We took a CPR course here at Davidson. The first thing we were taught was the
legal implications of giving CPR. If you start to give CPR, and quit before help
arrives, you're liable, or what if you break a rib? Who cares if you saved the
person's life, you assaulted him in the process. (I have my Dakota here at
Davidson.) => relevance
Mike Crumley wrote:
> At 03:27 PM 1/26/98 , you wrote:
>
> >Here in the US it's design to the lowest common denominator (assume people
> are
> >idiots and will take no resposibilty for their actions) vs make people go to
> >drivers school and learn to buckle up. I think the lawyers like to keep it
> that way
> >(only in America can grandma sue McDonalds for 60 mil cause she spilled hot
> >coffe on herself :-( With that mentality there is supposed to be the
> equivalent
> >of mommy to tuck you into your car (you don't know how yourself) so we get
> things
> >like the motorized seat-belt thingies and seat-belt spider-webs to get
> entangled
> >in. Rational ideas have little to do with it! :-)
> >
> >
> >-Bob T.
> >
>
> I think it goes beyond _assuming_ that people don't want to take any
> responsibility for anything. And why should they when there is a lawyer
> just a phone call away whose job is to place blame on the deepest pockets?
> (No personal offense meant to any lawyers on the list, but we all have to
> live with our chosen profession's reputation. I should know, I used to be a
> truck driver.) My favorite story is about the man who bought his wife a hot
> air balloon ride for her birthday. The balloon pilot ran into some
> electrical wires killing all on board. The husband sued the balloon
> manufacturer because they didn't put a warning sign on the balloon saying
> that if the balloon ran into electrical wires you could be electrocuted.
> Don't laugh...he won big.
>
> --
> Mike Crumley mcrumley@airmail.net
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