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“Both the blade-maker and retailer are accused of breach of warranty and misrepresentation for selling a defective product and failing to warn of potential injuries.”
Misrepresentation?? Failure to warn??! Um, it’s a knife!!! For crying out loud.
Wow! I didn’t know you could cut yourself with a sharp knife. I’ll wait for the next bottom feeder slime wad personal injury ad on TV, write down their number, and see if I can get them on retainer.
I could see suing them if they’d said “This guy is just too damn dumb to use our knife, we ain’t selling it to him”. But I’m not sure $100K would be enough to pay for the amount of crap he’s going to be dealing with the rest of his life as a result of filing this suit!
All knives will now be required to contain a warning letting us know that knives can cause potentially serious laceration type injuries, including severing of fingers. Those that do not contain this warning will probably need to be recalled.
i think they actually already come with that warning. i guess at this point one of the ‘tools’ in the knife needs to be the liability waiver. put it right next to the nail file.
This suit probably arose out of a bet made that somebodies buddy trial lawyer could actually get this into a courthouse. Got a lot of laughs at the party but it actually got done. What a system!
I think the only “tool” involved here is Mitch Seavey, both a klutz AND a sore loser.
‘Doctors reattached the digit, but it now points at an awkward angle and “always catches on things,” ‘
Shouldn’t he sue the doc for crooked reattachment?
Perhaps that’s next on his list…
As ridiculous as the suit sounds, there may very well be a manufacturer design flaw if the locking release can be accidentally depressed while using the back side of the knife.
That’s the risk of using the more modern-meant-to-be-hip-yet-easy-to-use folding knives.
Personally, I prefer a regular old sheath knife. There’s never a worry about where the blade is at any given time.
“Doctors reattached the digit, but it now points at an awkward angle and “always catches on things,” Ingaldson said.” Thank God this same company doesn’t make zippers for pants.
“Warning: knife is sharp” would tie with my other favorite product warning. It was a sticker on a candle that said “warning: a burning candle is flame.”