Why are Yamaha's exspensive?

[nbsledder]

Yea..tell me about it. Gooooood Bless America. Land of the lawyer, where you can sue ANYBODY over ANYTHING..including your own negligence and stupidity.

Now excuse me, I am going to go climb to the top of a telephone pole, fall off. maybe break a few limbs and sue the power company, phone company, town/city the pole was in, county and state the pole was in, manufacturer of the pole, installer of the pole, along with anybody that may have looked at or walked by the pole in the last 10 years. Becuase it's THEIR fault they didnt have a sign posted on the pole not to climb it as it could result in me falling off and getting injured or killed.

Man, I am going about life all wrong trying to earn a living and not trying to sue people/companies and falling a$$ backwards into a pile of cash. Or is it, I have enough brains and common sense not to do stupid things to get myself injured or killed?

Well said !!

 

[2008FxNytro]

Yea..tell me about it. Gooooood Bless America. Land of the lawyer, where you can sue ANYBODY over ANYTHING..including your own negligence and stupidity.

Now excuse me, I am going to go climb to the top of a telephone pole, fall off. maybe break a few limbs and sue the power company, phone company, town/city the pole was in, county and state the pole was in, manufacturer of the pole, installer of the pole, along with anybody that may have looked at or walked by the pole in the last 10 years. Becuase it's THEIR fault they didnt have a sign posted on the pole not to climb it as it could result in me falling off and getting injured or killed.

Man, I am going about life all wrong trying to earn a living and not trying to sue people/companies and falling a$$ backwards into a pile of cash. Or is it, I have enough brains and common sense not to do stupid things to get myself injured or killed?

Well said !!

X2, what is this world coming to. people are getting rewarded for their stupidity. Are you f***ing kidding me?! DEE DA DEE lemme stand behing the sled while you whip that studded track around at 80 MPH, i bet it doesnt blow, i bet it doe.....OWWWW my leggg, oh well ill sue em and be set!! unbelieveable GFY and smarten up!

 

[Crewchief47]

I've discussed this with my wife actually. If I off myself doing something I love because I missed a corner or some other lack of talent event, than you can't sue for that, it's not right.

On the other hand, if some fool can't keep his sled on his side of the trail or some other fool drives his auto onto a trail and leaves it there, I told her to get all that you can.

 

[arteeex]

... or some other fool drives his auto onto a trail and leaves it there, I told her to get all that you can.

See. If I gave that idea to my wife it would be my car I ran into.

 

[Trucker]

ok I need some help on this. Over 75% severed leg from a stud? Had to cut it off? I have seen on the discovery channel were shark attacked people have no calf left but they still have their leg and walk. I understand that there is a lot of volostiy(sp) but thru snow pants and a whole leg. sounds like they are leaving out some important info. don't get me wrong sorry to hear, but really? sounds like a myth buster episode

 

[Super Sled]

Instead, why not sue the sled's owner (the so called friend) instead?, the track manufacturer (It was probably a cheap track, and manu isn't around....)?, the stud manufacturer? The person who added the studs and weakened the track possibly? The reason is that Yamaha had the deepest pockets/ most money to collect from.

Mike please don't take this as a personal attack as it is not.

why sue anyone?

that's my issue with attorneys and those that use them for personal gain. what ever happened to being held accountable for personal conduct and the simple fact that accidents do happen? the vast majority of them are not the result of manufacturing negligence or design flaws. yes i'm sure they did take the case on % basis and 363k isn't chump change to those of us that end up absorbing the costs of this frivolous litigation. yamaha and other manufactures don't pick up the tab on this crime (and that's what it is) they pass it on to consumers. i'm not opposed to anyone making a living but this type of litigation and the system that both allows and encourages it are flawed. people are rewarded for stupidity, the gene pool needs chlorine.

Hey, I'm share your opinion 100%, so no worries at all!



Hey, I'm all about personal responsibility, and I hope my post reflected that. My feelings that it's a terrible thing this man lost his leg..... But that seemingly his own stupidity played a huge role in the tragedy occuring in the first place.



And I certainly wasn't encouraging litigation by pointing out others who could have/ may have also been sued.... I was just pointing out that Yamaha was the entity with money, so of course they were the target.



