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Suppose you are under lockdown - you probably are - but you fancy having a party anyway.
You'd keep the music down, close all the curtains, or live in a house miles from the neighbours, yes?
Not in Englands third most populous city you don't: Coronavirus: Greater Manchester Police warning after 660 parties shut down - BBC News[^]
660 parties in a weekend, some with fireworks (so the police can spot you from further away), DJ (so the choons are nice'n'loud), or bouncy castles ... or to be really obvious, have it outdoors as a street party (166 of them!).
Don't warn 'em - arrest 'em, and put them up before a court on Monday morning ... A weekend in teh cells counts as Social Distancing, doesn't it? 
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we have the same type of people here in the States. I cite the recent spring break fiasco in Florida. A lot of those kids recently tested positive for COVID-19.
This is also why we here in the States have the warning on most coffee cups: "Warning - this beverage is extremely hot!".
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Those warnings wouldn't be there if it weren't for lawyers. All such warnings, and the lawyers who provoke them, are an abomination because they subvert natural selection.
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There's a rumour that Husqvarna had the sarcastic warning text on their chainsaws: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals"
I strongly doubt that there is any truth in it, but funny nonetheless.
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If it isn't true, is sure is a good lie!
What is not a lie is Electrolux vacuum cleaners, marketed under the slogan "Nothing sucks like Electrolux".
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Yes, it was the British importer that used it in the UK.
And the people at Cogent Elliot were fully aware of the double entendre.
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For every warning label there's at least one good story!
We don't need lawyers if we just rely on Darwin's law.
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Unfortunately, the lawyers write the laws and to keep themselves in business, they've written Darwin out of the laws. Dollars (or what ever currency) over destiny. Where usually, the lawyers get the lion's share of the award.
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Greg Utas wrote: Those warnings wouldn't be there if it weren't for lawyers.
Well, lawyers and Stella Liebeck.
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Sure, but judges who don't have the sense to dismiss such cases with prejudice are almost all former lawyers.
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It's called, keeping their crony friends in business. I help you and you help me by keeping cases coming in.
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Look up Adam Ruins Everything's episode on Stella Liebeck: <a href="https://www.langspace.com/en/video/10562571681662260">https://www.langspace.com/en/video/10562571681662260</a>[<a href="https://www.langspace.com/en/video/10562571681662260" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]. That was a legit case of negligence. It just got promoted as a frivolous lawsuit.
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Oh, well, if a comedy show says that you don't have to be careful when you buy something that's hot...
I'm no fan of McD, but how many years were they selling coffee -- and how many cups -- before someone sued because they scalded themselves with it?
I don't think I'd accept something that's a one-in-five-hundred-million chance, and that has gone wrong once over a span of decades, as a good reason to rewrite a program.
I doubt that car companies would accept that crashes caused by inattention were their fault, either.
And let's not even start on kitchen tools, unless you'd prefer to buy knives that can't cut meat.
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Correction, the warnings wouldn't be there "but for" Darwinism...i.e. those who are nominated for the Darwin Award. 
~d~
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Greg Utas wrote: if it weren't for lawyer
Right now, everyone is fawning over the health care workers so this may be a hard sell.
But, in normal times, the only protection a person has against MD (etc) is the lawyers. They are as bad as that "thin blue line" of silence from police officers not ratting out other officers who commit crimes (or let them go on driving drunk - a common-ish one).
And they lawyers - sure for money - are also the closest thing you have to a chance-in-hell if a giant corporation decides to screw you. Naturally, after consulting their lawyers.
It so often comes back to that famous line in the Pogo comic strip of days gone by:
"We have met the enemy and he is us"*
* also refers to the OP,
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Lawyers definitely have a place, but the US could do with more judgments where the plaintiff has to pay the defendant's costs. This rarely happens in the US but is done elsewhere to discourage frivolous lawsuits.
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Reason #1 for a lack in frivolous lawsuit event in US: like MD's and mal=practice, what lawyer wants to make themselves an easy target for other lawyers - it could become another legal specialization.
But, as a real answer to this - except in the most extreme cases (and I didn't say rare), if as the risk increases to the lawyer the chances of David fighting Goliath decreases. You would reduce accessibility to legal help.
Again, one of those things "damned if you do, damned if you don't" - but the US makes it far too easy to instate legal proceedings and far too little responsibility for the (plaintiff's) actions. Big pockets and severely hurt others simply by one lawsuit after another until they bankrupt the opposition with legal expenses. A legal version of assault. The many contractors who Hump didn't pay and put out of business - an example of big pockets vs. (comparatively) little pockets. Also true of gambling casinos - the house and advantage just by having more money.
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There are plenty of unused military barracks around. Ship them all there, lock the gates, and let them party as much as they like. Oh, and tell them they will have to bury their own dead.
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Add armed guards to shoot on sight any attempted escapees, and you have a deal!
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Isn't there a sci-fi/fantasy/zombie-land story that starts out that way ...
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Yes, something about a special zone for criminal gangs in New York, and they somehow kidnap the President. I think Mel Gibson plays the hero.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: something about a special zone for criminal gangs in New York, and they somehow kidnap the President. I think Mel Gibson plays the hero.
Escape from New York? It had a much better actor in the lead role.
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That's the one. I had an image in my mind of the lead actor but could not recall his name.
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Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken, no he isn't dead. The president's plane went down and he was captured.
Stinkin' whippersnappers.
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Escape from New York as a movie, but I read a short story years before that movie about a similar concept. I think it was written by Heinlein.
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