"Sears Holdings Corp. will install safety brackets on its stoves in millions of households or offer gift cards in settling an Illinois class-action lawsuit over the appliances' supposed propensity to topple... Consumer groups, which were not involved in the lawsuit, say more than 100 people have been killed or injured from scalding and burns caused by hot foods and liquids spilling from the stove top, or from being crushed by the weight of a stove that has tipped over."
Apparently, people leave oven doors open while cooking and allow children to climb onto it or they set heavy items on the open door, both ideas of which strike me as colossaly stupid in the first place. I guess it is like the motorcycle helmet law or seat belt law: an infringement on personal rights and responsibilities yet a mindless blunder not to wear them.
To focus in on this effort to protect idiots from themselves while governments (i.e. Amerika) kill scores of people every day is simply their shell game. In my half-century of life, I have never seen or even heard of a stove tipping over. And it's alarming to realize that anyone would even put their selves into such a foolish position. But it seems galling for the media to cover this idiotic episode of consumer ignorance when so many others are needlessly being shot and blown up as a direct result of Amerikan Foreign Policy. I guess that this is simply a sleight of hand to divert attention from their crimes against humanity.
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