Towns Are Banning Sledding Because Parents Sue When Kids Get Hurt

A friend who was noodling around the AccuWeather Inc. website today found this depressing item: “Why Have Midwestern Towns Banned a Beloved Winter Pastime?”

The article, which seems like it might just sit in a slush pile on the site’s news desk and await recycling every snow season, discusses a few horrible sledding injury lawsuits that drained the coffers of Omaha, Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa.

“According to a study from The Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, more than 20,000 Americans younger than age 19 receive treatment for sledding-related injuries each year,” notes the article.

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Prince Harry: COVID-19 Is Punishment For Ignoring ‘Mother Nature,’ Climate Change

Britain’s Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, called the novel coronavirus, which plunged most of the world into a pandemic and, ultimately, economic downturn, a sign of Mother Nature exerting her considerable power over humanity, potentially over our reluctance to address climate change.

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Debra Messing Wants to ‘BURN the Constitution’ If Trump Doesn’t Go To Jail

The thought of President Trump being allowed to leave office peacefully and not being bound, jailed or tortured for his policies while in office filled Debra Messing with rage over the weekend, enough to get her to make insane and dangerous pleas, like a call to “burn the constitution.”

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Holocaust Museum In Florida Sparks Outrage After Adding George Floyd Exhibit

“A new exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center in Maitland features powerful and inspiring photos taken in the wake of George Floyd’s death,” Orlando 6 reported. The man behind the photographs in the exhibit, John Nolter, went to the location where Floyd was arrested by law enforcement officials to take pictures of people reacting to his death.

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