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Originally Posted by Cowperson
If you cycle or walk along there, you'll see the weir is amply marked with gigantic "death trap" signs on the shoreline . . . . . . you can't miss them.
It's too bad the chain with other gigantic "death trap" signs wasn't there but they did have someone on board who had rafted to that point twice before.
They killed themselves.
Ironically, while in Rome recently, I was running past a similar weir on the Tiber that didn't appear to have any noticeable warning signs at all . . . . but Romans don't seem like the rafting kind and the Tiber is a bit of a stinking pollution pit.
Cowperson
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Yea the offshore signs help people starting close to the wier, but I'm not recalling (and correct me if I'm wrong) any signs at Bowness Park, which I know is where a lot of people start their rafting from.
I don't want to be the guy defending these two, because it's no one's fault but their own, but no markings on the water or at the starting point of their trip makes it somewhat understandable how this happened, especially considering they're new arrivals to the city.
I wouldn't be surprized at an attempted lawsuit from the families.