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Drowns while fleeing cops, family sues for $50M
New Jersey: "A $50 million lawsuit is being filed against Hoboken and its police department by the parents of a 16-year-old boy who drowned in the Hudson River shortly after escaping from Hoboken Police Headquarters." On Oct. 5, 2004 Vincent "Woody" McConnell Jr. was arrested on an outstanding warrant and on being taken in asked if he could use the public rest room at the station house. According to police, he then unscrewed the security grate on the small window in the rest room and escaped; with cops in pursuit, he climbed a railing, "escaped from an officer holding his arm and jumped into the water," which has dangerous currents at that point in the river. Friends of McConnell say they don't believe he would have jumped. He's being represented by attorney Robert Bianchi. (Michelangelo Conte, "Suit Blames Cops", Jersey Journal, Oct. 12).
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"Man Sues Online Dating Service After Being Rejected"
"Soheil Davood claims his paid subscription to JDate.com, billed as 'the world's largest Jewish singles community,' guaranteed that he would find 'high-quality, successful Jewish personals without wasting precious time.'" However, he claims that "SuperFriendlyGal" didn't turn out to live up to her name, and (he alleges) after some initially enticing chat dumped him harshly. "Davood, who is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, claims the Web site is 'defective' because it was poorly designed and monitored, which exposed him to 'serious psychological injury.'" (NBC4.TV, Sept. 20)(via Jeff Lewis).
:rolleyes: seriously folks......