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I was looking for a gas can last year. Went to Lowes and found a red plastic container with a lever on it to dispense and vent the container, no more revoving two caps and then losing them. And, suprise suprise, it was made in the USA. I was shocked.

Well, all good thing must end. Apparently there are quite a few complete dumbasses that have used these to start a fire! This, despite warnings on the can. So, they are closing their doors, and putting 117 people out of work. This is just sad.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/topstorie...-close-in-July

MIAMI, Okla. — Blitz USA, a manufacturer of gasoline containers that has operated for nearly five decades in Miami, will close on July 31, putting 117 employees out of work.

“This is a sad day in the 46-year history of Blitz and for our 117 employees,” said Rocky Flick, president of the company, in a prepared statement issued Tuesday.

“We appreciate the support of our employees and their families in our efforts to reorganize and develop a viable business plan. Unfortunately, we were not able to address the costs of the increased litigation associated with our fuel-containment products.”

Amanda Emerson, external affairs manager for Blitz USA, said the company is facing numerous lawsuits with regard to its portable fuel containers. The company has spent $30 million defending product-liability suits and owes $3.5 million in lawyer fees.

Blitz USA, which manufactures 70 to 75 percent of the portable gas cans sold in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., because of the litigation. Emerson said the company at that time faced 42 lawsuits.

“The lawsuits have involved adult individuals who have used gasoline to start a fire or accelerate a fire,” she said.

Emerson said the nation could face a severe shortage of the familiar red gas cans as early as this summer if steps are not taken to protect the industry that manufactures them.

“If we continue with the same legal language, a sustained supply-chain shortage could develop,” she said. “If something does not change, you would be crazy to invest in the gasoline-container industry at this time.”

She encouraged those with an interest in the situation facing Blitz and other gasoline-container companies to visit gascans4safety.com for additional information.
 
Goes right back to my law prof at Univ/Maryland some 50 years, teaching the 'deep pockets' theory of product liability and this 'new approach' that is had nothing to do so much with responsibility, as with the ability to PAY.....

so everyone doing anything gets sued outta existence.....

inverse/liberal logic kills everything it touches.....

:cussing::surrender:
 
Yep. Lawyers are ruining this country at light speed.:crap:

All products should say "Do not use if your stupid."
 
Yep. Lawyers are ruining this country at light speed.:crap:

All products should say "Do not use if your stupid."

Bird, I"m copping THAT phrase for sig file use....

GREAT wordsmithing......

:drink::drink::drink::drink:
 
Thanks lawyers. You fucking jackasses.

LAWYERS and their training, YES< but the crybaby mentality of this society...is

just krazy.....


I got My gripes, but the .gov didn't have to take side of the crooks either....

:crutches::club:
 
Do keep in mind that the law makers (congress) of the US are mostly lawyers. But no worries when things like motorcycle helmets, shoes, lighters and gas cans are taken off the shelf's in the US. You can always go to Canada or Mexico and buy them. :chinese:
 
Thanks lawyers. You fucking jackasses.

LAWYERS and their training, YES< but the crybaby mentality of this society...is

just krazy.....


I got My gripes, but the .gov didn't have to take side of the crooks either....

:crutches::club:

They are paid by the crooks

I proved my case against a man in Bankruptcy Ct. here in Jax....but the lawyer got to the judge and so he got his BK judgement....I lost 35 grand over that one....:cry::flash::mad:
 
Do keep in mind that the law makers (congress) of the US are mostly lawyers. But no worries when things like motorcycle helmets, shoes, lighters and gas cans are taken off the shelf's in the US. You can always go to Canada or Mexico and buy them. :chinese:

Actually less than half are lawyers but most are crooks!
 
Do keep in mind that the law makers (congress) of the US are mostly lawyers. But no worries when things like motorcycle helmets, shoes, lighters and gas cans are taken off the shelf's in the US. You can always go to Canada or Mexico and buy them. :chinese:

Actually less than half are lawyers but most are crooks!

