Most rediculous lawsuit. Ever

piersk

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/westmoreland/s_269598.html

Norman_Graham

What's the bets she'll win? She'll get thousands and the train company will have to post signs saying:

This a train track and, believe it or not, trains travel on it. Walking on or near the tracks is a major bad idea. Trains and humans don't mix too well - you have been warned!

The signs will cost several thousand dollars as well.

'Dumbing down' doesn't even cover it.

Norm

laserlight

What I'm curious about is whether the train company will counter-sue for her not giving them prior notice that she intended to walk (or even trespass?) on the tracks.

move3rd

Originally posted by laserlight
What I'm curious about is whether the train company will counter-sue for her not giving them prior notice that she intended to walk (or even trespass?) on the tracks.

Would it do them anygood if there where no 'no trespassing' or 'Do not walk on the line' signs?

dartcol

Hang on, she was hit by a train and walked away with a broken finger ... for which she sues the rail company for $30,000? Was she lying on the floor with her finger on the rail waiting for the first train to arrive?

Give her a couple of hours community service cleaning leaves off the tracks over here in Britain. It might dampen her interest in walking along train lines (and spped up our trains).

Weedpacket

Then the next person can come along and sue the rail company for failing to put up signs drawing attention to the signs that say that trains run on railway tracks.

dalecosp

Originally posted by move3rd
Would it do them anygood if there where no 'no trespassing' or 'Do not walk on the line' signs?

Likely depends on the judge. I realize many, many geeks are not "conservatives" (at least over here), but there's a reason I voted the way I did ....

Bunkermaster

The filing does not state if she was wearing a red cape and a pair of pantyhose with underwear over them or even if the train was made of kryptonite.

You Americans and your 'lawyers' will always make me chuckle. For real.

Merve

It's people like her who fill courthouses will stupid lawsuits and make it take so long for trials to begin.

Pox on her! (try poxing...it's better than swearing...)

planetsim

Um, to be honest as funny as it sounds doesnt this sort of stuff happen everyday in the states. So basically it was just another typical day :bemused:

dalecosp

Originally posted by Bunkermaster
You Americans and your 'lawyers' will always make me chuckle. For real.

Umm, that's not the quote I wanna ask about ... where'd the "kryptonite" thing come from, Bunker?

dalecosp

Herm, while I'm at it, and since we'll be thinking about the holidays for the next month or so:

A few years ago, in a small Kansas town not far from here, the school district was served with an injunction that kept them from presenting a Christmas program (in the Elementary school) that featured Santa Claus and included a "Nativity Scene". As they couldn't produce the program, Santa was effectively "barred" from appearing, and that was the headline one local paper chose to run for that story....

My response: a protest song, sung to the tune of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer*"

CHORUS: Santa got run over by a lawyer
walkin' into school in Baxter Springs;
We're tolerant of everyone's religion;
just don't let 'em show those manger scenes...

Well, I used to think that Santa
was just a friend to girls and boys;
now I know that he's an idol
that the kids have all been prayin' to for toys...

If we let him in our program,
if we just let him appear,
it might start a "Worship Service",
where they jump up on his lap and pull his beard...

CHORUS

What if we took all the lawyers,
and marched them all into the sea?
It might take ten years, or twenty,
but just think of how much happier we'd be.

We could learn to trust each other,
learn to respect one another's point of view,
and we wouldn't have to worry
if the neighbors 'round the block were goin' to sue ...

CHORUS[/i]

A true American gem that European culture
is better for [probably] never having heard...

dartcol

What if we took all the lawyers,
and marched them all into the sea?

Well, that's the fishing industry out of business? Just think of the headlines:

BATTERED MACKEREL SUES FOR DAMAGES
COLD COD DEMANDS COOLER OCEANS
EELS SLIP THROUGH THE LEGAL AID NET

Any more ... 😃

Merve

What's will all this political correctness? According to that logic, that would bar half the books that we read in school and we wouldn't be able to learn any history! (referring to dale's comment)

dalecosp

Yeah, and no one seems to understand that these so-called "progressives" in the judiciary are actually causing "regression" ...

Elizabeth

Old News, and OT somewhat, but what the hell - this is the EL is it not?

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200410%5CCUL20041028b.html

... speaking of political correctness.

dartcol

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Halloween all about showing respect to the spirit world by offering food and other assorted objects to keep them happy over the following 3-4 months of early sunsets and late sunrises.

You'd think that those who have chosen to accept a belief in the supernatural would welcome any attempt to bring their ideas into the mainstream.

Then again, that could be what they're worrying about. The fact that they would no longer be different to other people, which was probably the reason they decided to become witches in the first place.

Let the kids enjoy themselves, phillistines!