This happened in my neck of the woods, and of course the fool that didn't follow instructions and got injured due to her own stupidity wants them outlawed. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
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Short Exerpt:
"All Marion Earley wanted to do was get her 82-pound golden retriever, Stone, into the car. But the dog bolted, and the retractable leash Earley was using wrapped around her finger and amputated the tip of it.
"I didn't realize the leash was wrapped around my finger until I felt the pain," said Earley, 53, of Havana. "I just dropped the lead and went inside. I tried to wash (the finger), but there wasn't anything to wash."
The cord sliced through her finger just above the last knuckle, stripping away the bone and flesh, said Earley, a social worker at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee.
Earley said doctors were able to fold skin over the bone and reattach the fingernail.
But Earley is not the only person injured by a retractable leash"
"Earley, who keeps 10 dogs on her two acres of land, said she couldn't believe how much damage the retractable lead caused.
And Earley's attorney, Hal Lewis, of the Tallahassee law firm of Fonveille Lewis Foote & Messer, said his research shows the injuries are far more common than he thought. The firm specializes in personal-injury lawsuits".
Earley, meanwhile, said she wants to warn people about the dangers of using any kind of retractable leash, especially ones with a thin, round cord.
"I want these off the market," she said. "This one had no warning on it at all."
Earley also said she was confronting another problem while she waits for her finger to heal.
She's apprehensive about walking her dogs -- with any kind of leash.
"I don't walk them at all now," she said. "I turn them out in the yard so they can run."
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So of course, rather the follow the extensive safety warning that come with the leashes:
http://www.flexiusa.com/warnings.htm
Which clearly say:
"The leash is for dogs that are controllable and well behaved." Hmmm...guess she skipped that part...
"DO NOT use this leash for disobedient or uncontrollable dogs." Ditto....
"Wear gloves when using the leash to reduce the risk of hand or finger cuts, burns or amputations from the cord/belt (6)." Looks like she skipped that one also..
Why is it that when pea brains don't follow safety instruction and get injured that they feel that they have the right to demand to have items that *they* can't control ( since they didn't follow the instructions or use any common sense to work the item ) removed from the market?
If you're not smart enough to use it......
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