His backyard ice rink honors a stepdaughter’s memory. Now county inspectors may close it.

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47. And if someone suffered an injury because it wasn't properly constructed

You be fulminating about people trying to duck out from under regulation and ask why building inspectors weren't on top of it. We have meddling bureaucrats to implement rules that were typically put in place in response to a pattern of problematic activity, such as an ongoing disregard for safety.

Next time you're in a second hand bookstore see if you can find an old casebook on tort law and read some of it. The details of various avoidable historical accidents will make your hair curl.

I have a story I like to tell some people about how there are government rules on the design of drain covers for swimming pools, and sure enough most listeners chuckle and agree that it's absurd that we need laws dictating the shape and style of plastic drain covers, a task better left to engineers and pool operators to sort out among themselves. Then I tell them about the what happens where those rules are not in place - children can get pulled onto the drain by the powerful water suction and drown or have their intestines pulled out. Which is exactly why some jurisdictions have adjusted pool safety standards...