Annapolis Attorney Practicing the Ride of His Life
The Daily Record (Baltimore) › May 13, 2005
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As an attorney who represents amusement parks, Wayne Pierce often thinks about his teen-age brother sailing through the air upside down on a flying swing ride, held into his seat by only a crotch strap.
As 17-year-olds, Pierce's brother and his friends decided to turn the flying swings into an airborne game of bumper cars, pulling and kicking each others' swings as the ride spun them around 30 feet in the air. Trying to deliver a powerful push to a friend, Pierce's brother instead flipped his own swing.See the full content of this document
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Annapolis Attorney Practicing the Ride of His Life
An attendant saw what had happened and stopped the ride, and the boy escaped injury, but Pierce recalls the near-accident whenever one of his clients faces an injury claim.
Although the amusement industry is incredibly, eye-poppingly safe, it does have a certain level of minor injury rate, and for those that do occur, somewhere in the area of 80 percent of them are caused by patrons doing things they shouldn't be doing, Pie...See the full content of this document
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