Thursday, January 27, 2005

didn't your mother teach you not to believe everything you read

So after blowing the other quiz in my poli-sci class, we started talking about standing to sue and finding fault. So we start talking about the infamous McDonalds coffee case, then we move on to litigation against tobacco companies, which leads us to trying to sue McDonalds for making people fat, which brings us to suing gun manufacturers. So there are different opinions and eventually we end up talking about tort reform, just a cursory conversation. This one guy starts on about how lawsuits are getting frivolous and people are winning large sums of money for their own stupidity. He tells everybody about this ONE CASE where some guy buys a new RV and takes it on a trip. The guy sets the cruise control and leaves the driver's seat to go in the back of the RV. Of course the RV crashes and the guy sues the RV company for not properly explaining cruise control and wins a large sum of cash. Ironically, while not studying for my quiz....I read this today. What are the chances that some random dude would talk about some random lawsuit/urban legend that I randomly read about on a random webpage?

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