OTR: Professor T and the gas tank

Professor T started young…
Professor T: “My parents informed me of the first tort I committed. I was little. I had my little shovel and sand bucket… and as a little kid I was intrigued by gas tanks! And we didn’t have the locks on the gas tanks that we have now…so I’m just sort of pouring sand into the gas hole…”
Tort Liability for Children…
Professor T: “If we held children to an adult standard, what would every reasonably prudent parent do? LOCK THEM IN THE CLOSET! We’d lock them in a closet until they were 18 and then push them onto the street!”
The Crazy…
Professor T: “So how does the court deal with the contention that ‘I couldn’t adhere to the standard of a reasonably objective person because I’m stark raving mad?’”
Professor T: “We saw this in an earlier case when the caretaker comes into the room and the insane person says, ‘come in here and I’ll bash your brains out’ and lord and behold she bashes her brains out…”

I know we are smart but…
Professor T: “We live in Minnesota, but not all of the children are above average.”
Professor T: “Wow the room gets really quite when you start talking about exams…”