RE: [Paddlewise] FW: Costco selling kayaks/

From: <dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:36:56 -0500
At 02:27 PM 3/4/99 -0500, Sisler, Clyde wrote:
>Sometimes ridiculous stories look a lot less ridiculous when all the
>facts are known.
>----------
>
>Next time you're in a hardware store, take a look at all the warning labels
>on a wooded step ladder.  There must be 20 of them.
>
>I forget what it's called, but you know the little bitty platform that pulls
>out for you to put your paint can on?  Some guy sued the ladder company and
>won when he stepped out on that platform, put his full weight on it, fell
>and broke something.
>
>I like that saying "You can't legislate stupidity".  You can't measure it
>either but I sure know it when I see it.
>
>There is not enough common sense in our legal systems nor in our everyday
>lives.  People need to take more responsibility for their own actions.
>
>Stepping off of soap box now...
>
>
>Chuck Holst
>
>
Chuck don't forget natural selection will weed out a lot of these people
like it or not and they will become a statistic and there is nothing anyone
can do about it.

Dana
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Received on Thu Mar 04 1999 - 12:39:20 PST

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