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Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by philh on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:37PM (#5954554)
To paraphrase you... what was Parker really supposed to do? Every time he wants to have an event on private property, he has to check that the owner isn't violating any of a myriad regulations imposed by countless regulatory bodies? That doesn't seem feasible.
Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by jaggederest on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:54PM (#5954638)
Everyone commits 3 hypothetical felonies a day - he just has more assets he's risking and does things that draw more attention.

This is why very wealthy people have to have lawyers to circumscribe their actions, and security guards to protect them, and ... Not a wonderful way to go through life, I suppose, and unfortunate that we live in a world that requires things like that.

Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by Avshalom on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:08PM (#5954713)
Yes, those poor rich people.
Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by philh on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:27PM (#5954815)
Please don't be so dismissive. Rich people tend to have it better than others. But that doesn't mean they don't in some ways have it worse, it doesn't mean they don't deserve sympathy for those things, and it doesn't mean that we shouldn't talk about those things.
Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by corresation on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:13PM (#5954735)
I don't really fault him. He was the beneficiary of someone else's mismanagement of protected lands, however.

Every time he wants to have an event on private property, he has to check that the owner isn't violating any of a myriad regulations imposed by countless regulatory bodies?

He had a multi-million dollar event. Yes, in such cases -- especially where the use is atypical -- the event planners do perform significant legal and liability checks to ensure that the use is compliant with all laws and regulations.

Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by gknoy on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:41PM (#5955174)
Given that he had rented the facility from a hotel that had done that in the past, and the atypicality was mainly in the secrecy and set design they wanted, I don't think that it's unreasonable to expect that the hotel had all of its permits in order. It's a reasonable mistake -- though one that, as you point out, should have been caught by his wedding planner.