Comments on: Community swimming pool closes due to lawsuit

By: Oscette

Oscette — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:58:09 +0000

What Mrs. Graham doesn’t tell anyone is that she had an offer to sell the pool to a New Jersey Businessman, and told him it wasn’t financial feasible. Then told the Standard-Speaker, no one wanted to buy it.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:06:07 +0000

T h e people should do a civil suit against the man that was running for causing the pool to close down and take away jobs and entertainment for the kids

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:45:02 +0000

The question shouldn’t be whether she had insurance or not. It should be whatever happened to personal responsibility? You expect an ADULT would obey the rules. So this guy disobeys the rules, gets himself hurt and then the pansy sues? Geez what is wrong with this country? I wonder if those two even realize what their lawsuit has done? Do they even care as long as “they get theirs?”

By: CMS

CMS — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:42:56 +0000

I would really like to know if the owner carried liability insurance??? This is a ridiculous lawsuit, but she should have had coverage that would have handled this……running a pool is a naturally risky business. $100,000 is not a lot for a lawsuit in the big picture. Does anyone know if she had insurance or not?? And listen….this has nothing to do with politics…..it’s common sense that this is ridiculous and we should all work to reform laws that allow this.

By: Ginny Clem

Ginny Clem — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:45:56 +0000

This man and wife should be ashamed of themselves for what they did to a community. He probably had a cut on his heal already and that is probably why he did what he did cause he needed the money. Shame on you, you jerk. Thanks for ruining the community pool for all of us.

By: Carie

Carie — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:15:25 +0000

Tom Warsinske you have this backwards. It is the Dems that think you should get something for nothing. Take from hard working people to give to the lazy. This is where this mentality comes from. I was raised by immigrants who taught me that no one owes you anything that you are not willing to work for. You get nothing for nothing. This is the conservitive view that is associated with the republican party.
In either case I will stick with my earlier comment: It is the lawyers that run the government that will not stand up for this reform because it dips into their pockets.

By: Carie

Carie — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:06:51 +0000

The first step would be to ban all lawyers from government office. They will never do anything to change this system that allows such suits because this is the bread and butter of their business. All cases should go through arbitration first. In this arbitration it will be decided whether this is a worthy suit or frivolous. The word of the arbitrator, or board of arbitrators if you like, is final. If it is deemed frivolous then there is no case and it never goes to court.
If this is not feesible then there should be judgements against people who file these suits at the time that they are lost. Maybe they would think twice if there was something to be lost by them if they lost their suit.
Nothing like this will ever even be considered because lawyers run the government and it dips directly into their pockets. Maybe considering this and the more recent bills that were passed without reading them it is time the PEOPLE say enough is enough.

By: K Williams

K Williams — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:53:32 +0000

I would suggest she drain the water from pool. It is just a matter of time before another DNA brightspot decides that the padlocks should be broken. Decides to take a swim and drowns, trust me, it will not be the parents fault for not training their spawn to respect other people property. It will be your fault for not draining the pool. There is a little known law in just about every state that protects the disrespectful stupidity ..errr…cursiosity of minors.

By: William Rappleye

William Rappleye — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:35:19 +0000

This has become an increasingly common problem for not only business but for Cities as well. Case in point, we resently had a 60 year storm event in our city, as a result a few homes were damaged. Several have filed claims aginst the city because of clamed engineering under designing because the city normaly plans it’s infastructure for 10 year storms. If the claments win the (Tax Payers) will be forced to pay for damages as well as a possile upgrade of the entire storm water system.
This type of action will bankrupt the city.
We need tort reform now to stop the insane clams of damages and abuse of the system.

By: Jenna Baxter

Jenna Baxter — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:31:10 +0000

It’s absolutely awful that people take advantage like this to make a quick buck….but it’s also just as crazy that people on here are blaming the democrats for a bipartisan issue that’s existed for decades.

This isn’t something new that developed during this administration, that’s just stupid. Politics as a whole own a lot of the blame, it doesn’t appear either party have the guts to stand up for what’s right and go against paydays like this for lawyers–something most of the politicians are themelves. Stupid comments like blaming Obama for a long existing problem just turns the entire thing into a parody. Fine if you want to play political finger pointing, ridiculous if you actually want to address the real issue.