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I haven't read all the comments, so i don't know if someone said this already, but to all you people saying "big deal it's not like 1.5 million is that much anymore..." THAT'S NOT THE POINT!! If i remember correctly when this story first broke one of the major issues is that the saw did not have a saw stop on it. yeah how bout we wrap all cars in 2 feet of bubble wrap and drop the speed limit down to 10?! Your doing a dangerous job use your head! Also if i remember correctly he was not using a fence to do a rip. I don't care if you've never used a saw before in your life, i'm sure the minimal amount of training he did recieve clearly showed a fence being used.

Here in Montreal a woman recieved a $300 ticket for not holding on the the guardrail of the escalator. This situation reminds me of that. the powers that be have decided that it's not up to the user to excercize common sense and deal with the consequences of our own actions instead they just try swoop down like some kind of overbearing parent and try to childproof the world. some job are inherently dangerous. If your not prepared to deal with that then find another line of work. This just seems like a case of an "educated" man think that he could do and "uneducated" man's job and he paid the consequences.