{"id":4784,"date":"2016-08-25T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2016-08-25T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:19:02","slug":"stadium-class-action-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/25\/stadium-class-action-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadium Class Action Suit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Raddatz at local <em><strong>CBS<\/strong><\/em> affiliate <em><strong>WCCO<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/08\/24\/acoustics-us-bank-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on a problem at the new <em><strong>US Bank Stadium<\/strong><\/em> in Minneapolis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStadiums for a long time have had noise levels that can be damaging to your hearing,\u201d Dr. David Geddes, an audiologist for HealthPartners, said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Bank Stadium could be the loudest stadium Minnesota has ever seen. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vikings.com\/stadium\/new-stadium\/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings website<\/a> says the roof on U.S. Bank Stadium features more \u201cacoustically reflective material\u201d and \u201cshould make the stadium louder\u201d than the Metrodome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfan.iheart.com\/onair\/vikings-blog-38526\/small-sample-size-shows-that-us-14986969\/\" target=\"_blank\">A local radio station<\/a> measured the sound during the soccer match at U.S. Bank Stadium reaching over 105 decibels. HealthPartners says that is ten times louder than the volume at an average NFL stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Geddes says any sound over 85 decibels can damage tiny cells inside the ear. Even if your ears stop ringing after a loud event, you could have problems down the line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what is<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>stadium<\/span>\u00a0management doing about this damaging environment?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority said ear plugs will be handed out for events at U.S. Bank Stadium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but I&#8217;m just an engineer. I generally prefer to fix problems &#8211; not offer band-aids while\u00a0not covering the runaway band saw that&#8217;s cutting children in half.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose someone will tell me why a class action suit is just not possible. Maybe ticket buyers <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/12\/02\/is-private-justice-just-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\">give away<\/a> their constitutional rights when they agree to buy a ticket. I know I&#8217;d write that into the purchase agreement if I were the lawyer in charge of writing the legal verbiage of a stadium ticket.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact is that this is a human-created environment, and there&#8217;s no reason it should damage your hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Raddatz at local CBS affiliate WCCO reports on a problem at the new US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis: \u201cStadiums for a long time have had noise levels that can be damaging to your hearing,\u201d Dr. David Geddes, an audiologist for HealthPartners, said. U.S. Bank Stadium could be the loudest \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/25\/stadium-class-action-suit\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}