What is it with today’s parents?
The family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on MySpace.com asked a federal appeals court Monday to revive their lawsuit against the social networking Web site.
A federal judge dismissed the $30 million suit in February 2007, rejecting the family’s claim that MySpace has a legal duty to protect its young users from sexual predators.
Guess I’m just plain tired of parents shirking their responsibilities because this crap chaps my arse. Listen up, parents of Julie Doe:
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTER!
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Too many parents are trying to use the legal system to do what they should, but are not capble of doing, their responsibilities for protecting their children.
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Those parents are not trying to use the legal system to do what they should. They are trying to use the legal system to get rich.
It’s timeagain for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the
McDonald’s in New Mexicowhere she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off
the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That’s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S . You know, the kinds
of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.
Here are the Stella’s for the past year:
7TH PLACE:
Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was
running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
6TH PLACE:
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps.
5TH PLACE:
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, who was leaving ahouse he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a
large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s insurance company claiming undue mental
anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.
4TH PLACE:
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock , Arkansas , garnered 4th Place in the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being
bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor’s beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. Williams did not get as
much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
3RD PLACE:
Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvaniabecause a jury ordered a Philadelphiarestaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?
2ND PLACE:
Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking
out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneakthrough the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000….oh, yeah, plus dental expenses.
1ST PLACE:
This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-footWinnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set . The Oklahomajury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000……PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just incase Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.
Are we, as a society, getting more stupid…? Ya Think??!! More than a few of our judge’s elevators don’t go to the top floor either!
#3, Malcolm, please say these are all April Fools Day jokers. If not, the fools part is real in the form of judges and juries. Wonder if any of these ridiculous cases were overturned on appeal. Fools indeed and incipient honorary Darwin material.
I’m with you Adee. What was the judges and juries thinking.
#3 Malcolm
These Stella Awards haven’t changed (from what I’ve seen floating around - I haven’t gone to the SA website) for some years. It seems these may have been sent to you in an e-mail. They may have happened in the past, but they are not current.
Still stupid/funny/pathetic, though.
This whole thing just makes me want to puke. How do such MORONS on the jury remember to breathe!#$%#@ … and the judges who even agree to hear such cases should be immediately disbarred! The cases cited reminds me of the 2 IDIOTS who wanted to trim their common hedge with a lawn mower and suprise of all suprises they cut their fingers off!?! Who would have ever thought of that? Now we have to make the mowers have blade brakes and auto shut offs which only make them more expensive, less durable and more difficult to operate. We can probably put 35-50% of the price of everything we buy at the feet of this kind of greedy, shameless, trial-lawyer scum, blackmailing pieces of excrement, miserable excuses for human beings and the judges they buy with the outrageous jury verdicts.
Dear Pond Scum: please excuse the comparison to lawyers, I know it is degrading to you.
Malcom, those are bogus, but they do make a point.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
My point was to show that common sense and personal responsibility are fast vanishing in our society. There is a “Poor me” / victim mentality far too prevalent today. What can I get for nothing today?
It’s a sad state of affairs.
Further to #7; Dr.s have to practice defensive medicine so stinking piles of excretia like John Edwards don’t sue them 15 years after the fact for something that is beyond any Dr.s control. The docs have to pay huge malpractice premiums as a defense against the trial lawyer scum and they have to pass that cost on in the fees they charge for care. To add insult to injury; the docs have to beg the, in some cases, same insurance company to get paid for the services they perform; and then, if the docs do get paid at all, they get only a fraction (50 - 30%) of what they bill and then 90-120 days after the service is performed. And people want to go to socialized medicine like they have in Canada or Europe (urp) and think that things will get better?!?! How about lets pay the docs out of our pocket and have insurance for catastrophic care only. How about lets take responsibility for our own health (it is our own body afterall) and live healthier lifestyles?
This family should get the justice deserved for the assault, but this has nothing to do with MySpace. Are they going to sue Sprint too if it turns out they were sending text messages to each other? Lock the guy up and get some help for this girl so she can start to get her life back towards normal.
So did HE know she was 14 or did she misrepresent her age to him too? What with all the hormones in milk and beef nowadays, it is hard to tell some 14 year olds from 18 year olds. He might not be as culpable as everyone might think.
How about suing the parents who let her have access to that without supervision?
Probably.