I wonder if the sitting president or his wife are lawyers.
 
I wonder if the sitting president or his wife are lawyers.


I believe BOTH have given up their law licenses (probably just before they got disbarred)

In FACT you are correct over the wife there, unsure over Nobama....

she got caught up in some scam or other, typical Chicago, and so lost her law license but got on the staff for head breadcutter at some hospital for some 350 grand/year, and so she was golden....:devil::pprrtt:
 
Both Obama and his wife have law degrees, hence the difficulty seeing things with common sense. The liability issues in our country are truly getting more and more frustrating. I mean do you really have to have a lable on an electric hair dryer telling you not to use it in the shower?? I think the person who needs that lable is PRECISELY the person who SHOULD use one in the shower!!!! And frankly any idiot who uses a gas can on a lit fire...really??? How stupid can you be and still remember to friggn breath!?!?
 
Both Obama and his wife have law degrees, hence the difficulty seeing things with common sense. The liability issues in our country are truly getting more and more frustrating. I mean do you really have to have a lable on an electric hair dryer telling you not to use it in the shower?? I think the person who needs that lable is PRECISELY the person who SHOULD use one in the shower!!!! And frankly any idiot who uses a gas can on a lit fire...really??? How stupid can you be and still remember to friggn breath!?!?

Goes right back to the crap my law prof at Business Law 201 was teaching, some 45 years ago.....

and they never taught the most important course in college....CS101....

Common Sense 101....spelled out, not computer science.....

the commies took over our edjemakshunal systems long ago.....

how ELSE can we get such nitwit voting patterns???

:hissyfit::hissyfit::censored:
 
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In FACT you are correct over the wife there, unsure over Nobama....

she got caught up in some scam or other, typical Chicago, and so lost her law license but got on the staff for head breadcutter at some hospital for some 350 grand/year, and so she was golden....:devil::pprrtt:[/QUOTE]

she got that very important job because of what her husband the senator could do for the hospital and since she left they haven`t had a need to fill the position. I believe Obama himself lost his law license because he lied on the application about ever using an alias (does the name Barry Soreto come to mind?)...imagine that Obama lied, who would have thought such a thing could happen?
 
I wonder if the sitting president or his wife are lawyers.


I believe BOTH have given up their law licenses (probably just before they got disbarred)

In FACT you are correct over the wife there, unsure over Nobama....

she got caught up in some scam or other, typical Chicago, and so lost her law license but got on the staff for head breadcutter at some hospital for some 350 grand/year, and so she was golden....:devil::pprrtt:

Here we go again
 
I wonder if the sitting president or his wife are lawyers.


I believe BOTH have given up their law licenses (probably just before they got disbarred)

In FACT you are correct over the wife there, unsure over Nobama....

she got caught up in some scam or other, typical Chicago, and so lost her law license but got on the staff for head breadcutter at some hospital for some 350 grand/year, and so she was golden....:devil::pprrtt:

Here we go again

Sorry it must be true........I received at least 10 professionally created Emails saying all sorts of bad things they did ever before they were born.:crap:

Again I say the south will rise again.....at least by Email :quote:
 
I wonder if the sitting president or his wife are lawyers.


I believe BOTH have given up their law licenses (probably just before they got disbarred)

In FACT you are correct over the wife there, unsure over Nobama....

she got caught up in some scam or other, typical Chicago, and so lost her law license but got on the staff for head breadcutter at some hospital for some 350 grand/year, and so she was golden....:devil::pprrtt:

Here we go again

Sorry it must be true........I received at least 10 professionally created Emails saying all sorts of bad things they did ever before they were born.:crap:

Again I say the south will rise again.....at least by Email :quote:
BangkokGene to the rescue. :D
 
I think its the MBAs these days and not the lawyers that are riuning our country.....all the financial melt downs are directly attributable to MBAs....
 

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