Ridecamp: Re: [RC] helmets:

At 10:40 AM 6/15/02, dpwg@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Baseball requires the hitter to wear a helmet.

Baseball, football, car racing are professional sports.  They can require 
anything they want.  The organizations that put on the events aren't 
non-profits and in the first two, the participants are employees, in the 
last they're getting money prizes and all that stuff.  It makes a big 
difference! We're an amateur sport with non-professionals participating.  I 
think what AERC can or should demand is different from pro sports.

> When we send our kids out to ride bikes or skateboards do we protect them 
> to the best of our ability? I know I did

Yup - the parent, the legally responsible entity, protects the kid.  The 
question to me is:  Is AERC the legally responsible entity?  I think the 
waivers say it all.  No, the *participants* are the legally responsible 
entity.

AERC can suggest protective gear, but I think the moment AERC considers 
*requiring* it is the day the lawsuits will really start.



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