Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Product liability?

[Carsten Standfuss <Merlinsub@t-online.de>]

Hi Bill that is excat what I mean. 

In german warbirds of WWII the throttle lever work full thrust in the
direction to the nose of the aircarft. In italian warbird of this period
the lever work that way that full thrust was to the opposite direction. 
There goverments has the glory idear for a "Germen/italian together"
squadron to join together and exchange expirence. So german pilots on
italian aircrafts and italian on german. I have read that the squadron
survied a week or so. I don't think that the designer of that aircrafts
makes any mistakes..  

But I install also a early version of Windows on all three servers to
get shure that somebody stole the boat get in really trouble..  

"Main blow vale not available a the moment - please contact your local
dealer.."

;-) Carsten


Ahem, that's a bouncing "BETTY" Stephen. Get your bomb nomenclature
correct will ya? Lol.
 
But seriously guys....Even if Carsten wasn't joking about having
Euronaut set up to not work correctly if someone stole her
that was unfamiliar with her, that would not make Carsten responsible or
liable for their death. I think what Carsten was saying
was not that he has rigged a bobby trap for a thief, but rather that
there are certain procedures and operations of the boat that
the thief would not know that would sink him on the first dive. Now just
because a thief who stole the Euronaut killed himself 
because he didn't know how to run Carsten's boat does not make Carsten
liable for that thief's death. I equate what Carsten was
saying to say....someone who owns their own private jet. Now suspose
some young thief who knew how to fly a piper cub stole
this private executive jet and killed himself in a crash because he did
not know the procedure to operate the jet correctly. Not the jet
owner's fault now is it? If there happened to be a switch or valve that
was in an out of the way place that the thief did not see, that is not
Carsten's fault or responsibility. It is not the responsibility of the
boat owner to leave an operators manual and precise instructions on
how to operate a boat for the convience of the thief. No one makes them
steal. If they kill themselves due to non sufficient knowledge 
of the vehicle they were operating, that is their fault alone and the
law would rule that way as well.
Bill Akins.



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