BTW... I just noticed..I'll be passing through this week and stopping for lunch at the Kumm Esse on Cr. Of 501 & 422.
Right in front of the huge water tank!.. Love the town, and the people!
Holy crap, I had to re-read that to make sure I read it right the first time... You just mentioned the Kumm Esse. I'm like 3 or 4 blocks from that place, but oddly enough, I've only eaten there once in my entire life, and I'm 24.
That whole rubber stamping thing and the fact that 40 out of 200 people can die, and the stuff is still approved doesn't surprise me at all. In a way, the auto industry and others work in a similar manner. Anybody remember the Ford Pinto? If a defect is found, they look at the rate of failure and the likelihood of getting sued, and all the money that would be required to settle lawsuits. If that amount of money is LESS than the cost of a recall, they don't recall the product. They just say "screw it, let 'em die, we'll pay the money if we have to." As far as I'm aware, the Ford Pinto was never recalled, despite blowing up the gas tank when rear-ended. Then earlier this year, or was it last year already? I can't remember, but all over the media, people were bashing the living crap out of Toyota for having a defect that caused them to recall their vehicles. The recall shows me that they at least give a damn, but the media was basically saying "lolz, Toyota doesn't know how to make cars!!!" Don't get me wrong here. It came to no surprise that the media did this. It just pisses me off to no end because they do this with everything. They try to scare the living .... out of you every time a new virus is discovered and they make everything seem unsafe.
