Resourceful Kids or Irresponsible Parents?

[antof9]

Maybe a little of both. Today is both trash day and recycle day*, so I put the bins out with the garbage can this morning.

On last night's NBC Nightly News, there was an entire story about (roughly paraphrasing here)childhood obesity. They talked about how kids under 9 just naturally want to play, and play outside. The number of hours of

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[antof9]

hee hee! I actually wondered if I should say that when I wrote it, but then I decided that my Friends from Foreign were smart enough to figure it out even if they didn't know it already :) Yes, in most parts, you can get money for cans (several states give you cash for bottles, too).

I like your theory :)

Your litigation question was on my mind, frankly. I didn't think so much about suing, but I did think about "responsibility". That is, what if they got cut and needed stitches and their insurance didn't cover that? Since it happened on my property, I'm probably legally responsible for the emergency room visit. I suppose that's why we pay homeowner's insurance. At a very basic level, that's not too scary. But ... what if the broken glass sliced a tendon or worse or they got wounded here and then hurt because of the wound going home and for some reason required years of rehabilitation or something? Would we be responsible for that? Because they were rummaging through my trash?

Dang -- mojosmom isn't on my friends list, and I don't suppose my Spanish lawyerly friend knows anything about our laws on this!

So you see the dilemma. At first, a totally charming exercise in entrepreneurialism. At second glance, a lawsuit waiting to happen!

[antof9]

ooh -- good call on the PI application.

... and giggling at your "eww"