This is really amazing to me. In searching for all these crazy things people do, I was shocked to find that so many laywers specialize in lawsuits regarding camping and hiking.

Now I clearly understand that if a park has faulty or dangerous equipment or says a lifeguard is on duty and there is no lifeguard, then a lawsuit is warranted but in reading some of these lawsuits, they were sheer madness.

One for example was some guy who buys a ladder at a national chain of camping stores and falls off the ladder hurting himself. He puts the ladder up against the trailer, has no spotter and doesn't properly secure the ladder. Then he falls down and hurts his foot.

How does that warrant a lawsuit? Further how does it warrant a lawsuit against the camping store?

This isn't a blooper per se but one of those things I still think of. We were camping at Elora Gorge in Ontario and my parents had arrived the day before my aunt and uncle.

It was my sister's birthday and my aunt arrived with this beautiful cake that she had baked. Anyway, she had us firmly convinced that she had baked it on the way from home in her oven in the glove compartment of the car.

I was really old enough to know better but it was one of those things that stuck for years. I wondered if they did have some kind of oven in the car................ DUH ~!

I used to be the GM for a large retail organization. I saw every excuse in the book for trying to get refunds after pulverizing a product. But this was probably the best excuse and probably the most dangerous.

The guy buys a gas BBQ for the weekend camping jaunt with the buddies. On Monday morning, he returns the BBQ to the store all burned up and in tatters. He says the thing just blew up when he started it.

Because of the type of product, we are required to send it to a lab to determine the "real" cause of the accident.

When the tests come back, the guy has poured starter fluid - which is meant for a charcoal BBQ -on the lava rocks of the gas BBQ WITH THE GAS ON.