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OT: Now I've Seen Everything
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munk said:
upset they might be, but Israelies purchase standard issue CATs and add after market features later (extra plates etc.) I read about it somewhere, the activist (what a term) jumped under the bucket in the blind zone. I wonder if Darwin Award society would have guts to nominate her.
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True story. A car thief in Dayton, Ohio, is being pursued by the police. At an intersection, he glances off another car and goes though a gas pump, a chainlink fence, a woven wood fence, and a hedge. He then takes out a post holding up the porch on a small strip shopping building. A lady making a pay telephone call on that porch is injured somewhat by part of the roof that falls.
Whom to sue?
The driver (Thief) has no insurance and no $$$.
She sued Ohio Bell Telephone Company for putting the coin phone in a "dangerous location" (147 feet from the street).
The case was dismissed by the Court in Montgomery County, Ohio, on the grounds that, as a matter of Ohio law, the sole cause of the accident was Thief.
The same should happen to the case linked, but even then the cost will be added to the cost of products produced by the defendant -- sort of like shoplifting and equally immoral.
However, in Alabama, the family of a caller hit in a coin telephone booth (over 100 feet from the tracks) by a derailed train recoved $$millions from Southern Bell: "dangerous location."
(Visualize the new "NORAD Bunker Phone Booth.)
Please pay attention when you vote for judges down there at the bottom of the ballot. They are 1/3 of the government and what they say trumps the other 2/3's.
Whom to sue?
The driver (Thief) has no insurance and no $$$.
She sued Ohio Bell Telephone Company for putting the coin phone in a "dangerous location" (147 feet from the street).
The case was dismissed by the Court in Montgomery County, Ohio, on the grounds that, as a matter of Ohio law, the sole cause of the accident was Thief.
The same should happen to the case linked, but even then the cost will be added to the cost of products produced by the defendant -- sort of like shoplifting and equally immoral.
However, in Alabama, the family of a caller hit in a coin telephone booth (over 100 feet from the tracks) by a derailed train recoved $$millions from Southern Bell: "dangerous location."
(Visualize the new "NORAD Bunker Phone Booth.)Please pay attention when you vote for judges down there at the bottom of the ballot. They are 1/3 of the government and what they say trumps the other 2/3's.
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Thomas Linton said:
Here in the land of lube, they (the judges) are elected in non-partisan races, where we don't know the party affiliation of judges.
Unless one has had run in's with judges, or has seen them do something particularly annoying in the news you just dont' know who to vote for.
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Makes me sick.
Here in Fla., when a 14 yr old cold-bloodedly shot a teacher between the eyes, the lawyers thought about it and made up a defense where "he didn't MEAN to do it, the guns misfired, it's the guns fault".
The widow went for it and sued the gunmaker.... think it was a pocket pistol with 25 lb. trigger pull...
Ad Astra
Here in Fla., when a 14 yr old cold-bloodedly shot a teacher between the eyes, the lawyers thought about it and made up a defense where "he didn't MEAN to do it, the guns misfired, it's the guns fault".
The widow went for it and sued the gunmaker.... think it was a pocket pistol with 25 lb. trigger pull...
Ad Astra
Once I asked why there is stated on Mc Donald´s coffee cups that the coffee is hot. guess were it came from.
A friend of mine worked as a skiing teacher in the US for some time. Two years later the company he had been working for informed him that a woman had sued the company because she had chronic headache - because she had fallen to the ground too often during a skiing course. My friend still had a letter in which said woman had thanked him for the great skiing course.
Manuals come with all sorts of warnings (I think I mentioned that our washing machine manual told us not to wash pets nor tumble dry them. or similar "do not iron clothes while you wear them, you might burn yourself...")
Common sense is a very foreign thing I guess.
Western countries are on their way to become iudocracies - the judges govern - and neither the people nor the politicians. I see with concern that political questions are often no longer debated over to find a compromise and form a broad basis for the decision. In spite of this the decision is left to courts.
Andreas
A friend of mine worked as a skiing teacher in the US for some time. Two years later the company he had been working for informed him that a woman had sued the company because she had chronic headache - because she had fallen to the ground too often during a skiing course. My friend still had a letter in which said woman had thanked him for the great skiing course.
Manuals come with all sorts of warnings (I think I mentioned that our washing machine manual told us not to wash pets nor tumble dry them. or similar "do not iron clothes while you wear them, you might burn yourself...")
Common sense is a very foreign thing I guess.
Western countries are on their way to become iudocracies - the judges govern - and neither the people nor the politicians. I see with concern that political questions are often no longer debated over to find a compromise and form a broad basis for the decision. In spite of this the decision is left to courts.
Andreas
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"The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened," Corrie's mother, Cindy Corrie, said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a law firm handling the case. "We believe Caterpillar and the (Israeli Defense Forces) must be held accountable for their role in the attack."
Never should have happened?!?! Her death was tragic, but of all the lessons my mother taught me as a child one of the fist was: "Get out of the d@mn way!" Know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. When a Cat is backing up towards you...fold 'em. People get these romantic ideas of jumping in front a moving heavy pice of multi-ton steel where the machine grinds to a hault and the music swells and you save the orphanage. Guess what. That's dumb. heavy machinery is complicated, loud, and just about every blind spot on the thing has some way of smashing, crushing, grinding, or smushing you without the driver even knowing it. You offer no more resistance than a cheap curtain rod in this situation. Hell, there have been plenty of times where my own father almost took my head off with our backhoe when i was in a blind spot, and it's not anywhere nearly as big as these demo cats.
I'm very sorry that this girl was killed. It is a brutal death, but when you jump in front of bulldozers.....duh. Know thy enemy.
This is no way Cat's fault.
Jake
Never should have happened?!?! Her death was tragic, but of all the lessons my mother taught me as a child one of the fist was: "Get out of the d@mn way!" Know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. When a Cat is backing up towards you...fold 'em. People get these romantic ideas of jumping in front a moving heavy pice of multi-ton steel where the machine grinds to a hault and the music swells and you save the orphanage. Guess what. That's dumb. heavy machinery is complicated, loud, and just about every blind spot on the thing has some way of smashing, crushing, grinding, or smushing you without the driver even knowing it. You offer no more resistance than a cheap curtain rod in this situation. Hell, there have been plenty of times where my own father almost took my head off with our backhoe when i was in a blind spot, and it's not anywhere nearly as big as these demo cats.
I'm very sorry that this girl was killed. It is a brutal death, but when you jump in front of bulldozers.....duh. Know thy enemy.
This is no way Cat's fault.
Jake
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Stupidity is not a crime on the books, nor is it handled by the judiciary.
However, it is enforced by natural law and in extreme cases the penalty is death. Unrelenting, implacable and enforced on the spot. No appeals apply.
Those familiar will recognise the above, albeit a bit garbled, as a quote from Robert Anson Heinlein.
However, it is enforced by natural law and in extreme cases the penalty is death. Unrelenting, implacable and enforced on the spot. No appeals apply.
Those familiar will recognise the above, albeit a bit garbled, as a quote from Robert Anson Heinlein.
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