Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxk!rs55611 From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Who is Liable?! Message-ID: <616@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-May-84 18:23:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxk.616 Posted: Tue May 1 18:23:05 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 2-May-84 05:47:10 EDT References: <131@oliven.UUCP> <1445@sdccs6.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 8 Another true liability suit horror story: I read in the news some years ago of a mother whose son was killed when he rode down a hill on his skateboard, ran onto a busy street, and was struck by cross traffic. She sued the skateboard manufacturer, on the grounds that the skateboard was an unsafe product because it had no warning labels on it stating that the skateboard had no xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (oops) brakes.