Lawyers in aisle five, you say?
82-year-old crone hit by a 6-oz can of tuna at Trader Joe’s files suit for $350,000 . This woman’s been on our mortal coil enough to know that in life, things happen. That someone of her generation feels justified in demanding an exorbitant payoff for her unpleasant day in the food aisle is testament to the degradation of our judicial system and the pervasiveness of a victim mentality that grips our country. Can it, lady.
CF, while I totally agree with you that in the abstract that people such as this woman appear to be greedy opportunists, one really must ask an unpleasant question: isn’t her behavior, and that of those like her, more rational than yours and mine?
Like it or not, starting with LBJ and his Great Society, the common values of hard work, individual responsibility and the like have been gradually replaced with notions of fairness linked to the aim of equal result. Contingency lawyers and welfare administrators are the facilitators.
I’m constantly amazed that in the current environment lots of conservatives and people such as Glen Beck continue to exhort their followers to donate to this and that as if nothing had happened. And in doing so they are just helping the socialists and re-distributionists to attain their goals.
Hard work used to provide self-respect and security. Now it’s welfare handouts and lawsuits. You can go on acting the old way or play the new game. If you choose the former you will be vilified. Better I suspect to join the welfare/lawsuit generation while giving the new system the finger. Ultimately it will all collapse and better days will follow. Look at what happened in the USSR.
Ok, Chris, so let’s say it’s your elderly mom who is smacked in the nose by a can of tuna at the new King’s in OG. Would you want that particular “crone” to be ignored? All this lady apparently asked for was a little help. Maybe a chair and a little solicitous attention. What does she get, except snark and scorn from stock boys–and now from you?
She got a band aid, which is what she required and all that she deserved. My mother would be ashamed to ask for more.
o/t but Twitter has a photo of Romney coming off a plane in Florida and the photo credit goes to a “Katie Fountain”. Your Katie? I don’t ever remember you calling her Katie, but thought I’d ask…
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But gotta love that Frank Luntz, the pollster, has taken Florida off the swing state list and given it to Romney. That’s huge. Where’s video from Mzzzzz. Wasserman-Schultz when you need it??
Suing and winning are not the same thing.
Last summer I served on a jury hearing a case in which a retired woman was suing Westchester county because in 2007 she stepped in a hole in the ground in the woods of Croton Point Park and broke her ankle. She consulted a member of the plaintiff’s bar who helpfully visited the area and found a depression in the ground (known as a swale in landscaping terms) somewhere in the general vicinity that the county used to access a water cutoff valve for the adjacent RV parking area. The park is about 500 acres, about half of which is wooded.
She had no proof, but her contention was that it was this criminally dangerous 10″ deep, gently sloping depression that laid her low, and that the county was negligent for not surrounding this portal to Hades with a 6 foot fence, flashing lights and armed guards to warn off innocent strollers.
It took us about 6 hours to find that the county had zero liability. The only redeeming aspect of the whole experience was seeing the look on her harridan of an attorney’s face when she realized that after 5 years of work on the case her contingency fee was going to be zero. She had no medical expenses – Medicare paid for it all. She was retired at the time, so no lost wages either.
Thank God for the common sense of Juries.
Something fishy, indeed: every supermarket I’ve been in has the tuna on a low level shelf so that old people like myself can stay hunched over and grab some without even having to straighten up our backs.
One town just paid one lawyer $15,000 to stop filing frivilous law suits — Chump change; I would have demanded more. Looks like the bottom feeding is good these days — horse drawn wagon with snake oil filled bottles, unnecessary.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/10/13/yuba-city-pays-lawyer-to-stop-frivilous-lawsuits/
All she wanted was a little help? No, she wants three-hundred and fifty grand.
Richard– great story, thanks for sharing, made my day.
When I was in high school, one day at lunch while enjoying my pudding, I noticed what seemed to be a bone in it. I fished it out of my mouth – and noticed that it was not a bone – it was a chunk of broken glass. My tongue and mouth were bleeding. But – no serious harm done, as I hadn’t swallowed the shard. I didn’t even bother to go to the school nurse.
Today, of course, I’d have found some litigation expert and be purchasing some lovely piece of property in Greenwhich. (Not really. I, too, am one of the idiots that Anon2 above describes….)
“She got a band aid, which is what she required and all that she deserved.”
A band aid was all she deserved? You are such a hard-hearted bastard, CF. At the very least the injured old lady deserved to take home the tuna can that hit her along with a complimentary packet of mayonnaise.
I stand before you a chastened man.
Did she get mercury poisoning?
Ah, I am surprised your link didn’t include this sentence: Strage, 82, who is being represented by her son, an attorney, is seeking damages of $350K.
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19881475/woman-sues-trader-joes-over-falling-tuna-can
Oh, brother.