Michael Bérubé writing for Crooked Timber:
“We didn’t know, when we made these governors available to the public, how truly dangerous they were,” said an NGA representative who requested anonymity because he feared swift and remorseless retaliation from one of the defective governors. “In most cases, they seemed like fully functioning human beings. But now it appears that many of them avoided routine safety checks or managed to buy off safety regulators.”
Hilarious. My favorite part:
“Don’t forget what happened last time we issued a recall in [California],” said Anthony Kiedis of the Institute for Advanced Californication. “They wound up with some guy who went through nightclubs and malls shooting people. Even when they tried to blow up his oil truck and crush him in a drill press, they couldn’t get rid of him. So you take your chances.”