Thread: Florida Man Guilty of DUI Manslaughter Sues Victim

Originally Posted by Tenrou

Here's a crazy thought maybe read the full article before you "speculate" might just find out more than reading what I quoted.

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He's a fucking monster of a human being,

Fine. So let him sue. If it's obviously frivolous, then it gets thrown out. If he can't make his case, he loses.

Maybe it's an insurance angle, where there's some way he winds up with medical money if he files a counter suit.

It's a damned blog article, and screw you for saying I didn't read it. "Witnesses said", "Attorney said"... this is how you judge?

The guy's already in prison. I have no reason to think he shouldn't be.

Headlines like this, with a Cliff-Notes summary, are designed to provoke outrage. As often as not when I look up the actual details it's much less outrageous. The McD's coffee suit is a good example. As presented over and over on the news and in the papers it's the perfect story of liability laws run amok - but when you read about the actual case it's all perfectly reasonable.

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AetheLove

If i had to guess what the main motive was behind this suit i would guess money is secondary. If he can get a verdict against the other driver he can have his sentence lightened.

Ceb is correct about courts and the better ones brig here (in general).

The story is atrocious in its details and hopefully "justice" will prevail.

Originally Posted by Bunni

perhaps... but what about the lady who spilled Mcdonald coffee on her lap and sued (and won), or the burgerler who broke into a home, tripped on something and broke something - sued and won.

Its unquestionably 'better' than the justice system in other countries, but it is far, far from perfect or even consistently reliable with no attempts to make any improvements to the system (NOT the laws, but the system). Correct me if i am wrong but has the system (not the laws) not been static for a while now?

As to this meme before memes were really memes, yes she won. However the original damages she was awarded were seriously reduced but know one seems to remember/recall/recounted/or care. As to the fact that she won, it was because the jury felt that the temp of the coffee (almost boiling iirc) was too hot. Not that McD's was responsible for her spilling coffee on herself, but that it was simply too hot to serve. Most medical professionals agreed as the temperature that they set their coffee makers at was hot enough to cause serious burns.

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Originally Posted by SmokenScion

But you must heat it past 160 to kill all the poop that's in our food already.

Big difference between 160 and 212 where tissue is concerned

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