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Wednesday, January 26. 2011

Lawsuit lotteries

It's a blizzard right now, strong gusty wind, sleet mixed with snow and gradually turning to all snow. A winter wonderland, and all the kids are excited about a snow day for sledding or skiing.


Not in New Jersey: Slopes behind ropes: fear of lawsuits closing great New Jersey sledding hills. There was an adult in CT who settled for $4 million with a CT town when he injured himself sledding with his kids on a town-owned hill. Is a hill covered with snow an "attractive nuisance"? I don't think I would invite that guy and his kids to a winter sledding party on my hill.


And this one, also from Drudge today, takes the cake - or the sandwich: Rep. Dennis Kucinich sues cafeteria over olive pit in sandwich. I once cracked a tooth in half on an over-done French Fry at McDonalds. Maybe I missed a big payday... but Barrister is an honorable man with still a shred of dignity and decency - I hope.


Remember the bumper sticker: "Please hit me. I need the money"?


Whatever happened to people taking their own chances in life? What happened to "It's my own fault"? Says Prof B, Litigators ruin pretty much everything.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 20:35 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Kucinich needs to go. This BS is a perfect example of the kind of thought that is ruining (and clogging) our court system. Who votes for this idiot? I do like the gov in jersey, and the guy from wisconsin. But most politicos are evil self centered pricks. Remember the Judge with the lost pants? Now Kucinich and his broke tooth.
#1 Stan on 2011-01-26 23:02 (Reply)
Barrister dear ... It looks like you hearty New Englanders are in for it. But the snow you get is always so beautiful and you all take such wonderful pictures. When you're out in it tomorrow, maybe you'll find Al Gore under a snowdrift somewhere, playing least in sight. When I watched Fox News tonight, Washington looked inundated with snowy mist, or misty snow and even the newscasters were complaining. I lived in D.C. two years and they always get unhinged when they have as much as two inches. It used to make me giggle.

Marianne
#2 Marianne Matthews on 2011-01-26 23:22 (Reply)
All those communists are such money-grubbing slobs, aren't they?
#3 ahem on 2011-01-27 00:41 (Reply)

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