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[quote user="tomikawaTT"] <p>Let me get this straight:</p><ul><li>This big, beautiful bridge has a nice 2' (looks like) walkway with a pipe guard rail that should be able to keep anyone smaller than a sumo wrestler from going through it.</li><li>The big, bad railroad simply posted a <strong>No Trespassing</strong> sign. They didn't station an armed security guard to prevent the mentally or alcoholically challenged from walking out on the bridge.</li><li>Somebody wasn't smart enough to notice (in broad daylight - 911 call at 1pm) that there was a plank missing, stepped into the hole and improved the gene pool.</li></ul><p>Pardon me if I feel that way. I was brought up to take responsibility for my own actions (even the potentially fatal ones.) I am also equipped with two fully functional eyeballs - and have frequently been in places where failing to insure the solidity of my footing would have been life-threatening if not downright suicidal.</p><p>As far as I am concerned, any lawyer who would use this event to try to extort money from the railroad should be horsewhipped.</p><p>Chuck</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Even with both eyeballs working in broad daylight, it is very easy to step into a hole if one happens to be where one is walking and does not expect a hole to be. A hole big enough to fall through, in the middle of a narrow walkway, in the middle of the night would be a death trap. Anything less than posting armed guards would probably be negligence. </p>
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