It all boils down to greed. Legalized Plunder happens when Lawyers make the laws, money rules and who ever has the most wins. Where is justice? I don't know. It's a jungle out their for the honest businesses. Tort Laws must change before our economy can truly get better.
Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <langf...@hiwaay.net> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 9:22 AM Subject: Re: KR>liability > Dan Heath wrote: > > > This is the scourge of our society and will be our downfall. > > I agree wholeheartedly. Our biggest problem isn't terrorism. In my opinion > it's an economy stifled by many factors, one of the biggest being the fear > of frivolous lawsuits. > > I just spent almost 2 years designing a portable waterjet cutter designed to > cut into "hazardous threats", meaning anything from truck bombs, missile > casings, warheads, chemical tanker railroad cars, or even cutting accident > victims out of their crumpled vehicles. We built a prototype, and have > spent over a year in testing, and then traveled the country demonstrating > it. We built our first production model for NYPD, and now that it's time to > deliver it, our company is getting cold feet. What happens if the unit > malfunctions and fails to disable a bomb in Manhattan in time, and the > resulting explosion ends up looking like ground zero? Then we get sued by > the families of 500 victims and the company goes bankrupt. Not acceptable! > The solution...don't sell it in the first place. Millions of dollars down > the drain. > > I guess I shouldn't complain...it paid my salary for two years, and it was > really interesting work, but it just irritates me to no end to have put that > much effort into something that's now been shelved due to the fear of a > frivolous, groundless lawsuit. > > The problem is that nobody's reponsible for their own actions or decisions > anymore. And stuff doesn't "just happen" either. We live in a society > where when something negative occurs, it's somebody else's fault, and the > first place you look to place the blame is wherever the biggest pot of money > lies. My father's been sued twice for a million dollars each time. They > were both so rediculous it'd make you cry, but it cost him a year of > sleepless nights, and well over $40,000 to defend himself, even though both > suits were groundless. Sore subject, I guess. Sorry about the rant... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > mailto:langf...@hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
