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my ponit isn't just the fact that the company and city are required to put up fences, but that they should have prior to the first of these instances. it's negligence on their part, and tolerance of negligence that endangers the public isn't something i have a whole lot of.

additionally, these are kids we're talking about doing idiotic things. it's not exactly like they're of the maturity level to make the most informed of decisions. hell, when i was 13-14, i know i was jumping off of rooves and out of treehouses and such. was it intelligent? no. was it something that alot of us did without contemplating potential injury? yep. some people are inherrently more prone to risk-taking, some more prone to risk-aversion. those prone to risk-aversion tend to classify those prone to risk-taking as "idiots." that last part is simply an observation of tendencies, not a judgement on either party.

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