and notice that the dad is stating that these kinds of activities have "inherent risks". and then he is asking for donations. please try to understand the following as rational, thinking adults (and consider what this means if Obama/ACA goes thru):
can you all understand why these parks are bad? your health insurance policies come with a 5 million cap. when you are a child, and covered under your parents policy, these policies also have a 5 million cap. when you become an 'adult' and take on a job, you will have 'employers health insurance' or you now young adult will take on their own 'personal health' health insurance product. regardless of whether you are a child covered under your parent's policy, or you are an 'adult' with your own, these policies ALL have a 5 million dollar cap.
now, as an example, your 10 year old child has leukemia. they now must go thru ALL that is required to attempt to save your child's life. and ALL of you should know as adults what your deductibles and co-pays are. and you understand that these policy limits and charges are within a calendar year.
think...how much do you think it costs after 5 years of treatment for leukemia? i have a close family friend whose child went thru this. 7.5 million dollars and 6 years later they were forced to file "medical bankruptcy". their child is still alive 2 years later, but now has a "pre-existing condition".
i hope you are all sophisticated enough to understand that "pre-existing condition" is a fallacy. even under this new ACA under Obama, SOMEONE WILL PAY WHAT IT COSTS FOR SOMEONE TO HAVE A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION.
are you with me so far???
okay, now...this boy has broken his neck at a tramp park. he is now a quad. if his parents are smart, they will secure an Attorney and file suit. in fact, anyone that becomes injured in one of these places needs to file suit. they are all being led blindly in to the gas chambers with rhetoric about these places being good clean fun, good exercise, the antithesis of smartphones and television, and a "safe" place for your children to go with a false sense of security in that someone is "supervising" (oxymoron and fraud) your children on a Friday and Saturday night, while their friends are at parties drinking, doing drugs and getting in to trouble.
this is not about "inherent risks". it IS about 'guaranteed risks' and the concept of 'no/zero margin of error' when you take in to account the construction of how these trampolines are set up and how they are used. the question is not 'if'. the question is 'when' someone is going to become simply injured, catastrophically injured, permanently disabled or killed in a trampoline park. if you read my historical tutorial from the New York Times from 1962, you learn that the first opened in 1959. and by 1965 all were gone BECAUSE of litigation. history repeats itself 50 years later, a pig is still a pig and the United States is having difficulty paying its bills. this includes the medical industry, how care is delivered to our population and then who pays for it. then there is Medicaid, Disablity and Social Security. These 3 deliveries of "insurance" from our Government are currently underfunded and the GAO has stated that we are headed for trouble.