Santa Susana Park prohibits rock-climbing, and has even partially fenced off a 100-foot rock face there. Nonetheless, 13-year-old Corey Romagnano climbed it anyway, and is in a coma after suffering skull fractures from falling off the cliff. The resulting lawsuit is especially critical of the park district for situating a baseball field beneath the cliff because it “made the hillside even more dangerous and attractive to children who would want to watch the game or activities.”
“We have all kinds of parks and open space — 5,000 acres worth. The open space is available for use by the public and we can’t protect everyone from everything. You can’t eliminate risk of injury,” said Larry Peterson, the park district’s general manager.
(Angie Valencia-Martinez, “District sued over boy’s fall from park cliff”, LA Daily News, Jun. 25 (via Common Good Society Watch)).
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