[H-GEN] monkey business (off topic)

[Robert Kearey]

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Trent WADDINGTON wrote:

> We were discussing last night people who are denied entry to restraunts
> for not having shoes on is primarily an insurance issue,  i.e., even
> though you've just told me that I can't come into your restraunt without
> shoes on because someone might drop a knife and cut my foot open and I've
> insisted that you let me in, if the exact event that I was warned about is
> to happen then I can STILL sue you for my medical bills because you had a
> DUTY to protect me from myself.  This is the kind of scary world in which
> we live, where restraunt owners are actually required by law to protect
> people from themselves.

Yep, Duty Of Care has been become a core legal requirment for - well, 
for just about anything involving a "calculable risk".

IANAL, of course. Get legal advice, or just eat Robert Brockway's brain.

> Trent

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