Accountability

Amstel said:
as does using the worst case scenario to justify the creation of said social programs.
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right, which is why anecdotes are always useless as all they do is stir emotion for or against something without actually informing. thank you.
 
Jonny_B said:
right, which is why anecdotes are always useless as all they do is stir emotion for or against something without actually informing. thank you.
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Well it's a good thing said anecdote was posted in the USELESS FORUM then, right?

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My dad used to pay us to catch grasshoppers, like a buck a jar or something. We did not discriminate, we caught grasshopper parents and children.
 
when i was 12, my dad asked if he could borrow $50 from my birthday money. i said yes. he took it, and never paid me back. ever. "i wanted you to learn that you should never lend money to family or friends, and the hard way is always the best way to learn." thanks conjewcious, you asshole.

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midge said:
when i was 12, my dad asked if he could borrow $50 from my birthday money. i said yes. he took it, and never paid me back. ever. "i wanted you to learn that you should never lend money to family or friends, and the hard way is always the best way to learn." thanks conjewcious, you asshole.

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This is totally something Ghost would do. I shall warn all my kids now and repeat the warning each year the day before their birthdays.
 
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HELENA, Mont. — A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.

The family of Brandon Patch argued that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they cause the baseball to travel at a greater speed. They contended that their 18-year-old son did not have enough time to react to the ball being struck before it hit him in the head while he was pitching in an American Legion baseball game in Helena in 2003.

The Lewis and Clark County District Court jury awarded a total of $850,000 in damages against Hillerich & Bradsby for failure to place warnings on the product.

The teen's mother, Debbie Patch, was stunned by the verdict. The family rejoiced and cried as the verdict was read.

"We never expected it," she said. "We just hoped we could get the truth out for more people to see."

Patch said she hopes the decision will make more people aware of the dangers associated with aluminum bats and that more youth leagues will switch to using wooden bats.

"We just want to save someone else's life," Patch said.

The attorneys for Hillerich & Bradsby declined to comment. They had argued that accidents are bound to happen in baseball games and there's nothing inherently unsafe about aluminum baseball bats.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7...t-lawsuit.html
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GHOST said:
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That makes me want to take an aluminum bat, now with safety warnings on it, and teach the rest of that family how effective the new warnings are when applying said bat to their heads with previously undocumented and non-prior-posted-warning force.
 
"The Lewis and Clark County District Court jury awarded a total of $850,000 in damages against Hillerich & Bradsby for failure to place warnings on the product."

"We just want to save someone else's life," Patch said.
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If they really were thinking just thinking about every one else that might be subject to an accident as such, they would have just sued for them to put the warning on, not taken the 850 grand.
 
midge said:
when i was 12, my dad asked if he could borrow $50 from my birthday money. i said yes. he took it, and never paid me back. ever. "i wanted you to learn that you should never lend money to family or friends, and the hard way is always the best way to learn." thanks conjewcious, you asshole.

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ouch
 
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