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Gym climbing difficult tonight 8-Sep-2005 At 2:22:45 PM kerroxapithecus

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On 8/09/2005 gordoste wrote:
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>i get a bit worried in airplanes sometimes because the consequences of
>a failure are so much worse (at least you can survive a climbing fall but
>very few people survive plane crashes). but then i remember all the safety
>checks and stuff that they do, each part of the plane has to be replaced
>after a fixed amount of time --- i figure climbing gyms must do something
>similar or they wouldn't be in business.

not sure i'd put so much faith in people running businesses for profit. Negligence happens all the time and many people are seriously injured as a result of gross negligence. This can be a topic for another thread that I'll get around to putting up sometime. I've been thinking about it for a while - can't help it really being in the legal profession - but there are issues about the disclaimers that you sign when climbing at gyms and about legal liability as a climber, belayer or person bolting routes possibly being responsible in some way for injury or death of another person.