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Would you sign your life away? (literally)

  • 17-04-2008 1:54am
    #1
    electric69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭


    I went to a gun range last weekend and in order to be allowed to shoot, you had to sign a wavier saying that if you attempted to shoot yourself or anyone else, you gave the employees the right to shoot you and you wouldnt take them to court!
    We all signed it and had a great hour shooting the targets.It was an indoor gun range and we were all using handguns with live rounds!

    Would you have any problem in possibly signing your life away like this?


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  • #2
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,972 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Sure you sign waivers for everything these days. Sky diving, bungee jumping etc.


  • #3
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    OP: Have "signed over my life" a few times, latest time was when I was scuba diving, think they were covering their own asses in case I got killed by a shark or something.


  • #4
    kerash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    electric69 wrote: »
    I went to a gun range last weekend and in order to be allowed to shoot, you had to sign a wavier saying that if you attempted to shoot yourself or anyone else, you gave the employees the right to shoot you and you wouldnt take them to court!
    We all signed it and had a great hour shooting the targets.It was an indoor gun range and we were all using handguns with live rounds!

    Would you have any problem in possibly signing your life away like this?

    Sure if you had an operation you'd have to sign such a thing, also if i worked at a shooting range and you tried to shoot me, i shoot you first, i win!:D

    Was this in the US?


  • #5
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    OT, have signed away my life a couple of times, but that's just the risk you take at Funderland


  • #6
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    orestes wrote: »
    OT, have signed away my life a couple of times, but that's just the risk you take at Funderland

    Lol, how unexpected. Brilliant.


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  • #7
    Spastafarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Spastafarian


    What the hell is going on in here?

    I'd sign, but I'd have to shoot the staff first.


  • #8
    c - 13
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    Have done several times. Skydiving being the main one I can think of at the moment. I dont have any problem with it its just them covering themselves in the event that something should go wrong.


  • #9
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    No way I'd ever skydive. That takes some major balls! But at the same time, it must be the ultimate thrill.. But still, parachute fails - you're done :(


  • #10
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    dlofnep wrote: »
    No way I'd ever skydive. That takes some major balls! But at the same time, it must be the ultimate thrill.. But still, parachute fails - you're done :(

    Nah, You have a reserve..

    that fails... Yup screwed... Aim for water and pray really :D


  • #11
    Dr_Teeth
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    Wazdakka wrote: »
    Nah, You have a reserve..

    that fails... Yup screwed... Aim for water and pray really :D

    Hitting water at that speed is like hitting concrete! Aim for some tall evergreen trees if possible. :)


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  • #12
    thefinalstage
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    Dr_Teeth wrote: »
    Hitting water at that speed is like hitting concrete! Aim for some tall evergreen trees if possible. :)

    Or that suspiciously placed pool of butter scotch pudding below...


  • #13
    ROCKMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ROCKMAN


    dlofnep wrote: »
    No way I'd ever skydive. That takes some major balls! But at the same time, it must be the ultimate thrill.. But still, parachute fails - you're done :(

    like once said in a film " there is something sooo wrong with jumping out of a perfectly good plane "
    and as for free climbing
    WHY


  • #14
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    I may have, i'm not sure tbh. I don't really read the disclaimers/waivers.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Am I the only one that is both confused by this thread and intrigued by what the dots used to be.

    So they stop you shooting yourself by shooting you.


  • #16
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,321 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    "They're coming right for us!"

    Bang, bang, bang.


  • #17
    Parsley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Parsley


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Am I the only one that is both confused by this thread and intrigued by what the dots used to be.

    So they stop you shooting yourself by shooting you.

    I think shooting you in the arm to stop you shooting yourself in the head is only reasonable.


  • #18
    Hellm0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Hellm0


    I was hoping this would be a thread about the evils of working 9-5 but cest la vie.

    Yeah I've been to a gun range before so I've done the whole "consenting to be shot" thing. as for extreme sports I have yet to sign any waver which allows me to be shot whilst sky-diving, free climbing or even the dreaded sky climbing.

    I have however pretty much signed away my life every time I inhale that sweet, cancerous tobacco smoke.


  • #19
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Parsley wrote: »
    I think shooting you in the arm to stop you shooting yourself in the head is only reasonable.

    And inordinately difficult. To be honest, that's really just something they'll say to cover their own ass. Their problem is going to be if you try and turn an pistol through an unsafe angle, which to shoot yourself or anyone else, you're going to have to do. They're legitimizing any course of action they may have to take.


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