Hmmm... Polish maybe? Years ago, a legal friend told me about the 'reason' why lawnmowers had that stupid 'shut-off' bar on the handle. He refered to a court case where 2 Polish brothers were using a lawnmower to trim their hedges. He went into the details of their injuries... lost fingers and hacked up legs. After a large settlement, the 'shut-off' bar became standard equipment.
Being half Polish, I took it on face value. But looking back, I realized that they couldn't have been Polish dudes. They would have never had the cunning wisdom to turn stupidity into a windfall.