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Just call Slugger. He can fire a hot dog in your direction at 2,200 feet per second.

Clean up on Isle 3

it is someone elses fault, you don't expect flying ****ing hot dogs at a baseball game. The guy isn't looking to get rich here, and if anyone should be accountable, it is the mascot.

it is very unfortunate.

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This thread is great, you guys are really on a roll. Is it cause it is friday?

Have you ever been to a baseball game? Teams do promotions like this all the time. If you don't expect it, the announcement should clue you in...so should the guy in a giant Lion costume preparing to toss hotdogs.

Inter continental ballistic hotdog? I'm putting on my safety goggles.

Yes, yes I have, even a few Royals games. I even saw Steve Busby pitch.

At the drag races, they often shoot T-Shirts to the crowd out of a giant cannon thing, and I just can't imagine someone not being aware of it. However, I bet there are people looking at something else at the time, just like this guy obviously was.

I think the bogie here is that he is not trying to get rich, just basically get his medical bills covered.

He's asking for "over 20k", the exact amount isn't specified.

Did it clearly have a chance of inflicting serious medical damage? Yes. How do I know this? Because it happened once, therefore, there is a chance.

The mockery you're making of somebody freaking out about a hot dog promotion is exactly my point. People bring baseball gloves and are always alert during an inning for fear of getting hit with a bat or balll. Nobody expects to get hurt during a hot dog promotion, so why do you keep putting this ridiculous idea into people's heads that people should be paying close attention to a hot dog promotion so as not to get hurt? How about not doing the promotion at all -- is that going to change the outcome of the game?

What are some of the Royals' duty of care? How about insuring that hot dogs are wrapped in something that can't hurt anyone? How about instructing the mascot to lob hot dogs? How about instructing your mascot to lob it to someone who's paying attention, instead of carelessly flipping it behind your back?

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Sluggggrrr is going to need some sympathy lap dances to get his groove back on...

Looks like Saul Good's description of this particular event assumed a lot of facts beyond "what a hot dog toss is like". You proclaimed exactly, as if you adopted it entirely.

Why would there have to be some absolute rule making all incidents liability? Or, the converse rule that all incidents equal no liability?

IMO, it ought to be a matter of fact depending on what happened and the matter of law should not be absolute either way.

Then why did you just say that you don't expect it? You do expect it because you've seen it happen at every Royals game for a decade.

I sympathisize with the guy. I really do. They Royals should pay for his medical bills, but they shouldn't be legally obligated to. There was nothing dangerous about what they did. It was a freak accident that couldn't have been reasonably anticipated, and this guy could have protected himself by doing literally anything to avoid it.

Going to a Major League baseball game is different than going to the library. It's an interactive experience with tens of thousands of people there to be entertained by not only the game itself, but by the fountains, the food, the music, the carousel, the hot dog race, the kiss cam, and...yes...the mascot tossing t-shirts, hotdogs, etc. to the fans. If those activities are so dangerous as to present an obvious threat, reasonable people should not be there in the first place.

What should they wrap a hotdog in? It's already in a ****ing bun. Should it be wrapped inside something softer than a bun? Something less dangerous than white bread?

It isn't "clearly dangerous" just because someone got hurt. It took a freak accident by an idiot to get hurt. It's possible to get hurt by any number of things if you're the person who is both dumb enough and unlucky enough to find yourself hurt in a hotdog toss at a baseball game. The possibility that something could hurt someone isn't enough that a reasonable person should anticipate it happening.

If everybody around was clamoring to catch the hot dog, then why didn't one of them catch it before it hit this guy's eye?

Could it be that he threw it too hard and too low for the people that wanted to catch it to catch it?