One broker adroitly observed that a simple risk analysis would have limited the liability for one restaurant chain that decided to use mistletoe-carrying drones to fly over diners.
The recent Far Out Friday article describing how a mistletoe drone crashed into a woman’s face, the propeller blades slicing up her chin and nose, drew a number of comments from readers.
“This sounds like a payday is bound to happen. No way around it,” wrote one reader Barry.
Another reader named Lisa took issue with the comments from a spokeswoman for the restaurant in question, TGI Friday, who said that ‘Mobile Mistletoe’ drone events in Texas and Long Island, New York hadn’t nicked anyone.
“If people get hurt, they’re going to come regardless,” she told reporters. “People get hurt in airplanes, they still fly. There is a risk involved – anything flying, there is risk.”
“Yes there is risk in anything, but these things also serve a purpose. Aviation is a necessity and the only feasible means to get from point A to point B,” wrote Lisa. “Drones are new and fun but by no means necessary.”
But it was one reader, Duncan, who pointed out that some basic research by TGI Fridays would have showed that the drones did pose a potential hazard to customers.
“One has to wonder if the company did any risk analysis whatsoever,” wrote Duncan. “The liability could have been severely reduced by purchasing a drone model that has a guard encircling the blades.”
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