Suppose a 13-year-old boy watched a Saturday afternoon TV show about people who keep and train rattlesnakes. On the show there were scenes of other teenagers handling rattlers. A few days later the boy himself tried to pick up a rattlesnake just as he had seen it done on the program. But the boy was bitten by the snake and seriously injured. Assess the boy's chances of winning a lawsuit against
the producer of the show.
What will be an ideal response?
[It might have been careless of the producer to show scenes of teenagers handling rattlesnakes. However, a court would probably require more than this. It would probably require the plaintiff to prove that the defendant was attempting to incite such conduct and that the dangerous conduct was likely to occur because of the program. This standard probably could not be met in this case. There is no indication that the program actually urged youngsters to handle poisonous snakes.]
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