Pardon me, for a moment, while I present you with an angry outburst.
Next month, an attorney from Florida will launch a new website called WhoCanISue.com. Read an article about it here or just go to the actual website and you can sign up to receive notification the moment the website embarks on its internet journey.
If you happen to be a lawyer, forget all those free online profiles you can make, blogs you can write, websites you can design yourself. At WhoCanISue.com, you simply pay $1000 and your profile will be made available through this website’s vast search engine. Pay a little more, and your name will be closer to the top of the list than that other guy’s!
The point of this website is so people like The Hamster Lady or The Baseball Bat Family can find a lawyer to actually represent them in court. That’s right, every time something goes freakishly wrong in your life, whether it was your fault or not, you are entitled to a lump sum of cold hard cash! Why? Because, unknown to the general public, every single negative occurrence in life can be traced back to a company that makes a substantial amount of money. This is what makes America beautiful!
Sometimes, when something horrible happens in life, it really is the fault of someone who can, at the very least, provide you with financial compensation (examples: a hospital delivers penicillin to a client who has a documented allergy, abuse at a nursing home, the brand new brakes in your car fail to work and someone is killed in a resulting accident, etc.). It’s just too bad that those cases, the ones that aren’t fueled by selfishness, are obstructed by the ridiculous amount of people who think it is still possible to sue McDonald’s over hot coffee (and win).
And, seriously? Do people really want to hire lawyers that advertise on websites like these? This website is available because, face the truth now, the cases these people will bring up are so ridiculous they had no where else to go—because they’d been turned down by good lawyers already. The lawyers that are left, the ones desperate for any case at all, are the ones who will flock to this website and spend money they don’t have to put their names into a search engine in hopes of getting an equally desperate client.
I, for one, greatly look forward to the day when I have a court case that reeks of desperation. I’ll bet I win.
Sometimes I blog because it is illegal to stab people for being stupid.
This blog was great, but the ending sentence was just golden!
It really is sad how sue-happy Americans are. Even other countries make fun of us for it (when I was vacationing in England, an Australian couple on the same day trip as my travel partners told us that sue-happy Americans was a joke among the Austrailians. I told them it's a joke among Americans too).
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I stole the end sentence from the Pieces of Flair application on Facebook... which I'm sure stole it from someone else. It can also be found at the bottom of the page on my "real" blog. :-P
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Now that you mention it, I do think I saw that on Facebook!
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I think I actually have that flair... O.o
And while I'm here... Goodness gracious. Sometimes I wonder how stupid my fellow Americans can get. Thankfully, I've found this site and a wonderful college, so I can associate with the more intelligent people in our society.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
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yeah... it says 'memo to self: it is illegal to stab stupid people' or something. I keep seeing it in the most popular category and I keep not grabbing it for my flair board. :-P
I'm glad I found this site too. Intelligent blogs just aren't as appreciated on other sites I have a user name with.
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I have to find that now for my Pieces of Flair!
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Ohh, you have to see this.
http://www.ketv.com/news/17099764/detail.html
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::snerk::
I wonder who's defending God, goes after God for damages, etc.
::sigh:: people are ridiculous.
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Now that's some good stuff right there.
I realize this guy was trying to make a point, but really he's just ended up making himself look silly! And now the Christians/Baptists/Muslims and anyone else he's ticked off are knocking at his door with the hypothetical pichforks and torches!
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That's a pretty fricking awesome rant. I think I love her lol.
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haha that is awesome. :-) I concur with her conclusion.
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What a coincidence, sometimes I blog for the same exact reason :D
I really hate guys like this, and lawyers like those who will probably get onto this site and profit from it. They give lawyers everywhere a bad name and they are the ones who create flaws in the system that compound on the ones that are already there. It's incredibly frustrating and I could probably write for another half a mile on it, but I'll just leave you with this Charlie Brown quote:
AAAAUGH!!!
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Sometimes Charlie Brown has the perfect line for everything. :-)
"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."
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It's not really the lawyers fault. Judges who, in general, should know better continue to award these people money. No matter stupid your claim you should always be able to find some desperate, half-bright lawyer to take your case in court no matter how sleazy he is or you are, but the judge should have enough legal sense and reasoning powers to throw out many of these cases.
Unfortunately most cases of this character have inflated monetary goals that assure that the case will be heard and decided by a bunch of jurists, specifically chosen by the plaintiff for their vengeful spirit and willingness to spend other people's money. Juries do not really have enough legal understanding to deal with cases involving legal responsibility.
They also have no emotional connection to multi-billion-dollar companies, and an easy connection to some dumb redneck bitch who tried to curl her eyelashes with a curling iron. Juries are easily manipulated with emotional tripe from one side of the court room and much less susceptible to the logical arguments of the other side. Juries are actually nearly immune to logic because your average human being, more than two years out of school, has not had to do any hard logical thinking in, well, at least two years. We make most of our day to day decisions with gut reaction and peer approval, so a shift to logical, problem solving thinking is very difficult for your average person.
So, basically, our litigious society, and the fact that it works, are even more deeply ingrained evils than presented here. Even more poisonous then I at first suspected when I began to write this response. Jesus! I am thinking about maybe taking up a heroin habit, anybody want to come with?
“Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you” - Delmore Schwartz
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You... almost make me want to be assigned jury duty so I can feel like I'm making a difference, introducing rational thinking to people.
Almost.
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Right there with you. Of course, I'd be more likely to smack a few of the other jurors over the head a few times.
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Unfortunately if some of the more stupid jurors accidentally trip on their mobile home steps and fall onto some bullets, or an ice pick or something, they get replaced. They usually get replaced with people who are just as stupid. :idk:
On the up side it is usually the multi-billion dollar company that is blamed for such incidents. :-SS
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But just beating them upside the head a few times, in some fruitless attempt to knock some sense into them, is not the same as removing them from the jury :)
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Oh dear. It seems I've touched a nerve.
Michael Tangeman, one of the people involved with whocanisue.com, has left me a comment in one of my other blogs, calling my write-up of this website "comically absurd."
Did you hear that, folks? I'm funny!
Well, Michael, I've read the links you gave me and I'm still not very convinced, but kudos for trying.
Keep fighting the good fight, Michael.
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WOW!! You're positively a celebrity! It's so nice to be noticed, isn't it?
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I'm not gonna lie. I am kind of an attention whore. I get really excited when stuff like this happens. :-P
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"Sometimes I blog because it is illegal to stab people for being stupid." That is great! omg. That sounds like something I would say. Jeez. This blog was golden and this is annoying.
If I can't sue because the hospital killed my mom than no one should be able to sue because they put a hampster up their ass and it got stuck... I know I sound like a broken record but I have a point.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I am voting for Lewis Black.
DrifterDani~
no one should be able to sue because they put a hampster up their ass and it got stuck...
rofl
That is just great stuff.
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Thank you. :-) It is pretty much my new favorite phrase. :-)
Although, now I'm probably going to go around asking people if they've hidden a hamster anywhere inappropriate lately :-P
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I'm glad you both found that amusing. :) I actually made a joke. haha. I love being a smart ass sometimes... I think it brings fun to a frustrating situation.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I am voting for Lewis Black.
DrifterDani~
Today, on another episode of Frivolous Lawsuits:
Foreigner Attacked by Javelina wants $400,000.
Perhaps the "Don't feed or touch the animals" signs should have been in Dutch
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