No more 2nd Hand toy sales in the US ?

[Golden Phoenix]

As bad as the litigeous American society is, we are getting just as bad. People will look for ways to sue over something that shouldn't need a warning label or law to alert people of the 'apparent' danger. It gets to the point when you have warning labels on items that just have you wondering, why would anyone do that, to need a warning against doing it. There should be a point where common sense should over-ride the need for a warning against the obvious, and have these people punished for wasting the courts time, and taxpayer money in 'fixing up' these things, which ultimately affects the rest of us consumers with higher prices, or removal of goods that can no longer be 'legally safe' to sell.

People like to blame others for their problems. That way, it's not their fault that they did something stupid like that girl in the bakery on the worksafe add.
Plus it doesn't help that their are lawyers who insist that they were victims.

[GoktimusPrime]

+1. This is something Obama touched on in his inauguration speech.

[SofaMan]

Plus it doesn't help that their are lawyers who insist that they were victims.

This is something of a problem with the system of legal training in America. As there is no professional college imposing reasonable limits on who can be accredited in the profession (like the Law Society or College of Surgeons), pretty much anyone can train to be a lawyer. Then you end up with way more lawyers than a society can reasonably sustain, since it's perceived to be a prestige occupation.

At this point, all the less experienced or skilled lawyers who can't get 'good' work end up being "ambulance-chasers" and bottom feeders, just to make ends meet.