RE: Very interesting article by Dave Brown...
Parents of the unfortunate young man should bear some of the responsibility. He was obviously not of legal age to make a decision on racing murdercycles. If the club involved had published a notice in the local newspaper that the club was flying models on the field on certain days, and the road would be blocked on those days, and the barrier painted Day-glo orange, they might have a way out of everything. I believe that is part of what DB was trying to say. Although no person can forsee all the possible terrible things that may happen we can all get together and work on it. We are not in the position of trying to protect all the numbskulls from themselves but it would appear that we have to try. Some ambulance chasers will often convince "offended" parties to sue when it had never crossed their mind to do so. Phoenix, AZ is in the midst of a rash of road racing deaths of some innocent people due to drag racing on the streets. Bail is usually set high in case the offenders are caught. The next move is for the court to reduce bail. There is one case now in court of bail in a three person fatal drunken driving incident being reduced from $350,000. to $5,000 because the first instance was to high considering the man's income. Just ask the husband a father who lost his family if it should have been reduced.