Re: Wimping out already?!?

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:41:25 -0600, "Doug Brown"
<doug.brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Although I'm not a shark expert, so I can't say for sure what the
species was, and I can't recall exactly how it ended up on his arm (I'm
wanting to say he'd hit it with the hawaiian sling, but he might have
just outright grabbed it - I'm foggy on that detail after - what? 3
years now?) it wasn't a big shark - maybe 3 feet - barely big enough to
be able to put a bite on him in the first place - and it didn't appear
to be a species that's normally considered a threat to humans. Your
"burst an artery" scenario is, at best, grasping at straws in a vain
effort to prop up your argument. Not to put too fine a point on it, but
the biggest threat that shark held for him was if he had developed an
infection after it was pried off.

You are out of your mind if
you think the show will be cancelled because they encounter and get hurt
by
wildlife.

You're out of your mind if you think they'll be able to get insurance to
cover them filming so much as a single episode (perhaps even a single
MINUTE) beyond the time when someone gets *SIGNIFICANTLY* hurt by
wildlife.

You have been proven wrong now go cry like a little bitch.


Oh, dear... That's FUNNY!

Unfortunately for you, looks aren't everything.

G'night, Boo... It's well past your bedtime.

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I know I'm starting something here but it really isn't my intention to get
into a pi_ _ ing war. I don't know who you are and what experience, if any,
you have in the commerical insurance and litigation fields but I have to
ask...do you have nay idea at all about what is and is not available with
respect to the sorts of insurance that may be needed or desirable? Do you
have any experience in how to draft a waiver that would be enforceable?

I don't but I know that it can be done.

I also know that if you are willing to pay an appropriate premium, darned
near any sort of insurance is available.

Perhaps you are correct in spirit, and MB does not wish to pay the premium
and therefore chooses to err on the side of caution but I suspect that if he
really wished to do so, he could protect his show's financial bottom line
and still put on a he _ _ of a show.



With profits of 12+MM per episode, they can buy whatever insurance is
needed, but still they want to keep players safe...


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