Oct 2nd, 2017: Old Car City

Gravdigr · 10-02-2017, 01:05 PM

Used to be an old junkyard here that hosted Haunted Woods-type events around Halloween.

A drunk idiot, in a junkyard, in the woods...He fell onto something sharp and rusty, sued the guy, and now, no more haunted junkyard at Halloween.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-02-2017, 10:42 PM

Yes, the liability is horrendous, and the insurance so expensive little guys can't even think about it.
My brother told me the small town all volunteer fire department bought a Bouncy Castle, one of the blow up things for kids to jump around in, to use at their annual fund raising carnival. The company that insures the town yelled whoa, full stop, if they used the Castle the company would cancel the towns policy.
A separate policy for the Castle would be $10k for the 10 days of the carnival.

glatt · 10-03-2017, 07:21 AM

We have rented a bouncy castle for our somewhat annual block party. I'd guesstimate that out of the 6 or so times that we (as a neighborhood) have done this, there has been one injury that the parents deemed severe enough that they called an ambulance to come take the kid to the ER on a back board. I had to move the cones out of the street to let the ambulance pass.

He ended up being ok, and the kids (my kids) absolutely love the thing. But they are fairly dangerous, and no adults ever supervise what's going on in there. Freaking mosh pit.

10-02-2017, 01:05 PM	#1
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10-02-2017, 10:42 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yes, the liability is horrendous, and the insurance so expensive little guys can't even think about it. My brother told me the small town all volunteer fire department bought a Bouncy Castle, one of the blow up things for kids to jump around in, to use at their annual fund raising carnival. The company that insures the town yelled whoa, full stop, if they used the Castle the company would cancel the towns policy. A separate policy for the Castle would be $10k for the 10 days of the carnival. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-03-2017, 07:21 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	We have rented a bouncy castle for our somewhat annual block party. I'd guesstimate that out of the 6 or so times that we (as a neighborhood) have done this, there has been one injury that the parents deemed severe enough that they called an ambulance to come take the kid to the ER on a back board. I had to move the cones out of the street to let the ambulance pass. He ended up being ok, and the kids (my kids) absolutely love the thing. But they are fairly dangerous, and no adults ever supervise what's going on in there. Freaking mosh pit.

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