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WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
brasca:
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--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 07 Aug 2018, 06:24 ---Poor Sam. Ripping off a fingernail doesn't even leave any nifty scars to show off.
If Jim forbids Sam from working at Union Robotics because of this, he'll be making a mistake. Forbidding your kid to practice a marketable skill she's passionate about because of a superficial injury is cowardly. If my parents had done so the first time I needed stitches, I wouldn't be studying mechanical engineering right now.
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I do get the impression that although it would be excruciatingly nerve-wracking, the way Sam needs to be raised is the calculated risk approach.
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Calculated risk and damage control.
--- Quote from: brasca on 07 Aug 2018, 06:54 ---The worst part of all this is Corpse Witch was right.
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Help me out a little... I can't remember context
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Faye asked Corpse Witch if she’d be fired for inviting Sam to her workplace and she replied “out of a canon.”
She’d definitely be gloating over this.
nicodb:
I remember one time I tried stopping a running belt sander with my bare hand. And the result was ugly.
themacnut:
Yep, at the very least, Faye's going to be in for a dressing down from Jim for endangering his daughter, since he WILL freak out upon seeing the bloody and messy aftermath of today's hijinks. Snakebites are one thing, but that could have been Sam's entire finger gone. It may still be, if the wound gets infected.
Worse case scenario of course is Sam being banned from the shop, Union Robotics getting sued right out of business, and Faye possibly bought up on negligence charges. Let's hope Jeph doesn't go that far, but realistically there should be some blowback on Faye for this; she's the silly adult who left an even sillier child not her own alone with a running power tool. People and organizations have been sued into destitution over much less.
Tova:
I did once grab the handle of a skillet that had been removed from the oven, forgetting I'd taken off my oven mitt in the meantime.
Yeah, I wish I could use the excuse that I was Sam's age when I did it.
brasca:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 07 Aug 2018, 10:36 ---This... is pretty much game over, no?
Sam is underage, unsupervised, untrained, was given the tool by Faye with insufficient instruction and the consequence is a major trauma, possibly life-changing injury if the wound becomes infected.
The shop needs to be closed down, and Faye needs to face criminal proceedings and fines at the very least. Jim'll almost certainly bring a civil action case against her too.
And to cap it all off, she's dragged Bubbles into this because she's joint partner and shares liability.
God dammit! I mean it's realistic but I was hoping for more romantic shenanigans not another chapter of "Watch Faye's life disintegrate".
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Aside from Jim being disappointed and maybe Veronica using some of her dominatrix skills I doubt this is going to go all the way to city hall and even if it did Bubbles and Faye's legal troubles would go away because either Spookybot would pay the hapless bureaucrat a visit, or Hannelore would call her Dad and deploy his legal team, or a completely new character would rescue them. I call him HAL Goodman and he's an AI attorney.
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