MikeTX wrote:he set it in a pile of manure. The business owner claimed the lawsuit alleged the company should have warned buyers of the dangers of setting ladders in dung. The real lawsuit had nothing to do with manure; the ladder had broken with less than 450 pounds on it, even though it had a safety rating that said it could support up to 1,000. Tedesco says the show never ran a correction.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/featur ... cimer.html
I always wondered about that one-- but here's a real one for you, local:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/7414716.html ...read the whole thing.
The kid was actually burned because a caretaker had stupidly modified the motorcycle so it sparked right above the fuel. They tried to sue Yamaha, but Yamaha found the deception and stood its ground. Then they went after the manufacturer of the kid's clothing. The lawyers kept the findings of Yamaha case from being made known to the jurors in the clothing case. If the family were really worried about safety, they wouldn't let a 13-year-old kid jump a motorcycle, and make a non-street-legal modification that would vastly increase the chance of burns.
And there was a similar story in the paper this morn:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oc ... -medicine/
The doctors who ran the clinic deserve to be sued; but that's not enough money, so the lawyers are also going after the drug companies. For any person with a trace of reason, the charges against the drug companies here are absurd; the vials were marked as single-use for drip sedation, and the clinic figured it would ignore that warning and administer the drug to several patients.