Had this guy looking for CAT 4 last year, said he would come and collect it etc, when I said no problem, but I would like to see insurance and storage he said he would show me on collection and that he could get single event insurance, when asked about his insurance he told me the name of my insurance company. I declined. CAT 4 is not for public use and in essence that is exactly what this guy is, a member of the public, with no training in CAT 4 or the Inert equipment to fire this stuff from is just a no no. Injuries may go up and it would have a catastrophic negative effect on our industry. The days of guys walking about a rigged firing site with check shirts on and crap eye wear lighting pyro with fags are gone and for the best. I am also sure that as soon as the claims started rolling in from these single event shows the insurance companies underwriters would have something to say and the cost of insurance would rocket. I for one wouldn’t want to be involved in an investigation due to some CAT 4 I sold to someone unknown who fired a show wrongly with an injury/s sustained and blamed the pyro for malfunction rather than their un safe rigging etc., I feel very strongly about companies selling CAT 4 to none business without docs to show. This is all IMHO and this argument will rattle on for years to come
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