Awl --
Remember the old heavy chrome suction cup chinup bar? That destroyed every doorway it was ever installed in? Anyone recall the original mfr??
I think that chinup bar, along with the bullworker, defined fitness, at that time. Before infomercial stupidness took over the planet.
Inyway, the point here is, that chinup bar was *destined* to fall. In fact, a patent attorney I knew at the time, his kid fractured his skull on one of those chinup bars.
Now, here's the Q:
Can you "warn yourself" out of liability?? ie, basically say that no guarantee can be made for the safety of this item, use at your own risk??
Does the fact that the end user installs this item automatically distribute blame, or even shield the mfr himself from (most) claims?
I am sort of deducing that this MUST be the case, as Modell's STILL sells a suction cup chinup bar -- as of a year or so ago, at any rate -- which quite surprised me.
I figured either the company was off-shore and untouchable, or simply no claims can be made against a slipping chinup bar, unless it just broke in half. Also, Modell's is NOT untouchable, so I think the issue is more of being insulated because of a clear "use at your own risk" policy. But then, in litigious Merka, is ANYTHING *really* "use at your own risk"??
Cars are largely immune, iiuc -- barring failing brakes, stuck accelerators, exploding gas tanks, etc. If you crash, it's generally on you. Is the same true of a slipping suction cup chinup bar?