Yes, here it is. a topic about...that's right! Who can I sue? Here in America [Where I live, don't know about other places] there are the most ridiculous cases ever. Examples: 1.A person sues McDonald's for coffee being too hot. 2.Parents sues Nickelodeon because Nick advertises cereal products and the parents are scared their children will see it and want it. 3.People suing companies over..being fat. 4.A woman suing Victoria's Secret over, underwear. Discussion Points: 1.Have you ever sued anyone? and if you want to tell what for? 2.Want to share some idiotic court cases you've heard about? 3. How do you feel about these lawsuits(that are crazy)
The underwear story was hilarious. I also hear the story of the woman who sued a whitegoods company because it didn't warn her not to stick her cat in the microwave in an attempt to dry it off.
Since civil litigation involves money, you can think of it in terms of game theory. In America, money and civil liberties appear to have a currency exchange, except most people haven't realised it yet.
The issue here is that the eventual byproduct (that we are observing now) of greedy litigation is the restriction of civil liberties. People don't like seeing their liberties reduced, but there will be people who value money higher than civil liberties granted to the public. When the public wises up to just how things work, or they happen to start blaming crazy litigation for their troubles, eventually it will be discouraged and maybe some status quo might come into being.
However this seems a way off. Perhaps more active law reform should be sought.
An odd effect of this suein society is the warnon labels that companies put on products. A collapsable pram that says remove child before folding. And some jeans that noted that it is important to remove before putting them in the washing machine. Strop I'm sure in the future (if this continues) microwaves will carry long lists of things no to put in. Personally I disagree with the notion of suing when it is plain to see it was your fault and I cant abide the stupid adverts on TV for lawyers with no win no fee claims etc. "I slipped on some spaghetti because there wasn't a warning sign and won £10,000 of compensation" so you slipped because you are a moron look where you are going and you will not trip.
Here's a funny one. Pepsi once advertised as a joke that if someone got 7,000,000 Pepsi points, (which is next to impossible), they could get a Harrier Fighter jet. Guess What? A 21-year-old college student did just that. Pepsi refused to redeem them, so he sued. Don't know he won, though.
I remember hearing about of a case here in the UK. A burgler was on the roof of someones house trying to break in. The tiles went from under him and he fell and broke his arm. He sued the man he was trying to burgle for having an unsafe roof.
Well, I heard of this guy who's in a wheelchair and earns a living by going into restaurants and suing for minor infractions of the ADA. Usually what happens is the guy would ask for a few thousand $$$ and he would go away. But someone fought him, and brought his case to a jury. The Del Taco won!!!
Here people usually just go looking in grocery shops after past last date groceries, and then earn chocolade or wine for that. Sometimes even money. Better than sueing:P
I remember hearing about of a case here in the UK. A burgler was on the roof of someones house trying to break in. The tiles went from under him and he fell and broke his arm. He sued the man he was trying to burgle for having an unsafe roof.
I heard of that or maybe a similar one here...where a burglar was hurt trying to rob someone and tried to sue. I think he like broke his arm or cut his arm on glass.
If you sue someone in..i think North Carolina for hurting youself in their house, when you were trying t rob then your garunted to win. Might have the wrong state though.
Something really needs to be done about all these lawsuits. Maybe if the person sueing lost they had to pay court costs, the person being sued for time missed from work, and a fine for wasting the time of the legal system that would help. I find it funny that a burglar can sue for getting hurt breaking into someone's house. I don't know if they can here in Texas, it would be hillarious becouse you can shoot them here. Would love to see one try though. But, unless you make people pay for frivolous lawsuits and enact common sense laws, they'll just keep on rolling in.
I LOVE frivolous lawsuits. Here are some of the best I remembered over the years:
A man was under his neighbors car, stealing a part. The neighbor, not knowing someone was under his car, got in a drove off, running over the man's hand. The thief sued for damages to his hand and won.
A man was driving his mobile home and put it on cruise control. He got up and went into the back to make some coffee. His mobile home flew off the road, crashed, and he was severely injured. He sued because the handbook for the mobile home did not say "cruise control" did not mean it automatically drove itself. He won.
A man, who looked a lot like Michael Jordan, was tired of people asking if they were related. So he sued MJ for over $800 million. He dropped the case soon after filing.
A judge brought his clothes to a dry-cleaners. One of his pairs of pants was lost, so he sued for $54 million. The company promised "satisfaction guaranteed," and he claimed since he wasn't satisfied and so stressed about the pants, he had the right to millions. His case has been thrown out several times.
A man in a hospital raped a fellow patient. He sued the hospital for $2 million for not preventing him from raping. His case was thrown out.
A woman sued a furniture store after tripping over a toddler and breaking a couple of bones. She was awarded almost $800,000. The kid she tripped over was her own child...
If this is just gonna be a dumb lawsuits thread: A man, who drove into a river after his GPS told him to, sued for damages. Can't remember the result but it better have been thrown out or I might cry. lol
One of the stories i heard was that a robber broke the window of the house he was trying to steal from and broke his hand and sued the person who owned the house
A prisoner sued the parole board for not hearing his case for parole on his scheduled day. The reason why he missed the hearing? He escaped from prison that day.
It's such a shame. Really. I mean, there are many people, conartists, that make a living out of suing companies. Anything, anywhere, sueing. The most shameful is when they sue hospitals, for anything, when most of the time they need the money for medical care. I'm pretty sure my parents have been in court and have been involved in some suing-stuff (nothing serious).