I like what I do, but in general I don't necessarily like the law. I just wanted to point out that not all "lawywers" practice personal injury law cases like this one. What I do is totally, totally different. If I lost this job i would try to do the same thing somewhere else. I myself could not stomache that type of law.......




I guess we all now know why Yamaha want $15 to 16 grand for the new Apex now!!!!!!!!





Mike

 

[Crewchief47]

ok I need some help on this. Over 75% severed leg from a stud? Had to cut it off? I have seen on the discovery channel were shark attacked people have no calf left but they still have their leg and walk. I understand that there is a lot of volostiy(sp) but thru snow pants and a whole leg. sounds like they are leaving out some important info. don't get me wrong sorry to hear, but really? sounds like a myth buster episode

If you read it over a little closer, you'll realize the sled spit the track and the track took out his leg. It just happened to be studded.

The metal stud-embedded track, on which the snowmobile glides through the snow, broke. The track was propelled out of the rear and ripped through Mohr's right leg, Korn said.

I added some commas and if you leave out the word metal, it makes more sense.

 

[04JRB]

all I can say is WoW, Just wow. I agree with all the others who say that this isnt right.

Old Machine
OEM track or not, studding is not recommended.
riding double on a one up is not a good idea, only if its an emergency.
I would never lift/stand in the back of a sled while the track is moving, common sense IMO.

If this guy is an equipment operator, he should know better than that. He should have adequate knowledge of how the machine operates and what is what is a stupid idea, Especially if he owns/maintanis his own equipment.

Was there a BAC test done? I suspect that something was impairing his judgment. or he is retarded.

Im not going to slam the lawyer, he is doing what he is paid to do (assumingly). I blame the people who create the market for lawyers who take cases like this.

I HATE the sense of entitilement that exists in our country with my generation, no matter how stupid you are, you can do something completely boneheaded and have a catastrophic failure of something that was being used/operated outside the perameters of what is in the owners manual (instructions), and common flippin sense, and get to sue a corporation over lack of warning labels (which I myself dont think Ive read BECAUSE THE ILLUSTRATE COMMON SENSE ITEMS, for the moszt part.

I feel bad for the man who lost his leg, very sad. but suing Yamaha is reiculous IMO.

 

[Sasquatch]

Ah hell we can't use D handled shovels at work anymore because someone caught there shovel under a conveyor belt. Not watching what they are doing and tore up their hand wrist, Now I have to shovel with a long handled scoop shovel that is near impossible to use as the load always twists to one side or the other and dumps everything out of the shovel.

I used D handled shovels for over 30 years and never had a problem. One snot nosed kid sticks his shovel into a moving conveyor belt and knee jerk reaction no more D handles.

I won't even complain about my Tim Hortons coffee being to damn cold by the time I get it to work in the morning because some women spilled her cup in her lap and sued because of a ruined sex life!

This protectionist society of knee jerk idiots fueled buy Judges backing stupid lawsuits makes me want to slit my wrists, But wait I cant use a broke knife at work because they not only made them retractable as opposed to locked in a useable position, so you have to try and hold them extended with your thumb, but they rounded off the point and made it duller then a butter knife.

What is up with this world we live in?

 

[JCLG]

Here in Finland this kind of lawsuit wouldn't get even trough. I have to say that sounds incredible. How Yamaha can be held quilty for someone elses stupidity.

 

[Super Sled]

because some women spilled her cup in her lap and sued because of a ruined sex life!


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Are you kidding, she deserved nothing, but that claim is worth millions to her husband, the poor guy!!!!!!






Mike

 

[Super Sled]

Here in Finland this kind of lawsuit wouldn't get even trough. I have to say that sounds incredible. How Yamaha can be held quilty for someone elses stupidity.

The State was New Jersey where that claim was, I believe. I don't think that case would get anywhere against Yamaha here in Minnesota, either.....



Must be a pretty litigious place out there in New Jersey if they allow baloney claims like that to go to trial out there!!!!!!




Mike

 

[Puppe]

USA, the Land of Hope and Glory!
There´s a lot of weird #*$&@ happening at your court houses!
If you believe; they put a man to the moon...
Seriously, at good old days people took responsibility about their mistakes and learned something.

 

[yamahahaapex]

did you hear the new one? Mcdonalds paid 70 grand or so to one of its managers in brazil because in his 25 years of work he gained obsessive weight and he blamed mcdonalds for that.

 

[yamahahaapex]

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