... that a city making no effort to keep both children and adults off of a frozen city-owned lake in a public park -- especially during early and late ice -- is either mismanaged or completely unmanaged. And they're just asking for a lawsuit they will have no choice but to settle out of court, possibly for millions of dollars.
Almost exactly one year ago, 2 children -- a boy and a girl, ages 11 and 12 -- fell through the ice on Washington Park Lake in Albany. The girl had tried to save the boy, but he drowned and she died a few days later. One wonders what efforts the City of Albany makes now to keep people off of that frozen lake. I can't imagine it's nothing.
In 2006, several years after I had moved away from my hometown in Westchester County, a 6-year-old boy died by drowning after he fell through thin ice on the local pond I spent much of my youth fishing and skating on. The boy had been walking a neighbor's dog but ran onto the ice to retrieve the dog after it got away from him. The dog survived.
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