We wrote about Detective Anderson Alexander back in December, here. He’s the former former New York City policeman who accidentally shot himself in the knee when a defective chair broke at his precinct house.
Don’t sit in a chair like this:
And definitely don’t sit in that chair with a gun like this
New York courts have long held that people taking part in a sport or recreational activity are deemed to consent to those commonly appreciated risks or injuries that are inherent in and arise out of the nature of the sport generally. In other words, most sports injury cases will be dismissed because of the doctrine