[sdiy] Plugging anything into anything

[Paul Maddox (QinetiQ)]

Paul,

>From the Stella awards pages ;-

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Mr Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City. In November 2000
Mr Grazinski purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home.
On his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise
control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back and
make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly the Winnie left the
freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr Grazinski sued Winnebago for not
advising him in the handbook that he couldn't actually do this. He was
awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnie. (Winniebago actually changed
their handbooks on the back of this court case, just in case there are any
other complete morons buying their vehicles
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Sometimes you have to spell it out for people..

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1 at airmail.net>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>; <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Plugging anything into anything


> My favorite irate customer letter when I was at Tandy (early 80's) was a
guy who wanted "more
> output" from his 2-meter handy-talkie radio. So the unscrewed off the coax
from the back of his
> cable TV box, and use ViseGrips to screw the cable to the antenna
connector. When he keyed the
> transmitter, he sent 5W of RF upstream. This was my favorite part
(paraphrasing from memory)....
>
> "I am enclosing a bill in the amount of $32,900 from Charter Cable for
clainmed damages to their
> equipment. I expect Radio Shack to pay this in full, because the manual
never said not to do
> this."
>
> It also never said to stick your weener in the toaster.
>
> I go a million Radio Shack letter stories. In the "glory years" of
1977-1980, we we sued an
> average of once a day.
>
> Paul S.
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