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“A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been launched by the parents of a student who almost died after being strangled by a lanyard at his school in Bearspaw just west of Calgary.”
You don’t sue people for not thinking of every possibility that might happen. If this isn’t the case , I look forward to our children being encased in foam for their protection and certainly not using potential hazardous materials such as pencils or pens.
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4 comments
March 18, 2014 at 6:48 am
john zande
I had to look up what a lanyard is. Rope, right?
Let’s follow this logic through to its fullest: every person who has almost drowned in the ocean, and the families of every person who has ever drowned in the ocean should sue because a fence wasn’t placed separating land from water.
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March 18, 2014 at 10:41 am
The Arbourist
@JZ
Precisely.
This was a tragic accident. I’m glad they have taken the necessary steps to ensure that this won’t happen again. However, this incident is not something you sue the school board over, reasonable care was taken (don’t play hangman with the hall pass little billy) to ensure all students’ safety.
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March 18, 2014 at 10:46 am
john zande
My brother taught me how to knock someone out through a process of hyperventilation then squeezing them really hard from behind. The next i took this little golden nugget of information to my primary school and by the end of little lunch Grade 4’ers were dropping like flies! Good News spreads fast, you know :) The moral of the story: it wasn’t the schools duty to ensure i didn’t brings potentially lethal information into school grounds.
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March 18, 2014 at 4:43 pm
bleatmop
I can only imagine the number of times that lanyard had been used without incident. Thousands? Tens of thousands? I can imagine the situation that this kid managed to strangle himself to brain death in this situation.
Although, that said, where did this school manage to find a lanyard without a breakaway on it? I can say I’ve never say one like that since I was a child this boy’s age. I think if anything is going to win this case for the plaintiff it will be that fact. Though if they do win Arb, I wouldn’t worry about sharp pencils Arb, that school district won’t even be able to afford to pay the heat.
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