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I think a Boy Scout fell of a ropes course and is suing because of it.

Posted: August 30, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized |Leave a comment

But it is really hard to tell from the article.

See Boy Scouts Sued Over 30-Foot Fall At Skymont Reservation
Here are the facts from the article.

Tyler and two other Scouts were participating in a vertical climb activity. While competing against one another, they would “strap on appropriate gear and climb a rope that is affixed to an adjoining cable approximately 30 feet in the air which runs over and through a cable and pulley system.”
The suit says Tyler had climbed to the top of the rope near the junction of the pulley and the cable when a staff member assisting with the competition “began to run out of rope.”
The complaint says, “The rope was not secured in any fashion, therefore, the staff member belayer was unable to safely negotiate Tyler from the top of the rope and instead Tyler fell thereby sustaining injury.”

I’m guessing that the scouts were on a ropes course, other than that I’m not sure what happened. It could be the lawyer did not understand and wrote the complaint this way or it could be the reporter did not understand. I suspect the lawyer did not understand.

Either way, $3.5 million is a lot of money for injuries that someone lived through who is not in a will chair.

What do you think? Leave a comment.

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