'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Fans who were killed and injured when stage rigging and sound equipment collapsed onto them as they awaited a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair failed to take steps to ensure their own safety and are at least in part to blame for their injuries, the country duo's attorneys said.
Fans who were killed and injured when stage rigging and sound equipment collapsed onto them as they awaited a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair failed to take steps to ensure their own safety and are at least in part to blame for their injuries, the country duo's attorneys said.
Attorneys for country duo Sugarland said concertgoers were at least partly to blame for injuries suffered in a stage collapse, drawing a sharp reaction from fans Tuesday and prompting the band's manager to issue a statement criticizing the finger-pointing.
"It's unusual to put the blame on victims," South Bend attorney Jeff Stesiak said Tuesday. "The concert wasn't canceled and they weren't told to leave. I can't imagine what the victims did to be at fault."
"An open and obvious danger is more like walking along a road and seeing a downed power line and walking over it anyway. The storm wasn't like that," Stesiak said.
