McNeese Has to Pay Up

[TexasTerror]

Ouch for McNeese! This one has got to hurt as they have to pay up some money to a former student who was hit in the eye during the ticket purchasing process. Says the school did not make an effort to protect people in the given area where the patron was hit.

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May 24, 2005
Reported by The Associated Press

The Louisiana Supreme Court has refused to consider a ruling that McNeese State University owes 485-thousand dollars, plus years of interest, to a former student who was left nearly blind in one eye after she was hit by a baseball while trying to buy a game ticket. The high court's recent refusal to hear the case upholds the jury's verdict and findings by the state Third Circuit Court of Appeal for Heather Reider, who was injured April 16th, 1997.

The foul ball ruptured her right eye, broke the bones around it and her nose, and tore her eyelid. She lost most of the sight in that eye. Judge James T. Genovese wrote in March for the three-judge Third Circuit that since the box office outside the third-base line was made with extra-wide eaves to protect its windows from foul balls, the school knew patrons in that area also were in danger.

Genovese says the school chose not to protect its fans -- even though it could have put up a fence that protected them for less than it paid for a decorative fence that didn't do so but did keep them from seeing the field.

http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3386448&nav=0nqxaEzq

[Retro]

The school has insurance to pay for something like this... Another reason to build a new stadium and post new signs of warning to all in the stadium.

[blackfordpu]

That is rediculous. Every basball fan knows that there is an inherent risk when they go to the game that a ball may hit them. It is a risk they acknowledge and take at their own will. Geez, such whiners!! :mad: :rolleyes: :bang: :argue: :splat:

[Tod]

That is rediculous. Every basball fan knows that there is an inherent risk when they go to the game that a ball may hit them. It is a risk they acknowledge and take at their own will. Geez, such whiners!! :mad: :rolleyes: :bang: :argue: :splat:

I would agree with you if she had been sitting in the stands. But the fact that they built safety barriers for the ticket sellers, but not the buyers, says to me that they knew there was a risk (neither the buyer nor the seller is paying attention to the game) and took action only to safeguard the seller. If they were aware of the risk, all people in that area should have been protected, not just employees.

[blackfordpu]

I still think it is rediculous. Everyone knows that at an open field like that whether you are buying tickets or watching the game there is a risk of a ball contacting your person at any time.

It is like walking across the track at the Daytona 500 and sueing because you get hit.

[Hansel]

anyone have a pic of the stadium- preferably showing the area of the park where she was hit?

[Tod]

It is like walking across the track at the Daytona 500 and sueing because you get hit.

No, it's not. That's an absurd comparison.

It's like walking across a rifle range that has no protective barriers or warning signs and getting shot.

No, it's not. That's absurd too.

The difference is somewhere in between.

[Grizo406]

What about walking across the Daytona 500 track and getting hit by a ball from a neighboring field...or a bullet from a practice range that's close by? And then suing NASCAR. Or maybe getting carpal tunnel syndrome, and taking ralph and AGS to court to pay for the medical bills because you spent too much time on their site?

That's absurd.

[Tod]

Yes, that would be absurd.