Now this would make for a terrific case for teaching consent in battery for Torts. Israeli reporter Eitam Lachover donned a special vest made by a body armor company that is designed to protect against the increasing knife attacks of Israelis. Lachover was assured by Yaniv Montakyo, vice president of the manufacturing company, that “You have nothing to worry about, we are very confident in our product.” He then stabbed Lachover and said “I missed.”
When Montakyo pulled out the large commando knife, Lachover looked worried and asked “You’re going to stab me with this?”
After assuring him, Montakyo added “This product can protect from knives that are stronger than this one. Don’t be afraid – if something happens, I’m here.”
He proceeded to stab Lachover three times and the third time penetrated the vest. It was clearly not a serious injury but Lachover required some stitches.
Montakyo later said that he stabbed Lachover in an area with less protective material. Putting aside that customers may want to direct attackers where they will be stabbed to guarantee their protection, the stabbing would seem to be a clear case of negligence. Moreover, consent can be vitiated by mistake, fraud, or coercion. Here the reporter consented under express assurances that there was no risk. Of course, the company could argue that allowing someone to stab you comes with obvious risks like missing and hitting an arm or unprotected area.
There does not appear to be a lawsuit in the works but, while their vest leaves something to be desired, the company could have produced a top notch battery case for Torts textbooks.
If the exec had trusted his own product he would have given the journalist the knife.
“You make it read as if it is some sort of perverse sporting event where the team that murders the most wins. It is not.”
Then what is the point of you keeping score?
Olly
1, January 8, 2016 at 3:38 pm
Well gosh, the Palestinians have some catching up to do.
You make it read as if it is some sort of perverse sporting event where the team that murders the most wins. It is not.
By the way, what land did the Palestinians claim in 100 A. D.? What land did the Jews claim during the same period? I want to make sure I get my facts straight.
You have the world’s greatest research library at your finger tips, it’s called the internet, make use of it do your own research.
Well gosh, the Palestinians have some catching up to do.
By the way, what land did the Palestinians claim in 100 A. D.? What land did the Jews claim during the same period? I want to make sure I get my facts straight.
@ bam bam
1, January 8, 2016 at 2:34 am
These stabbings, which are taking place throughput Israel–aimed at men, women and children, who are simply walking on the sidewalk or in the street–are becoming so frequent and commonplace that a company has found the need and the demand to create, manufacture and market such a product.
Preface: All lives in a just world should be held in equal esteem.
Right or wrong the Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israelis are mere pin-pricks in comparison to the wanton death/destruction, humiliation and complete subjugation meted out by daily the apartheid theocratic terror state known as Israel.
A chart of estimated deaths resulting from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the start of the First Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987) through July 7, 2014 appears below. Statistics from B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, are used because they are largely considered to have comprehensive and nonpartisan data. Deaths from international military operations between Israel and its neighbor countries are not included in this presentation.
The data are separated between the First Intifada and Second Intifada because they mark major events in the modern history of the conflict.
Palestinian deaths via Israel: 8441
Israeli deaths via 1st & 2nd Palestinian Intifada: 1512
http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000639
Israel also uses military weapons (eg tanks, attack helo’s, jets etc) provided with US government funding against Palestinian civilian targets with zero regard for collateral damage and without any sense of proportionality.
For almost 70 years the Palestinian people who once upon a time called Palestine home for millennia have lived under an oppresive Israeli military occupation while having what remains of their ancestral lands stolen one parcel at a time.
http://www.juancole.com/images-ext/2010/03/map-story-of-palestinian-nationhood.jpg
This madness, along with the hoards of Muslim immigrants, is coming to a town near you.
No This madness is something foisted forth by persons wholly ignorant of Palestinian/Israeli history and human nature.
Personanongrata – blame it all on the Grand Mufti of Palestine. He had the opportunity to agree to a part ion of Palestine into two countries and turned it down. His successor was Yassar Arafat.
Sounds like a case for Goldstein, Goldstein, and Butterworth.
How can one consent when functionality of the vest was – if not impliedly – all but guaranteed?
~: “Button up my sleeve and . . .”
#: “ROAR!”
~: “Must’ve been the wrong knife.”
Future attackers are going to want the name of the knife manufacturer. Now THAT product works.
If you live in Israel then get a vest and put it on backwards. If you live in Germany buy a vest. All those Arabs in Europe will be calling themselves “Palestinians” soon. They need a catch word to cry out for recognition. The article today on the blog about Muslims attacking women and girls in Germany shows where all this ISIS apCray is headed.
