If you get hurt, it's always someone else's fault.
In fact, this a problem across the US and is manifested by our ridiculously litigious society. We live in a part of the US where there is an extraordinary problem with parents - especially millennial parents - not taking responsibility for their decisions or actions. It's a massive time sink for me personally, it's stressful, my wife stresses out, and it's expensive. Next, when parents sign a waiver and clearly understand that their kid is jumping on a trampoline, but hold our facility responsible when their child breaks a leg, it's a blow to our organization. G6 is already expensive enough… but what choice do we have when policy and politics tie our hands? Obviously, it's not just the minimum wage recipients, we have to bump everyone's pay rate commensurately. G6 Extreme Trampolining Sports park in Vancouver, Portland, which is one of the two sites shutting downĪnd listen we don't want to keep raising prices on our customers year after year. In April 2016, G6 was sued by 29-year-old Kyle Burford, who claimed he had broken his neck and dislocated a pair of vertebrae the year before, reported Oregon Live. If you get hurt, it's always someone else's fault.'
'In fact, this a problem across the US and is manifested by our ridiculously litigious society. 'We live in a part of the US where there is an extraordinary problem with parents - especially millennial parents - not taking responsibility for their decisions or actions,' Dameron wrote in the letter, which he uploaded to Reddit on Wednesday. G6 Airpark owner Wesley Dameron, 38, wrote a long letter explaining his decision to close the sites in Southeast Portland and Vancouver, in which he railed against politicians and parents 'who don't take responsibility for their children'.ĭameron said parents would regularly sign a waiver accepting their children were involved in a risky activity but then still sue the park when their offspring broke a leg. G6 Airpark owner Wesley Dameron, 38, (file photo) wrote a long letter explaining his decision to shut down the sites in Southeast Portland and VancouverĪ businessman has shut two trampoline parks in Oregon blaming 'litigious millennial parents' as well as the state's introduction of a higher minimum wage and statutory sick leave for part-time workers.