Soon: Toshiba to be sued over excessive TV-watching causing poor academic performance
Next up on the gravy-train of ridiculous comes an actual thing that actually happened and was actually brought about by actual people: baseball bat manufacturer Louisville Slugger has just lost a lawsuit brought by the mother of a boy who was killed in a tragic baseball accident. Their crime? Manufacturing aluminum baseball bats, which the grieving family argued “are dangerous because they cause the ball to travel faster than those hit off wooden bats.”
No lie.
No joke.
To quote the post I found this in:
I guess the jury believes that had warning labels been placed on the bats, Patch would have read the label, refused to play and be alive today.
(the comments over there are pretty great, too.)
Clearly we need to do this universally. Imagine now many lives would be saved if everything were labeled or banned! Like maybe this:
Or this. It’s for the children. Obviously.