Well its actually been filled with the USPTO as an illuminated safety device for stairwells, dancing, boats, ect… That in its own being a safety product in of itself. The website even used to be SafetyPoles.com
As far as idiots, no one can fix stupid and there are a ton of more stupid things with stupid ways stupid people can hurt themselves @ DMS
I have slightly under a thousand dynamic stress test that have been done. I’d post the test results but it’d violate Infrastructures talk moderator policy but take my word for it.
In addition safety of the safety pole has been improved. Now its Safety AF. Please don’t worry about the safety of the safety pole.