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Lawsuit Filed Over Injuries Suffered at "Large and Dangerous" Rocket Festival
Betsy, what rehab and dermatologists? The complaint doesn't list or mention them. She probably needed ice, tylenol, first aid and mental health attention which could well have been pre-existing. The lawsuit alleges her "self-diagnosed panic attacks".. Puh leeeeze.— June 17, 2012 2:09 a.m.
Lawsuit Filed Over Injuries Suffered at "Large and Dangerous" Rocket Festival
Visduh, google and read the Discovery Channel programs covering LADRS launches. Inform yourself. Tripoli is an international highly respected association. There are no other personal injury claims against them which is rather astonishing. You're safer there than on the California freeways.— June 17, 2012 2:06 a.m.
Lawsuit Filed Over Injuries Suffered at "Large and Dangerous" Rocket Festival
Betsy, as a point of fact, the organizers cannot stop anybody from going anywhere or prohibit bystanders from going up to the rockets. They don't have any legal right to blockade people from the public property. TRA had many warning signs, the driver of the ATV Kairee rode in was himself a rocketeer and knew the risks. TRA has a lengthy process for approving which rockets and participants demonstrate reasonable safety to be permitted to launch. Nothing's perfect. Accidents happen. People choose to do stupid things on public property all the time including on freeways, beaches and the desert. Kairee and Graham have the right to step in front of a moving train if they choose to. Let's be reasonable. Nobody else has ever done what Kairee Goodin and Graham Orr did at a LADRS launch during the decades they've been safely held. They're exciting! It is unfortunate whenever someone has an injury, even minor like here, but attendance is by choice and at the informed risk of the spectators and participants. They're gold brickers in my book. Period.— June 17, 2012 2:03 a.m.
Lawsuit Filed Over Injuries Suffered at "Large and Dangerous" Rocket Festival
Can Kairee Goodin and her lawyers spell **P-E-R-J-U-R-Y?** ***I WAS THERE*** and read the lawsuit and know the boyfriend **Graham Orr who is and has been a member of Tripoli for years and launched his own loser rockets!** Oh, it's an unverified complaint not signed by attorneys or plaintiff as true and correct because it's full of lies! First of all TRA has a flawless safety record. See Discovery Channel coverage of the "large and dangerous rocket ships" launches. You have to sign waivers of spelled out risks and to keep out of launch areas, in plain English. They went to great lengths to go miles out in the Mojave Desert, get into the event, and drive up close to the 3 story high rocket! As soon as they saw it 30 ft away they should have moved farther away but chose to sit there. Orr went even closer! She got fast first aid and medical attention for minor injuries. First and second degree burns are redness and blisters, not deep burns. Kairee and Graham caused her scratches. I'm volunteering to be a defense witness and live close to court! Shame on them for wasting taxpayer money and court resources. **Sue back Tripoli! Name Orr and unscrupulous lawyers STUART R. FRAENKEL (State Bar # 173991) and ANDREW L. CIGANEK (State Bar # 266701)**— June 17, 2012 1:51 a.m.