Having A Garage Sale? The Feds Are Watching You...

You're right!

Ok, here's what I see happening...

People hosting garage sales being sued for millions because toy X caused
whatever. Who knows, maybe this has already happened.

Insurance companies offering garage sale insurance for such lawsuits.

Ads by lawyers asking if your child became ill or hurt resulting from a toy
bought at a garage sale.

No more toys sold at garage sales.

No more garage sales.

Did I miss anything?

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Killer Joe 15 years ago

Ken,

You're making too much dadburn sense here...

Let's give all the entitlement mentality minds more ways of passing the responsibilty for their actions onto someone else.

As soon as those TV lawyer ads start to appear watch what happens...

I can see it now, and it sure isn't pretty.

KJ
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Patrician

15 years ago

Originally Posted by KenThompson

You're right!

Ok, here's what I see happening...

People hosting garage sales being sued for millions because toy X caused
whatever. Who knows, maybe this has already happened.

Insurance companies offering garage sale insurance for such lawsuits.

Ads by lawyers asking if your child became ill or hurt resulting from a toy
bought at a garage sale.

No more toys sold at garage sales.

No more garage sales.

Did I miss anything?

Yes you did.

No more toys.

Too much fun very bad.

Good children should be marching in youth brigade.

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KenThompson 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

Yes you did.

No more toys.

Too much fun very bad.

Good children should be marching in youth brigade.

I also forgot the following. How could I have done that.

No more garage sales.

Ebay's stock plummets.

Congress issues a multi-billion dollar bailout.

Yahoo cries.

Congress issues multi-billion dollar bailout.

Ok, I'm satisfied now. I think I've covered most of it.
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seasoned

15 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

No, we were making them here then.

Actually, they passed a law in the early seventies making the production of lead paint for homes, and lead in toys ILLEGAL!!!!!!! HECK, they EVEN eventually outlawed lead in gas, which is why you don't see leaded gas anymore. It is ALL unleaded!

BTW just so you know, they outlawed arsnic in pressure treated lumber a few years back ALSO!

So NO, we were NOT making toays with lead in the late 70s or beyond. It was, and IS, ILLEGAL! Of course, to the best of my knowledge, electrical solder STILL has lead. Of course a kid would have to STRUGGLE to ingest THAT!

Steve

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KimW

15 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Actually, they passed a law in the early seventies making the production of lead paint for homes, and lead in toys ILLEGAL!!!!!!! HECK, they EVEN eventually outlawed lead in gas, which is why you don't see leaded gas anymore. It is ALL unleaded!

BTW just so you know, they outlawed arsnic in pressure treated lumber a few years back ALSO!

So NO, we were NOT making toays with lead in the late 70s or beyond. It was, and IS, ILLEGAL! Of course, to the best of my knowledge, electrical solder STILL has lead. Of course a kid would have to STRUGGLE to ingest THAT!

Steve

Yes Steve we know that,I never said we were making toys in the late 70s. If you read the whole thread, my response was to the following comment:"Stories like this make me wonder how I ever made it through childhood with all the bad toys that were out there "

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Scot Standke

15 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

Yes Steve we know that,I never said we were making toys in the late 70s. If you read the whole thread, my response was to the following comment:"Stories like this make me wonder how I ever made it through childhood with all the bad toys that were out there "

That still would not save me, I was born in the early 60's

My PlaySchool days were long gone in the 70's

Scot

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seasoned

15 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

Yes Steve we know that,I never said we were making toys in the late 70s. If you read the whole thread, my response was to the following comment:"Stories like this make me wonder how I ever made it through childhood with all the bad toys that were out there "

well, I WAS still in highschool, and even junior high around those times. I didn't figure either of you were much older. In any event, my point is that it has been illegal for SO long that it shouldn't be used as an excuse for China. Of course, I don't even remember chewing anything like that.

Your response LOOKED like it was in response to "Probably because when we were children, we weren't buying poisonous toys from china "

POISONOUS? I figured that meant LEAD, since that is about the only "poison" on the average toy that I am aware of. Some MAY have arsenic, and I believe that HAS been illegal on childrens toys for a long time. Pressure treated wood was a special case as it was ONLY used for things like decks, and arsenic was added to deter pests.

So it looked to me like he said "We weren't buying poison ... from china", and you said "NO, because we made poison... HERE"!

Steve

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Scot Standke

15 years ago

How did you make your millions?

I got burned in the crotch from HOT coffee from McDonald's... who knew?

Me, I fell and broke my leg while I was robbing someone's home...

Me, I bought a lead based toy from a garage sale and sued...

thanks Dewey, Cheatum & Howe

Scot

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seasoned

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Scot Standke

How did you make your millions?

I got burned in the crotch from HOT coffee from McDonald's... who knew?

Me, I fell and broke my leg while I was robbing someone's home...

