They don't break. If it slipped out of his hand, then he failed to heed the warnings about choosing a safe place to perform the exercises. He is at fault.
Hmm, I wonder if the machine's salesman's name was Guido?
He's an old man. He's had a similar previous injury.
Funny article.
I’d like to see the actual filing docs, of this *lawsuit*.
“Broke or slipped” sounds like the slip-and-fall attorney’s term for “slipped”.
Occam's razor says...
Guido.
5.56mm
Best bet....find out who owns a voodoo doll that looks like Harry.
We need exercise equipment control now with registration a and 5-day waiting period. How many more senators must be hurt!
Please,Nevada, retire this old SOB next year.
They don't break. If it slipped out of his hand, then he failed to heed the warnings about choosing a safe place to perform the exercises. He is at fault.
There is a pretty big difference between ‘broke’(a defective product) and ‘slipped out of his hand’(a defective hand perhaps...)
“Three days a week I have an exercise routine. I do 250 situps, I some yoga-type stuff for a little while and then I’ve been using for the last three or [so] plus years, these bands. I use one that’s the second-strongest you can get, it’s dark grey. Anyway, I do those things hundreds of times three days a week. I do different routines. And I was doing almost finished at my new home in Nevada and the band broke and it catapulted me backwards and to one side. I crashed into a series of cabinets we have and fortunately it missed my temple by just a little tiny bit and it hit me in my right eye and it broke a number of bones around my right eye and broke four ribs and a few bruises other places.”
Ramos: You said recently that the accident had nothing to do with your decision to retire.
However, we are seeing the consequences of what happened.
What really happened?
Was it really with an elastic band?
Reid: Yeah, I had a big, that thick (Reid gestures with his hands), that I had been using for about four years and I was, you know, trying to maintain my, uh, firmness, and, uh, that was my weight training. I was doing that in my new home here in Nevada and a big metal hook that came out from the wall that was hooked there that the strap had no handle on it, slipped, spun me around, uh, about, oh I guess four feet (Reid points with his right hand to the wall of the interview room) and so I smashed my face into a cabinet so hard that uh…
Ramos: It looked like somebody had hit you.
Reid: I am so fortunate that, um, it wasn’t over just a fraction of this way and hit me in the temple.
Ramos: How’s your eye?
Reid: I am sightless in my right eye.
If this is truly how he was hurt, I don’t believe it because Reid is a pathological liar (a requirement for democrats), then I will say to TheraBand job well done.
Jeez.... “On or about the morning of January 1, 2015....”
Occam’s razor says this likely occurred after a lot of partying on New Year’s Eve. I thought that I had read somewhere earlier that his brother had kicked his ass in a drunken rage.
Well, anyhow, I guess he and his wife remain the greedy grifters and will have no hesitation trying for a shakedown settlement from the manufacturer of Reid’s cover story. They have zero shame.
Lemme get this straight.Harry is exercising on Jan. 1 morning with piece of "grip stick"
It is New Years morning! He did not have a drink, decided to welcome New Year with rigorous exercise, with a stick.
Stick didn't like him, was programmed by evil republicans to jump him, destroy his face, ribs, ....???
Now you wonder how they can lie about Obama's birthing, facilitating destruction of US and building Caliphate? No problem!
All this from the King of Senate!
Holy crap! Larry Reid owns an exercise company?!?!
I was aware you could sue a machine company for being a moron and crossing the mob. It should be interesting to hear what he says if it ever gets to court and he is forced to testify under oath.
Like I said, I don’t think the mob likes being sued and if I were Reid, I would keep my mouth shut, next time he might not be able to open it....but he doesn’t have the brains God gave a turnip so good for Reid....
which reminds me...
Wile E. Coyote -vs- Acme Company
https://la.utexas.edu/users/jmciver/357L/WileECoyoteVACME.htm
Typical liberal. Blame others.
I think somebody kicked his butt over his politics.
But, an exercise machine is a quick couple of bucks for this money grubbing political has been hack. Besides, can the mfg co defend itself from an attack by the royalty class? Not likely.
So he pulled on the glorified rubber band until it slipped out of his hand? Sounds like operator error to me.