[pct-l] meddling NPS

[Julie Flaming]

I hear what you all are saying. The reality of the thing is that any
business operating in a large national park is heavily regulated and under
bid (iirc, by congressional mandate, and not by any particularly anal aspect
of the NPS per se), and the NPS would have been in an ugly place
liability-wise if they'd knowingly allowed this to go on. If one of the kids
had been injured, their parents probably would have sued the NPS for more
than its annual budget and it would have been a real tragedy. And if one of
the other businesses operating legally in the park could have proved that
the kids were edging them out somehow, they could have sued. And if one of
the kids' customers had had property damaged by one of these young people
and sued, the NPS would also have been in a jam. It's easy to point fingers
at them, but I don't really see how they could knowingly allow it.

Julie


On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Diane Morris <diane_m96002 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Jim said
> "The ranger we spoke with is also a high school soccer coach. A couple of
> years ago several members of his team (unbeknownst to him), were hiking
> down
> to Phantom Ranch and carrying out "hiker" backpacks at $200 a pop. And
> there
> were plenty of takers. One young man was making two trips per day! After a
> few weeks, the Park Superintendent got wind of this new "service" and put
> an
> end to it."
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> One would think that the forest service would appriciate that the kids were
> just out trying to earn some HONEST money and not out spraying graffitti, or
> worse yet, getting the guns out to play (who's the biggest and badest and
> live to tell.)
> I personally commend the kids for coming up with a way to earn themselves
> some honest money and a bonus... staying in shape (specially with all the
> young, lazy, overweight kids these days...)
> WOW!!!   ANAL is all I can say for the Park Superintendent!
> ~Diane Morris
>
> "Accept me for who I am, not who you want me to be..."
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