Dead Teen Sued for Flying Body Parts

[Scarim Coral]

In the afterlife he must annoyed with this but yet again I doubt in his last moment in life he would think his mangle corpse would hit someone.

Regardless that is a guresome way to go and to me it sound more like a game death.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

I'm just affraid that this will set the trend in the future where in every accident causes all those involved, even bystanders, to sue for psychological damages and the like.

I'm just sayin', if you wanna die, you better make sure nobody sees it or you're family will be left with nothing.

 

[Li Mu]

In Japan the JR company fines the families of people who commit suicide by jumping in front of trains. It's partly a way to try and cut down on the astronomical number of suicides by trainsplatter. People are less likely to jump if they know that their family is going to pick up a big fat bill.
The cost of cleaning up the mess and cost of delaying trains is pretty high, so I guess it's also a good way to cover the costs.

 

[TheTim]

I know this is a little off topic, but honestly, how do people get hit by fucking trains? they are only gigantic and travel along an already pre determined path? it can't be that hard...

 

[ElPatron]

The moral of the story perhaps should be that she should drink some milk. If being merely falling to the ground causes her to break several bones, something is really really wrong. That's not supposed to happen untill a very advanced age.

Let's assume that the kinetic energy of a limb is not dissipated because of the relatively "short" range.

A limb going at 70mph has a velocity of roughly 31 meters per second.

Kinetic energy = 1/2 * m * v^2

Since it was a "sizeable chunk", let's assume 7kg

7/2 * 961 = 3363.5 joule


It's not "merely" fall into onto the ground because you lost your balance, it's a 58 year old woman taking over 3000 joule of energy from a 7kg chunk.

Also, if the chunk was 10-20kg the energy it carried would be even bigger.

 

[Cyrus Hanley]

If it was suicide, I'd be more understanding of the suing.
But it wasn't.
It was an accident, so the old woman can get lost. Unless she's gonna starve from paying hospital fees or some crap, she can get lost.
And even if she does get it, it should only be for hospital fees.

What makes you think that Gayane Zokhrabov would sue for anything more than compensation for her medical expenses?

 

[SoetSout]

If it was suicide, I'd be more understanding of the suing.
But it wasn't.
It was an accident, so the old woman can get lost. Unless she's gonna starve from paying hospital fees or some crap, she can get lost.
And even if she does get it, it should only be for hospital fees.

What about emotional scaring? and medication over the years? its not a simple 10 000, it has to be calculated on the long term aswell.

I'm just affraid that this will set the trend in the future where in every accident causes all those involved, even bystanders, to sue for psychological damages and the like.

I'm just sayin', if you wanna die, you better make sure nobody sees it or you're family will be left with nothing.

Many people can see it, its optional to look to your left or right, but body parts torn from another hiting people will actualy cause emotional problems.

I know this is a little off topic, but honestly, how do people get hit by fucking trains? they are only gigantic and travel along an already pre determined path? it can't be that hard...

il just quote Einstein for you
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." -Albert Einstein

 

[The Cheshire]

In Japan the JR company fines the families of people who commit suicide by jumping in front of trains. It's partly a way to try and cut down on the astronomical number of suicides by trainsplatter. People are less likely to jump if they know that their family is going to pick up a big fat bill.
The cost of cleaning up the mess and cost of delaying trains is pretty high, so I guess it's also a good way to cover the costs.

Hah, mandess. "Please don't use our trains to kill yourself, watch this instructional video on the several ways you can off yourself without damaging public property: wrist slit, hanging, pills, venom, bullets, jumping off buildings (look down first), crashing your car into a wall, or just the classical and very literary way of walking see inside and drowning".

As for suing a grieving family over your fucking leg, I think it's pretty cunty. I don't know what the price is to treat that in a hospital, but I couldn't live with myself for suing people for that. It may be legal, but that doesn't make it less asshole-ish.

 

[Esotera]

Wow, that's enough internet for today.

Although it did sound like he was being reckless, I'd have thought that hopefully she could just go to the insurance company and settle it quietly, as no doubt it's distressing for everyone involved this way.

 

[Susurrus]

SNIP

Sure. Interestingly, the wikipedia entry for negligence, under the heading "legal causation", deals exactly with this issue, and incredibly, a very similar case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligence

It is reasonably foreseeable that he might be flung around by the train. I guess distances involved etc would be important - if he flew for 200m, say, then damage would be less foreseeable if he got hit just beside a very busy platform. Furthermore, I believe its the case that if you can foresee damage to others, and damage happens to them, even if it wasn't in the way foreseen, you can still be held liable. So, for example, if maybe you thought you might derail the train, or something, and it crashes into the station as a result, then you might still be liable for damage from your satchel hitting them, or something.

 

[Arakasi]

If it was suicide, I'd be more understanding of the suing.
But it wasn't.
It was an accident, so the old woman can get lost. Unless she's gonna starve from paying hospital fees or some crap, she can get lost.
And even if she does get it, it should only be for hospital fees.

What makes you think that Gayane Zokhrabov would sue for anything more than compensation for her medical expenses?

Nothing.
But it's possible, and that's what we are discussing here.
As for the emotional scarring, that would come under the category of medical care in my books. As would any medication.

Although I still don't think the parents should have to pay for their child's death.

 

[Leninv3l]

I can imagine this. "Hey, sorry about your son's death, but you owe me several thousand dollars because I'm suing your ass. But really, sorry about your son."

 

[BathorysGraveland]

This actually doesn't surprise me. The length and extremes people will go for money is just mind blowing, but unfortunately my mind no longer gets blown because I've heard of shit like this far too many times.

 

[Dastardly]

speaking of reading comprehension, the quote you used does not include any instance of the word "boy". As for the word "teen", it's perfectly valid to use it to refer to an eighTEEN year old.

"teen" means 13-19, it doesn't stop because of age of majority.

The quote was snipped. The post I quoted, and the person I quoted did, in fact, say "boy."

I don't dispute the mathematical accuracy of the word "teen," either. I simply find its use, in this particular case, to be disingenuous. The usual use of the word "teen" is to differentiate someone from "young child" and "adult" categories. Ages 18 and 19 are generally considered adults, despite the suffix -teen at the end of the numbers. The goal here was to make the dead man more of a victim, separating him from the older woman. Dead children are sadder than dead adults, so the terminology was used to frame this in a way that, while technically true, was intended to read "dead kid."