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We're all screwed. See why.
Kid likes to jump. Kid finds parking garage and realizes he might be able to jump from one garage to another garage, some distance away. Kid goes to top of said garage and makes his attempt.
Kid falls 6 stories and goes smash, but, unfortunately, Darwin was busy dealing with a guy in a Yukon Denali who killed his wife and kids babysitter while they sat in a car. Kid lives, and family decides to sue the City of Orlando (owner of the garage jumped from) and a private garage owner (owner of the garage our retard hero attempted to jump to) for not erecting safety fences in order to protect moron idiot ****ing people from themselves.
I wish this kid wouldn't have made it.
http://www.local6.com/money/4239256/detail.html
Kid falls 6 stories and goes smash, but, unfortunately, Darwin was busy dealing with a guy in a Yukon Denali who killed his wife and kids babysitter while they sat in a car. Kid lives, and family decides to sue the City of Orlando (owner of the garage jumped from) and a private garage owner (owner of the garage our retard hero attempted to jump to) for not erecting safety fences in order to protect moron idiot ****ing people from themselves.
I wish this kid wouldn't have made it.
http://www.local6.com/money/4239256/detail.html
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Teenagers in Orlando, Fla., are leaping between 80-foot high public parking garages in a new trend called "garage jumping," according to a Local 6 News investigation.
Tim Bargfrede told Local 6 News that he was following friends when he attempted to garage jump and did not make it to the other side. Bargfrede fell six stories and was knocked unconscious on impact.
"I just didn't make it," Bargfrede said.
Bargfrede survived the 80-foot fall but was injured.
"The first time I came to the garage after my son's accident, I looked over and I just about broke out in tears," the boy's father Tim Bargfrede said. "I can't believe he actually survived. He looked like he was near death."
"He (Bargfrede) is not he first person, he is not the second person, there have been four or five other individuals before him that did this," family's attorney Vincent D'Assaro said.
The city of Orlando owns one of the downtown parking lots next to a private parking garage owned by Orlando Tower LP, according to Local 6 News.
Orlando Parking Garage Director Samuel Vennero admitted he was aware of at least one other incident where a garage jumper didn't make it to the other side.
"I don't think we recognized it before as a danger," Vennero said.
There are no safety fences in place on the parking garage.
D'Assaro is filing a lawsuit against the city of Orlando and the private garage owner for making little effort to correct a potential deadly risk.
"There was a very, very short length of fence that was completely ineffective in preventing this from happening," D'Assaro said.
Orlando Tower LP, the private parking lot owner, refused to comment about their responsibility, according to the report.
Since Bargfrede fell, the City of Orlando erected a partial fence but there's still room for someone to take a dangerous dive.
The family says that's not good enough and that both garages need to take responsibility before a garage jumper loses his life.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Tim Bargfrede told Local 6 News that he was following friends when he attempted to garage jump and did not make it to the other side. Bargfrede fell six stories and was knocked unconscious on impact.
"I just didn't make it," Bargfrede said.
Bargfrede survived the 80-foot fall but was injured.
"The first time I came to the garage after my son's accident, I looked over and I just about broke out in tears," the boy's father Tim Bargfrede said. "I can't believe he actually survived. He looked like he was near death."
"He (Bargfrede) is not he first person, he is not the second person, there have been four or five other individuals before him that did this," family's attorney Vincent D'Assaro said.
The city of Orlando owns one of the downtown parking lots next to a private parking garage owned by Orlando Tower LP, according to Local 6 News.
Orlando Parking Garage Director Samuel Vennero admitted he was aware of at least one other incident where a garage jumper didn't make it to the other side.
"I don't think we recognized it before as a danger," Vennero said.
There are no safety fences in place on the parking garage.
D'Assaro is filing a lawsuit against the city of Orlando and the private garage owner for making little effort to correct a potential deadly risk.
"There was a very, very short length of fence that was completely ineffective in preventing this from happening," D'Assaro said.
Orlando Tower LP, the private parking lot owner, refused to comment about their responsibility, according to the report.
Since Bargfrede fell, the City of Orlando erected a partial fence but there's still room for someone to take a dangerous dive.
The family says that's not good enough and that both garages need to take responsibility before a garage jumper loses his life.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Can I sue Tim Bargfrede for raising a kid who thinks a jumping between 8 story buildings is a "good idea"?
Of course! Garage jumping is a perfect natural sport that the city has to recognize the dangers of. Its certainly not the parents fault for raising dumbass kids.
The family says that's not good enough and that both garages need to take responsibility before a garage jumper loses his life.
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D'Assaro is filing a lawsuit against the city of Orlando and the private garage owner for making little effort to correct a potential deadly risk.
thank Scion for "glamorizing" "freestyle running" in their commercial....
2F2F for under 16 y/o's.
suprised the parents didn't name Toyota/Scion in their suit.
however many things are fenced off, boarded up, chained closed kids will still try stupid stuff.
the kids will now do a super spidey move between the new safty fences and one will fall and someone will sue them for allowing fences on the garages.
SUE EVERBODY![/jerky boys]
2F2F for under 16 y/o's.
suprised the parents didn't name Toyota/Scion in their suit.
however many things are fenced off, boarded up, chained closed kids will still try stupid stuff.
the kids will now do a super spidey move between the new safty fences and one will fall and someone will sue them for allowing fences on the garages.
SUE EVERBODY![/jerky boys]
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Don't erect fencing to stop morons from jumping the gap between structures - increase the gap by moving one or both of the buildings farther apart. This way, it could be argued that a jumper must be out of his mind or suicidal to think that they could make such a jump safely. The distance should be equal to the world record running broad jump at the last Olympics. Therefore, only a handful of people in the world have the theoretical ability to make the jump. Post signs stating such in both garages.
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Originally Posted by Wingless Wonder
Don't erect fencing to stop morons from jumping the gap between structures - increase the gap by moving one or both of the buildings farther apart. This way, it could be argued that a jumper must be out of his mind or suicidal to think that they could make such a jump safely. The distance should be equal to the world record running broad jump at the last Olympics. Therefore, only a handful of people in the world have the theoretical ability to make the jump. Post signs stating such in both garages.
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Originally Posted by Wingless Wonder
Don't erect fencing to stop morons from jumping the gap between structures - increase the gap by moving one or both of the buildings farther apart. This way, it could be argued that a jumper must be out of his mind or suicidal to think that they could make such a jump safely. The distance should be equal to the world record running broad jump at the last Olympics. Therefore, only a handful of people in the world have the theoretical ability to make the jump. Post signs stating such in both garages.
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Originally Posted by sonicsuby
They should build them farther apart only for the purpose of making sure any jumper is killed, thus cleansing the gene pool.
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Originally Posted by ryball
In that case, they should have pits with alligators and spikes between garages.