That sounds like an idea that would be used by those who enjoy openly carrying handguns – testing out their effectiveness by going into a store and shooting others who are openly carrying handguns, believing them to be “bad guys”.
Warranty label: Satisfaction guaranteed or double your garbage back.
Is this what Louis XV meant by apres moi le deluge? Even he couldn’t have contemplated that France would be held hostage by these barbarians, mowing down, with assault riffles, unsuspecting people eating in cafes, attending a concert, buying food in a kosher deli or simply working at a newspaper.
Well, surprise, surprise. Just saw it on the news a few moments ago. Seems like a knife wielding member of the Religion of Peace tried to enter a Paris police station, shouting Allah Akhbar, and was shot dead. I’m shocked. Who knew that the French could shoot straight?
They should sell well.
Now why on earth would I put on the vest and let somebody wield a knife behind me with the equivalent “trust me.” Why? Because I’m just plain stupid.
Now on the other hand, you put on this vest you claim is so perfect and let me play the part of a crazed assassin. No? Then put the @&$¥£€% thing on a dummy and ….oh wait…we already did that. An accredited member of the 4th Estate.
Now in the US somebody would sue the maker of the knife—it was too sharp, too pointed and ñ didn’t have a retaining hole in the handle with a cable locking device. Now next, we issue an executive order to arrest all who sold unregistered knives capable of killing. Why? Well In 2013 in the US, 5 times more people were killed by knives as were killed by rifle.
Won’t bother with DUI’s killing how many children (whole families)? Now affluenza is a mitigation? Jeeez, another malady attributed to wealth. Ergo…money kills, quick lock up all the CEO parents and take away the kids and let the State raise them.
Oooops…back to the stabbing…
“Breaking news, our reporter is stabbed as he turns his back on a trusted knife wielding company executive….all the details at 11. ”
Or
“Breaking news, our stupid reporter is fired after demonstrating poor judgement …details at 11.”
Throughout Israel, not throughput Israel.
Well, let’s see what he have here, boys and girls. Looks like we got us a clip with a company rep–a vice-president, to be exact–proudly seeking to demonstrate the manner in which his vest protects innocent people, in Israel, from the incessant knife attacks being committed by homicidal Palestinians wielding axes, cleavers and steak knives, which are occurring, on a daily basis, against unsuspecting pedestrians in Israeli streets. That’s right. You heard me. DAILY KNIFE ATTACKS AGAINST PEDESTRIANS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. These stabbings, which are taking place throughput Israel–aimed at men, women and children, who are simply walking on the sidewalk or in the street–are becoming so frequent and commonplace that a company has found the need and the demand to create, manufacture and market such a product. THAT, JT, is the crucial point of this story–not whether or not this would make a great case in a Torts law school course. I happen to believe that it would, by the way, but, your focus on that, in light of the much broader picture, seems odd. Quite odd, as a matter of fact. No real mention as to the descent, into a hellish reality, where one dare not leave one’s home and walk down the street without a vest to protect against the homicidal maniacs–yes, the Palestinians–who are stabbing random people that they encounter in their respective paths. The mere fact that a civilized society must tolerate and live with this madness in its streets, and, thereby, create a need and a demand for such a vest, is pure insanity. That is the real story, JT. The story about how some are so incapable of living in a civilized society, alongside their neighbors, without wildly slashing at anyone or anything in their vicinity with a knife or an ax. The real story is how children’s textbooks, in Muslim countries and in the Palestinian territories, teach and encourage their youngsters to kill all infidels, especially Jews. Instead, however, you focus on the possible negligence involved in this demonstration and the potential for a lawsuit. By doing so, you have missed the much bigger picture, but, not for long. Israel is the canary in the coal mine, folks. This madness, along with the hoards of Muslim immigrants, is coming to a town near you. Europe is already circling the drain.
Went in dumb, come out dumb too. Hustlin round the East Bank in their alligators shoes.
How sad that there’s so much violence that there is a need for reporters to wear body armor.
I suppose some protection is better than none, but this indicates they need to go back to the prototype for some improvements.
That poor reporter. His first thought must have been, “I just KNEW this would happen! The next time someone tells me to stand still while he stabs me, I’m going to say no!”
Glad he’s OK. And yes it’s negligence.