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Originally Posted by BWillie
Huh? I don't understand what you are talking about. The Royals didn't take anything to the chin.
They found that Slugger and the Royals were NOT negligent. They just overruled the previous outcome of where they originally found Mr Coomer actually the negligent party. In this case, they just found BOTH of them were NOT AT FAULT.
It's like if your tree falls on a neighbors property, and is a healthy, normal tree with no issues. A court would find that you are not at fault, and your neighbor is not at fault for that as well. Obviously different circumstances, but same result. It shouldn't make any difference if the guy had a scratched hangnail, or if he lost his life, the only thing that SHOULD matter is what happened and if there was negligence involved. The end of story. Royals don't have to pay the guy.
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Then my mistake. And that's a complete shame that the guy doesn't even get payment for medical treatment.
I don't understand the ruling. If we're talking about randomly getting knocked in the eye with a hot dog, fine. But we're not. We're talking about a guy who got knocked on the head with a foil wrapped hot dog (not bubble wrapped), thrown with no arc (he was told to throw with arc), thrown behind the back errantly. It's not like the guy was sitting there waiting for the hot dog and completely duffed the catch. How many people expect to be pegged with a hot dog from a mascot throwing it behind his back?
For the sake of national law, okay, I'm glad this doesn't set the precedent of creating too much liability for in-game promotions. But the idea that a guy should be assuming risk for extracurricular stuff NOT related to the game is silly when the employee handling the promotion is acting recklessly. The only reason the hot dog had that low of an arc and that much velocity is because Slugrrr was showing off.