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Gym climbing difficult tonight 8-Sep-2005 At 3:25:13 PM kerroxapithecus

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what if you're once healthy, happy, love of your life, child who attends the gym for a party is permanently wheelchair bound and intellectually disabled because someone who worked at the gym didn't tie the knot properly that day or didn't bolt the plastic in properly and the person who was to check it didn't do so and when you looked into it you found out there was no routine checking and the owners hired inexperienced people who knew nothing about the safety requirements and whatsmore they gym had been in financial difficulty and unable to buy badly needed new equipment but had continued to operate regardless.

this more like the real story behind most negligence cases. I'm not suggesting that there are any climbing gyms like this but I'm just providing some insight into the possibilities and the realities. These things happen more often than we'd care to think about. No-one wins a negligence claim where they themselves have been negligent.