Very Few Attorneys or Reasonable People Wouldn't Agree...

... 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.