food in the tent maybe??? that's a BIG nono camping in the NY Adirondacks...My condolences to the family. However, this is a bulls**t law suit. Trial lawyers suck.
This is ridiculous. It the forest. And, it's the forest in UT, not central park. Forests have animals. Some of those animals are dangerous. If you don't know that forests contain potentially deadly animals, then you are a moron and you deserve to be at the mercy of the food chain that you willingly put yourself in the middle of.
Whatever happened to the idea that you've accepted the risk when you've come to the hazard?
The grandfather of an 11-year-old boy who was killed by a black bear blamed authorities for not warning that the hulking animal harassed another group of campers at the same site hours earlier.
That said, these ambulance-chasing bastards should be sued for mis-represtation of a "child endangerment" or "lack of common sense" plaintiff, who failed to exercise due diligence and protection of their child in a hostile environment.
Lawyers become Judges, and Judges entertain the pursuit of DEEP POCKETS (litigation lotto) by these bastards, who only sue the State because the TAXPAYER ends up being fleeced. Without Tort Reform for obvious lack of common sense dismissals, we would not be in the financial messes that we have today, nor would every tool have 14 saftety warning stickers on them, nor would you have cold coffee served at McDonald's....where the consumer pays to cover settled "litigation", which would more correctly be called EXTORTION for stupidity.
With Jury Consultants packing the Jury Box with those who think that some day it will be THEIR turn to cash in, or "the insurance company can afford it", we have a waste of time and money in the Billions of dollars going on.
The end result of protecting people from their folly is a world full of fools. My condolences for the family.
food in the tent maybe??? that's a BIG nono camping in the NY Adirondacks...If a state, such as ours - PA - is on the record with a video showing a wildlife officer cuddling a bear cub and has pushed the notion for decades that black bears are not dangerous and then for years resisted any regulations forbidding feeding bears, then I think they have some responsibility for what happens.
PA did eventually ban feeding of bears, but bears live a long time and will still recall being fed and some still are.
Many of PA’s 15,000 bears live on private property and some den under homes in housing developments (PA Game Commission documented three generations in one instance) with the knowledge of the PGC. Bears commonly break into homes here.
PGC deliberately encouraged the black bear population to spread across “3/4 of the state” and increase by 600% in the last 30 years.