Sibling loses appeal over injury from backyard zip line
WEST BLOOMFIELD (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a zip line is covered under the state’s recreation law, a distinction that gives some legal protection to landowners if someone is injured.
The recent decision came in a lawsuit by a woman who needed surgery after injuring her knee while zip lining in her brother’s yard in Oakland County. A person on a zip line wears a harness and flies through the air on a cable.
A judge had dismissed the lawsuit in favor of Arthur Rott, and the appeals court agreed. The court said Rott’s actions were “not grossly negligent or willful or wanton misconduct.”
Doreen Rott argued that she was at her brother’s home for a family gathering, not for the purpose of zip lining.
“Plaintiff is correct in her assertion that there is no published case law applying the RUA to zip lining,” the court said, referring to Michigan’s Recreational Use Act. “Nonetheless, we conclude that zip lining is of the same kind, class, character or nature of the recreational activities enumerated in the statute.”
Detroit development to offer housing to LGBTQ homeless
DETROIT (AP) — Several dozens apartments meant mainly for homeless members of the LGBTQ community are being developed in Detroit, according to a weekend newspaper report.
The Detroit News reported Sunday that the more than $10 million project should be completed in the middle of next year.
The 43-unit, mixed-use housing is a collaboration between the Ruth Ellis Center and a Chicago-based non-profit developer, Full Circle Communities.
The executive director of the Ruth Ellis Center, Jerry Peterson, said a variety of services will be offered, including access to primary care doctors and mental health counseling.
Peterson says the target group for the units are LGBTQ people between 18 and 25. Peterson adds that there's "a special emphasis on providing stable housing for transgender women of color.”
Vouchers will cover most of the expenses for residents in 34 of the units. Eight units will be offered at low cost and one will be set aside for a live-in specialist.
Pranksters fill up Tucson potholes with green turf toupees
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Pranksters apparently fed up with potholes in southern Arizona have filled them with bright green turf toupees.
The Arizona Daily Star reports 10 of the crumbling craters in Tucson, Arizona, have been filled with carefully cut patches of fake grass.
The illicit landscaping appeared in early January, much to the delight of some nearby residents.
They assumed it was a protest aimed at drawing the city’s attention to all the road damage in their historic neighborhood south of downtown.
Peaceful pothole protests have become popular online in recent years. Residents around the world highlight the holes in their streets by posing dolls in them, pretending they’re bathtubs, or turning them into planters for flowers and Christmas trees.
Last year, graffiti artists in Middlesbrough, England, shamed authorities into fixing their potholes by spray-painting the pavement around them with sex organs.
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