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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
It is pretty clear you have never worked anywhere near a PI lawyer, plus you are preternaturally gullible.
Every products case starts with the PI guy doing a patent search to show how many simple great solutions are out there and the bad manufacturer ignored them because of GREED!!! Of course the fact that there are massive practical problems with the available solutions gets pushed under the rug.
I worked at a firm that had a PI dept. They were asked to speak at a firm meeting. They had just hit on a massive judgement against a hot water tank manufacturer. A 2 year boy was left alone in his basement. The proud parents also stored gasoline in the basement. The little boy started pouring the gas on the floor. fumes came up and the pilot light on the hot water tank ignited the fumes. the boy was horribly burned.
Our white hat guys jumped in. They created the theory that if only the pilot light had a tube extending 10 inches higher, then the American family man could safely ignore his child and not worry about him having access to the gasoline storage areas. It was a bullshit theory, but there it was. Until, in a needle in the haystack document inspection they found a sketch by an engineer of a tube to raise the pilot light. It never went anywhere because you cannot restrict airflow to the pilot light, but so what!! We made zillions. Actually the money came in the month before I made partner
Somehow, I don't see how we helped society.
People want spas and hot tubs and swimming pools. All of those require water to circulate. Manufacturers try to make them safer, but they still have to be workable. Life is unsafe.
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I'm afraid to get past the "you're full of shit" barrier, you're going to have to come up with at least one plausible problem created by screwing the drain cover down that outweighs the statistically reliable likelihood of a hundred or more deaths a year from kids getting their arms, legs, hair, etc. caught in a pool drain.
That way we can avoid the inherent grossnesss of a kid getting her guts sucked out.
