mindwip
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Zip line? I'm sorry, but my ignorance is showing. What is a zip line?
Was the man sliding down a rope and hit his head?
Yes your right. A zip line is a rope or steel cable or two steel cables. It starts at a high point and travels to a low point. The rope that connects these two points is the "line" the zip part is when you put on a harness and travel over the cable, gravity pulls you over the "line" thus you are zipping of the line. Hence its called a zip line. Not really very creative naming thou
And yes he was sliding down and hit a lift at the end of the line.
OK kind of think I know what a zip line is. However, accidents
happen.
Yes accidents happen, but when you cause an accident through criminal neglect you can get sued or go to jail. Here is another way of saying it. In Ca you are protected as a good samaritan. They made this law becuase people were on the road side dieing and passer bys would not help. They did not want to help because often times in the prosses of helping they might hurt the person they are helping. And get sued fro no reason.
Example doing CPR it is easy and common to break ribs, its just excepted. Whats a broken rid to giving someone life. People were suing for getting there ribs broken. Never mind the fact there life was saved. So a law passed saying if you help some one and do it part way right you cant get sued. Its just a accident they got hurt. But if i were to try to do CPR on someone by jumping up and down on there chest with my feet, then i may be tried for neglectful acts. Thats the difference between an accident and a neglectful accident.
Thats what they are being sued for. Any lawyers to back me up on that. My business law is not the best right now.
BTW, those of you saying that the platform should be at the end of the zip-line, instead of the middle, have never ridden a zip line. You zip down, past the point where the cable sags the lowest, then go back and forth til your momentum ceases. A recovery platform at the end of the line would be useless
Sorry but there is more then one way to make a zip line that is safe. Have you ever used a zip line to travel in a jungle. Or used one when rock climbing to bridge a gap, to get your 70lb packs over and lesser climbers. It would be pointless to have you stop in the middle and then pull your self over half way. Most of the zip lines i have been on were from one end to the other. Platform to platform. There is no danger of hitting anything because of breaking. You dont let your self go balls out all the way. But these are also ones for poeple who are trained in zip lines too. If i was setting up a "fun" line i would do the stopping at middle. If i was setting up a line with people who knew the basics, i would have it so they could barely reach the other end, with no breaking. If they braked at all they would stop short and have to pull them selfs.