Girls sued for delivering cookies

[foxyloxley]

As for l3lacklce...I think he was just trying to play the devil's advocate.

I don't think Ice takes second fiddle to ANYBODY

But the rest of Eg's post makes perfect sense to me :

Damn it, it must be time for me meds .......... I'm agreeing with people

Has anyone seen my meds : Doh:

[Egaladeist]

In that case...if he wasn't playing the devil's advocate, as I assumed...I'll have to ammend my previous comment, on my second post, from: for the most part I have to agree with l3lacklce...to: for the most part I do not agree with l3lacklce.

Eg


P.S. Thanks ! I don't usually get to the agreement stage that quick...it usually takes a few pages first.

Apparently the judge did see the time of night as being the major factor...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...odd_cookies_dc

[MURACU]

I dont see why anyone is surprised about the case. If you are allowed to sue a resturant for you being obiese why not sure teenagers for delivering cookies? There have benn so many similiar case in the US it is no longer funny. I half expest that if you tried to help someone being mugged you would probably be sued by the muggers as you attacked them first. Actually wasnt there a case like that about a burgaler who sued and won after the person who owned the house he was burgaling threaten him with a gun? I am just waiting for the first case where someone sues a co-worker for giving him the flue.

[Egaladeist]

What about the guy who sued Starbucks because he got his thingy squished claiming that the seat lid moved and caught it while trying to take a number two...he won too !!!

[|3lack|ce]

I don't think Ice takes second fiddle to ANYBODY

Thanks for the vote of confidence Mr. Fox.

In fact, I was doing nothing more than objectively reviewing the case, offering up my thoughts to Mrs. |ce, who 'lawyerized them' and then placing the whole bundle here. Any attorney will look at both sides of his argument in order to win his case. These mitigating circumstances might have given justification to, what we here in the |ce household felt at least, an otherwise completely assenine case.

49 DOES count as 'little old lady' Deb, much as I hate to admit it. (Mrs |ce and I are rapidly approaching that age as well, although she's closer to it than I am... and officially we admit to no older than 39. It was 29 up until last year but it became physically impossible for our eldest son to be 21 then, so we adjusted accordingly. For heaven's sake, we could be Grandparents by now).

Oh, and back to ya again Deb, you'd be amazed at what mischief two young ladies can cook up in the kitchen even on a weekend night. They could've been grounded and playing with exlax cookies or somesuch... Again, lawyerizing, so don't take that too seriously. My demon-teen (now 19) stepson quite often was found spending Friday and Saturday evenings at home, and was also quite often found helping neighbors with this or that task about their households. Unfortunately, he was also found carrying a neighbor's 52 inch teevee across a meadow one bright, sunny morning to sell to support his drug habit. He now lives in the pen, having turned felon at age 18.

Egaladeist -

I have to agree for the most part with l3lacklce...

I'll have to ammend my previous comment, on my second post, from: for the most part I have to agree with l3lacklce...to: for the most part I do not agree with l3lacklce.

Thou Waffler! Have faith in the |ceman, lest thou become perceived as 'sucking up to the winner, or worse, being French (French Canadian perhaps?).'
Quite frankly, I agree 100 percent with RCGreen's response. The woman's a complete nutter, as are the lawyers and judges involved in her case. I hope it hails all over her (uninsured) car and she tries to sue God. Of course, with her luck, she'd probably win...

[whatthe]

Maybe the judge figured this was how Martha Stewart got started and wanted to put an end to it.

[Egaladeist]

Originally posted here by |3lack|ce

Egaladeist -



Thou Waffler! Have faith in the |ceman, lest thou become perceived as 'sucking up to the winner, or worse, being French (French Canadian perhaps?).'
Quite frankly, I agree 100 percent with RCGreen's response. The woman's a complete nutter, as are the lawyers and judges involved in her case. I hope it hails all over her (uninsured) car and she tries to sue God. Of course, with her luck, she'd probably win.. [/B]

Thou Waffler...I am Not As I said...I thought you were just being a Devil's Advocate...and later I ammended it taking it into consideration that foxyloxley has known you longer than me...but now you have again, for the most part, confirmed my original statement...as more facts become available I reserve the right to change my stand again...see...that's what happens when you watch too many political debates !

Irish-Scottish Canadian...explains why I like to argue...eh ?

[RoadClosed]

I bet granny is a liberal. Durango is a "small" town and fairly secluded. Maybe it did scare the hell out of her. But court damages? Idiotic.

[bigb]

Originally posted here by |3lack|ce
bigb - I hate to refute you, but....

Refute away, I stand corrected. Thanks.

[foxyloxley]

And to prove that you can make a competition out of ANYTHING :
I give you this excerpt from the 'Stella Awards' :

The "Stella" Awards rank up there with the Darwin awards. Stella Liebeck.
The 81-year-old lady, who spilled coffee on herself, and sued McDonald's.

This case inspired an annual award for the most frivolous lawsuit in the U.S.

The following are this year's nominees:

1. January 2000: a jury of her peers awarded Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas. $780,000 after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler, who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little bastard was Ms. Robertson's son.

2. June 1998: 19 year old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical
expenses when his neighbour ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman
apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car, when he was trying to steal his neighbour’s hubcaps.

3. October 1998: Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania was leaving a house
he had just finished robbing, by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation; Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance, claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed, to the tune of half a million dollars.

4. October 1999: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas was awarded $14,500
and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbour’s beagle. The beagle was on a chain in a fenced-in yard. The award was less than the amount sought, because the jury felt the dog might have been provoked at the time by Mr. Williams, who was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

5. May 2000: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania $113,500 because she slipped on a beverage and broke
her tailbone. The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson threw it at her
boyfriend 30 seconds earlier, during an argument.

6. December 1997: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighbouring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies' room, to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 in dental expenses.

AND, THE WINNER IS.....

7. And the winner is: Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City. In November 2000
Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip on the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the Winnie left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the handbook that he couldn't actually do this. He was awarded
$1,750,000 and a new Winnie.
(Winnebago actually changed their handbooks because of this court case, just in case there are any other complete morons buying their vehicles.)