Re: Instructions for Stupid People (and litigation)

[George Hasty <ghasty -at- INDIAL1 -dot- IO -dot- COM>]

Randy Allen Harris (raha -at- watarts -dot- uwaterloo -dot- ca) wrote:

: A Maine farmer who wanted to work on his barn roof in October put a ladder
: up against the side of the barn first thing in the morning, placing one leg
: in a frozen cow-pie.  Yes, that's right.  When he came down at lunch time,
: the pie had thawed out and become a pudding, the ladder skidded off, he
: collapsed, broke something important, and sued the ladder company,
: successfully, for lots of cash.  Now the ladder company has a warning about
: frozen cow plops.

: (This may be myth, but my recollection is of seeing the report as part of a
: story about loopy litigation successes on _Sixty Minutes_.)

Many of these kinds of stories have been promoted by insurance companies
trying to push the "tort reform" movement, and many of them, even those
featured on tv news, have been found to be untrue or grossly distorted.
They do however make good stories -- try the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban
if you enjoy this sort of thing. But don't post one of these there un-
less you like to hear howls of derision.

Cheers,

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George Hasty                    ghasty -at- io -dot- com
Illuminati Online                  Austin, TX