Nick Vаnderpаrk is а test engineer wоrking in the sandpaper divisiоn оf Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (a.k.a., 3M). One day, Nick has an idea - an aerosol spray that can make feces (for example, “dog poo”) disappear – in fact, he already has a name for his product: “VaPOOrizer.” Nick is very excited. He enlists the help of Dimitriov, another 3M scientist who was under contract to work for 3M. Nick knows that Dimitriov is talented and tells him that he will pay him a lot more than 3M if he breaches his contract with 3M. Dimitriov agrees to breach his contract and join Vanderpark. A short time later, Dimitriov is able to synthesize a compound that, when sprayed on feces, makes the feces disappear. Nick and Dimitriov quit their jobs and start a company, calling it Vanderpark Industries. Nick and Dimitriov are instant millionaires. It is later discovered that VaPOOrizer contains a hazardous compound that not only harms the environment, but can also kill animals and people (the first victim was a horse). Ordinary testing by Vanderpark Industries prior to the sale of VaPOOrizer would have discovered that VaPOOrizer was hazardous, also a reasonable engineer would have eventually replaced the hazardous compound with a non-harmful substitute. Eventually a customer of the Vanderpark Industries’ product, Homer through normal use, gets too many whiffs of VaPOOrizer and begins to suffer paralysis.
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