It was announced today that a state college system is awarding over $1.2 million dollars to settle a lawsuit brought up due to the death of their daughter who was electrocuted getting her child's ball out of a fountain on a college campus. The fountain in question is still shut down and closed off. I feel for her family and the child she left behind, but the school apparently did not do routine maintenance on the fountain to prevent the water from being electrified. So in a way it was negligence on the part of the college. Water is a conductor for electricity and this is why you do not go swimming in a pool during a lightening storm and you do not keep items like a blow dryer close to your bath tub.
Alot of the students interviewed for the newscast want the fountain reopened and back in use. I feel like something so tragic as a person getting electrocuted the fountain should stay closed and maybe filled in and torn down and put up a simple statue in its place.
If places can't afford the simple maintenance of a fountain then they should not be running them. I know that they are supposed to be pieces of art and peaceful, but common sense says keep your hands out of them. I know the fountain in my local community has to be turned off due to people wanting to put soap in the fountain as a joke.
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The statue is a good idea and it would be a nice gesture.
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