Posted on 09/05/2007 5:45:47 AM PDT by rellimpank
You can't get your oil checked in Sea Isle anymore.
Heading back from the Jersey Shore for the start of another school year, we stopped at Sea Isle's only service station for gas.
With a seven-hour trip ahead of us, I asked the station's attendant (Jersey banned self-service gas pumping in 1949, so every station has an attendant) to check the oil. The station wasn't busy and he was just standing around, waiting for the gas pump to automatically click off at sixty dollars or so.
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“there’s now “Do not eat toner” warning labels on cartridges for laser printers . . . “
I can’t eat toner? What is this world coming to?
Saw this with my own eyes a couple years ago when visiting NJ.
Absolutely bizarre.
Every day ten million Californians each pump themselves a tank of gas , but the poor victims -- I mean citizens -- in New Jersey can't so much as lift the nozzle.
Bizarre.
Many windows don't open anymore, but this isn't the reason. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many high-rise hotels with balconies.
-—Oregon is similarly blessed—IIRC,
It is time to change the system to “loser pays” but, of course, the trial lawyers and the Dems will do everything and anything in their power to prevent this from happening.
Both Oregon and New Jersey do allow self-service pumping of diesel fuel.
48 states allow self-service gasoline pumping but consumers are apparently too reckless or incompetent to be allowed to pump their own gas in Oregon and New Jersey.
If a company would be honorable and take responsibility for its own actions tort reform would not be necessary.
True, there are those that abuse the systme, but there are many that don't.
Take my instance for example:
I was injured on Monday, May 21, 2007 while eating salad at work. Apparently, I took one bite to many and found a straight pin stuck in the roof of my mouth. The pin was one inch long.
The salad I was eating came from a newly opened bag of Fresh Express spring mix that was purchased at a local grocery store. Part of the bag was used in a salad for my wife and the remainder in my salad that I took to work for lunch.
I was quite shocked by the whole event. After removing the straight pin from my mouth, my first concern was to tell my wife soo that she would eat her salad. I was too late, but lucky she did not find anything foreign in her salad.
Next, I when to the ER to have my mouth looked at. I was treated for the puncture wound, given a tetanus booster and sent home with a couple of prescriptions. The ER doctor indicated I was lucky that I did not swallow the pin. I had avoided the need for surgery.
That evening, I contacted Fresh Express through their customer web site. Several days, I received an email offering an apology for my discomfort and telling me that they were sending a postage envelope to use in return the empty bag and straight pin to them.
They must have thought at I am stupid - send them my evidence.
Also no offer to cover my medical expenses, no offer to do internal investigation, no offer to recall the product and no warning to other consumers.
Well, the promised letter did not arrive. In fact nothing was heard from Fresh Express. After 60 days of patience and several emails and letter to the customer service department. I sent a email to the President of Fresh Express. I recieved a phone later that day from customer service apologizing for not getting back with me and offering to file an insurance claim.
I was contacted by their insurnce company, the next day. They requested a signed release of medical records form. They sent the form to me and I promptly returned the form.
Now another 30 days has passed. I have paid the ER bill and am now out of pocket.
It appears that litigation will be my only recourse. Fresh Express could have cut a check for reimbursement, but did not. Their insurance company could have done the same, but did not.
The lawyer (ambulance chaser) I contacted wants to file a six figure suit. He said it has to be that large of an amount to make worth his while. All I wanted from them is cover my expenses (less than $2,000).
Nearly $2,000 for an emergency room visit for a superficial wound? I gashed the hell out of my shin a few months ago and required 12 stitches and a shot. Even without insurance it would have been less than $600.
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