Posted on 01/26/2015 8:44:56 PM PST by aimhigh
The Register-Guard reports Daniel Rowlett is seeking $13 million. He says Walmart sold him a plastic can produced by Blitz USA that exploded as he poured fuel into a burn barrel in October 2013. He suffered burns over nearly half his body.
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Don’t you have to be dead to win a Darwin Award?
He was pouring gasoline on a fire directly from the can. You are right... Darwin Award!
Fixed it.
Hmmmm ... 80 people sued the company that made the gas cans ... and put it out of business. In addition, Walmart decided to “chip in” $25 MILLION out of their own pockets to settle those claims!
I guess Walmart just decided to throw in $25 Million of their own money ... out of the goodness of their heart ... :-) ...
The gubmint has mandated those pour-proof spouts. Any gas you can get to come out of the can, goes all over you, the ground, and your vehicle or machine.
If anyone should get sued, it's the government.
Often it is far more economical for a corporation to pay a settlement, even if the case is bogus, as opposed to leaving it to a jury that has been subjected to a barrage of anti-corporation propaganda.
Often it is far more economical for a corporation to pay a settlement, even if the case is bogus, as opposed to leaving it to a jury that has been subjected to a barrage of anti-corporation propaganda.
- - - Don’t you have to be dead to win a Darwin Award? - - -
You are right. Honorable Mention for the effort, though!
Oldplayer
In order to win the Darwin Award one must become incapable of passing on one’s DNA.
Death, of course, is always a qualifier.
Death always qualifies, but what is really required is that the candidate make himself incapable of passing on his DNA.
So, this guy’s eligibility would depend on the severity and location of his burns.
I bought several of these cans at Walmart. They were great cans with a handle on the top and side. The problem wasn’t that they allowed flame”back into” the can, and any flame in a can is bad news. It was that the cans would not vent properly
when you poured gas out. Gas fumes would come out at high velocity as you poured. Not good when refilling equipment just turned off.
If it has one of those retarded new spouts, I hope he wins 800 million or so, and they have to change the name of the stores to HIS name. I HATE those cans with a passion that’s sinful!
Yes, clearly it’s the fault of Blitz that 80+ stupid people poured extremely volatile gasoline onto or into an open flame source...
Gasoline is intended to be used for one purpose only and that is as a motor fuel for internal combustion engines...Operative word is “internal”...It is unsuitable for ANY other purpose...Fuel pumps have a label warning against other uses...People who fail to heed such warnings are asking to get hurt...
It’s the motor fuel of choice for over 100 years precisely because it is so volatile, and vaporizes so readily thruout a very wide range of atmospheric temperatures, desert to arctic...Flash point of gasoline is as low as -45 degrees F...
Anyone who’s fueled a vehicle on a sunny day and watched the shadow of the pump nozzle has also seen the shadow of the vapor produced when gasoline is dispensed...Somewhere within that vapor plume the gasoline/air mix produced is within the flammable range...Introduce a combustion source and BOOM!
Firefighters regard such individuals as “job security”..
it was a 50 year old company that had 70% of the plastic gas can market. they were driven out of business — targeted by trial lawyer slugs.
American made gas cans that were sued out of business and will soon be replaced by gas cans made in china because of stupid people.
STUPID should hurt
stupid SHOULD hurt
stupid should HURT
Use a funnel.
My brother-in-law Lefty saw one left by the side of the road (The source of the family's many-multi-gas can collection) and swooped over on his Harley to pick it up, not noticing the semi in the other lane. We think he woulda made it except his flip-flop got caught on the shifter. (So we're suing Harley, too.)
I IDed the body. The shorts and tee shirt was Lefty's, but the face was a little scraped off. No helmet. But anyway, the family wants Blitz to paint the cans in Camo so's they won't be lookin' so good to motorcyclists.
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