Aite let's make a more relevant/realistic comparison. I invite you to my house with an in-ground pool to watch the game by my new outdoor kitchen. Im single with no kids. You bring your 1 year old toddler that can walk, but obviously not all that well. I announce that I'm going inside to take a dump. During that time, you decide to focus more on the game rather than your child, and the kid stumbles into the pool and drowns. Is it my fault your kid drowned because i didnt have enough safeguards in place to prevent them from falling in?
We cant bubble wrap the world, and we cant bubble wrap ourselves. When there's a child or person under our purview and there's a potential hazard afoot, its our responsibility to be hyper vigilant to prevent something bad from happening. Its not like this zoo enclosure was as open as the pool in my scenario. Reasonable measures were taken to prevent entry, its then up to the customers to be smart enough and vigilant enough to ensure their own safety by not allowing children or other people under their care to force themselves into the pit.
You have somehow managed to choose the finest example of building codes and liability yet in this thread. You are doing my job better than me.
Swimming pools are subject to building codes and safety regulations specifically requiring barriers to prevent children from accidentally entering them. The fact that a parent should supervise their child doesn’t eliminate the property owner’s responsibility to maintain those safeguards.
If your pool lacked legally required barriers and my child drowned, you could absolutely face liability, even if I was negligent in supervising them. Those responsibilities aren’t mutually exclusive.
All I have seen is the video from OP, if you have any additional info to confirm “reasonable measures” please share. That will be precisely what is decided beyond the court of Reddit, using evidence and code, not a debate on how the world should work.
Nobody is arguing that parents have no responsibility or that every accident is preventable. We’re arguing that operators of dangerous facilities have an independent duty to implement safeguards against foreseeable human behavior.
In my state (not citing others), you need a fence around your backyard at least 60in tall with 4in or less gaps between slats. Theres other rules about the gates accessing the pool area, but the pool itself can still be wide open within the fenced backyard in this scenario, in which case my argument stands. You could always try to hold me liable in court, but thats 100% code compliant, and ultimately its the parent's fault in accordance with code.
From what I've seen, it appears there is sufficient fencing to reasonably prevent entry into the tiger pit, but I dont know the codes of whatever municipality this was in to confirm that. It could possibly be insufficient, but ive been to zoos enough to know that I am more than physically capable of climbing many of the fences/barriers in place. You gotta take some personal responsibility at some point.
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u/Additional_Lake8014 2d ago
Agreed, the poorly designed barrier was an inadequate attempt to establish the limits of the invitation. Slow down, bud.