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Topic subjectRE: I think of a swimming pool at a hotel.
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13195329, RE: I think of a swimming pool at a hotel.
Posted by SoWhat, Mon Sep-18-17 04:10 PM
>What liability does a hotel have to keep drunk people from
>dying in their swimming pool.

quite a bit, actually.

which is why many/most hotels keep the pool area locked and ppl need a guest key to access the pool area. and then there are signs all over the pool area warning folks about blah blah (like: don't dive b/c the pool is too shallow, there's no lifeguard on duty, no drinking in the pool area, et al.) the law is well-developed on this issue.

>Is it negligence to NOT lock up a pool at night?

i'm sure that varies by state. i've seen plenty locked pools in hotels, player.

>I am guessing this all turns on how easy (or not easy) it is
>to open that freezer from the inside (and cause of death of
>course). Is it negligence that most people can open but maybe
>not an out of their mind drunk person might not be able to.
>IDK.

varies by state, most likely. w/o checking my gut says - hell yeah.

well, my gut says if the hotel had a freezer that this girl could enter and that freezer had an escape mechanism that was broken the hotel is fucked. b/c my gut says right now that we don't know if the girl tried to get out and couldn't b/c the mechanism was broken or was sometime-y. if that mechanism was functioning properly then the hotel is in less trouble - the issue might still be why was she able to get down into that kitchen at all?

>I hear you on the search thing, I wonder how that conversation
>went.

mom: my daughter was here for a party tonight and now she's missing. can you look for her?

hotel staff: no.

mom: what?

hotel staff: not w/o a missing persons police report.

mom: are you serious right now???????

hotel staff: yes, pretty much. sucks to be you. cry about it.