The city of Portland has paid $942,600 to a babysitter and a boy who were seriously injured after the babysitter strapped a hammock to a city lamppost that then toppled onto them.
The June 2022 incident and the ensuing lawsuits that were filed by the babysitter and the boy’s mother prompted angry and vocal criticism from residents, who said the lampposts were never meant to support the weight of hammocks and their occupants. Attorneys for the babysitter and the boy, however, contended the city failed to warn the public of…..