[MR] article about lawsuit and BOD

[james barker]

We have to be careful with the "dropping the kids off" idea; I do not 
believe that is the intent of the organized children’s activities. If we are 
doing that then we have an official daycare which is a whole new can of 
worms; regulations from the state, insurance, training requirements, and so 
on.

Also some have asked did the acts in PA happen at an official event or a 
not; as I understand things they were at gatherings not on the official SCA 
calendar they were open invitation parties/gatherings, I am not sure haw 
anyone thinks the SCA's insurance will cover this.

Also as cold as it sounds people elected to use this fellow as a babysitting 
service because they trusted him as a friend not because he did youth 
activities in the SCA; they really want to remove the blame they share in 
what happened to the SCA. The SCA did not drop the kids off at his farm, the 
SCA did not tell people to befriend or trust this man, and the SCA did not 
sanction the events on his farm.

This lawsuit is about blame shifting and money; sad really. There is only 
one man to blame for everything but he has nothing left to take.

James




----Original Message Follows----
From: "Alex and Kier Kenlon" <alexandkier at gmail.com>
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [MR] article about lawsuit and BOD
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:32:07 -0500

In short...we might as well kiss the children's activities goodbye. After
reading the president of the BoD's livejournal page, he is actually
considering suggesting submitting to the Board that we eliminate any and all
activities for anyone below 18 or emancipated minors.

Which would protect us from lawsuits such as this...in much the way that not
getting within 50 miles of a swimming pool will protect one from drowning in
said pool.

On the other hand the children's programs are attracting more and more
people and allowing people who dropped out of the SCA while they're raising
their children to come back to play knowing that there is a structured
activity that the children can enjoy while Mommy and Daddy are off in the
kitchen cooking feast, running troll (excuse me..."SCA event check-in and
fee collection area") or any of the hundreds of activities that people get
involved and enjoy at events.

One wonders what's next. Somebody decides to sue the SCA because he broke
his hand fighting? And don't think the waiver will protect, there are many
cases where someone signed a waiver and still successfully sued someone.

Anyone out there working on Temporal Physics? We need you to hurry up and
invent the time machine so we can convince the lawyers that interpretative
dance would be a more rewarding field than Law.

Alsandair O'Caiondealbhain
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