Quote of the Day: Watch Out for Batted Balls Wieners

Injured by a flying hot dog at a ball game? You may still have a case!

[T]he risk of being hit in the face by a hot dog is not a well-known incidental risk of attending a baseball game.

— Presiding Judge Thomas H. Newton of the Missouri Court of Appeals (Western District), writing for the majority, and noting that a fan cannot be said to have assumed the risk of injury via flying hot dog by attending a baseball game.

(For some background information, in 2009, Kansas City Royals fan John Coomer’s retina was torn and detached after he was hit in the face with a foil-wrapped hot dog that was thrown by the team mascot.)

Sponsored