KenOfAZ knows everything

Yes, the amusement park should sue the family.
I hear the parents were there the day the kid climbed 2 6ft fences lined with warnings. Where were the parents when the kid decided he needed to retrieve his hat? Why didn't they tell him he wasn't allowed to scale 2 6ft fences to retrieve a stupid hat?
I'm sorry the boy lost his life but as you said "Rules are there for a reason".

It isn't called blame tucker...its called responsibility. And that is the problem!

People do not take responsibility for their actions and the actions of their children, and when a situation like this arises, it eventually ends up in court with the parents asking for money.

Oh....and this just goes to show that....


FENCES DON'T WORK!!!!!

You cant help stupid. I feel sorry for this family but in nature they call this "culling the heard"

the kid was TRESSPASSING what else needs to be said. sorry for the family but these kinds of things are what makes people "rich" in the name of sueing the place of business to "make sure this don't happen to some other TRESPASSER" teach these multimillion dollar companies a lesson. c'mon the kid should not have been in that area to begin with. he was old enough to read i'm sure but the thrill of going to a place such as six flags overwelmed him and he just ignored everything else.

azslam,
Nobody looks as good as me. I have been modeling for and gracing the cover of MAD magazine for decades.

If fences don't work, why don't we remove the one that goes around the White House? Why is there one around Luke AFB? Why is ther one around the company that I work for? Fences are not 100% protective. But they are a deterrent. Some people will climb fences and have to face the consequences. On a border fence, it needs to be a block wall with a trench in front of it so it isn't easy to cut or drive through, you will have to go over the top. And when you go over the block wall, you fall into about three feet deep and ten feet long of razor wire. To get out, you will have to climb up the same wall you jumped over or continue going into thicker, deeper razor wire and climb a 6 foor barbed wire fence. Climbing the barbed wire fence will trigger an alarm so the border patrol can come out there to bring you to the hospital. If you don't bleed to death, you will at least spend some time in a hospital and get a transfusion so you can learn a lesson and go back to your home country and show the scars you got for trying to come here illegally. Word will soon get out that going over the fence is not a wise choice.

It is very sad that this child was killed over a stupid hat. However, we all do stupid things as teenagers because when you are that young you are either trying to show off or you don't realize the danger you are putting yourself in.

I don't think the park should pay if there were in fact TWO 6 ft. fences that had to be climbed and there was probably signage stating that it was a non-public area.

What we should teach our children is how to speak up for themselves. Perhaps the kids could have gone to the office/lost&found to filed a claim for the hat if it was really that important.

Either way, it is a lesson we can all teach our children.

aks,

You brought up a good point. Tell Dave Munsey to start telling us to take down the fences around pools. They don't work anyway, look at how many kids have drowned so far this year.

Stupid fences, what a waste! Oh and signs telling people to stay away too. Maybe we should fire all the teachers because obviously people can't read.

Way to go Splat!and jteamaz I feel the same way, sarcastic anger works for me!!!!