I
remember learning a term in Business Law class. Attractive
Nuisance. The term describes a dangerous situation that might be
attractive to someone who has not yet developed the judgement to resist the
attraction. If that person is then injured, the property owner might be
held liable. If a construction site digs a hole, leaves it unfenced and
unguarded, and kids come play in it and get hurt, the construction company
could be at fault. Like when I was a kid and a crew demolished a
two-story house, first starting with some excavation that left the house still
intact, but tilting at a crazy angle, then went home for the weekend. It
was an awesome haunted house kind of experience, running all through it bumping
into walls, feeling the floor shudder. Nobody got hurt, so the attractive
nuisance statute was not triggered, if it even existed back then.
Walking
through the forest, that recollection came back to me for no reason at all…
Also,
I don’t know if the rule only applies to children.
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