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Old 05-03-2007, 05:28 AM
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Here is a glaring example of why our legal system is a joke.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/...n_dollar_pants



For anyone that doesn't feel like reading the article, here's the summary.


A same day dry-cleaning business lost a pair of pants belonging to a customer. A couple days later, the customer asked them to pay $1000 to cover the whole cost of the suit, but the dry cleaners had since found the pair of pants and refused to pay the $1000. That was when the unhappy customer decided to sue them... for 65 million dollars! (The article details how he arrived at this number.)

Here's the kicker... The unhappy customer is a US Judge!!! It makes me absolutely sick that someone sworn to uphold the law is trying to take advantage of it in this way! Being a judge, you'd think he'd be the first to recognize that there's absolutely no chance in hell that a lost pair of pants should warrant anything more than they cost to begin with, yet here he is... Trying to take advantage of the system like so many other schmucks out there. Fucking disgusting.
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:40 AM
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maybe he has some people who can pull a few strings.
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:43 AM
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Lol I just read that, I was getting ready to post it. Fucking politics, :D Did anyone see Rage against the machine topic ? http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov...osers,00.html# caught on tape saying the bush admin should be hung, shot. thats the link to it.
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:45 AM
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that really does make me sick. over here, the courts and police have been told to go easy on any foreigner breaking the law because they "Don't know what they're doing." But that guy deserves to be fucking fired! If one thing pisses me off it's that people take advantage of the law for their own profit.
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:46 AM
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One of the 7 deadly sins........Greed my friend. Everyone is looking for a quick buck!
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:47 AM
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It made me sick reading that article. The fact that those hard-working people's lives are scuppered because of some jumped up, greedy git!

Excerpt "And former National Labors Relations Board chief administrative law judge Melvin Welles wrote to The Washington Post to urge "any bar to which Mr. Pearson belongs to immediately disbar him and the District to remove him from his position as an administrative law judge."

DEFINITELY!
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:48 AM
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bloody ridiculous aint it,

Sydney Australia..
a woman sued the rail system and won.
She watched a male friend of hers jump a moving train so decided to follow suit.
However..she wasn't as fast ..slipped and was seriously injured.
She own her case because the hand rail she grabbed on to was loose..this was the reason her jump was unsuccesful..!!patheitc is not word.
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:56 AM
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I just dont get how the juries can even take these cases seriously. They're being idiots and ruining innocent people lives. I'm glad that fat fuck didn't win her case against Mcdonalds
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Old 05-03-2007, 05:59 AM
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I just dont get how the juries can even take these cases seriously. They're being idiots and ruining innocent people lives. I'm glad that fat fuck didn't win her case against Mcdonalds
I've witnessed Judge Judy dismiss a plaintiff's case for unreasonable suing! If she could see it and do something about it, why cant they all???

(You didnt really see me saying Judge Judy then, okay) :o
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Old 05-03-2007, 06:00 AM
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what was that you said about judge judy?
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