“Even if it’s a 15-year-old, we hold 15-year-olds to certain levels of responsibility.”

by Walter Olson on January 24, 2011

Headline: “Teen hit with own golf ball sues for millions.” The youth was using a Hillsboro, Ore. driving range in the rain and his ball ricocheted off a metal awning post back into his face. [KATU]

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1 wfjag 01.24.11 at 10:22 am

Didn’t he hear himself call “Fore” ?

2 Bob Lipton 01.24.11 at 9:45 pm

Maybe he didn’t call ‘fore’. Now in New York, there has been a ruling that there is an assumption of risk regardless of someone not calling ‘fore’ but things may be different in Oregon.

Bob

3 Raymond R 01.26.11 at 3:54 pm

The story made the “Fail Blog” see:

http://failblog.org/2011/01/26/epic-fail-photos-probably-bad-news-golf-swing-fail/

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