Check out this article: In icy Alaska, U.S. Army can be sued over fall
Here’s the great quote of the piece:
An injured woman who slipped in an Alaskan parking lot can sue the federal government for failing to remove snow and ice, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Monday.
Carol Bolt has been permanently disabled since April 1999, when she broke her ankle outside her U.S. Army apartment in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, where winter temperatures fall to as low as -65 F degrees (-54 C).
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HERE is the kicker for those of us who have LIVED in Alaska’s interior…IF SHE LIVED ON BASE IT WAS HER RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP HER SIDEWALKS AND DRIVE CLEAR! So if she slipped it was HER FAULT for not clearing the snow!!
You know how many freaking hours I have shoveled that fucking white shit? FOUR LONG YEARS of shoveling it. Had a brand new baby and a toddler the last two years we lived on base – and left the front door open where I could see them in the little mud room while I tried to keep the sidewalk and drive clear when we’d get five feet of snow in an evening. Yeah FUN – all the while husband was gone being a soldier and I not only raised two babies, I shoveled snow and worked 50 hours a week mostly ALONE. And this lazy ass doesn’t clear her walk and now it’s the government’s job to clear the sidewalks and she gets a freaking payday too?
I’m glad my husband is retiring – the shit that is taking over and the freaking suits allowing them to make me sick.
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