We are a litigious society these days...
I'm still floored by the fact that if someone trespasses on your property, regardless of what you do to keep people off, and that person ends up drowning in your pond you are still liable according to the one and only law class I took in college.
I have relatives in Germany that find this unbelievable too. They say the way the law is written there, as soon as you break the law (as in trespassing) any chance of getting damages from the pond owner in court go out the window.
