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Thread #133196   Message #3019225
Posted By: C-flat
30-Oct-10 - 09:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: A 4 year old is sued? is it April 1st ..
Subject: RE: BS: A 4 year old is sued? is it April 1st ..
A broken hip at aged 87 can often have complications and lead to death. One could argue that the next "event" in this womans life would be the cause of her death, a sudden shock, a fall, who knows?
I don't know whether she was in good health at the time, so it's hard to judge, but nevertheless, this was a simple accident. A sad one, especially for the family and for those involved, but, all the same, an accident!
More than that, it was an accident caused by an infant!!!
How a judge can rule that an infant is mature enough to be considered culpable beggars belief!

I'm currently awaiting heart surgery and, as such, not in the best shape at the moment. In fact you could say I was pretty vunerable.
Imagine the scene:
It's Halloween and some local kids come "trick-or-treating" and decide to give me a scare by jumping out from behind a parked car dressed as vampires or whatever.
If a sudden big adrenalin rush pushes my blood-starved heart into overdrive and I go into arrest and die, is it the kids fault?
Or is it the fault of the guy who parked the car there that the kids hid behind?
Maybe it's the costume makers fault? Those outfits can be pretty authentic looking!
Could it actually have been my fault? Eating too much fried food? Smoking? Wait!, No! Better to sue the cigarette companies and fast-food outlets than accept that we have any responsibility for our own person.
There's an argument that I'm genetically predisposed to having a heart condition, so it could be my fathers fault?
My family could have a field day filing claims against society in general for my ill health.

I'm sorry for the old lady and her family and I feel sorry for the little kid.
Maybe the kid can sue the old ladies' family for mental and emotional damages on the basis that she was too old or infirm to be out walking, thereby putting her at risk of an accident she couldn't withstand?

Maybe we can all sue the judge who made this ruling on the grounds that he's made us fearful of letting our children out to play in case they bump into someone and we all end up in court. Our children will be fat and unhealthy due to lack of exercise and fresh-air and future generations will die young.
I feel a Class-Action coming on!!!