What the Blue Hell?

How stupid do you have to be to read the warning signs and still manage to get your head cut off? I'm referring to this 17 year old dumbass (I'm sorry speaking ill of the dead is warranted here) who climbed and jumped over 2 fences labeled with warning signs to enter a restricted area only to have his fool head cut off by a ride. And all of this for a hat??? That's the ironic part he went in cause he lost his hat and ended up losing his head in the bargain. And of course the parents want to sue. Because just like the hot coffee incident at McDonald's, how was he supposed to know that going in there was dangerous? Well the two fences should have been a clue, or maybe it was the signs that should have tipped him off.
While his family may grieve and rightly so, I have to wonder how long it'll be before the park's legal office receives a civil suit. This is why I couldn't be a lawyer or a judge, I'd be fired for being insensitive and unnecessarily harsh. Your kid was stupid, at 17 he should have been able to read, and even if he couldn't how long would it take to ask his buddy what the signs said? He had to know the area was off limits because he had to climb not one but two fences to get there.

I was watching some dude fill in for Nancy Grace and apparently his family actually has a case. The words the lawyer consulted use were something to the effect of the fact that he was able to get over the fences into the restricted area meant that changes in the security at the park needed to be made. I have to call bullshit, 17 is old enough to be given the death penalty, it's almost old enough to join the armed forces, it's old enough to understand that the fences were put there for a reason and as the signs stated it was a restricted area and dangerous. I think were I counsel for the park I'd have to suggest counter suing on the basis of stupidity and libel. They defame the character of the park with a lawsuit, and while I know that one of the stages of grief is anger they're angry at the wrong people. Why not sue his little dumbass friend for letting him go in there and even going with him? Reckless endangerment? Depraved indifference? I'll tell you why because he was going in there with or without his friend and there was nothing the boy could do to stop him. He scaled fences and ignored warning signs because he wanted what he wanted when he wanted it and the lesson here is sometimes that can get you killed.

Short of electrified fences, and guards armed with tasers what is the park to do? And the consequences of those two precautions would have gotten them slammed by the media, anyway. I can see the headlines, "Boy shocked while attempting to scale fences and all he wanted was his hat back." "Guards tase boy in park, for attempting to reclaim his property" Whatever! Stupidity is contagious so watch your back, because it's not always visible until you've been exposed.