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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: .::Tin Can::. on December 30, 2004, 02:04:29 am
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Boy oh boy. Has our time been loaded with the stupidest cases I have seen in a long time. Starts with someone moron spilling McDonnals coffee on their lap and then sues and wins. Now we have a whole chain of diseased lawsuits.
One of my favorites has to be the morons suing Evanescense because they sang the "F-word" when their daughter was listening to the CD. Instead of taking it back, they decided to sue for, what was it, 2 million?
Next up we have the man suing the company that sold him his car because he ran over his own daughter with the car. His excuse is that the car did not have safety feature available like the others, but then again its only optional.
Next up, we have various lawsuits from the Stella Awards website, which is somewhere on google. You might want to check it out, since the stuff people sue for is outrageous.
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Your examples are not diseased, Tin, they are examples of how degenerate our society has become and how badly we need torte reform.
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Quick, someone sue someone legit, like Valve!
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Well, to be honest I can't really complain at people suing Evanescense , because they're whiny ****ebags and I would shed no tears if they were removed from the face if the planet.
The rest...well, you have the worlds highest population of lawyers, what did you expect?
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First off, that woman that burned her self recieved 2nd and 3rd degree burns. The coffee was about 250-300F(IIRC). McDonalds did not excercise due care and there fore was sued and lost. As for tort reform, never have I ever seen a greater travesty of states rights that this. Tort reform at the state level is the states responcibility, not the federal Gov't. If the states wish to limit it themselves: more power to 'em.
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Third degree burns? From coffee? :lol:
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Are any of these lawsuits in europe? Just curiosity... :nervous:
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Incidentally, what exactly is tort reform? It sounds like some sort of cake to me ("torta" being cake in my language.).
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
Are any of these lawsuits in europe? Just curiosity... :nervous:
Probably. Mmh, I wonder, tho, coz we occasionaly hear about those US cases, from times to times, and never european ones. And, trust me, we have people here who love to throw **** around and such things wouldn't go unheard of :p
Not like our justice ( well, French one, at least, can't speak for the others ) isn't full of holes either, tho...
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Originally posted by Nico
Probably. Mmh, I wonder, tho, coz we occasionaly hear about those US cases, from times to times, and never european ones. And, trust me, we have people here who love to throw **** around and such things wouldn't go unheard of :p
Not like our justice ( well, French one, at least, can't speak for the others ) isn't full of holes either, tho...
I know, but usually people in the US have more tendency to start suing the government because it is raining, so I'm trying to see if we are catching up to them :shaking:
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Originally posted by Nico
Probably. Mmh, I wonder, tho, coz we occasionaly hear about those US cases, from times to times, and never european ones. And, trust me, we have people here who love to throw **** around and such things wouldn't go unheard of :p
Not like our justice ( well, French one, at least, can't speak for the others ) isn't full of holes either, tho...
Yeah, they happen but they don't actually go to court 99.9% of the time in Europe.
If you put your cat (or dog) in the microwave untill it dies and then want sue the microwave company because it wasn't in the manual, you REALLY aren't going to get any European judge to even listen.
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Originally posted by Tiara
Yeah, they happen but they don't actually go to court 99.9% of the time in Europe.
If you put your cat (or dog) in the microwave untill it dies and then want sue the microwave company because it wasn't in the manual, you REALLY aren't going to get any European judge to even listen.
everybody knows that stupid people.. (most of which, aparrently reside in the US judging by the amount of reality television there) are more likely to be pissed off by the most insignifigant, and otherwise, stupid things... add to that the greed factor. :blah:
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The Stella Awards held the lawsuits that were filed and won, and the one that was most ridiculous (according to them) was the man who robbed a house but tried to exit through the garage. The garage door did not work, the door was locked behind him, thus he was trapped. When the couple returned from vacation and found him, he had been living off dog food for the past week. So, naturally, he sued them and won.
Anyone else think this man should be shot?
Yeah, they happen but they don't actually go to court 99.9% of the time in Europe.
I wish our court system was like this.
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Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
The Stella Awards held the lawsuits that were filed and won, and the one that was most ridiculous (according to them) was the man who robbed a house but tried to exit through the garage. The garage door did not work, the door was locked behind him, thus he was trapped. When the couple returned from vacation and found him, he had been living off dog food for the past week. So, naturally, he sued them and won.
Anyone else think this man should be shot?
I wish our court system was like this.
Nah, he should have all his limbs broken and be left in the sun for the vultures.
What you need to get is some halfway decent judges. People in Europe who try to bring cases like that to court just get told to piss off and stop messing about....
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no it's only (mainly) in america... because you have those greedy idiots who will sue for literally anything they can make money from.
if you get in a car wreck, the person you hit will have all their expenses paid through insurance, but after that they can still sue you... it's a whole money-making business.
my professor was just telling us yesterday how he built a basketball court in the back of his house, and the kids from the neighborhood would come play there with his kids (who are both heavily involved in school basketball), and the one time one of the kids twisted his ankle, and a few days later there was a lawsuit filed against him (my professor)... can you believe that?
also, i heard about the coffee burns years ago, maybe this is a newer lawsuit.
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Last year we had that lawsuit over here where a guy sued Coca Cola and Nestlé. He had eaten bunches of chocolate and drank lots of Coke at work over a longer period of time, thus getting diabetes. He said the ads had seduced him into believing this stuff gives a lot of energy - which basically isn't wrong. But he also stated the ads had not warned about possible side-effects of long-term consumption, just like diabetes. :rolleyes:
The moron lost the case. Funny thing is - he was a judge himself, which generally are not regarded as the dumbest folks, at least here.
