Go Figure

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Years since a Californian named Bill Evans sued Toyota Motor Sales USA to block a commercial in which a weary businessman comes home from work, sees kids at play in his front yard, takes off his jacket and dives headfirst onto a lawn water slide. Evans had been paralyzed in 1991 in an accident on a Slip N’ Slide and won a judgment the same year against Kransco, then Slip N’ Slide’s maker. It should come as no surprise, then, that Wham-O, the current maker of the Slip N’ Slide, is going on the offensive against Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, a movie in which David Spade injures himself in various ways on a lawn water slide.