Children trespassing... what to do? - Yahoo! Answers
I have run into this issue on dog poop threads and hope that someone will clear it up. Its seems bizarre that a person who takes their dog onto someone else's property and trips can then sue the homeowner unless there was something on the property that the owner could foresee would likely cause someone to fall. Same issue with golfers I would assume.
From above linked article:
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Florida has a recreational use statute which immunizes landowners from liability for any injuries sustained by people who are on the property as long as they did not pay to be on the land. Here, the kids are on your property gratuitously (without fee) and thus their actions fall within the recreational use statute. Simply avoid doing anything willfully or maliciously to hurt them, and their injuries remain their problems.
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I also found this--
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/archive/article/124/