Objection: relevance
Nine-year-old Brooke Porter was enjoying a day at Malibu's Little Dume Beach with her family last Saturday when it happened.Yes, it was just an accident. Heavy rains had dislodged a number of PowerBars (actually a kind of rock) from the cliff face.
About 50 feet above the beach, someone threw objects from the bluff-top compound owned by musician Kenny G onto the sand below. Brooke was hit in the head, causing a scalp injury.* * *
The musician's attorney said Kenny G's wife paid the medical bill for the girl, but he said no rocks were thrown. Instead, the attorney said, Hershey's Kisses and a PowerBar energy bar were thrown.
"I have been informed a PowerBar hit the girl accidentally on the head," said attorney Lee Blackman, who added that the cliffs have signs warning of falling rocks. "It was just an accident." - Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2007
How is it relevant that there was a falling-rocks sign? Is the idea that the kids were on notice about rocks, so should have been ready for anything softer than a rock (which, in my experience, might describe a PowerBar)?
posted at 11:21 AM
1 Comments:
Might? I'd say for certain. Especially if the PowerBar had been on a New Hampshire mountainside in the winter just before falling off the Malibu cliff. Yuck.
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