I started diving off of starting blocks when I was eight years old. I am now 51, and train at the Y, almost always alone, as there is no Masters program in the county where I live, or in any of the immediately adjacent counties. (There are several age group programs.) I want to work on my starts, but none of the Y's where I swim will let me use the blocks - saying that a national Y policy prohibits anyone from using the blocks unless a team/club coach is on the deck.
I have never heard of anyone suing a YMCA because of an accident on a starting block.
Yes, perhaps a coach would be valuable to me in this regard, but I'm not looking for a coach - I need and want a cooperative facility. The age groups' program schedules are not conducive to my schedule, and besides, the age group coaches already have enough on their hands during those times with lanes full of kids working their programs. I also am not excited about having to dodge those kids to do the work I need to do.
Anyone find a way to conquer this litigation-fear-induced insanity yet? Thank you.
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Originally posted by aquageek
Was the jury asleep for the fact that the WOMAN SPILLED IT ON HERSELF? ...
Something that I doubt was ever investigated or addressed in this lawsuit: Maybe the driver was herky-jerky in his skills and not very smooth on the brake or clutch, and that's what caused the coffee to spill.
Personally I don't drink anything in a car that isn't relatively spill proof -- coffee mug with cover, soda in a can (very small opening), to-go cup with a lid, etc. Cold or hot. I've learned my lesson by spilling too many things in containers with wide openings -- even just going around a corner or starting/stopping. It's a simple matter of fluid dynamics and Newton's laws of motion that we learned in high school physics.
And I know that coffee to-go from McD's comes with a lid, but the story says that she took it off to add sugar and creamer. My take is that the vendor dispensed the beverage with an appropriate lid. The customer's decision to remove that lid in a moving car was solely her own, and beyond the vendor's control. (Kind of like the guy who used a power mower to trim his hedges and ended up cutting off some fingers -- and successfully sued.)
Originally posted by aquageek
Was the jury asleep for the fact that the WOMAN SPILLED IT ON HERSELF? ...
Something that I doubt was ever investigated or addressed in this lawsuit: Maybe the driver was herky-jerky in his skills and not very smooth on the brake or clutch, and that's what caused the coffee to spill.
Personally I don't drink anything in a car that isn't relatively spill proof -- coffee mug with cover, soda in a can (very small opening), to-go cup with a lid, etc. Cold or hot. I've learned my lesson by spilling too many things in containers with wide openings -- even just going around a corner or starting/stopping. It's a simple matter of fluid dynamics and Newton's laws of motion that we learned in high school physics.
And I know that coffee to-go from McD's comes with a lid, but the story says that she took it off to add sugar and creamer. My take is that the vendor dispensed the beverage with an appropriate lid. The customer's decision to remove that lid in a moving car was solely her own, and beyond the vendor's control. (Kind of like the guy who used a power mower to trim his hedges and ended up cutting off some fingers -- and successfully sued.)
