Interesting brief I ran across from a month ago. Someone was scared by an actor at fright fest, ran away, and in doing so they tripped and fell and later sued Six Flags because of the action. I can kind of see how this could be somewhat controversial but at the end of the day the decision to side with Six Flags seems reasonable...
Without reading the case as well, the arguments in your linked article are that the person attending was there for fright, and the analogy given is similar to someone suffering a baseball related injury at a baseball game. Similarly, ski resorts are not liable for ski related injuries unless the resort acted negligently.
As a general theme park fan, I have my problems with Six Flags operations and generally believe they operate rides negligently, maintain the park negligently, and cut costs where they really should not. That being said, having been to many of their fright fest attractions, the staff are very cautious of crossing any unsafe lines. It makes their Halloween attractions relatively tame compared to the competition. Specifically to this case, they explicitly make it clear that you can’t touch the scare actors and they can’t touch you. So choosing to run when someone gets close is a personal decision, coupled with the point of attending an explicit fright attraction, the ruling makes perfect sense to me.
Agreed. The concept of judging vehicle quality by number of recalls is severely flawed for this very reason. My Subaru Impreza has had a number of recalls for a variety of trivial things, but I’ve had only one actual issue with it in 65k miles and have spent relatively little on maintenance. Comparing that to the Audi A4 I had before this car which required maybe one recall in similar mileage but I was constantly fixing major items from leaks, broken drive related components, etc.
Neither had any motor related issues so far, aside from burning oil in the Audi. But by number of recalls? That Audi was great! But they also had a number of lawsuits filed in attempt to get them to actually recall the multitude of problems. The one that it actually had was the result of them losing such a suit, but so many years later it really didn’t matter.
So yeah, terrible metric to track. At this point, I’d rather see that the company has a dozen recalls on their vehicles than zero.
Edit: I should clarify. That being said, I do believe Toyota actually makes a solid car the first time. Boring, but quality is a huge focus for them. I’m still hesitant to trust recall counts though and I don’t think I’d trust Mercedes number as a valid quality metric.
Taco John’s is asking Taco Bell to match its $100-per-restaurant donation to the nonprofit Children of Restaurant Employees, or CORE.
I hope Taco Bell matches this since they get to save on the legal fees. This would make this good news all around. Except that apparently the trademark is still held by Gregory Hotels Inc in New Jersey, so not fully in the clear yet!
Court Backs Six Flag in Fall suite (molawyersmedia.com)
Interesting brief I ran across from a month ago. Someone was scared by an actor at fright fest, ran away, and in doing so they tripped and fell and later sued Six Flags because of the action. I can kind of see how this could be somewhat controversial but at the end of the day the decision to side with Six Flags seems reasonable...
Tesla Identified As Most Recalled Car Brand, Mercedes & Toyota Least (insideevs.com)
Taco John's has given up its 'Taco Tuesday' trademark after a battle with Taco Bell (www.npr.org)
Taco Tuesday has been freed from the shackles of trademark law!