Mike Wallace, a 41-year-old Charleston attorney, completed his bucolic riverfront playground with a 53-foot-long metal slicky slide from a defunct water resort, and spared no expense of cranes, trucks and barges to get it there. And the irony isn’t lost on him: “I’m a trial lawyer and it was probably trial lawyers that shut that place down.” Guests? “I’ll probably ask people to sign a release.” When the lake resort that had formerly owned the slide closed down in 1987, “its owners said astronomical rises in liability insurance forced their decision”. (Monica Orosz, “Slide from old Rock Lake Pool gets new life on river”, Charleston Daily Mail, Sept. 7)(& thanks to Eric Turkewitz for correcting “slicky slide” from the worse than nonsensical “sticky slide”, which I’d originally typed) .
New owner for West Virginia water slide
Mike Wallace, a 41-year-old Charleston attorney, completed his bucolic riverfront playground with a 53-foot-long metal slicky slide from a defunct water resort, and spared no expense of cranes, trucks and barges to get it there. And the irony isn’t lost on him: “I’m a trial lawyer and it was probably trial lawyers that shut that […]
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One can only hope that he gets sued if somebody gets injured on it and has his waiver thrown out.