who I am, not who you want me to be..."*
> **
> **
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 12/27/09, Julie Flaming <julie.flaming at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Julie Flaming <julie.flaming at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] meddling NPS
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Sunday, December 27, 2009, 12:02 PM
>
> I hear what you all are saying. The reality of the thing is that any
> business operating in a large national park is heavily regulated and under
> bid (iirc, by congressional mandate, and not by any particularly anal
> aspect
> of the NPS per se), and the NPS would have been in an ugly place
> liability-wise if they'd knowingly allowed this to go on. If one of the
> kids
> had been injured, their parents probably would have sued the NPS for more
> than its annual budget and it would have been a real tragedy. And if one of
> the other businesses operating legally in the park could have proved that
> the kids were edging them out somehow, they could have sued. And if one of
> the kids' customers had had property damaged by one of these young people
> and sued, the NPS would also have been in a jam. It's easy to point fingers
> at them, but I don't really see how they could knowingly allow it.
>
> Julie
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Diane Morris <diane_m96002 at yahoo.com<http://us.mc800.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=diane_m96002@yahoo.com>
> >wrote:
>
> > Jim said
> > "The ranger we spoke with is also a high school soccer coach. A couple of
> > years ago several members of his team (unbeknownst to him), were hiking
> > down
> > to Phantom Ranch and carrying out "hiker" backpacks at $200 a pop. And
> > there
> > were plenty of takers. One young man was making two trips per day! After
> a
> > few weeks, the Park Superintendent got wind of this new "service" and put
> > an
> > end to it."
> >
> >
> > One would think that the forest service would appriciate that the kids
> were
> > just out trying to earn some HONEST money and not out spraying graffitti,
> or
> > worse yet, getting the guns out to play (who's the biggest and badest and
> > live to tell.)
> > I personally commend the kids for coming up with a way to earn themselves
> > some honest money and a bonus... staying in shape (specially with all the
> > young, lazy, overweight kids these days...)
> > WOW!!!   ANAL is all I can say for the Park Superintendent!
> > ~Diane Morris
> >
> > "Accept me for who I am, not who you want me to be..."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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