"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
...
The message
from "Sionnach" contains these words:


"Al Bundy" wrote:

Nobody should be on an
unstable ladder with a chainsaw. Everybody should be paying complete
attention including those on the ground. The dog should have been
penned during this work.


While I feel sorry for the husband in this case, I have to agree.
I can think of few things more boneheaded than simultaneously playing
fetch
with a poorly trained large dog and being in the vicinity of a running
chainsaw....

. In the UK, those electric saws are subject to safety regulations.
They're designed to only operate while the operator continuously
depresses a little lever. As soon as he dropped it, the power would
have cut off, the chain brake comes on , it would stop running right
away.

So it's a bit hard to understand why a dropped saw was still sawing when
it reached his wife's neck and decapitated her.

This is America, where playing golf with the right legislators gives
companies the right (sometimes called "god-given") to design and sell
obscenely unsafe products. It's a system, and we like it that way. :-)