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| # Posted 2008-07-09 15:09:12 | |
| chitownclark: | "WooWoo...we got to run to a Hotel...There's MUD and WIND and RAIN and all that stuff..."
Shame on you for setting such a bad example for your students. How about turning that experience into an adventure, and showing the students how to cope with Nature? Muddy mess? So what? Re-erect that tent down where there is some protection from the wind, and all crowd into it. Even if no one sleeps, those kids would have had an experience they'd have never forgotten. Man against Nature! |
| # Posted 2008-07-10 09:59:27 | |
| Soupbone: | I can't believe you would say that, when your job is on the line you take no chances, I mean no chances/ First time in 30 + years camping with kids. I guess you have never been sued. |
| # Posted 2008-07-10 18:15:55 | |
| chitownclark: | I'm being sued right now...paid my attorney another $2000 yesterday. What can you do? But you can't live your life worrying about being sued. Sometimes real life involves risks.
If you stayed out there until dawn, those kids would have had a "religious" experience, and would have remembered it all their lives. Compared with the small risk of being sued (for what?... and act of God?) I say that experience would have been worth it. And I speak from the memory of exactly the same kind of experience with my mother, camping in the Sierras in 1948, a hundred miles from civilization (in those days). |
| # Posted 2008-07-10 22:18:43 | |
| Soupbone: | Maybe with a little more risk managment you would not be sued. |
| # Posted 2008-07-10 22:47:39 | |
| chitownclark: | Risk management???
This guy, the owner of a business next door to one of my apartment buildings, is suing me because the trees and shrubs I planted on MY property 30 years ago are "blocking" his light and air. He's suing me to gain access to my yard in perpituity, and to have me chop all my landscaping down within 6' of his property. Do you think I should refuse to plant anything in the future so that I won't be sued? |
| # Posted 2008-07-13 22:31:15 | |
| Soupbone: | Look who is not camping out at the Finn 5. Its it too cold,buggy .......
Don't be a wimp and campout. |
| # Posted 2008-07-14 02:49:23 | |
| fthfl stwrd rudy: | Wow, does the guy who sueing you have a snowballs chance in hell of achieving anything with this? Even if you actually appropriate a neighbors property with fence construction or something, aren't there cases where it becomes your property after a certain number of years? |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 21:41:54 | |
| chitownclark: | Well, my lawyer, of course, says I have a losing case....an old easement across my property pretty much means that the land is not mine to do as I wish with.
So I have a lawyer telling me to throw in the towel...and charging me thousands of dollars for that advice. My advice: stay out of court if possible, but if not, make your lawyer earn his wages -- don't settle. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 21:44:31 | |
| chitownclark: | And as far as camping at the Fin5...I LIKE to be downtown, sleeping on a classroom floor. I can camp out anywhere. But in Finland, I want to be with Finns...not Russians, which seem to be the primary inhabitants at that campground.
This resort we're in over the rest day, is really nice. And many Finns are here, enjoying great food, services, and views. I get internet here for 2E per hour...lots of time, and no little kids. Check out my training log for our activities today! |
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