“Get too close to the Burning Man fire and you assume the “obvious and inherent” risk of being burned, a California appeals court has ruled in dismissing a personal injury lawsuit against the operators of the iconic countercultural arts festival.” [OnPoint News, ruling in PDF, Bob Egelko/San Francisco Chronicle, Shaun Martin/California Appellate Report (sees ruling as expanding scope of existing California assumption-of-risk defense), Michael Krauss/Point of Law (hails ruling), Lowering the Bar]
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Okay, okay, there has to be something wrong in this report. i mean a sensible ruling… in california?! No, no, that’s impossible!
There’s something very strange going on here. That’s twice in as many days that I’ve seen some organ of the California government apply some common sense> to a situation. Are the end times here?
This gives meaning to the phrase “Shake hands with the Devil, You get burned.”
Johnanthan
Its like that line in Ghostbusters: “dogs and cats living together!”
Warning: Fire is hot when lit.