Not Responsible for Accidents

We were at Mount Hosmer Looking and Park in Lansing.  It was chillier than it's been in a while and it was cloudy and maybe not the most attractive day for people to want to visit the overlook.  So, of course, I enjoyed the relative solitude at a place that probably attracts a fair number of people on the nicer days.

They had a chain-link fence to enforce the idea that you don't want to get much closer to a precipitous drop-off.  It's just like scenic overlooks everywhere.  People are often not so good at self-regulating how close to get to the edges of the Earth.  There are even some that are unaware that there is a cliff.

Though, I would think the simple concept that a scenic OVERLOOK typically has you standing on a higher altitude looking DOWN at things below you.  It's part of the attraction.

Sprinkled along this fence were a few signs that proclaimed - in a no nonsense, unadorned font - that someone (we're not sure who) is not responsible for accidents.

I have a couple of problems with this (only two?).  First, I thought the very definition of the word "accident" was that no one was responsible for it.  An accident is an accident.  No one intended for it to happen - it just did.  And second, the sign only made me wonder who it was that didn't want to be responsible for them.

Is it you?  If so, you might want to sign your signs.