Professor Elam

IT is of course common for the accused in this country to gather the best lawyers (read most creative and imaginative)  to mount a defense.  Now comes this story from China about Corporate Hari Kari.   Cosidering it was the fault of the paint supplier, this is a rather amazing choice of actions.  In short the head of the Chinese company that made toys for Mattle ex[eroemced a reca;; pf  hundreds of thousands  toys due to defective paint.  The paints was supplied by friend of his. 

Now contrast that story with this one, a genuine tragedy, about a teen that killed four friends whle joyriding.   Attempting to ‘catch some air’ the teen smashed the stolen car in which they were riding into a parked train.  All four of his companions were killed.  Now the good part, his attorney, Richard Racehorse Haynes, blames the accident on a the fact that the train was parked at an unlit crossing for thirty four minutes, oh, yes, at 4 AM in the morning when the teens were joyriding in the stolen car. It was the second car the driver had stolen that evening. 

A considerably different choice of actions eh?