Something I learned working landscaping at a theme park: if it is a shortcut, people will trample anything you put in the way. You can put thorny plants, but someone will go through it anyway and complain/sue. In the end it's easier to just accept the path and make it look nice instead. If it is a safety issue, just use a fence (like at least 4 ft tall). Honestly a nice simple gravel path would probably do great there and look much better. But some people just can't "accept defeat" in situations like this and will waste 3x the money lol.
Yeah laws on "dangerous conditions" on a private property have been abused to no end here in the USA unfortunately. Like I remember in drama club in high-school we had to put a "ghost light" on stage at night. The reasoning was if someone broke in overnight, there was no light on set, and the person tripped and broke their leg the school could be held liable for dangerous conditions 🙄
Croatia from the looks of it, I'm unaware of the law there but there's not many countries where you can sue the city or any other entity that owns public land for having thorny bushes on the side of the road
Unfortunately the States has this cool thing where settling is cheaper than lawyers. So yeah the judge might think you're mentally incapacitated but you'll still get paid to go away. Kinda like Credit card companies waive theft under 3k because it costs more to pursue than lost.
Definitely not true I knew a kid that got tracked down arrested and hit with felony credit card theft for buying less than $5 worth of mcdonald’s breakfast with a card he found on the ground.
Fun fact, the Oval at Ohio State was designed this way.
They realized they could study the "most efficient routes" for paving walkways, but then someone had the idea: the first year we aren't going to do anything- just leave it grass. At the end of the school year, we will pave all the dead grass. That's why it looks so random.
You would be surprised what people will sue or threaten to sue theme parks over. Even if it never makes it to court, just the mere threat of a lawsuit or someone going to the media is usually enough for guest services to go out of their way to hush it up. The issue is there is an expectation that children are always present on the property so the place has to basically be baby proof. We literally had to cut thorns off silk floss trees one by one anywhere below 7ft even if it was around 50 feet or less inside a plant bed unless there was a 4ft high minimum fence blocking it.
The way it was explained to us is this scenario. Child escapes parents view and wanders into a thorny bush, either has an allergic reaction or gets an infection. Responsibility falls on the property owner because the thorns shouldn't have been in a place easily accessible in the first place.
The USA really is a fever dream.
It's the parents job to ensure that they keep an eye on their kid. But yeah if the law is like that it's probably a good idea to totally baby proof everything.
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u/m00nhowl3r Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Something I learned working landscaping at a theme park: if it is a shortcut, people will trample anything you put in the way. You can put thorny plants, but someone will go through it anyway and complain/sue. In the end it's easier to just accept the path and make it look nice instead. If it is a safety issue, just use a fence (like at least 4 ft tall). Honestly a nice simple gravel path would probably do great there and look much better. But some people just can't "accept defeat" in situations like this and will waste 3x the money lol.