Annoyed with all these stupid lawsuits? What are some really stupid/hilarious ones you've heard of
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Thankfully she is losing that one since she was given a warning.toasterslayer said:
Two years ago a girl who went to my school sued the school because she missed fifty days of the semester and the teacher wouldn't pass her. They settled out of court and now my school has a lovely(strict) attendance policy.
Apparently this drunk chick drove home in her Honda and drove into a lake. The passenger got out fine but the drunk chick couldn't unfasten her seatbelt because she was so drunk. Her parents Naturally sued Honda.
Recently a child drowned in a pool. The child had apparently gotten outside through a dog door, through a fence with a lock, in to the pool, and drowned.
The parents sued the dog door company maker due to non-safe product. They also argued that because there is an electronic version that responds to a pets collar that the company KNEW it was unsafe (because they make a safe one too) and yet continued to make their product anyway.
The parents sued the dog door company maker due to non-safe product. They also argued that because there is an electronic version that responds to a pets collar that the company KNEW it was unsafe (because they make a safe one too) and yet continued to make their product anyway.
A Florida woman is suing Walt Disney World for banning her from its Tower of Terror ride, saying riding it is a medical necesity. Denise Mooty says the "G-forces of going up and down" the 199-foot thrill ride help break up fibrous adhesions in her abdomen. Disney, she says, had decided to limit her to four rides a week, far fewer than the dozens her doctor has ordered. Mooty was then banned, Disney says, "for causing a disturbance within the presence of other guests and using foul language toward a Cast Member."
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"James Colliton, a disbarred Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to statutory rape has sued the American Express Co. for giving police credit card information he says led to his capture.
James Colliton, once a $500,000-a-year tax lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, contends the credit card company breached its rules by telling authorities that he had used the card in February 2006 to pay for gas in Ontario, Canada," according to the N.Y. Daily News."
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"A New York City woman has filed a $10 million federal lawsuit because she wasn't allowed to bring her dog on the subway. Estelle Stamm, 65, says that "Wargas," a 120-pound livestock guard dog, should be considered a "service animal" under the Americans With Disabilities Act, because without him she suffers panic attacks. City lawyers, however, cite web postings in which Stamm writes fondly of a previous dog's "tremendous killing power" and the way "the seas of people part before us" on crowded subways."
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all of this was pulled from Austin Counsel Lawyer Blog...so i don't know if any of this is true yet.
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"James Colliton, a disbarred Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to statutory rape has sued the American Express Co. for giving police credit card information he says led to his capture.
James Colliton, once a $500,000-a-year tax lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, contends the credit card company breached its rules by telling authorities that he had used the card in February 2006 to pay for gas in Ontario, Canada," according to the N.Y. Daily News."
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"A New York City woman has filed a $10 million federal lawsuit because she wasn't allowed to bring her dog on the subway. Estelle Stamm, 65, says that "Wargas," a 120-pound livestock guard dog, should be considered a "service animal" under the Americans With Disabilities Act, because without him she suffers panic attacks. City lawyers, however, cite web postings in which Stamm writes fondly of a previous dog's "tremendous killing power" and the way "the seas of people part before us" on crowded subways."
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all of this was pulled from Austin Counsel Lawyer Blog...so i don't know if any of this is true yet.
The duties (supervisors) at my Elementary school gave us hell for jumping off the swings onto the soft, muddy grass just three feet away saying that we would fall and hurt ourselves.pantsoffdanceoff said:
It was gravel under the swings, but still...
They were probably scared of being sued now that I think back on that.
A daughter sued her parents because she didn't wanna be born... and if I remember, she won...
err and a chef sued a customer because the customer wanted sausages and bacon... The Chef was Muslim... So yeah... against his religion to cook it...
Yes... there are some pretty strange people out there...
err and a chef sued a customer because the customer wanted sausages and bacon... The Chef was Muslim... So yeah... against his religion to cook it...
Yes... there are some pretty strange people out there...
Swings made me who I am today. While I was in Elementary school a kid broke both his arms from jumping off the swing while it was high in the air, and the only thing that happened is that we'd get yelled at if we jumped off. Today's world is fucked.pantsoffdanceoff said:
A Canadian man sues a New York coffee shop after suffering what he calls ?damage to his manhood?. His penis somehow got pinched between the toilet seat and bowl while he was reaching forward for toilet paper. He is asking for $1 million to compensate for his "dire and permanent" injuries. His wife is also suing for $500,000, claiming her husband cannot perform his marital duties.
I had a friend who were in a car crash by a woman that were driving in excessive speeds in the wrong lane. When her car hit his truck, it took the jaws of life to get her out of the wreckage. She is now paralyzed. Her husband sued my friend once because he did not throw his truck into the ditch in time and that is the reason the crash occurred. Her husband reasoned that if he drove into the ditch , she would have never have crashed. That case was thrown out. Her husband sued him again claiming that his paralyzed wife can not perform her martial duties in her condition and it his fault.
