“A whole rock formation might collapse on you and squash you like a bug”

by Walter Olson on September 12, 2006

Long, blunt, amusing warning and disclaimer by the folks who run the Nelson Rocks Preserve, a private wild area in West Virginia. “Live with it or stay away. … Don’t think it can’t happen. …You’re on your own.” Update: more about the disclaimer here.

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{ 4 comments }

1 Jim Collins 09.12.06 at 12:44 pm

I wonder if that warning would hold up in court after someone got “squashed like a bug”?

2 nevins 09.12.06 at 2:28 pm

If a juror busts a gut laughing as this is read into the record would they have a cause of action against NRP?

3 Mark 09.12.06 at 5:47 pm

Best warning ever. I’m not sure if you admit to neglect whether that protects you or not. It probably should, but what does mean these days?

4 wavemaker 09.12.06 at 9:01 pm

That we have to wonder whether it would “hold up in court” is the very reason this blog is a success.

Whether it would or not (and I sincerely hope it would), it is a spectacular piece of prose.

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