Posted on 09/08/2023 5:51:36 PM PDT by simpson96
The family of a New York man who died last year claims that he was killed by his Peloton bike in a new lawsuit obtained by the Daily Beast.
The mother of 32-year-old Ryan Furtado alleged in the lawsuit, which is available to view on the outlet’s website, that he was doing a “core” workout on the bike in January 2022, which required him to get off the bike and continue exercises on the floor.
Furtado’s mother, Johanna Furtado, claimed that once he was done with the exercises, he “used the bike to assist him in getting up,” but the bike “spun around” hitting him on his face and neck “severing a carotid artery in his neck killing him instantly.”
She claimed in the lawsuit that when the New York Police Department found him in his apartment with the bike — which was purchased by Furtado just six months prior in July 2021 — it was still resting on his neck and face.
Johanna alleged that there was only a single warning label on the bike’s front leg that the bike could cause injury if used to “pull oneself up from the floor during a workout,” and Peloton should have more adequately warned against the “foreseeable misuse” that people would do exactly that.
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Why would a young, fit man need to pull himself up from the floor grabbing onto that bike? I am an old coot and I work on being able to get up from the floor without grabbing onto anything. Sad that he died, but SMH.
Ryan Furtado learned nothing from Harry Reid.
he’s a grown man still at home with mommy? How would she know what he’s doing with his Peleton?
Yup. The bike literally tells you NOT to use it to get up.
Warning labels: Read them or not. Darwin will decide.
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