Hardest Shooting Robots

[Knufire]

Originally Posted by Thayer McCollum

The best part about it is it scared the safety inspectors to death, so in order to pass inspection the inspector told us if a team member stuck their hand in the springs when they were extended and held their hand there for 5 seconds we would pass inspection.

So a volunteer forced a student to put themselves in a risky, unsafe situtation in order to demonstrate that the robot was safe?

Am I the only one that fails to understand this logic?