On Jul 1, 9:56*am, wrote:
On Sunday, July 1, 2012 9:14:25 AM UTC-4, pseudonym wrote:
I would rip all the safety crap off the mower so it's usable again. *If the
safety Nazis ask, I'd tell them that's the way it was when I bought the
mower at a garage sale.

If you call them safety nazis, why pass the blame onto someone else? Proudly admit that YOU removed the safety equipment. What are they gonna do?

No law enforcement agency is going to penalize you for removing the safety equipment. Hell, in this day and age removing it doesn't even absolve the manufacturer from liability. All you gotta do is claim that the safety equipment shouldn't have been so easily defeated, and you and your lawyer get $$$.

Wrong...

If you remove the safety devices on a piece of equipment and
then someone is hurt or worse by said machine you have
willfully engaged in "criminal negligence"... If someone is
permanently injured or maimed by your "machine" that would
be considered an act of Mayhem, a serious criminal offense
which is a felony only a few steps down from murder...
The manufacturer of the machinery was required to put the
safety devices on the machinery in order to offer the product
for sale as they were required by the regulatory authority,
there is no mandate imaginary or otherwise which requires
such safety devices to be difficult or impossible to bypass or
disable... The manufacturer would only be liable in the
way you describe if the safety devices failed and allowed
an injury to occur without any actions/repairs/modifications
made by the end user... Once you open it up and change
anything it is you the one who made the modifications that
holds all liability for whatever occurs after that point because
you willfully made those changes by means of overt acts of
removing or disabling components that were formerly
active pieces of the machine...