Insane Legal System - was SR22 Crash

Jose wrote:
Coffee should be assumed to be as hot as 212F and treated
accordingly.

... and airplanes should be assumed to be filled with tons of jet
fuels and treated accordingly. Really - that's a pretty dumb
statement.
Jose

Well if they have tanks that are capable of holding tons of jet fuel they
most certainly should be treated that way. Just like all firearms should be
treated like they are loaded.

Jose, have you ever heard or seen an advertisment for "Very Warm Coffee"? I
haven't. On the other hand I see signs for "Hot Coffee" all over the place.

Fine, that's just a matter of degree. I've never seen an advertisemnt
for "scalding hot" coffee either. There are degrees of temperature.

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Well if they have tanks that are capable of holding tons of jet fuel they
most certainly should be treated that way. Just like all firearms should be
treated like they are loaded.

A Cessna 172 can hold tons of jet fuel. Ok, maybe it can't get off the
ground, but if it's beefed up and has a big engine, who knows? And
besides, how can you tell on a radar screen? So, all spam cans need to
be treated by ATC as terrorist weapons and kept thirty miles from the
capital.

Make sense?

Jose
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On 2007-03-07, Jose wrote:
Warnings of obvious things ("coffee is hot, be careful") would probably
not change behavior.

Indeed, they don't. Buy a clothes iron, and often it will come with a
warning saying "Don't try and iron clothes you are wearing". Yet I've
run into otherwise intelligent people who have burned themselves doing
just that!

My favorite warning label is on a set of fairy lights. "For indoor or
outdoor use only", it says :-)

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On 2007-03-08, Chris wrote:
The public here anyway are fed up with the compensation culture with people
looking to blame everybody but themselves and are not particularly tolerant
of this type of behaviour.

If that was so, why is this sort of litigation increasing? I think
people are fed up with the compensation culture -- up until the very
moment they too can play the contingency lawyer risk-free lotto.

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Jose wrote:
Jose, have you ever heard or seen an advertisment for "Very Warm
Coffee"? I haven't. On the other hand I see signs for "Hot Coffee"
all over the place.

Fine, that's just a matter of degree. I've never seen an advertisemnt
for "scalding hot" coffee either. There are degrees of temperature.

Jose

I'll assume for a moment that you are a reasonable person. Mainly because
that is the standard you have to work with in the legal system.

If you were sitting in my office and I handed you a cup of steaming coffee
would you assume that if you turned the cup upside down in your lap that
there was a very good chance you might get burned?

Dylan Smith schrieb:
My favorite warning label is on a set of fairy lights. "For indoor or
outdoor use only", it says :-)

Some glider Pilots in Germany elect each year the "outlanding champ"
(freely translated from German). The logo for the "competition" is this:
http://www.segelflug.de/images/2004/...ewiese2004.gif

Somebody suggested to enhance the logo just in case an American would
participate: http://www.segelflug.de/images/2004/...ewiese2004.gif

Of course this was a joke, but it nevertheless shows what Europeans think.

If you were sitting in my office and I handed you a cup of steaming coffee
would you assume that if you turned the cup upside down in your lap that
there was a very good chance you might get burned?

Yes. But I would not assume that the burns would be so severe that I
would be in the hospital six months later.

Jose
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On Mar 7, 6:57 pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
A gun is intended to kill and, unless you are suicidal, you should not be
putting one in your mouth. Coffee is intended to be put in the mouth.

Pizza is intended to be put in the mouth. When the waiter delivers
a piping hot pizza to your table, do you immediately cram a piece into
your mouth? Don't you reasonably expect that something normally
served at a high temperature requires some care?

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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When the waiter delivers
a piping hot pizza to your table, do you immediately cram a piece into
your mouth?

Usually. My wife still yells as the tears stream down my cheeks.