The parents can try to sue the pipe owners and try to show negligence. If there was a sign on the pipe that said, "Pre-teens: cross this pipe on foot and win a new iPod," the parents might have a case.
I agree with Sadat that there should be no force applied to pipe owners in general or to parents. --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Sasan Sadat-Sharifi <[email protected]> wrote: The only person responsible for this tragedy is the child himself - not his parents, not the pipe owner, and certainly not the government. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
