Gotta love American lawsuits...

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Was just surfing ebaumsworld and came across this excellent page of bizarre lawsuits in the US.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/stella.shtml

Best one's gotta be no. 6:

A jury of her peers awarded Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, $780,000 after breaking her ankle by 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 toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
 
We had a pretty famous one in the uk recently where a burglar broke into a house, tripped over and fell on a knife....he managed to sue the owners of the house for negligence of health and safety.

:dozey:

Talk about twisted logic.
 
6. A jury of her peers awarded Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, $780,000 after breaking her ankle by 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 toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
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People who do these sorts of things really get me annoyed. I shouldnt let it annoy me but i cant help it. And the one about the woman slipping on her own drink...I dont know, some people.

I remember visiting the US and the amount of disclaimers around was astonishing. I mean even champagne had dislciamers all over it so people would sue of doing stupid stuff like popping the cork with their eye or something.
 
Hell in this country:

You can be robbing someones house and break your ankle doing it then sue the owner of the house.

You can sue McDonalds for making you fat

Hell why doesn't everybody just sue everybody, get it done and out of the way so we can keep getting fat and more stupider
 
Originally posted by pat_thetic
Why did you put American lawsuits?
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It just seems that America is the only country in the world that seems to have so many trivial legal issues. Not that other nations dont have weird strange battles but in the US they seem to be reported every other week. Its the price you pay for freedom, the occasional weirdo exploiting the system.
 
I hate those companies that sue the council for some client tripping over stones and stuff it just means that money is taken away from being spent on hospitals and shit
 
To tell you the truth i have never heard of any other country where you can successfully sue McDonald's for spilling your own, bought hot cup of coffee and get millions. Where a lady can sue a store for tripping over her own son.

You gotta see this. I would love to go over there! I can be rich! I can just find some place, wait for the right time, trip on something, hire a lawyer and get millions. Where in the world can you do this?

Gotta love Americans. Don't they have something called logic? ;)

Funny.
 
Originally posted by Ruben
To tell you the truth i have never heard of any other country where you can successfully sue McDonald's for spilling your own, bought hot cup of coffee and get millions. Where a lady can sue a store for tripping over her own son.

You gotta see this. I would love to go over there! I can be rich! I can just find some place, wait for the right time, trip on something, hire a lawyer and get millions. Where in the world can you do this?

Gotta love Americans. Don't they have something called logic? ;)

Funny.
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Ya, we have logic, you could probably do the same in any other country.
 
I was just kidding with the logic thing you know. I know you have. But:

If this happened in my country they would laugh and tell that person to stop waisting their time and get the hell out of there and stop waisting the taxpayers money.

Unless someone actually tripped that person by will and he/her smashed her head and got permanent brain damage by violence. Or in the case of the lady that ripped on her son... get a leach and tie him outside if you cant handle him.

Or with the coffee cup: its your own fault. Now get the hell out of here you moron.

Pure and simple :)
 
For the hell of it I'd like to point out that the suit over McDonalds making you fat got a lot of press, but never really went anywhere.
 
It's not that they don't have logic or common sense, whatever you want to call it. It's just that they see an opportunity to exploit something for their own benefit.
"ooh ooh, that thing there doesn't have a disclaimer on it saying it's hot, hehe, I'm gonna touch it (obviously) an be rich".
I call it selfishness, greed.

And don't generalise Americans again, I reckon a BIG percent of the Americans hates these greedy people as much as we other non-americans.

And from what I heard, that fat kid who "TRIED" to sue MacDonald's for making him fat didn't win the case because the judge literally got pissed and refused to proceed with that kind of "nonsense".

Also, that woman who sued (was it) MacDonald's for burning herself was simply because the coffee was too F'kin hot. Way over the temperature it was allowed to be, and they had gotten warnings earlier several times, yet done nothing about it. She IIRC got quite a nasty burning mark (sp?) on her skin. So... ok, of course I dunno if she was after the money after all but anyways, the case actually had a valid point.

No.. logic's got nothing to do with it, greed is the reason.

EDIT: ok, so I was right about the fatkid-thing then :p
 
The best way to make some quick cash in America:

In autumn, and bury yourself in fallen leaves near a pavement (sidewalk). Wait until someone kicks the pile (and you) then sue them (unprovoked attack).!!!! MWHAHAHAHAHA!
 
Yup. that just about sums it up. And i don't really know the case. I dont care too much. If it was like boiling hot i would agree, maybe. But the sums of money involved is just fantastic. I would gladly burn my balls, uhum, pardon my french, well, a little bit for a couple of millions. I think that there should be some common sense in the amounts they are granted. Like ... OK you get the medical and rehabilitation for free plus you get the money you lost in income, and jada jada, but millions of dollars. Those should be reserved for severe cases like... well horrendous stuff. Not burning one self on something, or being fat or stumbling on your own children. Or something.

The system is open for it and people take advantage. There are always going to be morons. So the system must change somehow. I think it will eventually. Its just funny, thats all. And the people that got the money. Good for them i say. But i think its like winning the lottery or something. You gamble and you win or loose. What if the fat kid won? Hehe.
 
