You can't say it's frivolous if we don't know whether or not the camp site was official now can we? So saying it's frivolous and calling the family pathetic are both ignorant statements, literally ignorant since we simply don't know whether they were responsible for that area (in camping sense) that will come out as the case goes on. The point of this is to find out information, to find out who is responsible, and right now fingers point to them. If it is proven to be them and they should have cut it down then that means that it's not a frivolous lawsuit. People on this forum just love to jump on the "boooooo suing booo" band wagon. It's so tiresome.
Cutting off your own arm in public is not the same as staying in a camp area that looks official that's next to a dangerous tree. One you are self harming, the other you are staying in an area that should be tended by workers. It could be assumed that even though the tree may have looked suspect they had faith in the workers to the point they thought, "Should be alright."
Do we know that it's undeveloped? Wasn't there a stone circle? Find out if they were responsible first.
---------- Post added 2013-04-11 at 11:59 PM ----------
This is how it should go, all this discussion just seems silly to me and the people berating the family without knowing whether they were indeed responsible for it and whether they were negligent in not dealing with it first, is a little ridiculous to me. The people on this forum just doesn't give a shit about law and process at times.
---------- Post added 2013-04-12 at 12:00 AM ----------
Starting a fire and burning yourself = you started the fire and burnt yourself.
Being next to a tree that should have been removed by workers = the workers were negligent in not removing it.
Please come up with analogies that are close.
---------- Post added 2013-04-12 at 12:02 AM ----------
Only thing I care about is whether or not it was in an area where the tree should have been removed but wasn't. If it was, then okay, if it wasn't, then okay. I just don't like seeing such negativity when we have this lack of information.