Alec Baldwin Shooting

[Brian37]

No, but if you are the owner of the rental company it matters. As much as I feel for Alec, he was the rental car company owner.

I'm pretty sure the owner of a rental car company pays someone to check the brakes.  The driver who rents the car certainly doesn't.  Yet they hand us the key and say have a great time.

If every business could dump the responsibility on the user every time there something went south, there would be no use for criminal courts or civil courts.

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No, but if you are the owner of the rental company it matters. As much as I feel for Alec, he was the rental car company owner.

I'm pretty sure the owner of a rental car company pays someone to check the brakes.  The driver who rents the car certainly doesn't.  Yet they hand us the key and say have a great time.

That is the point. He was the owner of the production of his movie. It seems at this point, the person he hired skipped steps. At a minimum he still is responsible for hiring sub par staff. 

A long time ago, I got a job washing vehicles at a car dealership. My job was to move vehicles throughout the lot to either wash them, or move them into the mechanic bay. One day they asked me to move a box truck into the mechanic bay. But what they did not tell me, and had no way of knowing, is that one end of the bay was inches shorter than the other end. I tried to drive the box truck into one end and pealed the top end of the box like a can of tuna. They literally had to flatten the tires to unstick the truck. The problem was that one end of the bay was shorter than the other end. But I didn't know this.

So while I get Alec's remorse, and I accept it, it still remains that he was the car dealership owner.