Back in 2011, a family sued Walmart and the makers of a brand of gas can because (In 2010) their thirteen-year-old son poured gas onto a lit grill. The explosion badly burned the kid and a bystander had a heart attack and died trying to help.
The parents contend that the gas can should have had a safety device that would of prevented the accident. Walmart is included in the lawsuit because that's where they bought the gas can.
Even assuming that the kid had been twelve at the time of the accident, that's still old enough to know that you should not put gasoline onto a lit grill.
My question is: Is there a legal definition for stupidity?
Note that I'm not talking about mental retardation. That's pretty easy to define and is linked to I.Q. or cognitive abilities. I'm talking about when a (relatively) normal person does something really, really stupid. If they sue, what kind of legal phraseology would the judge use for: "I'm dismissing the case because that person did something dumb."
Sincerely,
Remo Williams,
The Master of Sinanju.