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David,

That is an excellent point.

BTW I thought all rides had treatment vets until this list started. All 
I had been to do - including rides in the SE, NE, CT and MT region I had 
been to. So yes I thought it was "common practice."

Truman

David LeBlanc wrote:
> Second thing to think about - there was a landmark lawsuit many years ago
> where a ship got in trouble on the Great Lakes. They didn't have a radio,
> and radios weren't a _requirement_. If they'd have had a radio, they almost
> certainly wouldn't have had a major problem. The thing the court found was
> that since radios were in common use, and it was _best practice_ to have a
> radio, then the owners of the ship were negligent, and were at fault,
> despite the fact they met requirements. So a RM could meet the
> _requirements_ and still be negligent, if they didn't follow well known best
> practice.
>
> At any rate, when people know the risks they're taking in advance, you're
> less likely to get lawyers involved, or even have malfunctions in the first
> place. Maybe it would be nice to have some of this stuff on the calendar -
> we have spaces for the RM and the head vet, maybe we should give people some
> other information, too. Then people can make their own choices.
>
>
>   


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