----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:28 AM
Subject: RE:
[PSUBS-MAILIST] Product liability?
Bill
With respect I served in the Australian
Army for 4 years and that’s what ‘we’ call them. You may
remember we also went to war in “NARM” and Malaysia with the Pom’s (people you would
call British). One must not assume that the same things have the same names
across the globe!
If I may provide some examples:
The rest of the world, Petrol or
Petroleum – The US, Gas!
Australia, Mate – US, Buddy or Pal
Australia, Sheila – US, Girl friend
Australia, Prawn - US, Shrimp
Australia, Utility – US, Pickup Truck (by
the way we invented that one even though you think you did)
Germany, U-boat – US, Submarine
I do agree that Betty is a better name
though because who else but a female would want to blow your nuts and pecker
off.
Regards
Stephen Pearce
-----Original
Message-----
From:
owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org]
On Behalf Of Akins
Sent: Thursday,
23 February 2006
6:42
PM
To:
personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST]
Product liability?
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.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:20 AM
Subject: RE:
[PSUBS-MAILIST] Product liability?
Jim
Maybe Euronaut should be called
“Miss Saigon” in view of its booby traps. I wonder if it’s
fitted with a Trip Wire and Bouncing Benny J
Stephen Pearce