Shawn Kyne hit the nail on the head in his letter to the editor, “Nothing says `thank you’ quite like a lawsuit,” except for one thing – Daniel Blumhagen shouldn’t drop the lawsuit because of fear of taking something away from Ames and Iowa State, he should drop it because it is just plain ridiculous.

Any time you go to any sports event, you run a risk of uncontrollable injury. If you get hit with a golf ball at a PGA golf tournament, you do not sue the PGA because the seating you were put in created an “unreasonable risk of injury to spectators.” Also, if you attend a baseball game and get hit with a foul ball, you do not sue Major League Baseball because you were busy trying to get the beer man’s attention and didn’t see it coming. Likewise, Ames and Iowa State have no control over where pucks go or what opposing players do.

Daniel Blumhagen, you represent what is wrong with America’s sue-happy society these days. It seems that everyone like you is suing everyone for any little thing, and this hockey incident of yours is right up there with suing someone for slipping on an icy sidewalk or on a freshly mopped floor. Take some responsibility.

After all, you are what we like to call an “adult” now, and with that comes admitting that maybe you are not always doing what you should have been doing and therefore have to suffer the consequences. I was sorry when I read last year that you got hit with a puck, it sounded like it was a really bad deal, but I have lost all sympathy for you after this latest prank of yours. It isn’t a perfect world; the sun doesn’t always shine, money doesn’t grow on trees and pucks don’t always stay on the ice.

Maybe my comments in the previous paragraphs are a little out of line, but I am outraged by your actions. If you can’t handle the consequences of uncontrollable events that happen at any sporting event, then don’t go. Watch it on TV or read about it in the Daily the next day. But watch out Daily, if Mr. Blumhagen gets a paper cut from your paper, you will be next on his list of crybaby lawsuits.

Brian Gunsolley

Junior

Meteorology