Me, I bought a lead based toy from a garage sale and sued...

thanks Dewey, Cheatum & Howe

That last line was probably from a three stooges skit. If ONLY there were only 3. Ironically, the stooges never graduated from highschool(at least the howard brothers didn't), but they STILL may have been smarter than some of the stooges today. 8-( I COULD relate one of their most ridiculous skits with today, but some wouldn't like the reference. 8-(

Frankly, I think they should follow the LETTER of the law. Unless the product is obviously bad, so the seller is at fault, the MAKER should be at fault, for the recall they never pursued.

Steve

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HeySal 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Scot Standke

How did you make your millions?

Scot

Crap - I'm so disgusted I'm not even making sense to myself right now. So I deleted my
post. I can't believe we pay our judiciary system.
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Thomas 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Scot Standke

thanks Dewey, Cheatum & Howe

On a side-note, there's a real law firm in Ireland called "Argue & Phibbs"

See here...
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- MikeAmbrosio 15 years ago
  
  So, I guess the B.A. stands for "Bull(crud) Artists"?
  
  Too funny.
  
  Originally Posted by Thomas
  
  On a side-note, there's a real law firm in Ireland called "Argue & Phibbs"
  
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Scot Standke

15 years ago

I see a Multi-Million Dollar product here folks...

For a very limited time, get your copy of the "2009 Garage Sale Checklist"

Do not have another garage sale before you read this report!

It could literally save you millions!

Grab your copy now before the toy manufacturer's shut us down...

Scot

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KimW

15 years ago

lol, everyone is so confused now, eh?
That was exactly what I am saying, we didn't buy the poisonous toys from china because we were making them here.
And Scott said:"Stories like this make me wonder how I ever made it through childhood with all the bad toys that were out there "
So I assumed (and yes, I should have known better) that Scott, like myself, went through childhood before they had outlawed the lead usage in our country.

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seasoned

15 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

lol, everyone is so confused now, eh?
That was exactly what I am saying, we didn't buy the poisonous toys from china because we were making them here.
And Scott said:"Stories like this make me wonder how I ever made it through childhood with all the bad toys that were out there "
So I assumed (and yes, I should have known better) that Scott, like myself, went through childhood before they had outlawed the lead usage in our country.

Still, the fact is that I was saying we outlawed that BEFORE buying from china. There certainly is NO excuse.

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John M Kane

15 years ago

Being born in the 50's we had BB Guns to play with, rocks to have fights with,slingshots,manly man fireworks,knives to whittle with(sliced my thigh REAL good),climbed high tension electric towers,train jumping,terrorized the neighborhood playing "army" late at night,garden raiding,snowballing buses.

Felt cheated as we didn't have margarine til much later,nutra sweet wasn't born yet,can't recall anything made in China vs everything now. We had to suffer eating real sugar,chicken deep fried in Crisco which was reused for weeks.
Neighbor raised chickens and hogs so, got eggs hours fresh.
Almost everyone grew some kind of veggies in the yard or fruit trees.
No warehouse food stores anywhere.
Mom canned lots of stuff that looked like "The Jar" in the Hitchcock movie

YouTube - Clip 3 from Alfred Hitchcock Hour...

Can't recall many garage sales as it meant you were in trouble. Divorce was a word only whispered, same for "pregnant".

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KimW

15 years ago

Bicycle helmets were unheard of. We would ride out friends on the bicycle handlebars.Soft drinks were called sodas or "pop" and they actually tasted good because they used real sugar instead of high frucose corn syrup.Also we would spend some afternoons cleaning up discarded pop bottles because we paid a deposit when buying one and got the deposit back when we returned then. Many an afternoon at the movies were funded by this method.There were no7-11s, and most states had blue laws in effect. Wish they still did.
At McDonalds you could get a burger fries and a shake for less that a dollar,and they actually tasted good. Coffee was 10 cents a cup.

PS: When I tried to watch the clip, it had a lot of problems.

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HeySal

15 years ago

Can't recall many garage sales as it meant you were in trouble

They do again, too. Many garage sales going on all over the place. People are trying to save their homes in the absence of jobs. How shocked are they gonna be when something they sell injures someone. Now it's the toys, pretty soon it will be the same BS that's being run on us as adults coming to YOUR property, falling down, then suing you because they got a boo-boo because they were too freakin' stupid to even walk on their own. ANYTHING they get from you that they hurt themselves on can be used against you. Selling that extra set of steak knives? Better hope that the woman that buys them doesn't use one of them against her cheating spouse - you could be implicated in murder because that WEAPON came from YOU.

We are going to start needing to have people fill out disclaimers and waivers to be able to come onto our property at all very shortly.

Corporate law really has no place in the US civil courts. So why are we allowing it there?

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myob 15 years ago

Hmmmm.... I see a niche market for garage sale newbies. "How To Hold a Garage Sale Without Getting Sued and Losing Your Ass", including disclaimers and fill in the blank limited liability release forms.
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AvidAZ

15 years ago

This is kind of pathetic, there is so much 'low hanging fruit' to generate tax revenues from than wasting time over people's little garage sales.

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