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Originally Posted by King_Chief_Fan

Before you get the idea that you might think that I think kids every whim should be given into, don't. I agree to a pretty large extent of what you say about how you are raising your kids (at least as it pertains to the granting of every want).

Who is liable for laying on the sidewalk waiting in line for a system and the person laying there gets severe frost bite? Safe condition of property? Can't control the outside temp. What is the stores responsibility here?

That is right. You can't. Those are OUTSIDE conditions that are uncontrollable. I think your analogy is flawed. Introducing increasing amounts of water or stopping a contest IS a controllable.

I think a better comparison would be the Great White show. The management of the bar and the tour manager did not PLAN for indoor fireworks to create an inferno that would cost 100 people their lives. But one could assume that would be a POSSIBILITY and thus might take precautions to make certain that it did not happen. Likewise, those in attendance might see indoor fireworks and think 'this place could become a tinderbox.'

Perhaps I'm just old or maybe too anal but I'd be one of those watching the fireworks and looking to see where the exits were. Now, you could say the people who didn't look for exits or leave if they sensed danger were responsible for not knowing and thus responsible for their own deaths. BUT, those people in attendance also had a belief that the promoters had taken every necessary precaution to ensure the safety of their show BEFOREHAND. That assumption cost them their lives but it also cost those responsible prison time because they had NOT done what they should have.

The same could be said for the contest sponsors. The participants were there by choice. But they also had an assumption that the radio station would not intentionally sponsor something they knew would be life threatening. They also could assume that if there was a question about the safety that precautions were taken to ensure such concerns were addressed. Thus, they participated in the event under the belief, assumed, that the radio station sponsoring the event had the safety considerations covered.

Like those in Rhode Island, one lost her life because of the false assumption. Her assumption did/does not absolve from any liability the sponsors of the event.