I had a friend who were in a car crash by a woman that were driving in excessive speeds in the wrong lane. When her car hit his truck, it took the jaws of life to get her out of the wreckage. She is now paralyzed. Her husband sued my friend once because he did not throw his truck into the ditch in time and that is the reason the crash occurred. Her husband reasoned that if he drove into the ditch , she would have never have crashed. That case was thrown out. Her husband sued him again claiming that his paralyzed wife can not perform her martial duties in her condition and it his fault.
evidently it doesSharPhoe said:
. It's one thing to pull this shit; it's another to ask for this extremely ridiculous amounts of money!That's how it worked with us. I met my best friends on the swings in 2nd grade. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for that bastard!nokelso said:
I swear, we need to get rid of "laws" and just bring in common sense.
"You were a bad parent and left your child alone? Your fault"
"Stop whinging, get over it"
"You were drunk? Your fault"
"Something malfunctioned? Their fau- WAIT...how did it malfunction? You took out the safety catch and put your lipstick in it's place? YOUR FAULT"
Am I the only one thinking this is a good idea?
And some of these stories scare the shit out of me, people are assholes. I can't believe people OBVIOUSLY in the wrong expect to get away with shit or expect compensation every time they fuck up.
"You were a bad parent and left your child alone? Your fault"
"Stop whinging, get over it"
"You were drunk? Your fault"
"Something malfunctioned? Their fau- WAIT...how did it malfunction? You took out the safety catch and put your lipstick in it's place? YOUR FAULT"
Am I the only one thinking this is a good idea?
And some of these stories scare the shit out of me, people are assholes. I can't believe people OBVIOUSLY in the wrong expect to get away with shit or expect compensation every time they fuck up.
A lot of these are urban legends or something that happened with the story slightly altered.
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Here's one I know happened. A man went into a home depot on april fools day and someone put glue on the toilet seats in the bathroom he was trapped in the restroom for 15 whole minutes. I worked at a HD (part time) at the time and they made someone (me) check the toilets every hour to make sure they were glue free - for like a month.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9911744/
That one SOUNDED Frivalous but actually at the time Micky D's at the time was serving their coffee so hot that it could not be consumed by human beings because it was assumed that most people didn't drink it right away. Ms. Lieback did have to have skin grafts on her thighs and genitals that's how bad it burned her. I would argue that surving food that you KNOW humans can't consume because of the temperature which is irrisponsable.TikiShades said:
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Here's one I know happened. A man went into a home depot on april fools day and someone put glue on the toilet seats in the bathroom he was trapped in the restroom for 15 whole minutes. I worked at a HD (part time) at the time and they made someone (me) check the toilets every hour to make sure they were glue free - for like a month.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9911744/
Feck me thats stupid, hey heres an idea how about we pass a law making it illegal for restraunts to sell fast food to people who are obese? Seriously what moron would even compose such a bill, take care of yourself or face the consequences.Gamer137 said:
My cash card once broke in half while I was using the ATM (it was entirely intact before, just used it like I would every day) and half of it got stuck, effectively disabling said ATM for a day.
The bank said it was my fault, and that either I or my insurance had to pay for the damage (~800?).
My insurance said the card wasn't crafted properly or some shit and that the bank has to pay.
Whereupon the bank says "no, wasn't our fault, but since your insurance doesn't want to, then you have to pay"
So I try to persuade my insurance company, and they respond by sending me a huge catalog with possible descriptions as to what happened (like "accident", "carelessness on my part", "carelessness on someone other's part" and stuff like that). I pick accident, and guess what? They go "oh well if it was an accident, the bank has to pay."
So the bank says "but but but, this was no accident! It was clearly carelessness on your part! So your insurance has to pay"
And I tell that to the insurance guys and they want me to freaking prove that it was carelessness, since I said it was an accident before!
It's been 2 whole years now since that happened and the stupid card reading module for that stupid ATM is still unpaid for...
Goddamn bureaucracy.
The bank said it was my fault, and that either I or my insurance had to pay for the damage (~800?).
My insurance said the card wasn't crafted properly or some shit and that the bank has to pay.
Whereupon the bank says "no, wasn't our fault, but since your insurance doesn't want to, then you have to pay"
So I try to persuade my insurance company, and they respond by sending me a huge catalog with possible descriptions as to what happened (like "accident", "carelessness on my part", "carelessness on someone other's part" and stuff like that). I pick accident, and guess what? They go "oh well if it was an accident, the bank has to pay."
So the bank says "but but but, this was no accident! It was clearly carelessness on your part! So your insurance has to pay"
And I tell that to the insurance guys and they want me to freaking prove that it was carelessness, since I said it was an accident before!
It's been 2 whole years now since that happened and the stupid card reading module for that stupid ATM is still unpaid for...
Goddamn bureaucracy.
Actually, I believe the bill was made so that obese people who eat fast food can't sue the fast food chain anymore.Nmil-ek said:
It doesn't say anything about making it illegal to sell fast food to them. Only illegal to sue them for doing so. Essentially making it safe for them to sell fast food to fat guys. I think.
No its my bad I misread what you wrote as legal, I suggested a better idea would even be to make it illegal to serve fast food to people that clinicaly obese. But then again if they want to kill themselves gets them off the governments payroll for support faster so win/win.Socken said: