A jury in NYC awarded a lady $10 million because she laid down on the train tracks and got hit by the train. No kidding. How many Republicans do you think were on the Jury? And I don't know her lawyer, but what political persuasion to you think he is?

Hell tailgator ; Is that all she got , I mean it wasn't like she was standing up waving her arms and daring the train to hit her . IMHO I think she should have received at least $17.00 more ,her lawyer must really suck. Well all in a days work. JonR

Don't laugh, Jon. She originally was awarded $14 MM, but the jury felt she may have been 30% responsible for the incident, so they reduced it accordingly. Those heartless mongers...

It was clearly Amtrak's fault. The wind had blown away the sign that read "WARNING: Lying on the railroad tracks may be hazardous to your health."

They should have attached it more firmly, like the jury members brains were attached to their asses.

some years back, a man who lived in a rural area was being plagued by someone breaking into his home while he was away. Determined to catch the thief, he rigged a booby-trap ... which, when the thief came crawling through an attic ventilator, worked, injuring the burlar.

Who sued ... And won ... a sum great enough to bankrupt the resident ... whose property the thief ended up owning as a result of the ludicrous award in the lawsuit.

Responsibility is the issue here ... no one has any these days ... it's always someone elses fault ... and the deeper their pockets, the more responsibility they bear. No matter that the woman laying on the tracks could reasonably expect anything less than being hit by a train ... it couldn't possibly be her fault ... our entire culture is being reduced to a gang of excuse-makers ... the dog ate my homework and if you dare give me a low mark because of that, my parents will sue ...

Give me a f*cking break ... this is, IMNSHO, the inevitable consequence of the fuzzy headed liberal thinking that began in FDRs administration and has dominated our society since.

about 8 or 9 years ago a son killed his parents and demanded their homeowners insurance pay his lawyers for his defense.
the insurance company told him to f off.

That is a joke, even if it is true, 10 Mil for being stupid enough to let a train hit her useless ass. As to Republicans on jury-ZERO! Too damn bad, but buglars have sued and won for getting shot while attempting to rob someone! The entire legal system sucks in the USA today thanks to the ACLU and certain liberals! Charllie PS O.J. Simpson is prime example of a jury of wierdo's failing justice!

Charlie ... O.J.s case IS a good example of many things wrong with our system ... here's a guy who is clearly guilty of the crime, yet the police department felt the need to tamper with the evidence in order to really lock him in then the prosecution bungled their job, from first moment to last ...

two examples of their gross imcompetence which I've never yet seen mentioned are (1)the failure in the trial itself to introduce the topic of the Simpsons Akita even though it WAS the first topic during the preliminary hearing ... this is FAR more compelling than anything that was subsequently inroduced, but no one in the DAs office seemed to recognize the relevance and it was not brought out in the trial ... (2) "if it doesn't fit", etc.... take a pair of gloves that fit you well, and try them on ... note the ease with which the glove fits your hand ... then, put on some of those latex Dr exam gloves like they had O.J. put on ... now, try your glove again ... surprised? No one at the DA office even thought of that ... not enough mental candlepower ... a fundamental rule among trial attorneys is to not ask questions that you don't know the answer to, but none of them had tried the glove thing themselves ... they had no idea and STILL don't ... try this yourself and see what I mean.

all that said, he was pronounced "Not Guilty" by the jury ... whether we agree or not, he was not found guilty ... but in a twist of logic that I cannot and never will understand, he was brought up on civil charges and found liable for something he'd been found innocent in court of having done ...

bottom line is the system is badly broken, too little respect exists for the law, but sadly the law does not command sufficient respect ... examples of silliness, inequity, and stupidity abound and as long as they do, we've got a huge and all but unfixable problem.

SteveS: regarding your FDR comment -- please allow me to quote one of my personal hereos Archie Bunker, when explaining the sad state of the nation to his in-law cousin Maude...
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"Franklin Delano Roosevelt RUINED this country!"

Sorry about the new paragraph flub... this newbie is still learning the ropes.


-Ted

TedSaint for line breaks use < then br then >.and use p instead of br for paragraphs.

i hope this all shows.

Makes me feel glad that I live in Kansas... while we don't have the glitz and glamour NYC has I take comfort that Democrats are an endangered species around here.

But then again if someone would award $10 mil to me for some equally insane reason I could be bought off and would switch parties LMAO!!

a man offers a woman he meets in a bar $1,000,000 if she will spend the night with him.

she says of course.
he says will you spend the night with me for $5.00.
she says hell no, what kind of a woman do you think i am.

he says we know what kind of woman you are, we're just negotiating the price.

If you are all really so blindsided by party affiliation to assume that the only reason this woman was awarded $10 million was that the jury was all dem's then I've greatly misjudged your intelligence. There are stupid, irresponsible, and utterly flawed morons in both parties. These clear displays of judicial malfeasance are more closely tied to our society than to party affiliation. We have become a society of covetous drones that only look for ways to rape the system and increase our own wealth, and I guarantee that these behaviors are equally shared amongst both parties.

A related example would be all of the corporate fraud that’s been exposed as of late. One could say with good certainty that all of the exec’s are republicans, so are all republicans fraudulent money hungry pricks??? I would hope not!!



Party battles go both ways, but when you stereotype all of one or the other, you’ve already lost the fight.

I'm a Republican and do not want to mislead you with fraudulent information...

I AM a money hungry prick!!!!