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Post by De Graaf van Salland on Dec 12, 2009 18:22:06 GMT 1
A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises Honoring those who improve the species... by accidentally removing themselves from it! darwinawards.com/ ;D ;D ;D ;D Oh I love this. The stupidity of people ! GvS |
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Post by McF on Dec 12, 2009 22:28:50 GMT 1
I tink Darwin Awards is excellent, you cannot appreciate just how stoopid some people are There is also www.Stellaawards.com - this will make you mad  Mostly American litigation, but some Brit and other European cases. Basically people suing others (usually innocent third parties), like this one: Amanda Jax, 21, celebrated her birthday the way many 21-year-olds do: by going out to drink legally. As she partied at a Mankato, Minn., restaurant on October 29, 2007, her friends bought her drinks tocelebrate her milestone anniversary. Unfortunately, Jax, who was studying nursing, drank herself to death, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.4594 percent. Whose fault is that? According to Jax's family, her friends are to blame. In February her parents filed suit in Blue Earth County District Court against not only the Sidelines Bar and Grill, which served her, but five of her friends, since Jax was "in the care" of her friends and couldn't care for herself, as she was "an obviously intoxicated person." The suit argues they "created an unreasonable risk of causing physical harm" to their adult friend, and "failed to exercise reasonable care" in preventing harm from coming to her. Jax, the suit says, was "particularly vulnerable and dependent" on her companions, who "held considerable power" over her well being. That's right: she had no duty to protect herself as she slugged down drink after drink, the lawsuit argues; others had that duty. The adult drinker with a medical background isn't responsible for a thing; her friends are. Those two drunk-driving arrests prior to her birthday? Irrelevant! The suit seeks "an amount in excess of $50,000" in damages. Binge drinking is certainly a problem in our society. Yes, as a licensed facility the bar has some liability here. Other than that, drinkers need to be held accountable for their own actions, rather than demanding others to take responsibility for them. Or this one: The family of Robert Hornbeck. Hornbeck volunteered for the Army and served a stint in Iraq. After getting home, he got drunk, wandered into a hotel's service area (passing "DANGER" warning signs), crawled into an air conditioning unit, and was severely cut when the machinery activated. Unable to care for himself due to his drunkenness, he bled to death. A tragedy, to be sure, but one solely caused by a supposedly responsible adult with military training. Despite his irresponsible behavior -- and his perhaps criminal trespassing -- Hornbeck's family sued the hotel for $10 million, as if it's reasonably foreseeable that some drunk fool would ignore warning signs and climb into its heavy duty machinery to sleep off his bender. A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises Honoring those who improve the species... by accidentally removing themselves from it! darwinawards.com/ ;D ;D ;D ;D Oh I love this. The stupidity of people ! GvS |
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Post by McF on Dec 12, 2009 22:43:05 GMT 1
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Mostly American litigation, but some Brit and other European cases. Basically people suing others (usually innocent third parties), like this one:
