Comments on Profile Post by Blackbird1016

Sorry, but you won't win. In almost all countries, the purchasing of a ticket itself is a contract between you, the promoter, and the venue where you waive all liabilities if you are in attendance, including personal bodily injury. Good luck with your T, it'll get better with time. - A former heavy concert goer who's been living with it for many years.

So I presume you’ll be filing a personal injury claim then? And on what grounds will you be suing for if you don’t mind me asking? Best bet would be for negligence and physical + emotional damages. Best of luck to you.

Haven't decided yet. This isn't a tomorrow plan, this is a long term plan. I'm pretty sure there would be some way to sue for negligence with enough other suffers from festivals that have the same sound union setting up the stages since their employees have to wear gear for protection.

OSHA also has safety laws in place for workers that demands protection at the same decibel levels as concert goers. You can nay-say me all you want but I'm determined to get a warning on all tickets sold in my life time.

Always loved the music industry but I now see them as a bunch of snakes knowingly harming people.

I'll have to research it more to know the right angle to take but it is absolutely possible.

And yes...it will go away. I'm determined to figure that out too because it also must be possible.

And I'm not convinced it should take some crazy device frankly since it involves the brain and is triggered so easily by noise (in my case) and then often resolves.

I’d admire your determination, but as i said earlier you’d have a better shot if noise induce hearing loss was the major extent of damage here (alongside tinnitus). There some legal precedent for hearing loss atleast. Grounds for negligence. Tinnitus ain’t going to get it done alone. It’s extremely difficult prove in a court case.

‍This makes people suicidal. It is just as valid damage as hearing loss if no arguably worse. If no one ever tries to have something changed or a law include it...it won't change. I think the big issue with tinnitus is that the majority just silently suffer and don't act on the damage they've suffered.

Just trying to be realistic with you. Taking this to court right away is the wrong approach and costly for you too. You need to start small. Start a non profit grassroots movement in your community, build a advocacy campaign off that, raise awareness, contact your state legislators, keep pressuring them to take legislative action. Email your senators and House rep too.

And hopefully this collective action will start to produce a snowball effect of change nationwide. Then you can consider legal action.

There is a serious lack of awareness for tinnitus in the US. That needs to be addressed first. No one is saying tinnitus is not valid damage here.

I said class action type. Not me solo. But I disagree. Firstly, politicians are garbage in all cases. Secondly, I want to hurt the festivals and sound set up unions in their pockets. That's what changes things. Not even sure if I could go to a festival again. I just see them as a bunch of predators. As bad as car salesmen.

Agree to disagree then. You underestimate the effectiveness of organizing locally.

As someone who did a lot of local organizing against the mandates, including protests to preserve parent rights, and meeting with local politicians, my experience is it's useless and money talks. I would hurt the festivals financially. Then they'll bother to change.

Selfish thought the more the merrier

@Blackbird1016 How is your law suit going?

Mostly theoretical at the moment. I do have ideas for a tinnitus non for profit and hope to get that off the ground with the local music scene at some point. Raising awareness.