Iowa county bans RAGBRAI

Bob Hunt wrote:
On Oct 27, 11:25 am, (It's Chris) wrote:
Don't these rides require that ALL riders sign a waiver? The county
should have known this and fought it on these grounds! After all, they
probably mandated the waiver before granting permission to conduct the
ride through their county in the first place.

So we suffer for their oversight. Stupid.


The county may have insisted on a signed liability waiver from every
rider but in truth that type of waiver is really designed to
discourage people from *filing* lawsuits. They don't constitute a
foolproof defense if/when a suit is filed, particularly when it is a
wrongful death suit brought against a large faceless government agency
by grieving survivors.

The unfortunate result could be laws resulting in more Boub type
decisions:
http://www.state.il.us/COURT/Opinions/SupremeCourt/1998/October/Opinions/HTML/84246.htm.

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Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
When did ignorance of biology become a "family value"?