Kind of difficult to interpret your assertion other than an abandonment of personal responsibility. Punishing a manufacturer for the poor judgment and lack of education of a few paints with way too broad a brush for my taste. Is it too much to assume that people will use an emergency communication device only for an emergency? I think not.

Yes, there will be people that call 911 when McDonalds runs out of Chicken McNuggets. Don't laugh, it really happened about three months ago. Under your policy, we should sue the manufacturer of the cell phone because they failed to warn the user that they might be arrested for making stupid police report using the cell phone.

When the ravenous class action attorneys get involved, the result will likely be bankruptcy and the loss of a product that would otherwise provide low-cost protection and save lives. I say that even though I prefer ARC's MicroFix and and do not own a SPOT.

People need to understand that their actions have consequences. Focusing on the "deep pocket" lets them off the hook and does nothing more than punish the public at large. YMMV.