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Subject:RE: Can this career be saved? From:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> To:'Gene Kim-Eng' <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, "'techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:49:52 +0000
That's a mindful of a sentence.
Craig
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And now there's precedent for a future victim of a similar nail gun accident
to argue that a nail gun manufactured after this case that lacks a safety
lock that doesn't depend on users to read and follow manuals that the
manufacturer now knows they don't read was negligently designed.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net>wrote:
> On the witness stand, the guy with the nail-gun was asked "Did you read the
> owner's manual?" Answer, "No."
>
> Next question: "Was there an owner's manual for the nail-gun?" Answer, "I
> don't
> know."
>
> Next question: "If there was an owner's manual, would you have read it?"
> Answer,
> "No."
>
> Verdict was obviously for the defendant.
>
>
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