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WCDT Strips 3266 to 3270 (18th to 22nd July 2016)
KOK:
I don't know how those special areas that attract many Pokemon Go players are placed, but whoever does it should be more careful. Not far from where I live, people are walking into a building site, night and day, because such an area is there. Sooner or later someone will get hurt.
edit: typo
jwhouk:
And no matter how rare that Pokemon may be, do NOT go into the parking lot of a correctional institution to try to capture one.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 22 Jul 2016, 05:25 ---Seriously people, think about what you're doing a little harder.
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I really *do* wish that people would do that. I *do* think that it'll get better when the game has been out longer and that the player base is a bit more clueful.
--- Quote ---* And stay out of cemetaries. (At least after 4pm. Most lock their gates around 5pm.)
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I'm not sure about other cities, since I haven't been to (most) of their cemeteries after dark, but I have been seeing Pokemon and Ingress players in the local one after about 2200 (hell, I went to grab some portal keys at about 22:30 last night). The main gate is locked, but it *does* have a big sign on it to use the other ingress (couldn't resist) during off hours. I don't know if Pokemon has changed things, but I have been told by others that the local police told them that even though it was technically against a city ordinance to be driving around through there to do it anyway since they liked the extra eyes.
Thankfully, I haven't seen any player of either game traipsing over/playing on gravestones.
That said, I'm expecting something to happen within the county at some point. I'm aware and pretty damned careful, but I am quite cognisant of how many traffic laws I break every day knowing that since I'm on a bike and will get away with it.
blt:
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Jul 2016, 04:04 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 Jul 2016, 00:31 ---
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 21 Jul 2016, 21:57 ---Second degree burns, man. Burned through the skin and into the tissue beneath. People like to point and make fun, but once you've seen the photos of the damage that coffee did, you're not going to say anything about that lawsuit being frivolous, especially considering she didn't ask for nearly as much money as she got.
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Boo fuckin' hoo. I've had second degree burns over a good 10% of my body, at least three times, just from working all day outdoors without sunscreen. It was high altitude and mean ol' mister sun can get vicious if you don't have a good thick bit of atmosphere over you. And yeah, it sucks. My skin over that area was effectively all blisters, I got dehydrated a lot, everything that touched it hurt for the next three weeks, my muscles under it hurt like crazy all the time, and once it started healing it was itchy and I didn't dare scratch it. It left a little scarring, and even the part that healed "right" has a whole bunch of freckles it didn't have before.
I didn't sue anybody. I just stayed indoors for a week and cursed my poor judgment. Which, now that I think about it, is about the same thing my dad did when he got hit by lightning. Anyway, my dad quit fixing fences when a storm was coming in, and I quit going up into the mountains without a tube of sunscreen. Call it a learning experience and leave it at that.
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:psyduck:
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I don't follow the logic here at all. How is you not having the presence of mind to put on sunscreen and harming yourself equivalent to a company wilfully doing something that endangered their consumers just to protect their bottom line, thereby seriously harming one of their customers even sort of equivalent?
:psyduck:
And who would you even sue? The sun?
Morituri:
There are a whole population of people who experience second-degree burns several times during our lives and aren't particularly impressed.
The reaction around Boulder to "Second degree burns" was "what, she got some blisters and now she never has to work again for the rest of her life? That happens to dozens of people I know every year. It's even happened to me a few times. It's not a life-changing experience or even particularly traumatic, how the hell did anybody decide it was worth that?"
And yea, it mostly happens "for the sake of somebody's bottom line." You go up to work, you realize after an hour or two that you forgot sunscreen, you know you'll be fired if you don't fix the damn fences anyway, and you finish the job before you go back. Business as usual, sucks to be you. If you don't want to deal with that kind of thing, don't ever start doing farm and ranch work. I've also gotten stomped by bulls and cut up by barbed wire for the sake of somebody's bottom line. If you don't want to consider second degree burns for the sake of somebody's bottom line to be entirely normal, then lucky for you you weren't born there.
I don't think it's particularly reasonable for anybody to get a million bucks (literally, a living wage for life just off of interest payments!) for anything that leaves them able-bodied and not permanently disfigured. Hell, the guy who lived down the road from me got his arm torn off by a baler and he had to go on disability worth substantially less than what that twit got for her lap full of hot coffee.
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