# Another Pressing legal Question!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pressing-legal-question/118409
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 11, 2002, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pressing-legal-question/118409 "2002-07-11T12:52:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pressing-legal-question/118409/1 "2002-07-11T12:52:20Z")
I just took my stepson to the skateboard park-the city I live in has converted part of a baseball field into a skateboard park-with a half-pipe, and various other ways to break your neck. I noticed all kinds of kids playing with their boards-and almost none of them had helmets, elbow or knee gaurds on!
To me, this park is a lawyer’s dream! I can see some 10-year old goes to the skate park, attempts a 360 degree roll, and lands on his head! He fractures a vertibrae in his neck, and is paralyzed for life. The next thing, the city is sued for 10 million dollars…
Why would any city government knowingly open a skatepark? It seesm like they are just asking for a lawsuit…lawyers…what’s your take on this?:smack:
---
### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pressing-legal-question/118409/2 "2002-07-11T12:56:21Z")
IANAL, but…
are there any signs posted stating that skaters skate at their own risk? I would think if there were, then the city is absolved of responsibility.
Again, IANAL.