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Yes, the jury found that the bat was not defective, but that the family should still get hundreds of thousands of dollars because they did not properly warn the users of the bat of the fact that using a blunt object to hit a smaller blunt object may cause the smaller blunt object to fly in the other direction and damage a third blunt object.

Up next: dumbass sticks pencil in his nose, family sues pencil manufacturer for not attaching a warning to the pencil.

Yes, I'm sure the fact mentioned above completely escapes the people who play baseball. I hope the Patch family continues their great crusade and warns people of the dangers of walking into brick walls, sticking their dicks into meat grinders and stapling sheets of papers to their eyeballs.

Greedy, blackhearted fucks.

Ummm...can this be appealed or anything? It's sad that the kid died but that ruling in stupid.

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Agreed.

And, if this "was about awareness, not money", then the family would surely donate the award to the "Rid The World Of Evil Louisville Slugger Aluminum Baseball Bats" campaign.

I betcha' a nickel they don't, though...

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I don't know. I think they can but I don't recall the specifics. Civil law works differently from criminal law and I guess technically this could be a case of fewer retards since they only need a majority (unlike in criminal cases) if I remember correctly.

Republican juries. Can't trust them.

Republican juries?

Do you have any proof that this was a Republican jury? IMO, they were bleeding heart idiots and more often than not, bleeding hearts are Democrats.

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pure insanity. I can imagine this now "WARNING, KEEP BAT AWAY FROM HEADS AT ALL TIMES"

Oh fer chrissakes, people, I was just pre-empting the usual RW nutjobs who typically blame things like this on the left, thus demonstrating the absurdity of both sides.



I'll dumb it down next time.

this will not stand up to appeal.

if the kid wsa to stupid to realize it might cause harm is there any reason to think reading a warning ont he bat would even occur ?

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It's not the kid that was stupid...he probably did know you could get hit by a baseball that was hit. It still happens. The only stupid people are the jury and possibly the parents (though people do lots of stupid stuff when they suffer a sever tragedy, like this, so I give them a pass for now).

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Cute little clip of Sisyphus, there.

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There's probably more to the story.

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Like the fact that aluminum bats are not allowed in the Major Leagues of Baseball, partially due to the fact they hit the ball so fast it is more dangerous. The difference is typically about 8mph, which doesn't seem like much until you realize that energy is computed as the SQUARE of the velocity.

In Japan, 9 players have died from balls hit by aluminum bats since 1974.

I can't understand how parents let their kids play with what amounts to a fist sized rock being batted about at well over a hundred miles an hour anyway. Why not just send them into a field and fire a shotgun at them, give them a big glove to catch it, it's fun.

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The OP link includes a statement from H&B (the bat manufacturer). In their response it is implied that they will not be appealing the jury award.



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