Comments on: Coming Soon: Stupid Warning Labels on Baseball Bats for Stupid People Thanks to Stupid Lawyers and a Stupid Jury

By: Corporal Punishment

Corporal Punishment — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:25:02 +0000

I just sent this email to the link above:

Subject: Soldier in Afghanistan, as American as baseball

To Whom it May Concern,

I am currently serving in Afghanistan near Kabul. I am ashamed that parents would sue a bat maker for the death of their grown son. After all, the parents probably encouraged Mr. Brandon Patch to play baseball as a child. Therefore, the parents themselves are partially to blame for his death, if the same logic that the lawsuit was based on is used. Now, if parents want their children safe from any sport, they should resort to video games.

Maybe I should sue the maker of the soft-ball that hit me in the face while playing the game in Guam, 25 years ago.
Or the manufacturer of the camera I was using when I got hit in the shin by a base-ball while shooting a TYBA coach pitch game in Tennessee about 10 years ago. I hope you all see the point.

I would like to thank the following people for the latest in frivolous lawsuit success stories: The Patch family, the Lawyers, and the Jury on this case. You are all so worth fighting for. Please enjoy your spoils. Whether or not you keep the money, you have started a dangerous precedent. Take care and God-Bless you all.

Sincerely,

Vincent R. Van Sciver, CPL, USA

By: Corporal Punishment

Corporal Punishment — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:38:55 +0000

Shouldn’t it be “stoopid” instead of “stupid”? Seems fitting.

By: Blacktail

Blacktail — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:55:18 +0000

Look sharp people, a “Bat Control” movement is coming…

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:38:20 +0000

NEWSFLASH: Clubs can be dangerous!

By: Flanker

Flanker — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:57:08 +0000

I have jury duty this month………………I’m nailing all of you reactionaries. .)

By: Vitor

Vitor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:29:16 +0000

“The Patch family argued aluminum bats are dangerous because they cause the ball to travel faster than those hit off wooden bats. ”

Really bizarre, and the family doesnt seem very smart (or they prefer to not to). Because what really causes the ball to trave faster is the person swinging the bat. This is almost like suing a gun company because the gun used to killed had a long barrel, what drives the bullet faster…

By: B Woodman

B Woodman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:55:08 +0000

These grieving (but idiotic) parents will join the same ranks as that idiotic woman who sued McD’s over the hot coffee in her lap – and the jury that awarded her the big bucks.

Idiots all – plaintiffs AND juries!

By: SwissFreek

SwissFreek — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:04:12 +0000

ATTENTION ALL FOOTBALL PARENTS: Pull your kids out of Pop Warner now before they make your kid get a warning tattoo.

And all us Rugby players will certainly soon be arrested for aggravated assault. And battery.

By: Nadnerbus

Nadnerbus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:02:24 +0000

Also, otherwise good and rational people can often end up pursuing stuff like this out of grief. They got struck by the hand of chance, and it sucks. People have a built in need to find a cause, to come up with a reason, so they don’t feel so powerless and lost. Unfortunately sometimes there isn’t a cause, life is just random.

Getting 12 jurors to go along with it though is another matter.

By: Nadnerbus

Nadnerbus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:53:40 +0000

clearly they should have sued Newton because of the laws of physics.

I often wonder if there is more than hits the article when it comes to stuff like this. It just seems too idiotic for 12 random people to agree to something like this, when there are decades of previous use with no legal problems. Shouldn’t a lethal implement be recognized as such before many many decades of its existence have passed?

But maybe the prosecution had the unfrozen caveman lawyer or something and just dazzled the jury.