Subject: Re: Forge and Anvil Video

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:10:35 -0500

To All,
Considering the current state of affairs in the American courts, there is no
allowance for common sense. I someone slips and falls on your front steps,
you are better off shooting them and claiming insanity or a bad childhood
rather than trying to settle the myriad of civil suits that you will face.
Pleae take this as an observation rather than legal advice. I dont want to be
the defendant in a suit over sonething like this. To show how far this all
can go...
I once worked for a light bulb manufacturer. A guy out on the floor took a
bet from his buddies that he could eat a light bulb. He tried and just messed
himself up something fierce. He was out of work for about months  and sued
the company for workman's comp because he ate the bulb on the job. He
actually won because there was not a warning on the bulb about the dangers of
eating glass. Go figure.

Bill Hochella

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:18:04 -0500

Ralph, your problem is that you believe everyone should have the sense that
God gave a goose. You also seem to think that everyone should take on a
little personal responsablity concerning their own actions and generally
behave like a grown-up. In our great land we put warnings on firearms telling
people that they will cause personal injury and bodily harm if not used
properly, come to think of it, that was why they were invented in the first
place. Anyway , I digress. Evidently you do not have a surfeit of lawyers in
your poor benighted land so every one must fend for themselves and show a
little personal resposiability in their every day life. It must be terrible
to have to live under such trying conditions as those. I hope that in the
future you progress enough so that everyone will be able to have their own
personal barrister as we now do. Of course you'll have to sue some other poor
sod's ass off to afford your own personal pit bull lawyer. In the mean time
you'll just have to be more careful.

Kenny Valdejo
Millstadt IL
P.S. Boy that felt good! BTW does your country have liberal immigration laws?
Sounds like a neat place.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:01 -0500 (EST)

So tell us, Ralph, how many lawyers do you have per capita in Sweden?

Bruce

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Subject: Re: Forge and Anvil Video
Author:  [email-masked] at GATEWAY
Date:    96/02/29 7:55 AM

[...]
>                               A worst case scenario would be the neophyte
> who uses this video series as instructional, attempts to duplicate
> the projects, is blinded, and sues the producers (and everyone else
> connected with the series) for negligence.
Maybe I'm just from the wrong country. I live in Sweden, am originally from
Holland and have never seen warnings on plastics bags big enough for a hand
with the text that you shouldn't put your head in it, untill I visited the
States. When I unpacked my computer monitor many years ago I was surprised
by the warning in the manual: put the monitor on a stable platform, so it
won't drop on somebodies head and hurt them!
Is it really necessary to state and restate the obvious at every possible
occasion? Don't burn yourself on the hot metal. Don't hit yourself with
the hammer. Don't drop the anvil on your foot. Anyone who has hit something
with a hammer knows that it can jump away at high speed. Just like anyone
who has put a piece of iron in a white hot fire knows that the metal is
hot.

Ralph Snel
[email-masked]
Sweden

PS. Nothing wrong with safety precautions. I use them too.

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From: "Roger W. Schmitt" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 23:48:30 -0500

>PS. Nothing wrong with safety precautions. I use them too.

Ralph,

I sounds like you people are suffering from a severe shortage of lawyers and/or
government law makers. We in the USA seem to have an abundant surplus. If you
don't have anything you would like to trade from them I think we can raise 
sufficient funds to transport them to your country if you are interested. Our
courts are full of rediculous lawsuits that originate from stupid acts like you
described.  HAVE LAWYERS - WILL SHIP!  :-)

Take care,

Roger W. Schmitt
Alliance, OH