Tragically, according to this in The Salinas Californian, greed and personal injury lawyers (spit, spit) still run rampant across the golden state. Whew! For a brief moment there one might have believed they were either in hibernation or dying off. Apparently not!
Six months after a 19-year-old San Jose woman died from “huffing” in a Salinas residence, her parents are suing its owner – as well as the manufacturer and retailer of the aerosol dust remover she used.
And further on:
“You have kids out there abusing these products and putting themselves in harm’s ways,” (a lawyer for the parents) said.
Lets see now. A 19 year old “kid” (old enough to vote, drive and serve on a jury) in an “adult” residential recreational setting was negligently exposed to a dangerous chemical marketed as a household cleaning product because she chose to inhale large amounts of the product’s aerosol vapors while attempting to “get high”. After which she passed out and died. Oh, yeah! In my view, she’s a victim. ‘Someone’s’ gotta pay!
What a sad legacy for such a tragic young lady.
Maybe it’s all Bush’s fault? On another front, however, thankfully there’s still enough work going around for certain types of lawyers (spit, spit) to keep them off the ‘dole’.
Cheers
June 5, 2007 at 9:03 am |
You’ll get no dissent from me on that one! If people can sue others for the consequences of their own stupidity, there aren’t enough courtrooms in the world to hold all the potential cases!
You’ve been busy on your new site! I just updated my blogroll to reflect the change.
June 5, 2007 at 5:46 pm |
Thanks, Stephen, on both fronts.
As always, in the instant case, there are “mitigating” factors upon which “sharpies” (not the parents, the other guys) may think for the good of society they should hang their litigious caps. But I really don’t care. There’ve got to be better ways to address those factors than by filling the courtrooms with grieving parents. There is no way in this case that their poor, deceased daughter is not going to be grossly, adversely and publicly pilloried in open court over this. How distressing for them when that occurs. And to what end?
Once a few things were in place it became much simpler to use W than B, I’ve found. In fact, B has become positively unwieldy recently. Too bad. They had a good idea and then stared at their belly button too long and hard, apparently.
Hope married life is fitting you both favorably.
Cheers