Yep. People see the big corporations as greedy bastards with lots of money, so they sue them (with or without a reason).
Aren't they themselves being greedy then? Unless they give the money to charity or something.

Here's what I don't get.
People suing other people, who obviously aren't millionaires, for the most ridicoulus reasons. "Hey man, your presence is distracting me...somehow. Imma sue you asshole"

WTF is up with that? Seriously if that kind of thing would happen to me, that person wouldn't be living anymore (j/k but still). That's just crossing the line!
 
I wont ever sue anyone and i probably wouldn't sue companies. I mean, most of these cases are basically the fault of the person suing. You trip over a paving stone that should have been fixed by the council. Well, if you looked where you were going not only would you have avoided it, but since you re such an upstanding citizen you could have reported it as well as inform others of how much danger they are in because of the grievous mistake on the councils part.
 
Originally posted by Farrowlesparrow
I wont ever sue anyone and i probably wouldn't sue companies. I mean, most of these cases are basically the fault of the person suing. You trip over a paving stone that should have been fixed by the council. Well, if you looked where you were going not only would you have avoided it, but since you re such an upstanding citizen you could have reported it as well as inform others of how much danger they are in because of the grievous mistake on the councils part.
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I agree. Personally I believe suing a company is only truly justified when you need money to medically recover as a direct result of something that was definately their fault, i.e genuine negligence of health and safety like unchecked machinery.
 
Originally posted by Ruben
To tell you the truth i have never heard of any other country where you can successfully sue McDonald's for spilling your own, bought hot cup of coffee and get millions.
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That happend in my home town.. Talk about some funny sh|t..

There were also 2 other lawsuites in Ky.. Someone found the tip of a hypodermic needle in there egg mCmuffin..

And Someone found a half Rotted tooth in there mCFrosty....

MMmmm Micky Deez
 
Originally posted by Ruben
Yup. that just about sums it up. And i don't really know the case. I dont care too much. If it was like boiling hot i would agree, maybe. But the sums of money involved is just fantastic. I would gladly burn my balls, uhum, pardon my french, well, a little bit for a couple of millions. I think that there should be some common sense in the amounts they are granted. Like ... OK you get the medical and rehabilitation for free plus you get the money you lost in income, and jada jada, but millions of dollars. Those should be reserved for severe cases like... well horrendous stuff. Not burning one self on something, or being fat or stumbling on your own children. Or something.

The system is open for it and people take advantage. There are always going to be morons. So the system must change somehow. I think it will eventually. Its just funny, thats all. And the people that got the money. Good for them i say. But i think its like winning the lottery or something. You gamble and you win or loose. What if the fat kid won? Hehe.
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How ****ing old are you 12? I want to see you burn your ****ing balls cause u wont get even a million out of it. The women who sued McDonalds was for stiring her coffee in her lap which fell onto her legs in a passanger side of the car. She was about 79 years old and had 3rd degree burns from it cause McDonald had there coffee really really hot at that time. She was appointed 2 million dollars about but the court only gave her 400 thousand cause they knew it was to much money. And no u cant sue McDonald for being fat, that case was thrown out of the courts.
 
Originally posted by L33731
That happend in my home town.. Talk about some funny sh|t..

There were also 2 other lawsuites in Ky.. Someone found the tip of a hypodermic needle in there egg mCmuffin..

And Someone found a half Rotted tooth in there mCFrosty....

MMmmm Micky Deez
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I once found beef in one of their cheeseburgers. Freaky huh?

But people here do sue for some really stupid stuff. Sometimes its funny, but sometimes its just damn embarassing. I think they should add some room for the judge's own personal judgement. They could call it a "Get the f*** out of my court room and never come back" clause.
 
It's lawsuits like these that make me ashamed to be an American.

BTW, that McDonald's lawsuit about getting fat from their food...the people didn't get any $$$. Serves those asses right. Now they wasted their own money on legal fees.
 
Heres an example of a very stupid one.

A woman who works in a restaurant falls out of its 2nd story floor (Breaks almost everything). She then SUES the manager and gets 1 Million dollars. I forgot what the charge was though, but I sure laughed at that one!

The good thing about America is... You can sue anyone you want anywhere, anytime.
 
or what about the burglar who was trying to break into a store and fell through the skylight, and then sued the owner of the store because he didn't have guard bars on it? i think he got $80,000
 
Originally posted by Farrowlesparrow
People who do these sorts of things really get me annoyed. I shouldnt let it annoy me but i cant help it. And the one about the woman slipping on her own drink...I dont know, some people.

I remember visiting the US and the amount of disclaimers around was astonishing. I mean even champagne had dislciamers all over it so people would sue of doing stupid stuff like popping the cork with their eye or something.
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I think I've seen a similar disclaimer on a 2-liter bottle of carbonated soda... something about pointing the bottle away from you so that cap doesn't pop off and hit you in the eye if you shook it up and there's a lot of air pressure from all the gas.... unless I'm remembering wrong; it was a long time ago; or maybe they used to put it on the label but don't anymore. I'm not sure; anybody care to check?
 
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