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17 yr old boy decapitated by rollercoaster

#44
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
Come on, the news story clearly implies that the ride yanked him from where he was standing safely, hurled him over the safety fencing, and dropped him right in place where he was helpless before the out-of-control roller coaster cars ripped his innocent head off. Don't try to tell me it doesn't.
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LOL. I sense a little sarcasm over the latest "media bias" claim.:D
 
#46
Okay, just one... Motocross track. Open riding session. Flag man waves everyone off the track so they can groom the track. After 20 minutes kid decides he's tired of sitting and rides past the flag man who's trying to stop him from going onto the track, takes a blind double and manages to land on the discs of the machine the tractor was using to groom the track. Tore him up pretty bad and he died at the scene. Track got sued. He signed a waiver and everything. ridiculous.
 
#48
bradjonesbass said:
Okay, just one... Motocross track. Open riding session. Flag man waves everyone off the track so they can groom the track. After 20 minutes kid decides he's tired of sitting and rides past the flag man who's trying to stop him from going onto the track, takes a blind double and manages to land on the discs of the machine the tractor was using to groom the track. Tore him up pretty bad and he died at the scene. Track got sued. He signed a waiver and everything. ridiculous.
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Seriously... the track didn't actually lose this case, did they?
 
#50
Piper Aircraft company lost a multi-million dollar law suit when a man stole a 60 year old Piper Cub airplane. People at the airport saw him stealing it so they parked a truck on the runway trying to stop him. He ran into the truck and was killed. The family sued the aircraft manufacturer on the grounds that the design of the airplane was faulty and won.

Moral: Nothing is impossible when dealing with lawyers and juries.
 
#51
RWP said:
Piper Aircraft company lost a multi-million dollar law suit when a man stole a 60 year old Piper Cub airplane. People at the airport saw him stealing it so they parked a truck on the runway trying to stop him. He ran into the truck and was killed. The family sued the aircraft manufacturer on the grounds that the design of the airplane was faulty and won.

Moral: Nothing is impossible when dealing with lawyers and juries.
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That's the problem with the concept of "joint and several liability" in the legal system. A party only needs to be 1% responsible to be 100% liable for the injury.
 
#53
I don't know if this is true or not but I once heard of a story about a man who got his legs cut off after attempt to trim his hedges with his lawn mower.

People (or their families) are rewarded for their stupidity. Have you guys seen the Subway 5 Dollar Foot long commercial where the girl eats the 5 dollar bill? It actually says DO NOT ATTEMPT at the bottom of the screen just so they can cover themselves should some idiot decide he wants to attempt it and chokes to death or almost dies and then Subway gets sued.
 
#56
jive1 said:
That's the problem with the concept of "joint and several liability" in the legal system. A party only needs to be 1% responsible to be 100% liable for the injury.
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Interesting. Actually this lawsuit was one of the reasons aircraft manufacturers are released from product liability for aircraft older than a certain age.
 
#58
One of my relatives is an environmental and safety engineer in industry and he can tell story after story of clever and inventive ways that workers use to get around safety devices and ignore mandatory safety procedures.

Every company that knows what's good for it has a long established policy of an almost fanatical devotion to safety, simply because every worker who gets hurt is a potential lawsuit. A large company with thousands of workers does everything in its power to keep its workers from getting injured and a typical example is a large press like a Saber requiring the operator to hold both hands on grips in order to operate the machine with a foot pedal. Many workers routinely disable one or both of the grips by strapping them down so they can save a second or two every time they cut and occasionally someone cuts off their fingers. They usually sue and claim the machine was defective (after removing evidence that they disabled the guards) or they claim that the safeties were disabled by a supervisor and that the "careless environment" of the plant encouraged by greedy managers concerned only with faster production was responsible.






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