What ever happened to common sense?

Today, someone can be walking on railroad tracks, or along side them and get hit  by a train. The first thing you know, the news services are asking "How fast was the train going?"

Who cares. The Railroad and all it's property are Private. If you get hit by a train you are where you didn't belong, plain and simple. The train wasn't cruising along, turn off its tracks, take Main Street to Broad, run you over, then go back on it's tracks. It has a simple pre-planned, unable to be altered route, if you are on it, you can be killed.  People need to teach their children to stay off the tracks, teach them young, so they have a clue when they get older. This country through it's Lawyers and Judicial system have become a boon to the stupid and ignorant. It's time to go back in time, If someone does wrong and gets injured there is no case, no subsidy. Why reward someone for A. being Stupid and B. Trespassing on Private property.

Case in point, in 1875 a man named William Clark sued the Saint Clair and Penobscot Railroad in Maine for injuries he sustained when he crossed the tracks in front of a train and was struck. The Court declared that Mr Clark was a Trespasser and deserved no reward as such. The court advised the Railroad to use due care when possible.

Plain, Smart, Simple.

If we could all teach the young between right and wrong, safe and unsafe, and regulate the Judicial System to reward or punish accordingly, this nation would be safer and smarter. We seem to reward the dumb, promote mediocrity, and set safety rules for the dumb.

Have you ever stood on the top rung of a ladder? Of course you have, you could tell when you did it that it wasn't really safe, it was wobbly. But because someone got a lawyer, the ladder mfgr was sued, the lawyer made money, the idiot who fell made money, and the rest of us have ladders with 18 to 20 warning labels all over. Watch out for electrical sources, chance of electrocution. My favorite are the two near the top, don't stand on or above this rung, OK, The next one is on the top rung, Do not stand on this rung. Really, we have labels for stupid people, and labels for stupider people who didn't quite grasp the first message.

By the time you finish reading all the warnings on a ladder it's to late to do the job you were going to...