# "Wanna dance? Wait -- sign this waiver first." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-dance-wait-sign-this-waiver-first/398683 "2007-04-04T07:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-dance-wait-sign-this-waiver-first/398683/1 "2007-04-04T07:09:25Z")
This is not recreational outrage. From [CNN:](http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/03/negligent.dancing.ap/index.html) > [@](#): > > CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) – A woman is suing her dance partner, claiming he dropped her on her head after flipping her into the air at an office party. > > Lacey Hindman, 22, was a victim of “negligent dancing,” says her lawyer, David M. Baum. > > In the suit, Hindman claims that during a party at a Chicago bar and restaurant in April 2006, David Prange grabbed her by the forearms and tossed her in the air, and then she crashed to the wood floor. After I stopped laughing at “flipping her into the air at an office party,” which calls to mind the disco scene in **Airplane!** , I started wondering why the dancing had to factor into it. Because she didn’t want to, or couldn’t, charge him with assault or whatever it would be when you “grab [someone] by the forearms and [toss] them in the air”? As in, it’s reasonable that he wouldn’t do that if they hadn’t been dancing, so he was negligent in his dancing. Just sounds odd, that’s all. I never thought of dancing as such a heavy responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-dance-wait-sign-this-waiver-first/398683/2 "2007-04-04T14:34:01Z")
I think the lawyer just used that term to get a little publicity. That is what ‘he says’ not what he put in the actual suit. Throwing partners in the air is something that requires practice, not a few drinks. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-dance-wait-sign-this-waiver-first/398683/3 "2007-04-04T14:49:30Z")
From the [article I read](http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_093061826.html), the woman was at a mandatory after-hours employees party. They were dancing in a group, not as a couple, her boss just suddenly grabbed her arms and flipped her into the air, and she fractured her skull on the floor. Hardly the same thing as dancing the jitterbug with a “dance partner” with whom you’ve been practicing. Looks like she’s got a decent civil case there. Employees were required to attend, her boss grabbed her without warning. It’s not like she went into a mosh pit where there is some kind of assumption of risk. What made me laugh in the article I read was where she said: “I fell hard enough, you could hear the impact of me hitting the floor over the sound from the jukebox.” All I could think was, “Well, sure. _You_ could hear the impact over the jukebox.” ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-dance-wait-sign-this-waiver-first/398683/4 "2007-04-04T15:12:28Z")
‘Negligent dancing’? Isn’t that called ‘assault’? ---
**Author:** ![Twisty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Twisty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twisty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-dance-wait-sign-this-waiver-first/398683/5 "2007-04-04T15:21:47Z")
He flipped her into the air by grabbing her forearms? What were they dancing to, “Kung Fu Fighting”?