Still... These things are annoying. People always find causation with "events" for individual actions that may or may not had the same outcome.
It is like the headline, "Fireman dies from ice bucket challenge." When in reality he died from failure to operate a mechanical boom correctly and hit a power line. Certainly that has happened before without buckets of ice.
Further reading into the balloon deaths reveals a man who went missing in lake Erie. His estranged wife sued because she felt the balloons hindered the search. But even with a search, there would have been a chance he already passed away.
The city settled... Because you have to settle to save face. Can't be seen as callous and uncaring.
I am glad we have concepts like restitution, but at the same time we shouldn't have to be so afraid of our shadows that we cannot sometimes have a little fun. For God's sake, don't fucking drown yourself while we are having fun.
