Comments on: Police Officers Honored After Raiding Wrong Home and Shooting Up House Occupied by a Family of Eight

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By: zakimar

zakimar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:23:06 +0000

There was also a guy that sued a car manufacturer after he backed over his child and insisted that the company was to blame because there was no rearview camera. My point is that if a retarded Judge can bring such a suit; shouldn’t this family at least be able to do the same?

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:20:11 +0000

My personal, albeit unprofessional, understanding of the coffee case is that it was anything but frivolous. I’ve spilled cofee on myself, as have many many people, and the incidence of people requiring skin grafts to correct the damage caused by said coffee I assure you is extremely low at best. It would seemingly indicate some superheating of the liquid, and considering that it is meant to be consumed, it ought not cause burns of that magnitude. Maybe someone should have figured out that serving people lava was a bit dangerous.

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:49:42 +0000

zakimar:

“A Judge sues his drycleaner for $67 000 000, a person gets millions for spilling hot coffee on herself, a man gets millions for putting his RV on cruise control and then leaves the driver’s seat to go to the back because the manual didn’t specify that cruise control didn’t mean magic, self driving vehicle.”

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Just so you know, none of this ever happened. If you want the real stories behind each of these fables let me know, but I assure you they are propaganda. In shorthand form the basics are:

The judge lost his position and never collected anything as the dry cleaner won the case and was awarded court costs; the lady who spilled the coffee was awarded only $160,000 in compensatory damages and 2.7 million in punitives that were reduced to $480,000,and would have settled for her hospital bills of $20,000.00 for the skin grafts. The case was confidentially settled post verdict, and no one, save the parties, knows the exact figure but it was certainly not millions; the cruise control case is an outright lie with no basis in fact.

By: zakimar

zakimar — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:41:30 +0000

I thought the US was home of the frivolous law suits? A Judge sues his drycleaner for $67 000 000, a person gets millions for spilling hot coffee on herself, a man gets millions for putting his RV on cruise control and then leaves the driver’s seat to go to the back because the manual didn’t specify that cruise control didn’t mean magic, self driving vehicle. And this family couldn’t win a lawsuit against the city. Did the others win because they were Caucasian? This is one more reason to either rise up against the government that works for YOU or hang your heads and wait until it happens to YOU. Stories like this make me thankful that Bush was reelected; otherwise my family and I would likely be Americans too.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:21:34 +0000

Out of control and unaccountable. That is a bad combination when it is a label put on a police force. The use of these military tactics is rarely necessary but seem to be growing in their use by city police departments. I am amazed that the Police official stated that they have never failed to give out an award when police have been hit with fire. The story suggests, as does Prof. Turley, that they only thing that they were hit with was shrapnel from their gunfire blowing up the walls and furniture, at the wrong home. Someone with common sense needs to open up the eyes of these silly police officials. The police are lucky that they didn’t wound or kill one of the innocent residents.

By: roycommi

roycommi — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:09:37 +0000

“These men deserve enormous praise for their daily work in protecting the public. ”

Call me jaded, but it is getting harder and harder for me to justify this thought to myself. I suspect because you can scan your own blog and find a police abuse story almost every day. This blog doesnt seem to be an abberation in that regard.