OK, whos the MORON!

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R.W.Clark

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If your reading this I doubt its you.

Just got back from a local supplier (don't want to use his name but you all know him). He's being Freaking sued!!!!!

He sold a BurrKing to a novice knifemaker a few years ago. After having the grinder for about two years the owner did something really stupid. For those of you who don't know what the older BurrKings were like, it is the same configuration as the new HardCores. But, it had a platen between the contact and drive wheels. The platen was set at about a 45deg angle to the floor, sloping back toward the user.

Well this bozo was tapering on the platen. He was holding the blade with his bare hands, and he had the tip of the blade pointed straight at HIS GUT. He had also left the work rest attached and had it positioned over the contact wheel. Well, of course this rocket scientist lost control of the blade and it shot down the belt. It then wedged itself between the workrest and the contact wheel. This caused the blade to shoot out like a missle straight into his gut.

Now this jacka#$ is sueing our friend because they did not check to see if he had enough training to use the machine safely!!!!
This is to the tune of $750,000. What a bunch of BullS%*t!!!!



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R.W.Clark

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Make something idiotproof and they WILL make a better idiot.
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This is also why a 30 dollar ladder costs 300 dollars.
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Sorry to hear about this, and I hope the "un-named supplier" beats it, but the sad part is, just the cost of defending himself means he'll lose.
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Frivolous lawsuits and ambulance chasing bottom feeders will be the death of this country.


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Tráceme no sin la razón, envoltura mi no sin honor
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Hey Ron,
There are lots of people out for a fast buck....keep this in mind (coming from a guy in the medical field) you can sue anyone for anything but that doesn't mean he will get $hit!

Our friend needs to fight this unfortunate law suit to the bitter end.

Wish him luck for me!



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I really hope that this law suit goes nowhere, but it seems that people are being rewarded for being stupid. If a person can win a law suit for driving with hot coffee between their legs and blaming the restaurant that sold it to them for getting burned, it seems to me you must worry about any law suit no matter how stupid it sounds.

It seems to me that what happened to this guy is just God's way of weeding out the terminally stupid, but that is just my opinion.

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Keith

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If thay made the guy who loses a lawsuit pay, it might make opportunists think again about taking advantage like this.

Gee: I was grinding with my equipment, which i set up improperly, without proper safety gear, without following proper safety procedures when grinding, and I got into an accidnet. Hmm... couldn;t be my fault at all..

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This kinda stuff make my blood boil! What are we turning ourselves into a nation of children - oops I screwed up but it CAN'T be MY fault, there must be someone to blame?? Frickin' idiots.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Keith Montgomery:
If a person can win a law suit for driving with hot coffee between their legs and blaming the restaurant that sold it to them for getting burned, it seems to me you must worry about any law suit no matter how stupid it sounds.</font>
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Bad analogy, I thought that too until I read some of the evidence against McDonald's.

They had a Company Policy that the coffee urns were to be turned up so people INSIDE the McDonald's would not come back to get the free refills that McDonald's offered as a "perk" [sorry, bad pun] for the visit.

Basically, the idea was, by the time their coffee cooled down, they would have to leave to go to work, etc., and not be able to get the free refill.

Now, McDonald's greed in the matter was what sunk them more than anything.

It was not the fact the woman spilled hot coffee in her lap, it was the fact that said coffee was hot to such a degree that it caused second and third degree burns.

That's hot guys.

So...there was negligence on BOTH sides. Was she awarded TOO much? Probably so.

I do think she deserved to be compensated.

And I'm far from being liberal.



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yeah, well, i'm about as liberal as knifeknuts can get, but i think the woman was a dolt. so i shan't think about her any more.

the man with the grinder is completely at fault, IMO, because he didn't take proper precautions. sh*t, do they make you take a chewing test to see if you're qualified to eat at a restaurant? why should it be the distributor's job to make sure he's trained to use a grinder?
grr.
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[This message has been edited by alex_111 (edited 06-12-2001).]
 
If she was a dolt or not, makes no difference. A dolt would pour the coffee in their lap.

The fact is, if I pour coffee out of my coffee pot into my lap, i'm stupid, but I'm not going to get a 2nd or 3rd degree burn from it. Savvy?
 
The amounts of money some US law suits evolve around never cease to amaze me; you hardly have that in any other country.
If I had to judge, I´d fine that idiot knifemaker sueing the grinder vendor.
And Don, maybe it doesn´t happen with coffee, but it does happen with tea water. A friend of mine got a fresh, hot pot of tea water accidentally poured over her legs in a restaurant; third degree burns, took months to heal. She got a few thousand dollars for it.

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"Peace is not without conflict; it is the ability to cope with conflict" - Leo Giron
 
R.W.,could this possibly be the same person who,about six to seven years ago, set a new Burr-King grinder on their work bench,(thats SET not BOLTED down)started it up,when he put the steel to the wheel,the grinder climbed the blade,right up into his chest?That person sued BK,they settled out of court with the moron.Spooky thing is,I woke up this morning thinking of this very thing,before I ever saw this post.

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MIKE

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I would like to see Tort Reform in this Country that consisted of the following:

1. Prohibit Lawyers from taking Lawsuits on a Contingency Basis for a percentage of the Settlement. Require that all Legal fees be based on hourly rates with an accounting of the time spent on the case. If a Lawyer agrees to forego collecting until after settlement they must still provide a detailed bill.

2. Make both the Claimant and the Claimant's Lawyer liable for Legal Costs of the Defendant if the Suit is determined to be without merit.

This would remove the Financial Incentive for unscrupulous Lawyers to encourage such frivolous claims.

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the lady with the coffe is a total idiot. no question about it because she sued AGAIN for a hot pickle from Mcdonalds burning her lip!!
Her just as stupid husband wanted money because he had to live with her supposedly scarred lip. They settled out of court and won. Jeff
 
Oh and as for the idiot that stabbed himself? Too bad he didn't die. Harsh? Not hardly, there is no difference from my blowing my foot off with my glock. It is my fault. Jeff
 
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