{"id":2825,"date":"2005-12-05T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:20:28","slug":"teach-your-children-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/teach-your-children-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Your Children Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/12\/04\/BAG2LG1DML68.DTL\" target=\"_new\">Boys hurt on bikes sue Wal-Mart, importer: Marin trial to focus on wheel clasp used on millions of cycles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHe and eight other boys from around the nation are suing retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which sold the bikes, and a San Rafael company that imported them from China. A trial in the case begins Monday in a Marin County courtroom, and the youths are expected to testify about smashing their faces into pavement after the front wheels came loose.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit asserts that the so-called quick-release devices on the front wheels malfunctioned when the bikes hit bumps. The clasps, used on millions of bicycles, are designed to hold the front-wheel axle to the frame and allow the wheel to be easily removed for repairs or transport.<\/p>\n<p>The boys and their parents also claim that Wal-Mart conspired with Dynacraft BSC Inc. of San Rafael and Carl Warren &#038; Co., which investigated complaints for the importer, to cover up the defects. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nine kids fell off of their bikes, and it&#8217;s the fault of the bikes&#8230;.although millions have been sold and none have been recalled or otherwise cited officially for safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a child, we used to take our old Kent bikes down the side of a freeway embankment past some electrical transmission towers at high rates of speed.  I&#8217;d like to think it was skill, but it was probably also a large amount of luck that kept me from serious injury.  But assuming I had come to harm, in the early 1980s and even though we were poor, we wouldn&#8217;t have sued for recompense.  What a pity, as it offered such lucrative targets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Federal government<\/b>, for building overpasses where children had access to the steep embankments.\n<li><b>Kent<\/b>, for making bicycles without frictional inertial dampening systems that limited us to sissy speeds.\n<li><b>The power company<\/b>, for not putting bumpers on the legs of its transmission towers.\n<li><b>The City of Milwaukee<\/b>, for not replacing dirt and grass with a comfortable poly-foam of some sort.<\/ul>\n<p>The lead plantiff in this case says he cannot absorb information like he used to.  Hell, I don&#8217;t absorb information like I used to, either.  But, on the bright side for this young man, he&#8217;s certainly absorbing the litigious lotto lessons of his environment well enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boys hurt on bikes sue Wal-Mart, importer: Marin trial to focus on wheel clasp used on millions of cycles: He and eight other boys from around the nation are suing retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which sold the bikes, and a San Rafael company that imported them from China. A trial in the case begins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19046,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/19046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}