Why do you sue?

On the evening news back in the 80s sometime there was this news clip from the US somewhere about this guy who`s son had been sexually molested and they had caught the guy responsible.
They showed a video clip of the child molester being led into or out of the court room ( I can``t remember which ) shackled and cuffed. Then they highlight another guy in the background on a payphone. What happens next is the guy on the payphone pulls out a handgun and pumps at least 3 or 4 rounds into the child molester killing him and then drops the gun and raises his hands. It was the child`s father.

I can`t say I blame the guy. Sometimes, especially here in Canada the court system is too lenient and full of bleeding heart prosecutors and judges. Just this week here in Montréal there is a case that has been adjourned for a couple of months while a judge and jury  thinks about this :
A guy gets all cranked up on ecstasy and alchohol and stomps a girl`s head in killing her. The defense is going for manslaughter while the prosecution is going for 2nd degree murder.

If I was the girl`s father I think I would solve the problem myself and save the courts some time and money.
Just as BaldFriede pointed out in another thread the courts f*** around with cases and drag them out causing people uneccessary emotional and financial grief while they count their $$$$$$. If this guy gets say ten years for manslaughter he`ll be out in about 3 years counting time served as double!





Edited by Vibrationbaby - April 08 2009 at 10:22

How about this one from Pink Cadillac :

" I have strong feelings about gun control. If there`s a gun around, I want to be controlling it. "

Or how about this - if only the exceptions to the rule were not constantly trotted out as examples, without the actual arguement presented before the court, nor the reason for the judgement being presented .
"cause don't you know, sometimes when you know it all , you actually know why . Not that ignorance ever stopped someone from making an overgeneralized comment to support a blinded view of the world.

hell yeah....   what seperates us from the goons out there is while we would PREFER to take action and kick some ass... we know better and just feel it... not act on it.


some a****le cut me off in traffic today and ...hahahhah... I sh*t you not.... made me spill my fresh hot Micky D's coffee in my lap  (thank God for the old broad or I'd be an IT right now).    I thought twice about taking my much larger vehicle and putting him off the road... but like the good citizen I am... i just rode his bumper for a few miles and cussed him out like a sailor and showed him the birdie when I got to pass him later. 


Edited by micky - April 06 2009 at 12:23

A firefighter suing fire departments and fellow fire fighters.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/B900B8B75F25CAD68625758D000A3E8F?OpenDocument

Sometimes a lawsuit is your only avenue. Health insurance companies are dictating how a doctor should treat his patients. They say that they have their doctors looking at patients files and telling what can and should be covered. Doesn't that scare anyone? Would you want a doctor that hundreds of miles away telling the doctor that is physically in the same room what he can and can't do? My g/f has been fighting with her healthcare insurance provider for years now about her daughters care and it took her getting a new job with different healthcare insurance to get the procedure done.

Stupidity should not entitle you to sue...and in modern countries with an NHS and sick pay benefits the loss of earnings is not an issue. Unless your a greedy b@s££d.

Dean wrote: ^ we had some equipment delivered in the early morning - the only people around were a collegue and his technician - rather than wait for the rest of us to arrive, they decided to move it themselves. Needless to say, it toppled and crushed the tech's leg, putting him in traction for several months - he could have sued the company and my collegue, he did not, but he did claim for compensation and won. My collegue had to live with the guilt of seeing a once athletic young lad limping around with one leg now shorter than the other - it had a profound affect on him that no one could help with - you could say that both parties were damaged in that accident.

exactly...  that coworker of mine did not sue the company for lost wages during his time off due to his mistake...  he made a mistake by working  unsafely on a ladder (something we all have done.. many times) and not letting  the screw go.  He got the medical and partial wage benefits while out of work.  All he wanted was his job back when he recovered.

I remember the case of a former coworker at a company I used to work with....


was trying to repair a light .. working on the top step of an 8 foot ladder and dropped a screw and did the natural thing and reached out to catch it and fell.   Broke both of his elbows and arms. .and was out of work for almost a year.  During the time while he was gone... certain unsavory aspects of his personal life came out.. nothing illegal.. but not exactly upstanding behavior either. What it was though was in his personal life and did not reflect upon his job or preformance of his job.

  The company was going to fire him when he came back to work... so what did he do... he got a lawyer and threatened to sue the company... not only did they not fire him... they promoted him to management. Personally I thought the guy was a scumbag... but he turned to the legal apparatus and tools to make sure he as not trampled on as a worker... 

Why do you sue?
But I don't though.
You're just assuming I do with that thread title.