At the end of the day, all failures are human in nature. The people that just say, "S$%t happens" end up having a lot of "S%$t Happening". Lance probably did clip a pedal, no real reason to lie about that. That's one human error. The tire rolling is likely a second human error. We've all clipped pedals and gotten away with it, and many have clipped pedals and not gotten away with it. If his tire would have stayed on the rim, he would have gotten away with it. It seems like to me that they need to do a pretty good job of checking what the rest of their inventory.