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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
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Subject: Re: Is that out of this world?
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 12:33:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 12:33:27 1985
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> 
> Winter came. A fool on a snow mobile took *wire cutters* and cut the
> fence and drove through. By Murphy's Law he drove right over the
> pit and fell 10 feet. The couple hears a terrible noise, goes outside.
> They see what has happened and call an ambulance and the police. The
> doctors are able to save this fools life -- but his spine is broken and
> he is a paraplegic. He sues. He wins his case. The couple have to
> sell the farm to meet the costs. The policeman told them at the time
> that they should have ignored teh whole thing and let the man die -- because 
> then, a corpse would not have put them into this position.
> 
> Laura Creighton
> utzoo!laura

This reminds me of an incident that happened either in Washington D.C. or 
Baltimore a few years back.  Some kid, ignoring the no trespassing signs,
climbed over a fence into the Amtrak train yard, climbed on top of a train,
and got zapped by the high-voltage wires.  He was permanently injured.  His
family sued Amtrak for some absurd number of millions of dollars, and won;
the judge said that there weren't ENOUGH no trespassing signs.  I guess you're
not required to be bright enough to realize that a fence means stay out.

-- 
	
	marie desjardins
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