re: #199 EPR-radar

I am more sympathetic to plaintiff in cases like this than I used to be, but I still find it very hard to imagine a fact pattern that could reasonably have made Sears liable here.

Apparently the man who had his fingers removed argued that the machine was inherently unsafe - lacking a dead man’s switch - and that no one told him he couldn’t utilize his Craftsman mower as a hedgetrimmer.

When I was a kid, I used my dad’s Toro, and it didn’t have the dead-man’s switch. I could leave the engine running while I emptied the bag; I could just put the power-propel in neutral. I don’t think anyone makes lawnmowers like that anymore, at least not that I’m aware of.