Comments on: Playground wood chips ruled unfair to disabled https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 15 May 2007 19:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Lincoln https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7279 Tue, 15 May 2007 19:45:00 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7279 Nice one, Peter – I was just about to write something like that when I read your post!

Anyone know if they still even have see-saws anymore? I guess I don’t get out much to playgrounds, but just wondering if someone here could fill me in. Was it a fat kid (scuse me, hefty kid) thing, where it’s bad for their self-esteems? Or is it bad for the small kids who take the chance of going flying when paired with the fat, damn! hefty kids? Are lawyers going to take any and all fun out of this world?

(Don’t answer the last one, too depressing)

]]> By: Jim Collins https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7278 Tue, 15 May 2007 08:27:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7278 Sorry ArtK. Most playground equipment is covered with vinyl not rubber. My nephew has the latex allergy and doesn’t have a problem with playground equipment…….when we can find it.

]]> By: ArtK https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7277 Mon, 14 May 2007 23:51:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7277 Now we need someone whose child has a latex allergy to sue someone with the rubberized surface on their playground. It’s discrimination against someone with a disability!

]]> By: jb https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7276 Mon, 14 May 2007 18:28:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7276 MHoc: No, sue on the theory that if they’d designed more interesting playgrounds your kids wouldn’t have been forced to use the trees instead.

]]> By: MHoc https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7275 Mon, 14 May 2007 15:36:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7275 My kids aren’t terribly excited about risk-free playgrounds. (If we are lucky we find the old fun playgrounds with rusty merry go rounds.) Nine times out of ten they choose to climb the trees next to the playground. If they ever slip and fall I’ll be sure to sue on the basis that trees in a park are an attractive nuisance.

]]> By: Peter https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7274 Mon, 14 May 2007 15:28:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7274 Meh. When I was a kid, our playground equipment was on cement, and we liked it. Only broke my arm once out there…

]]> By: OBQuiet https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7273 Mon, 14 May 2007 14:11:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7273 Yet another reason for schools to remove playgrounds and add to the obesity ‘epidemic’. Thus giving lawyers another thing to sue over.

]]> By: Jim Collins https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7272 Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7272 Let’s see ADA specifies a 6% slope for all wheelchair ramps. For a slide that is 6 ft tall you need a 100 ft ramp. So odds are that the sliding board is going to become an endangered species.

]]> By: Greg DWyer https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/05/playground-wood-chips-ruled-unfair-to-disabled/comment-page-1/#comment-7271 Mon, 14 May 2007 12:36:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4905#comment-7271 How exactly is a kid in a wheelchair supposed to use a slide anyway? As far as I remember, they have difficulty with ladders as well as wood chips.

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