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Is this crazy or what - Printable Version +- Forums (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards) +-- Forum: The Firing Line (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: Combat Mission (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=10) +--- Thread: Is this crazy or what (/showthread.php?tid=44187) |
RE: Is this crazy or what - Jobu88 - 02-16-2008 The single best site I've found for debunking stories like the Winnebego cruise control: http://www.snopes.com/ There's no end of myths out there, but they're only believable because the US legal system of "when in doubt, sue'em" has produced some real absurdities. One particularly absurd current legal jihad: Sue McDonald's because people got fat eating 6,000 calories a day of fried food. As if the people didn't walk their fat asses into MacD's and ask for a double quarter-pounder with cheese and fries and a large Coke; someone else made them do it. RE: Is this crazy or what - Hedgehog - 02-16-2008 [ Foul. Wrote:Over in the UK a guy is taking a betting company to court for 2 million GBP because they didn't stop him betting and ruining his life :chin: Liebchen... You might say that some of the cases stated are false, here is a prime example of the point that is being made by Foul, it does go on these silly and absurd claims are real, as made by the McDONALDS, They made me buy there food because you advertised it. Hence my Point It is a crazy world...For some very WEAK minded people...Hello It's time to wake up. Keep Smiling Ted RE: Is this crazy or what - McIvan - 02-16-2008 The difference between your stories and the fantasy ones is that in yours people have just made "claims" in court.......they haven't actually won anything, and I would hope they don't. Whereas in the malicious fantasy ones, they pretend that the juries and judges actually agreed and paid out huge sums of money, deliberately slandering both the legal system and the ordinary people making up a jury in one hit. Big difference in concept. How much of people's disdain for the legal system these days is founded on lies like the stories in the initial post, or media deliberately leaving out all the context necessary to explain a decision? Not that I don't think it could be much better.....the adversarial litigation system is in my mind deeply flawed.....but no way is it as non-sensical as it is sometimes made out. RE: Is this crazy or what - Walkure - 02-17-2008 OK, here is one that is no myth, it happened to me. my ex-dental partner owns the building were i have my dental office. we are on the sesond floor, A patient was wearing sandles , when she opened the door to come into the building to go to the elevator she hit here big toe with the door. she sued us and got ten thousand dollars. when i was so pissed. that's is no myth, i guess we have to post a warning. please remove foot when opening doors.I'm sure that some of you gentlemen that are attornies make make an argument same as my friend that practice law. but like they told me, in the end is about making a jury feel sorry for the moron and that we have the moey (our insurance) to pay. My friend is a rescue swimmer for the coast guard, when ever there is a hurricaine down here. morons are found surfin and some always get in trouble. so he has to go out there and risk his life and the flight crew trying to save these pilar of society. i think that's natures way to correct the gene pool.wether it's these surfers or people that place hot coffeebetween there leg to drive. are morons period, that MD had pryor complaints only proof that stupidity abounds, so that lady has company. yes i realize that being a Dr. has put me in an adversarial position against the legal community. so maybe i'm just a little jaded. Walkure PS:censored: RE: Is this crazy or what - Walkure - 02-17-2008 Big difference in concept. How much of people's disdain for the legal system these days is founded on lies like the stories in the initial post, or media deliberately leaving out all the context necessary to explain a decision? Not that I don't think it could be much better.....the adversarial litigation system is in my mind deeply flawed.....but no way is it as non-sensical as it is sometimes made out. [/quote] I agree, but all it takes is one win, to change the way i have to practice. I've being in practice for 23 years. they have tried 8 times to fleece me. 7 never got anywhere, they got thrown out why in depo. i realize Dr. make mistakes and should be held accountable. but i know that at least as many lives are ruined by the legal system then by Dr. yearly. we dr. have to run multiple test to dianose something that is very evident because if we don't run test X or Y then we were negligent. this has the effect of driving pt cost through the roof and me personally try to refer pt to specialist when ever possible. were they cost triple the cost. here in miami almost hallf the Dr. don't carry malpractice becuase they can't afford it. my friend that is a cardiac surgeon , his cost was 110K yearly. incredibly we are bigger targets when we carry insurance then when we don't...................that stat speaks volumes. Walkure RE: Is this crazy or what - Mad Russian - 02-20-2008 Another that is no myth..... I worked for a large plastics manufacturing firm. One night about 20 years ago we had cars that were in a train that derailed in the Dallas-Ft Worth area. A couple months later every company that had cars in that train were sued. Reason? A woman got pregnant and the cause was the train derailment. Now she was smarter than just getting pregnant from a train derailment..... She and her lawyer settled out of court with more than 100 companies for $10,000 each from each company. It was cheaper to settle out of court than fight them in court. I couldn't believe our company settled out of court but the economics of it won out for them. So, if you thought there was only one way for a woman to get pregnant...think again...you want to have the chances of conception go up, just be near a train derailment. Apparently that is a powerful enhancement to the entire pregnancy process... Good Hunting. MR RE: Is this crazy or what - Ratzki - 02-20-2008 I work for the fire dept. just outside of Vancouver. A fire truck in Richmond(a neighbouring city) stopped for a car accident on the freeway. The driver had the running lights on, the emergency lights on, reflective caution cones placed and was parked off to the side totally on the wide freeway shoulder. A drunk driver came up and blasted through the cones while driving on the shoulder and plowed into the back of the fire truck. The drunk driver was awarded 3/4s of a million dollars as the fire dept. was told by the judge that they did not have large flashing amber lights on the rear of the truck. Even though public vehicles are not required to have them, the fire truck was, as the judge said, any vehicle that makes frequent stops in it's line of work must have them. Even the motor vehicle act did not mandate the amber lights. By the end of the week after the ruling, every fire truck in the province got 2 large flashing amber lights on the rear of the trucks. RE: Is this crazy or what - PoorOldSpike - 02-20-2008 In 2001/2 a guy kept tipping off the Brit police about the doorstep drug-dealing transactions at a neighbouring house, even telling how kids from the school across the road used to drift over there in their lunch break, but the police took no action at all. Eventually the dealers (who were black Africans) complained to the police that the guy was "racially harassing" them by constantly watching them through his binoculars, so the police swung smoothly into action and I got 3 months for "harassment".. RE: Is this crazy or what - Hedgehog - 02-20-2008 Mad Russian Wrote:Another that is no myth..... I think I might just come back in the next life as a TRAIN...LOL Ted RE: Is this crazy or what - Mike Abberton - 02-21-2008 From what I have heard of some of these cases, money was awarded most often when some regulation or local ordinance was broken, even if it was only a technicality (sort of like the fire truck example above). For example, I heard that there was actually a local ordinance in the McDonald's hot coffee case that gave a maximum temperature for hot beverages to be served, and the coffee was measured at the McDonalds in question to be well over the allowed limit. That is what opened the door for monetary rewards. |
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