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Originally posted by Ulala
Quick, someone sue someone legit, like Valve!
No kiddin, myself along with a few thousand other people are just waitin to tear into them. Also, don't forget the guy that sued McDonalds for getting fat by eating to much of their food.
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Torte reform is a process by which the litigation system is altered for the better.
The reason that there are so many dumbass lawsuits is because you can file suit for a few hundred dollars, win or lose, it's far too easy to sue someone.
The largest problem I see is that there are judges who will actually hear a case about an admitted theif suing the people he tried to rob because he was dumb enough to get locked up in a garage, it has no merit. We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.
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Originally posted by Liberator
Torte reform is a process by which the litigation system is altered for the better.
The reason that there are so many dumbass lawsuits is because you can file suit for a few hundred dollars, win or lose, it's far too easy to sue someone.
The largest problem I see is that there are judges who will actually hear a case about an admitted theif suing the people he tried to rob because he was dumb enough to get locked up in a garage, it has no merit. We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.
Hear hear!
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Originally posted by Liberator
The largest problem I see is that there are judges who will actually hear a case about an admitted theif suing the people he tried to rob because he was dumb enough to get locked up in a garage, it has no merit. We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.
For once I agree with you 100% Lib. Such cases have no merit whatsoever. In the UK they'd almost certainly be thrown out long before they got to court.
That said if I was the plaintiff in such a case I'd sue for the dog's pain and suffering on finding that someone had eaten it's food. Any judge who believed that the thief deserved compensation would probably find for the dog too. :D
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Originally posted by karajorma
Any judge who believed that the thief deserved compensation would probably find for the dog too. :D
:lol:
Sadly, this is all to true!
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Originally posted by Liberator
We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.
Then some dumbass would try to get the judge into trouble for an "unfair" trial.:D
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you know, now that we're on the subject of animals in microwaves, there's a woman my mom knows, she's dumb as dirt, but they have a pet frog, in a tank with rocks, and water. (it's a water frog). anyway, the one time she decided to change the frog's water, but instead of putting room-temperature water in, she put water from the FRIDGE... she didn't think that the frog wouldn't like water that was close to freezing, but when the put the frog back in the tank, he just floated on the water, didn't move (probably frozen!)... so (listen to this), she put the tank in the microwave (with the frog in it)! for a minute or so
can you believe that?
funny thing is, the frog was fine after that. once the water heated up a bit, he started swimming around, and the frog's still alive today!
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He's not telling you about the laser eyes.
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usually when i put an animal in the microwave, it is usually my intention to get a splatter effect.
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We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.
Seemed to work when FOX sued Al Franken.
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Was there merit in the case? I don't remember it so, please, refresh my memory.
I was really talking about one suburbanite yuppie suing another for dumping his yard cuttings over the fence or somesuch and asking hundreds of thousands or millions in damages and other BS like that.
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They sued him for having a book called "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right", because Fox has trademarked "Fair and Balance". I don't know who deserves a bigger kicking - Fox or the person that let them trademark "Fair and Balanced" (and isn't there a body in the US which stops false advertising...................?).
(see http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46985-2003Aug11?language=printer and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3181983.stm)
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If it's trademarked I'd be a little fuzzy, but since that's a fairly common part of the language, I'd be prone dismiss.
The reason FN is assumed to be biased the other way is because they actually present both sides of the issue. You can't point at The O'Rielly Factor or Hannity & Colmes as an example of their bias because those are magazine/commentary shows like Larry King/60 Minutes is. Something else of note, Foxnews now has officially more veiwership that the CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC combined. So they must be doing something right.
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When I rule Britain, I'm gonna force stupid cases to go to trial and observe them very carefully.
Then if the ****tard wins, I'll have him, his barrister and the Judge taken out and horse-whipped in the middle of town.
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no it's only (mainly) in america... because you have those greedy idiots who will sue for literally anything they can make money from.
:nod:
If it's trademarked I'd be a little fuzzy, but since that's a fairly common part of the language, I'd be prone dismiss.
Fox sued only because Oreilly forced them to. He didn't like how Al exposed some of his lies. Considering how Oreilly reacted to some of the things Al said, I think there is in fact some truth to Al's statements.
The reason FN is assumed to be biased the other way is because they actually present both sides of the issue
That is 100% BS. Fox is nothing more than a rightwing propaganda network. I've seen Greenpeace do a better job at presenting both sides of an arguement than Fox. :snipe:
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Originally posted by Kosh
That is 100% BS. Fox is nothing more than a rightwing propaganda network. I've seen Greenpeace do a better job at presenting both sides of an arguement than Fox. :snipe:
Oh, I suppose CNN or (P)MS-NBC are shining examples of journalism?
BTW, a lot leader-type enviromentalist whackos nutjobs at Greenpeace were proclaiming that we'd all be dead due to pollution and Global Warming by now. In fact, according to their statments in the late 70's-early 80's, even the bacteria should have had a lethal case of sunburn by now. So :snipe: yourself.
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Oh, I suppose CNN or (P)MS-NBC are shining examples of journalism?
I never said that, you did. The BBC is better than both. :p
BTW, a lot leader-type enviromentalist whackos nutjobs at Greenpeace were proclaiming that we'd all be dead due to pollution and Global Warming by now. In fact, according to their statments in the late 70's-early 80's, even the bacteria should have had a lethal case of sunburn by now.
Any links to back that up? If not then you are probably just making that stuff up.
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This can only go downhill.