Watch out for falling moose heads

"Woman sues bar after Fawlty Towers-style moose head incident
A woman is suing a bar after she suffered a Fawlty Towers-esque mishap when she was hit by a falling moose head. In papers filed at Manhattan Supreme Court, Raina Kumra said that the 150-pound head with three-foot-wide antlers fell off a wall at the Scandinavian-themed White Slab Palace on October 4 and hit her on the head. 'The taxidermy moose head weighed approximately 150 pounds, with antlers spanning over three feet,' the suit says.The impact gave Kumra a concussion and caused her 'chronic neck pain, anxiety, fatigue, dizziness and other serious and severe personal injuries,' including 'embarrassment,' the suit says. The accident is reminiscent of a scene in a Fawlty Towers episode when a moose head falls on Basil Fawlty's head in the hotel lobby, knocking him out cold. *** "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-Fawlty-Towers-style-moose-head-incident.html

Can you imagine calling John Cleese as an expert witness?

Someone posted this story with a different link on Facebook and the first thing I thought of was Fawlty Towers!

similar thing happened at a pub here in town: Canterbury Ales, Oyster Bay, NY...we walked down for a late office lunch and a few pints...there was this woman sitting at a high top table under the buffalo head....she stood up, the head came off the wall (and this thing is huge) she ended up grabbing it and was stumbling like a drunk with this huge buffalo head....was a rip....she was ok and the buffalo head was put back on the wall....

Favorite Fawlty Towers scene involving the moose head was with Manuel learning English. "I speak English very well. I learned it from a book."

After 10 days in Costa Rica, I'm really getting disappointed at how the liability system in the USA has constrained our liberties. We were at a hot springs, where there were dozens of opportunities to hurt yourself, not a single "Don't do that stupid!" sign to be seen. No liability release form, no guard rails, markers or other signs. While liability has it's place, our esteemed legal system taken it too far.

billski said:

After 10 days in Costa Rica, I'm really getting disappointed at how the liability system in the USA has constrained our liberties. We were at a hot springs, where there were dozens of opportunities to hurt yourself, not a single "Don't do that stupid!" sign to be seen. No liability release form, no guard rails, markers or other signs. While liability has it's place, our esteemed legal system taken it too far.

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Our "liability system" is built on hundreds and hundreds of years of case and common law, judicial rulings, and legislation. It develops with our society, not apart from it. The "system" didn't wake up one day and decide "we need warning signs at public swimming pools!" Liability law has developed for a reason, and there is a logic to it. I hate when people say "the legal system has done X". People filed cases, with the assistance of lawyers, and legal norms slowly change (most likely, along with societal norms) as risk tolerance has decreased. The outcomes of those cases, determined by "a jury of peers" or by judge that were either elected directly by voters or appointed by such elected officials, create the liability laws we have.

Its like blaming the ecosystem for pollution (maybe?)