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General Category => Random Talk => Topic started by: MissinTheGreenTrams on October 29, 2010, 11:22:36 AM

Title: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: MissinTheGreenTrams on October 29, 2010, 11:22:36 AM
On the news: Four year old being sued for negligence. Riding her bike she knocks down an elderly woman and now she is being sued. What is wrong with this picture?
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: Junior on October 29, 2010, 11:33:03 AM
Read the last book in the Bible.  ;)  There is hope. You can find it in the Bible, too! Read on! :)
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: okiebluegrass on October 29, 2010, 11:38:50 AM
I'm sure she won't get much from the four year old.

If daddy has money, he has a lawyer.

If not, then good luck getting blood from a turnip.

What's she gonna do? Steal the little girls Halloween Candy?

and I agree, bout the only hope I have left is the good book.
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: MissinTheGreenTrams on October 29, 2010, 11:41:36 AM
for me its not the issues of who has money and who doesnt (and my daddy uses the turnip comment  ;D) but about SUEING a FOUR year old. How freakin rediculous. And I agree about the bible.......think I am going to go crack that open.....
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: Nate65807 on October 29, 2010, 11:47:54 AM
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324871/Manhattan-justice-rules-year-old-sued-negligence-hit-pensioner-riding-bike.html?ito=feeds-newsxml (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324871/Manhattan-justice-rules-year-old-sued-negligence-hit-pensioner-riding-bike.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)

But Justice Wooten rejected a motion to dismiss the case, pointing out that Juliet was three months from becoming five when the pensioner was hit and old enough to be sued.

In his decision, he wrote Mr Tyrie 'correctly notes that infants under the age of four are conclusively presumed incapable of negligence'.

He added that 'Juliet Breitman, however, was over the age of four at the time of the subject incident. For infants above the age of four, there is no bright-line rule'.

I guess for particularly heinous "crimes" or if the accused is a particularly bright toddler, the prosecutor will move to "get them tried as a four-year old" compared to the notion of getting teens "tried as an adult" now LOL ::)

Can we please instruct the bailiff to put a high chair in, so the accused can take the stand? I hereby sentence you to serve three consecutive days in timeout without the possibility of parole. However, with good behavior, you can have a "candy-full visit" on Halloween ;)
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: Makayna on October 30, 2010, 12:12:25 AM
Quote from: Nate65807 on October 29, 2010, 11:47:54 AM
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324871/Manhattan-justice-rules-year-old-sued-negligence-hit-pensioner-riding-bike.html?ito=feeds-newsxml (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324871/Manhattan-justice-rules-year-old-sued-negligence-hit-pensioner-riding-bike.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)

But Justice Wooten rejected a motion to dismiss the case, pointing out that Juliet was three months from becoming five when the pensioner was hit and old enough to be sued.

In his decision, he wrote Mr Tyrie 'correctly notes that infants under the age of four are conclusively presumed incapable of negligence'.

He added that 'Juliet Breitman, however, was over the age of four at the time of the subject incident. For infants above the age of four, there is no bright-line rule'.

I guess for particularly heinous "crimes" or if the accused is a particularly bright toddler, the prosecutor will move to "get them tried as a four-year old" compared to the notion of getting teens "tried as an adult" now LOL ::)

Can we please instruct the bailiff to put a high chair in, so the accused can take the stand? I hereby sentence you to serve three consecutive days in timeout without the possibility of parole. However, with good behavior, you can have a "candy-full visit" on Halloween ;)

Oh come now Nate!  You're being way too soft on the kid! ;) [/sarcasm]
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: sanddunerider on October 30, 2010, 02:21:39 AM
Sounds right to me...  oh no! the neighbors dog just came onto my private propert and did his "business" in the flower garden!. better call my attorney, i think i can sue him and his owner for trepoassing and destroying private property!! ::)  LOL  LOL  ROFL!!  whats next!!!!!
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: jmc75 on October 30, 2010, 09:30:16 AM
you think that is bad I work for the local government and we get complaints about neighbors leaves falling on their property and ask if there are codes in which way your wooden fence has to be turned
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: KBCraig on November 04, 2010, 02:32:02 PM
Quote from: okiebluegrass on October 29, 2010, 11:38:50 AM
I'm sure she won't get much from the four year old.

"Judgments last forever", as they say. If she grows up to win the lottery or invent a cure for cancer, the judgment will be there waiting to collect.
Title: Re: Really, what is the world coming to?
Post by: sanddunerider on November 04, 2010, 07:01:17 PM
 >:( >:( ::) ::)