Wednesday, August 21, 2024

What's Your Guess?

 

How much does a two-foot section of a vintage Hudson telephone pole weigh?  Would it be more than 5 pounds or less than 5 pounds?

And if it fell on someone's head from 20 feet above, how quickly would that person die from blunt force trauma?  Instantly, hours later at the hospital, or years later after not coming out of a coma?

Finally, how much money would the city and the utility pay the family of the deceased as a result of the settlement of the wrongful death due to negligence lawsuit brought by the family? Would it be in the tens of millions or the hundreds of millions of dollars?


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