Pat,
Only thing to add to what Kris said below is that in the US, you might
just win in court regarding your example of the attendant putting too
much air in your tires. The courts are allowing so much crap today. My
favorite to quote is the one about the guy that broke into a school,
illegally climbed on the roof to break into another part of the school,
fell thru a 'skylight', and sued because the school didn't have bars over
the skylight to keep people from falling through. The fact that he sued
isn't the weird part, you can sue anyone for anything. The fact that he
WON the case blows me away.
I also wish the judges here had the guts to tell clowns like this, and
their lawyers, to get the hell out of their court.
Brad
================
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:28:12 -0700 "Kristi Richardson"
<lytabyron@hotmail.com> writes:
> Pat,
>
> As the other half of Brad, (he has been super busy today at work so
> I will
> try and answer.)
>
> In Oregon, we also have the pumps that you can swipe your card at,
> but we
> still have to have an attendant pump it.
>
> Every time self-serve comes up for election, the reasons given
> against it in
> the voter's pamphlet have been, the unemployment this will cause,
> and the
> scare tactics of how dangerous pumping gas can be and the fact that
> our
> weather is wet, and we may have to get wet. The arguments always
> seem to
> say, "I wouldn't be able to look my 70 year old Mom in the eye if
> this bill
> gets passed. She would not be able to drive anymore."
>
> We also have very few full serve gas stations, believe it or not.
> Brad
> usually washes the windows himself at the station. It costs 25 cents
> most
> places to add a minimum amount of air. How many gas stations
> nowadays have
> full time mechanics like they did 30 years ago? Not many here in
> Oregon.
>
> I don't think you could sue if someone put air in your tires and
> then you
> had a blowout down the road, but then I wouldn't of thought you
> could sue
> Mickey D's for a hot coffee spill and I sure was wrong there.
>
> Hope that clears up some of things you asked about. I'm sure Brad
> will get
> back to you when he gets a chance.
>
> Kristi
>
>
>
> >
> >In some UK petrol stations now you can even do the pay bit
> yourself, swipe
> >the credit card in the pump, serve the gas, replace the nozzle and
> collect
> >your credit card receipt. This is even more popular in France
> (from my
> >motoring holiday experience, Marc can you confirm?) where you can
> even get
> >gas from a 'closed' petrol station. Sounds a bit dangerous if
> there is a
> >spill and nobody to clear it up though.
> >
> >Brad - if an attendant checks your tires and then you get a blow
> out 2
> >miles
> >down the road does this mean you can sue the garage? I expect that
> the
> >risk
> >of a compensation claim from someone who has managed to spill
> petrol down
> >themselves (whilst smoking most probably) is the main reason why
> fully
> >attended garages still exist in the US. I can't believe that it is
> still
> >due to 'good old fashioned values'.
> >
> >Pat
>
>
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