Old 02-07-17 | 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by howsteepisit
If you live in China, why are you calling the CPSC (if that is the US Consumer Products Safety Commission)? It's clear that few share your concern. I do remember having a foot slip off the pedals when I was but a youth, and damn right it hurt like hell.

I'd like to offer my opinion that multi-use tools (or pedals) very rarely do either of the jobs they purport to do. One purpose one tool.
I'm a native Jeffersonian... You know, that state of mind that exists above San Francisco, California, and below Eugene, Oregon? I work overseas. I haven't renounced my citizenship. I bought the pedals in the US. They are sold in the US, and my Mandarin isn't good enough to explain my concerns to any agency here in the PRC.

Now, as to the issue of "few share your concern". How many children needed to choke to death before the Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper toy was recalled? Answer: one, a 4 year old named Robert Jeffery Warren. Had someone noticed that it was a choking hazard, and reported it before it was swallowed, perhaps his parents wouldn't have had to bury their child.

How many people saw a crack in a fuselage of an Aloha Airlines jet (Aloha flight 243)... Actually, at least one... Gayle Yamamoto told investigators that she noticed a crack in the fuselage upon boarding the aircraft prior to the ill-fated flight, but did not notify anyone. What happened? The top blew off the aircraft, and the flight attendant, Clarabelle Lansing, was killed. Imagine what would have happened if Gayle had said something? The flight would have been grounded, an investigation would have taken place, and Clarabelle might have lived to old age.

Seeing a problem, and saying something about it might be the difference between life and death, or in this case, protect someone's reproductive health.

As to the other pedals, I'll look into getting a set, if I can find them here... There is still a language barrier I've got to overcome.

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