one cases come to mind ...
Down in Oregon or Washington some years ago, we called into a local hardware
store. The store sold carpenters' hammers. Along with the sale of a hammer
came a 30 minute video instructing the purchaser on how to use the hammer.
The store clerk advised that the video was intended to minimize the
manufacturer's and store owner's liability should the purchaser use the
hammer to assault someone!
as we in Canada say, "only in the USA" !!
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, 14 May, 2005 05:42 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Lawsuits [was Swiffer [was: Scanner technique]]
>
> The mind boggles!
>
> Personal responsibility seems to count for nothing in some places ...
>
> Chris
>
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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>
>
> On 14 May 2005, at 21:17, Moose wrote:
>
> > Last time I was on jury duty, it was a civil case. A young woman on a
> > bicycle was admittedly riding on the wrong side of the road and
> > across a
> > busy driveway to a commercial establishment, something she did
> > regularly, when an middle aged women turning left legally into the
> > driveway on a busy street hit the cyclist. The cyclist was suing. The
> > lawyers and judge were going through amazing gyrations to get a jury
> > that excluded regular cyclists, on the one side, and anyone who might
> > think that someone intentionally and repeatedly riding dangerously and
> > illegally so as to be where no driver might expect them to be on a
> > bicycle in an area of heavy auto traffic might simply be
> > responsible for
> > the consequences on the other. Fortunately, I didn't end up on that
> > jury.
> >
> >
>
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