Saturday, May 19, 2018

SO, DO THEY HAVE A CASE?

by Bob Walsh

Two women are suing the Canadian National Railroad and it's American subsidiaries for injuries. It seems their trains regularly block the streets in the teeming metropolis of Waterloo, Iowa for hours. This means people who want to move from one side of the tracks to the other have to either walk a mile to go around, wait a LONG time or climb between the train cars. That is dangerous as they don't know when the trains will start moving.

The two women, age 37 and 67, were injured doing this. They claim at least five other people have lost chunks of their bodies in this fashion at this location.

My first inclination would be to say "Don't Do Dumb Shit. This is dumb." However, if this happens a LOT one would think the locals have a legit beef and maybe the railroad should do something to relieve the situation. Technically they were probably trespassing. That being said sometimes property owners have a duty of care to trespassers.

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