[Daffynition]

WOW. Just WOW!

[Tax-chick]

Here’s something you’d want to not do if you go back to Cape May.

[El Laton Caliente]

I’ve worked in Purdhoe Bay the last two years. If I go back I’m joining the Artic Swimming Team... LOL

[BenLurkin]

This lawsuit will not bring their daughter back.

[NoGrayZone]

"Hottenstein did not participate in the afternoon plunge that Saturday, but stayed in the resort community that night with friends."

Then whats the problem? Their daughter got drunk and either dove into the water, or fell in. What does this have to do with the event?

[LukeL]

Who would think jumping in near freezing water would be bad for you?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Why don’t sue themselves for raising a daughter that didn’t have the sense to not go into ice cold water?

[Yaelle]

So it’s New Jersey’s fault that she got hypothermia plunging undressed into the winter ocean???

[FormerACLUmember]

Loser pays. Any sympathy I might have for the parents is neutralized by this loathesome suit.

Their idiot daughter was a Darwin Award winner and future case on cable’s “1000 ways to Die” show.

I especially like the claim against the ER doctor who declared her dead.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

When I think of the doc who pronounced her dead I get a chilling vision of pure, dripping EEEEEVIL!

[Secret Agent Man]

I just gotta ask, what percentage of fault do the parents ascribe to their daughter for deciding to voluntarily take part in the Polar Bear Plunge?

What percentage of the blame did the parents place on themselves for not being smart enough to stop their daughter from taking part in this event?

So whatever this kid did, if anything bad ever happened to her, it would always be someone else’s fault? She’s never responsible for anything that happens to her, ever?

[sodpoodle]

A product of poor parenting.

The article does not state how old she was at the time of her self destructive behavior.

[Cementjungle]

Also named is the hospital where she died and the doctor who pronounced her dead, as well as the Sea Isle City Police Department

Good grief.

[John Valentine]

Wow is right- and here's the money quote:

"Hottenstein did not participate in the afternoon plunge that Saturday, but stayed in the resort community that night with friends."

[shadowcat]

They sued everyone but the sand.

[Vision]

Tort reform now.

[NoGrayZone]

"The 35-year-old's body was found about six hours later a half-mile away."

When I first read the story, I thought she was an underage drinker (hence them suing the bars and "encouraging drinking").

Then I went to another story linked below that one to find out she was 35.....AN ADULT!.

The parents should have NO LEGAL STANDING for a 35 year old WOMAN....ADULT, for ANY stupidity she enacted to cause her own death.

[Hardraade]

Hottenstein? Hypothermia? Polar bears??

The polar bears would like to know, where do these people *come* from???

[Datom]

Makes you wonder if these parents are looking for so called justice or how much money they can fill their pockets with to ease their pain. I feel sad that this woman lost her life but I do believe in personal responsibility. Besides we all know it was Bush’s fault.

[Fiddlstix]

What? They're not gonna sue the guy she handed her beer to and said:
Hey! Hold my beer and watch this.

[JoeProBono]

Tracy Hottenstein was found dead in Sea Isle City the weekend of the Polar Plunge in 2009.