Walter, hope you're doing ok.

[Walter Bright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Not that it helps, I bet every charcoal grill already boasted a tag that 
> says "not for indoor use".

The generators certainly do. Mine has a prominent sticker on it warning 
about the problem.

But even smart people often do monumentally stupid things.

I was once watching the drag racing TV show "Pinks". A kid was driving a 
hopped up VW bug. He had too much power in it for the suspension, and 
was clearly having difficulty keeping it straight on the track. For some 
reason I forgot, the race was suspended for a couple weeks. The kid 
comes back, and this time the bug has a roll cage installed. He said his 
mother wouldn't let him race anymore without one.

So off he goes down the track, still unable to keep the car straight. An 
axle snapped, and the car veered hard left and smashed into the rails, 
rolling and disintegrating into a million pieces. The crew and audience 
were all going "oh gawd, no." So the camera crew rushes up, and there is 
the kid, still sitting in the cage (the rest of the car was pretty much 
gone), badly shaken up but unhurt.

Sometimes, your momma is right!

But the kid still made a rookie mistake, adding lots of power but 
failing to upgrade the suspension and drive train to take it. And I 
think the track operators should have booted his car off the track after 
that first out-of-control pass.