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Interesting that the “advocacy organization” that the mother started to warn us all of the dangers of pet doors http://www.petaccessdangers.org/
has the exact same layout and font as the website for her lawyer
http://www.productsafetyattorneys.com/index.php/psa/Product-Defect-Practice-Areas/Consumer-Product-Defects/Pet-Access-Door-Accidents
Methinks the lawyer put up the web site and the mother wrote her impassioned plea and signed it so as to look like she started the website and the organization. Anyone with internet skills out there can prove my suspicions?
It’s a rectangular hole with a flap. What could they possibly do to make it “safer?”
They could pay a lawyer a lot of money. Isn’t that always the way it’s done?
Bob
That “PetAccessDangers.com” website is fascinating.
Her kid didn’t die in the pet door. He drowned in the pool. A good parent would have 1) had a fence around the pool 2) had a pool alarm 3) taught the child to swim and 4) not had a pool in a house with young children.
CKG is correct – mom’s website is owned by . . . wait for it . . . the PI lawyers trolling for clients!
Excerpt from domain registry:
Domain ID:D155264523-LROR
Domain Name:PETACCESSDANGERS.ORG
Created On:04-Feb-2009 01:14:06 UTC
Last Updated On:12-May-2009 13:43:32 UTC
Expiration Date:04-Feb-2010 01:14:06 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:GODA-059056772
Registrant Name:JOSEPH DIDIER
Registrant Street1:2100 HAMPTON DR. N.
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:ST. PETERSBURG
Registrant State/Province:Florida
Simple cash-grab. Go ask Mr. Rooney about the risks of doggy doors…Ferris.
Disclaimer on the site’s “contact us” link:
Remember not to include any confidential information in your submission. The use of the Internet for communications with the firm will not establish an attorney-client relationship and messages containing confidential or time-sensitive information should not be sent.
“the firm” huh?
According to the Tampa Bay Fox webstory, the “advocacy” website was just set up earlier this week.
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/spring_hill_mom_launches_doggie_door_danger_website_051309
Convenient, huh?
Problem is that same website describes how the child went THROUGH the pool fence. Why is the pool fence manufacturer not being sued? Would it have anything to do with the fact that the PetSafe company is projected to be a billion dollar company by 2014?
http://www.volunteertv.com/news/headlines/22063974.html
Heh. The page coding is notably similar. Web page designers are sooo lazy!
From petaccessdangers.org:
<blockquote cite=”Bookmark This Page
Contact Us“>
And from productsafetyattorneys.com:
<blockquote cite=”Bookmark This Page
Contact Us“>
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