Stories that make you shake your head
 

I'll start off. Girl graduates from college and can't find a job. You guessed it. She sues the college. Guess what her gpa was.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new...less.graduate/

2.7. yeah. "they spend more time helping the people with 4.0 grade point averages." Well, duh. And they can't fix your personality.

Baahaaahaaa. But, who WOULDN'T want to hire a person who acts this way? What an idiot. Scarily indicative of the entitlement mentality, though.

Now, is she taking federal and state financial aid out of her demand for compensation? :headshake

It made me shake my head too.

and then there's the Twitter lawsuit. Y'all hear about that?

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chic...her-50000.html

Well now that they've gone and made a big deal out of it, everyone "throughout the world" is hearing about it, instead of just the tweet-buddies of some unknown lady in Chicago. I never would have known that H0riz0n r34lty thinks that sl33ping in m0ldy 4p4rtm3nts is 0k4y, but now I do.

Awww, you're in troublllleeeeee.

Me and the 45,000 other Google hits on that phrase.

If 45,000 people jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?

I'm tellin'...

Fuck that...

you all need to shut the FU or I"ll find a lawyer to sue everyone of ya for...

wait.


I'm thiniking.


For being a dick.:D


Yea, welcome to Americka.:D

You think only Merkins are dicks? Sorry, it's a human condition.

Yeah...there are lots of dicks all over the place.

It is true that the US has a more letigenous(sp?) society than most though. Australia is becoming more and more alike though, so don't worry. You'll be in good company soon. ;)

This is what I was thinking. My ex sis-in-law practiced law in the US and now in NZ and she has indicated that frivolous lawsuits don't happen there. I'm not sure about the laws that govern this, but my head is filled with glee at imagining a judge saying "What? Oh shut the fuck up and get out of my courtroom."

:lol:

We have a more litigious society than many others because we operate under the rule of law (as opposed to many countries). Society grows, becomes more complex, laws become more complex -- and so do the abuses. It's like -- you can't have good without evil.

OK, well this is the type of stupid lawsuit that has started happening over here and about which I am opposed.

A woman went to the pub, got pissed (after already being stoned at home) and when she walked out of the pub, she tripped over a speed bump in her drunken stupor and hurt her back. The pub had to pay her $250K because the stipes on the speedbump weren't white enough.

I know all the details because it happened to be the mother of an ex-boyfriend. She was just a trog and that money would have been better off going to charity than for her to spend on drugs and booze and cigarettes. Her 'sore back' didn't stop her from enjoying all those things still. Her lifestyle was not affected one little bit.

I realize what you're saying cloud, but it's just silly to clog up courtrooms with shit like this. In the end, if anything, the pub should have been ordered to pay medical costs and paint the speedbumps. Not give this woman $250k to smoke up. That's the problem. A lot of the people that enter into these lawsuits do it for all the wrong reasons.

:D

Frivolous law suites will be the one of the many nails in the coffin of this country.

This is one of the things that spook me about the internet; it seems that any comment or complaint is potential for liable.

On another note is that tween even her's once it hits twitter?

Most frivolous lawsuits simply get dismissed, and there are heavy penalties imposed on attorneys who are found to have filed them. There will always be people who abuse the system, but there are also checks and balances in place to address it. People can try to sue for anything they want--achieving a desired result is a different story.

That oddly makes me feel better

Hey! There's a big spider on your hair!!!!


Well, wouldn't that make you shake your head?

http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2009-08/453958.html


The "teachers" should be slowly skinned alive.

Yeah, but we're better at it.:D

i.e, we have bigger dicks, right?

C'mon, Cloudie -- you know very well it's not the meat, but the motion! ;)

Ha! and Ha! again, I say!

Well, I'm pretty sure his internet addiction is cured. :right:

Reminds me of a news story I saw when in Japan. A 55 year old former teacher was being released from prison. He had been working at a reform school/sailing academy for wayward youth, but had beaten to death not one but two students (and two others were missing without trace).
He got five years in prison.
As he was being released, he said words to the effect of "I did nothing wrong. Physical punishment is educational. I am looking forward to returning to my position at the academy." [my emphasis.] :eek:

Calif is set to release 57,000 California prison inmates.

http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2009...090211748.html

IMHO, the issue in Merc's lnik is just the tip of the iceberg.
Doesn't your bill of rights say that you have the right to be kept safe from harm while in the custody of the state?
Doesn't that mean that every single time someone is assaulted or raped or even exposed to disease while in prison, their civil rights have been violated? And the relevant authorities are criminally responsible for it, a la the Rodney King beat-down?

As you were. [/rant]

Uh, what? No, I don't think it says that. It says no cruel and unusual punishment may be inflicted, but that's not what you're describing.

Here's a head-shaking cock-up*

(* author not responsible for incoherent metaphor)

There was a bikie brawl in March at an airport in Sydney, as members of the Hell's Angels and Comancheros clashed after - ironically - retuning on the same flight from what was supposed to be some kind of peace conference. One man was killed.

This chap, a Hell's Angel, was in custody for a long time, but was finally released on bail, on the condition that he not associate with any other Hell's Angels.

To make sure there was no confusion, the cops sent him a list of the people he was not allowed to hang out with. Well, that was the idea.

They sent him a list of the names and home addresses of 46 members of the COMANCHEROS instead. :smack:

Hello?! Knock knock? Anybody paying attention at all in there?

Well, maybe it says both, you know. I think it says quite a few things.

I'm going on what I remember from the second Rodney King trial. After the poice were acquitted of assault, they were charged with the different crime of violating his civil rights by failing to ensure he was kept safe from harm etc.

I suppose I should look it up. Too lazy.

Yeah, right. Cling to that nugget why don't ya?!:headshake

We have bigger nuggets too? :confused:

if you're calling your dick a nugget; first -- poor boy; second -- I'd rather not. (cling to it, that is)

Awww...C'mon! Someone hug my nugget!!!

OMFG

so that's what happened to Geraldo

That story got a lot of quick air time by the major networks. They all spoke as if he was guilty. That is the news for ya.

Well, he is Brazilian, you know. They're swarthy.