Well...here is one that is true. I can not recall the citation, but I remember it from the products liability portion of my torts class in law school. It seems that two drunks decided to trim a hedge. The problem was that the had no hedge trimmer. They decided to lift the lawn mower up mannually and run it long the side of the hedge that needed to be trimmed. They fired up the lawn mower. Then both of them reached under it to lift it up. The blade took off all their finger tips.

They successfully sued the manufacturer of the lawn mower for products liability. The court ruled that using the lawn mower as a hedge trimmer was a foreseeable misuse of the produt. As such the manufacturer had an obligation to warm the plaintiffs about the danger of such misuse in the owner's manual.to post a reply: login - or - register